Junior Contractor for Data management and Monitoring (yoma) at UNICEF

For every child, Hope

ESARO has entered a partnership with Botnar aiming at the creation of a new platform that supports digital innovation across Africa. A relational ecosystem emerged as a result of an one year design process, where different ecosystem partners agree to the key principle of Agency or Players First. At the core of the system is the young person with his/her identity and his/her control over his/her data and growth journey (Autonomy). The ecosystem facilitates interaction with other youth, communities, service providers, employers,… based on shared values (Relatedness). Young people are offered the opportunity to participate in tailored skills acquisition that involves growth in action through impact tasks (Competence). The ecosystem is basically a market place that mediates along three lines: (a) between the demand for impact and youth that can achieve the impact, (b) between the personal aspirations and psychometric profile of young people and on/offline learning/skills acquisition opportunities and finally (c) between a more rich CV of the youth and employers/entrepreneurship opportunities. Given its focus on the agency of young people the ecosystem is called the youth agency market place or yoma.africa. Yoma builds upon exponential technologies such as blockchain and seamless ledgers, Self Sovereign Identity, privacy preserving and open AI/Machine learning and psychometric matching.

The first large scale minimum viable product (MVP) of yoma was initiated in mid-May 2020 through a challenge around COVID-19: More than 90,000 young people in Africa registered for the challenge, exceeding expectations and showing the potential for scale. Since then, yoma - together with its partners - has launched several challenges that reached over 300,000 youth across Africa. Rich data has been collected and consolidated in a first version of a dashboard. In future, the important metrics will need to be defined further to be able to prove the concept to potential partners and allow for internal and external transparency and success monitoring. For certain key performance indicator the dataset will need to be complemented by the insights from the challenges and, hence, will have to allow for the integration of data from yoma partners and the google analytics data.

The contractor will focus on the data management and presentation and monitoring of key performance indicators across all workstreams of yoma.

How can you make a difference?

 Junior contractor for data and monitoring (Yoma).pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Education:  Postgraduate degree in an academic field related to data science.
• Experience in cleaning and working with large datasets.
• At least six months of experience working with data and monitoring post-graduation
• Strong analytical skills
• Good drafting skills
• Fluency in English, Knowledge of French an asset

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA) and core competencies in Communication, Working with People and Drive for Results.

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UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.