Stagiaire chargé(e) de programme en technologie alimentaire / conservation et transformation des produits maraîchers

WFP seeks two programme interns to improve preservation and processing of vegetable products in Mauritania. Based in Sélibabi and Kiffa, the internship supports post-harvest assessments, cooperative training, food-safety practices, data collection and documentation. Candidates must be students or recent graduates in food technology or a related field, fluent in French and able to travel.

• Assess post-harvest losses at vegetable-production sites
• Support cooperatives producing and preserving vegetable products
• Promote food-hygiene and safety practices
• Deliver practical processing and preservation demonstrations
• Collect and analyze programme activity data
• Document mission results and good practices

• Student or recent graduate in food technology, food science and technology, food-process engineering, food preservation, agronomy or a related field
• Bachelor’s student with at least two completed years, master’s student or graduate within six months
• Fluency in French
• Ability to travel and work at the internship duty station

• Academic or practical food-processing experience
• Experience with rural cooperatives
• Knowledge of Guidimakha vegetable-production systems
• English language skills

• Food preservation
• Food processing
• Food safety
• Data collection
• Training facilitation
• Report writing

• Excel
• Word
• PowerPoint

• Two internships based in Sélibabi and Kiffa