Overview
Internship opportunity focused on data research within the Office of Supply Chain Management. The role involves gathering, analyzing, and visualizing data to support organizational objectives.
Key Responsibilities
- Gathers and analyzes data from various databases and sources, performing statistical and/or mathematical programming, developing reports and visual representations, developing and/or maintaining databases, and providing consultation, technical assistance, advises and assists in determining the appropriate statistical methodology to meet the needs and objectives; uses various statistical and mathematical software packages to summarize and interpret statistical results; and designs and implements study activities and process improvements.
- Supports team members with data cleaning from primary or secondary sources and maintaining databases/data systems.
- Creates simple data visualizations for internal or external use independently.
- Translates data results into written reports, or presentations to convey information to management.
- Identifies, analyzes, and interprets trends or patterns, using basic machine learning techniques, statistical methods to identify relevant features and variables in structured sources of information and data.
- Contributes to identifying opportunities to implement innovative approaches and evidence-based reasoning to organizational issues and ensures clean data without major quality issues is used for complex analyses.
- Assists in the development and delivery of data science solutions to better enable the planning, decision making, and implementation of organization programmes.
- Understanding of new data sources and process pipelines is appreciated, and the ability to assist in cataloguing/documenting.
- Familiarity with Data science, data analytics, applied mathematics, information management, Data Visualization, dashboard and performance optimization, Automatization of streamlined workflows, Data management techniques, quantitative analysis and methods.
- Familiarity with tools such as: Excel, PowerPivot, PowerPoint, and analytics tools such as Microsoft SQL, PowerBI, SAP Business Objects, Tableau, Qlik.
Required Experience
No working experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme.
Qualifications
- Be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher).
- Be enrolled in the final academic year of a university degree programme (minimum bachelor's level or equivalent);
- Have graduated with a university degree (as defined above).
Pursuing studies and experiences in the following areas: Analytics and Business Intelligence. Candidates with relevant coursework in Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Operations Research, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Visualization, or Analytics.
