Overview
Internship opportunity in Data Research within the Department of Operational Support, focusing on gathering, analyzing, and interpreting data to support organizational programs and decision-making.
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.
Required Experience
No working experience is required to apply for the United Nations Internship Programme.
Qualifications
To qualify for an internship with the UN, applicants must meet one of the following requirements: (a) be enrolled in a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent, or higher). (b) be enrolled in the final academic year of a university degree programme (minimum bachelor's level or equivalent); or (c) have graduated with a university degree (as defined above). Typically, for this opportunity our interns are pursuing studies and experiences in the following areas: Analytics and Business Intelligence. We seek candidates with relevant coursework in Computer Science, Economics, Statistics, Operations Research, Engineering, Mathematics, Data Visualization, or Analytics.
