Historique

CORPORATE BACKGROUND:

UNDP works in about 170 countries and territories, helping to eradicate poverty, reduce inequalities and exclusion, and build resilience so countries can sustain progress. As the UN’s development agency, UNDP plays a critical role in helping countries achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

The Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (ICPSD) is the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) global organization mandated to leverage the role of the private sector in development. The ICPSD was established in Istanbul, Turkey on the basis of the Partnership Framework Agreement signed between the Government of the Republic of Turkey and the United Nations Development Program in March 2011. The center is one of the six global thematic policy centers of UNDP, supports the private sector and foundations to become transformative partners in development through research, advocacy, facilitation of public-private dialogue and brokering partnerships. ICPSD leads UNDP’s global work on private sector and foundations and supports UNDP’s offices all around the world.  

RECEIVING OFFICE BACKGROUND:

The ICPSD SDG AI Lab is a joint initiative of UNDP BPPS team, and it is hosted under UNDP ICPSD. The SDG AI Lab provides research, development and advisory support through cutting-edge digital solutions in harnessing the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for sustainable development. The Lab aims to strengthen the UNDP’s internal and its partners’ capacities for the increasing demand for digital transformation. 

UNDP ICPSD’s SDG AI Lab, UN Technology Bank will jointly implement the ‘Frontier Tech Leaders’ programme for the LDCs to bridge the digital divide and contribute to the 2030 Agenda of sustainable development. The ‘Frontier Tech Leaders’ programme aims to train the next generation of tech specialists in the Least Developed Countries (LDCs) to address the challenges facing their communities by developing digital solutions. In this sense, it will inspire youth and provide them with the means for action. With a focus on encouraging young women to pursue education and careers in the field of technology, the programme will contribute to the promotion of gender equality.

In this context, the Fellow will support Frontier Tech Leaders programme’s training and community activities.

Devoirs et responsabilités

The Intern/Fellow will assist in the following duties and responsibilities:

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Duties and responsibilities

% of time

1

Main Tasks

  • Onboarding the Frontier Tech Leaders participants, guides and engaging with them throughout the process
  • Contribute to improving Frontier Tech Leaders learning programmes and Learning Collaboratives
  • Get involved in all steps (planning, implementation, reporting, organization, co-moderation, follow-up) of SDG AI Lab online and onsite community events
  • Maintain high levels of trainee/student satisfaction measured by student retention, student satisfaction surveys, student graduation rates, and graduation surveys
  • Ensure participants engagement with the global community website and chapter community spaces
  • Manage SDG AI Lab and Frontier Tech Leaders Discord spaces
  • Monitoring participants’ activities on Discord and Coursera
  • Respond to the participant/applicant questions via available channels
  • Selecting teaching fellows, volunteer guides for the learning collaboratives, study groups
  • Onboarding the fellows, guides and engaging with them throughout the process
  • Organizing weekly and monthly meetings with Frontier Tech Leaders teams
  • Use a strategic engagement plan that involves a strong presence of online communication strategy, cultivate strong relationships with students to build trust, and act as their personal coach throughout their program
  • Ensuring the smooth flow between the Lab, Frontier Tech Leaders' training and community teams,
  • Reach out to the relevant communities, student clubs and maintain a productive relationship with the global and local frontier tech and AI community,
  • Ensure the SDG AI Lab code of conduct throughout the implementation of the trainings, activities and events

70 %

2

Partnerships and Outreach

  • Participate in the production of communication materials covering the community and its activities in the form of the blog posts, articles, tweets and others. 
  • Contribute to the developer community branding and communications strategies developments.  
  • Assist in identifying new partnership opportunities towards building stronger community. 

   20 %

3

Other:

  • Support other/ad hoc activities as seen relevant and needed.

10 %

Compétences

Competencies and attitude:

  • Interest and motivation in working in an international organization.
  • Outgoing and initiative-taking person with a goal-oriented mind-set.
  • Communicates effectively when working in teams and independently.
  • Good in organizing and structuring various tasks and responsibilities.
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.
  • Excellent with deadlines
  • Self-driven and open to self-development
  • Ability to understand the needs and challenges faced by adult learners
  • Strong attention to detail including skills in record keeping and records management,
  • Genuine interest and commitment to help students achieve their goals
  • Good operations management skills,
  • Experience in working with volunteers
  • Work independently in the absence of supervision

Qualifications et expériences requises

Education:

Candidates must meet one of the following educational requirements:

  • currently enrolled in a postgraduate programme (such as a Master’s programme or higher).
  • have graduated no longer than 2 years ago from a university degree or equivalent studies.

Field of study: computer science, engineering, statistics, economics, finance, business administration, social sciences, public administration or related areas.

IT skills:

  • Knowledge and a proficient user of Microsoft Office productivity tools.
  • interest and/or experience in online community platforms.

Language skills:

  • Fluent in English with excellent reading and writing skills is required.