{"id":3919986,"url":"https://alion.io/job/world-food-programme-data-scientist-associate-sc6-assistant-level-sc5","title":"Data Scientist Associate (SC6) Assistant Level (SC5)","company":{"id":97777,"name":"World Food Programme","domain":"wfp.org","url":"https://alion.io/company/wfp","size_band":"5000+","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workday","truth_index":null},"role":"Data Science","role_family":"Data Science","seniority":null,"employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"on_site","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Cairo, Egypt"],"countries":["EG"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":null,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"AWS","optional":false},{"name":"Machine Learning","optional":false},{"name":"NLP","optional":false},{"name":"NLTK","optional":false},{"name":"Python","optional":false},{"name":"Sentiment Analysis","optional":false},{"name":"Transformers","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":null,"last_verified_at":"2026-10-16T00:00:00Z","board_verified":false,"closed_at":null,"days_open":24,"trust":{"level":"not_scored","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":24},"description":"DEADLINE FOR APPLICATIONS\n29 July 2026-23:59-GMT02:00 Eastern European Standard Time (Cairo)WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race colour national origin ethnic or social background genetic information gender gender identity and/or expression sexual orientation religion or belief HIV status or disability.\n\nABOUT WFP\nThe World Food Programme is the worlds largest humanitarian organization saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict disasters and the impact of climate change.\n\nAt WFP people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse committed skilled and high performing teams selected on merit operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment living WFPs values (Integrity Collaboration Commitment Humanity and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.\nTo learn more about WFP visit our website: follow us on social media to keep up with our latest news: YouTube LinkedIn Instagram Facebook Twitter TikTok.\nWHY JOIN WFP\nWFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.\n\nWFP offers a highly inclusive diverse and multicultural working environment. \n\nWFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training accreditation coaching mentorship and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.\n\nA career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country regional and global offices around the world and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.\n\nWe offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).\n\nBACKGROUND AND PURPOSE OF THE ASSIGNMENT:\nAssisting more than 115.5 million people in 120 countries each year the World Food Program (WFP) is the leading humanitarian organization saving lives and changing lives delivering food assistance in emergencies and working with communities to improve nutrition and build resilience. As the international community has committed to end hunger achieve food security and improved nutrition by 2030 one in nine people worldwide still do not have enough to eat. Food and food-related assistance lie at the heart of the struggle to break the cycle of hunger and poverty.\nWFP Technology Division (TEC) is the digital business engine of the World Food Programme providing the business with multi-pronged and resilient technical capabilities able to respond with the agility required in humanitarian operations. Technology and connectivity are rapidly reaching some of the most vulnerable people and places affected by crisis but they are also increasingly expanding to the services responding to those same crises. As one of the main humanitarian actors WFP has the opportunity and the obligation to leverage data and technology to better know and serve those in need by digitally transforming the way it works.\nWe are seeking to build a roster for Data Scientist roles at the Associate and Assistant levels. The selected job holders will be based at WFPs Regional Office for the Middle East North Africa and Eastern Europe (MENAEE) located in Cairo. The Regional Office provides strategic direction technical guidance resource mobilization and management support to WFP operations and activities across the region.\nReporting to the Lead Data Scientist in the MENAEE Regional Office Data & AI team the Data Scientist will support current AI initiatives by providing the following services:\nACCOUNTABILITIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:\nIdentify state of the art AI models that fits the use cases at hand.\nTrain/retrain AI models with relevant annotated datasets.\nModel Evaluation and Optimization: Assess model performance identify areas of improvement and fine-tune hyperparameters to optimize the models. Use techniques like grid search or Bayesian optimization for parameter tuning. Exploratory Data Analysis (EDA): Perform EDA to gain insights into the data identify patterns correlations and outliers. Use visualizations and statistical techniques to summarize and present the findings.\nFeature Engineering: Create new features from existing data that can improve the performance of machine learning models. This includes feature extraction transformation and selection.\nNatural Language Processing (NLP): Work on tasks related to text data such as sentiment analysis text classification or named entity recognition. Utilize NLP libraries like NLTK SpaCy or Transformers.\nCollaboration and Documentation: Collaborate with team members document your work and maintain a clear and organized record of your analysis code and results. Contribute to the organizations knowledge base or data science repository. \nQUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:\nMinimum Qualifications and Experience\nTwo to Three years of relevant experience plus a university degree in Computer Science AI or Data Science. Working knowledge of AWS is considered an advantage.\nSkills and Competencies:\nProficiency in programming languages such as Python or R is crucial for a data scientist.\nSolid understanding of statistics is essential. The candidate should be familiar with concepts such as hypothesis testing regression analysis probability distributions and statistical modeling techniques.\nSolid understanding of machine learning algorithms and techniques such as supervised and unsupervised learning feature engineering model evaluation and model selection.\nExcellent oral and written skills; excellent drafting formulation reporting skills.\nExcellent interpersonal skills; culturally and socially sensitive; ability to work inclusively and collaboratively with a range of partners including grassroots community members religious and youth organizations and authorities at different levels; familiarity with tools and approaches of communications for development.\nAbility to work and adapt professionally and effectively in a challenging environment; ability to work effectively in a multicultural team of international and national personnel.\nSelf-motivated ability to work on MVPs in an agile environment; ability to work with tight deadlines.\nSound security awareness.\nHave affinity with or interest in leveraging AI in humanitarian domain volunteerism as an enabler for durable development and the UN System.\nProficiency (read/ write/ speak) in English.\nWFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK\nWFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.\nClick here to access WFP Leadership Framework\nREASONABLE ACCOMMODATION\nWFP is committed to supporting individuals with disabilities by providing reasonable accommodations throughout the recruitment process. If you require a reasonable accommodation please contact: \nNO FEE DISCLAIMER\nThe United Nations does not charge any application processing training interviewing testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee please disregard it. Furthermore please note that emblems logos names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.\nREMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION\nAll applications must be submitted exclusively through our online recruiting system. We do not consider CVs or applications sent by email LinkedIn or any other channel. \n\nWe strongly recommend that your Workday profile is accurate and complete and that all sections are filled in including your employment history academic qualifications language skills and UN grade (if applicable). Once your profile is completed please apply and submit your application.\n\nIf you experience technical issues while submitting your application you may contact us at. Please note that this email is only for technical issues with an application - unsolicited applications or documents sent to this inbox will not receive a reply.\n\nAt the application stage the only required documents are your CV and Cover Letter. Additional documents (passport certificates recommendation letters etc.) may be requested later in the process.\n\nOnly shortlisted candidates will be contacted and invited to proceed to the next stage of the recruitment process.\n\nAll employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs job requirements merit and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse all forms of discrimination any kind of harassment sexual harassment and abuse of authority. 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