UNICEF works in a number of 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, in every single place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means quit.
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 essential to enhancing their lives.
The Office of Innovation is a inventive, interactive, and agile workforce in UNICEF. We sit at a singular intersection, the place a company that works on big world 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 college on the earth to the web. Half of the world’s inhabitants has no common entry to the Internet. Millions of kids depart college with none digital abilities, making it rather more tough for them to thrive and contribute to native and world economies. This has created a digital divide between those that are related and those that usually are not, a divide that has develop into even wider in the course of the Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF and ITU have due to this fact joined forces to create Giga, an initiative to attach each college on the earth to the Internet and deal with this new type of inequality.
Giga focuses on connecting faculties in order that youngsters and younger folks have entry to info, alternative, and selection. It additionally makes use of faculties as anchor factors for their surrounding communities: in case you join the college, you may as well join native companies and companies. 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 a knowledge scientist / AI researcher who can work with a various, world and interdisciplinary workforce to assist us construct and scale instruments and merchandise that help the profitable, on-the-floor implementation of the Giga venture
Key obligations embrace:
- Process satellite tv for pc imagery in addition to different essential datasets.
- Assess and establish new sources of knowledge for Giga.
- Curate coaching samples for ML mannequin growth.
- Develop, consider, run, and enhance AI/ML fashions.
- Analyze completely different datasets to generate new insights for Giga and its nations.
- Capture findings in interesting tales and documentation.
Please entry the total Term of Reference (ToRs) and browse a extra detailed description of the project on this file to be able to put together your monetary proposal and know extra in regards to the position: 
To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…
- A grasp’s diploma in laptop science or associated discipline. *A primary University Degree in a related discipline mixed with 2 extra years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Advanced University Degree.
- At least 5 years of expertise in Deep Learning and geospatial datasets.
- Strong expertise with machine studying and knowledge evaluation utilizing Python.
- Strong expertise with laptop imaginative and prescient algorithm growth.
- Experience with satellite tv for pc imagery evaluation.
- Excellent communication abilities and talent to current complicated technical ideas to a non-technical viewers.
- Experience with cloud companies, particularly Azure ML
- Experienced and comfy with distant workforce dynamics, course of, and instruments (Slack, Zoom, and so forth.)
- 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 marketing consultant is predicted to journey to Geneva one time (1 journey), for a keep of 4-5 nights.
- The marketing consultant is accountable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.
Payment particulars and additional concerns:
- Payment {of professional} charges can be primarily based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the proper to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are less than the required normal or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the a part of the marketing consultant.
- 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 payment. Please see the monetary proposal template right here: Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
- Financial proposal should embrace journey prices (financial system class) and every day subsistence allowance, if journey is required as per TOR and every other estimated prices: visa, journey/medical insurance
- Applications and not using a 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 world workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-financial background, or every other private attribute.
UNICEF affords reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This could embrace, 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 cheap lodging in the course of the choice course of and afterwards in your project.
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 endure rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to offer extra info to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.
Individuals engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract is not going to be thought-about “staff members” beneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures, and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (comparable to 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 absolutely-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking over the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and usually are not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or instantly work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF for the period of their consultancy contracts.
Consultancy 12 months: Data Science/AI Researcher (School Mapping), Giga – Barcelona, Spain
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