UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 nations and territories, we work for each youngster, all over the place, day by day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means hand over.
For each youngster…Innovate
UNICEF has a 70-yr historical past of innovating for youngsters. We consider that new approaches, partnerships and applied sciences that help realizing youngsters’s rights are crucial to enhancing their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a artistic, interactive, and agile workforce in UNICEF. We sit at a singular intersection, the place a corporation that works on big international points meets the beginning-up pondering, the expertise, and the companions that flip this vitality into scalable options.
About Giga
Launched in 2019 as a joint initiative between UNICEF and ITU, Giga has set the bold aim to attach each faculty on the earth to the web. Half of the world’s inhabitants has no common entry to the Internet. Millions of youngsters depart faculty with none digital abilities, making it way more tough for them to thrive and contribute to native and international economies. This has created a digital divide between those that are related and people who should not, a divide that has turn out to be even wider throughout the Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF and ITU have due to this fact joined forces to create Giga, an initiative to attach each faculty on the earth to the Internet and tackle this new type of inequality.
Giga focuses on connecting faculties in order that youngsters and younger individuals have entry to data, alternative, and selection. It additionally makes use of faculties as anchor factors for their surrounding communities: should you join the varsity, it’s also possible to join native companies and providers. This creates alternatives for service suppliers to generate income from paying customers, making connectivity extra sustainable. A 2021 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit discovered {that a} 10% improve in class connectivity can improve efficient years of education by 0.6% and improve GDP per capita by 1.1%.
You can learn extra about Giga’s work at https://giga.global/ and by following us on twitter @Gigaglobal
How are you able to make a distinction?
We search an information scientist / AI researcher who can work with a various, international and interdisciplinary workforce to assist us construct and scale instruments and merchandise that help the profitable, on-the-floor implementation of the Giga mission
Key tasks embody:
- Curate and keep an information infrastructure together with information processing code repository.
- Assess and establish new sources of information for Giga.
- Curate QoS coaching samples for ML mannequin growth.
- Develop, consider, run, and enhance AI/ML fashions, with a particular concentrate on Time Series Data.
- Analyze totally different datasets to generate new insights for Giga and its nations.
- Capture findings in interesting tales and documentation.
Please entry the complete Term of Reference (ToRs) and skim a extra detailed description of the task on this file in an effort to put together your monetary proposal and know extra concerning the function: 
To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…
- A grasp’s diploma in laptop science or associated discipline. *A primary University Degree in a related discipline mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
- At least 5 years of expertise in Data Science and geospatial datasets.
- Strong expertise with machine studying and information evaluation utilizing Python.
- Strong expertise with algorithm growth
- Experience with infrastructure information
- Excellent communication abilities and skill to current advanced technical ideas to a non-technical viewers.
- Experience with cloud providers, particularly Azure ML
- Experienced and comfy with distant workforce dynamics, course of, and instruments (Slack, Zoom, and so on.)
- Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency circumstances is taken into account an asset.
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian, Spanish) is an asset.
Travel:
- The advisor is predicted to journey to Geneva one time (1 journey), for a keep of 4-5 nights.
- The advisor is accountable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.
Payment particulars and additional issues:
- Payment {of professional} charges can be based mostly on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the appropriate to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the advisor.
- Consultant is accountable for his/her personal well being and journey insurance coverage.
- Consultant is accountable to rearrange his/her personal journey, together with visa.
How to apply:
- Interested candidates are required to submit a monetary proposal with an all-inclusive charge. Please see the monetary proposal template right here: Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
- Financial proposal should embody journey prices (financial system class) and every day subsistence allowance, if journey is required as per TOR and another estimated prices: visa, journey/medical insurance
- Applications with no monetary proposal is not going to be thought-about.
For each Child, you reveal…
UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).
To view our competency framework, please go to here.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or another private attribute.
UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This might embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your software in case you want affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates can be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can due to this fact bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer further data to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged below a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” below the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages supplied therein (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service can be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Selected candidates are topic to affirmation of totally-vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.
Consultancy 12 months: Data Science/AI Researcher (QoS), Giga – Barcelona, Spain
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