The objectives of this internship are:

The primary purpose of the internship programme will be to support the development and enhancement of the interns’ professional experience through practical work assignments, to expose the interns to UNICEF’s mission, as well as well as to promote learning on child rights, in general.

The data and analytics internship will have the following specific objectives:

1. To develop their data management skills by being involved in developing digital data collection tools, collecting, cleaning, processing and analyzing data.
2. To learn by doing through developing dashboards, visualizations, mapping, and information management products for use by programme sections.
3. To learn more about UNICEF programmes by participating in field monitoring visits and analyzing field visit reports to produce actionable insights for decision making.
4. To learn new developments in the application of big data and analytics to advance child rights and promote equity.
5. To participate in capacity building and training activities (online and offline) related to complex data analysis using statistical software packages (NVivo, SPSS, Stata, Excel, Epi Info, etc).
6. To learn by practically performing data quality assurance and quality control on all data used in reports, results frameworks and monitoring and evaluation plans.

The Data and Analytics interns will directly report to the Planning and Monitoring Specialist. The interns will also update the Planning and Monitoring Specialist and Chief of PPM on progress of learning and development work assignments during regular meetings.

Together with the supervisor, a monthly work plan will be developed, which will indicate key activities, deliverables, and performance indicators, clearly specifying deadlines. The internship is expected to be on full-time basis. The interns will be required to submit monthly reports to the supervisor which will also be shared with respective sections to which they are assigned. The monthly report will summarize the learning objectives achieved in conformity with the internship work assignments.

Supervision and guidance will be provided on a day-to-day basis, and regular meetings will be organized to discuss progress and challenges. The intern will be exposed to learning and personal development opportunities within UNICEF and with the partners, including humanitarian response, and will be exposed to learn new developments in the application of big data and analytics to advance child rights and promote equity.

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