Data Science/Machine Learning (DS/ML) Advisor Consultant, Office of Innovation, (12 months, remote)

UNICEF works in among the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived kids. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, daily, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means quit. 

For each youngster…innovate

UNICEF has a 70-year historical past of innovating for youngsters. We imagine that new approaches, partnerships and applied sciences that help realizing kids’s rights are important to bettering their lives.

The Workplace of Innovation is a inventive, interactive and agile group in UNICEF that sits on the distinctive intersection of engaged on materials international points, begin up considering, know-how and partnerships that may scale options. We glance to kind partnerships round frontier applied sciences (together with AI, drones and UAVs, blockchain, wearables and sensors, and 3D-printing) that exist on the intersection of $100 billion markets and 1 billion individual wants.

The Workplace of Innovation’s Enterprise Fund is a pooled funding automobile specifically designed to finance early stage, open-source know-how that may profit kids. The core motivation of the Innovation Fund is to establish clusters or portfolios of initiatives round rising know-how – in order that UNICEF can each form markets and find out about and information these applied sciences to profit kids. We put money into options that may influence the lives of essentially the most weak kids.

How are you going to make a distinction?

UNICEF’s Workplace of Innovation (OOI) is on the lookout for an skilled DS/ML Advisor to supply technical help and steerage to the DS/ML associated work on the Workplace of Innovation in addition to throughout UNICEF via engagements at HQ, Regional and Nation degree.

Sitting within the Ventures’ Rising Tech group, this guide may have a perception that DS/ML could be a highly effective device to assist UNICEF quickly speed up constructive outcomes for youngsters. The profitable guide may have a powerful need to information and inform early-stage DS/ML initiatives developed for, and carried out in, UNICEF program international locations. Understanding the complexities between idea and follow and what it takes to make future concepts work in numerous contexts will probably be a attribute of the guide, in addition to a conviction for pioneering and selling accountable and moral DS/ML practices.

Your major duties will probably be:

• Offering DS/ML technical steerage, help and mentorship to:
  • Enterprise Fund supported group seed and progress cohort initiatives and corporations.
  • UNICEF’s Workplace of Innovation and different UNICEF groups, divisions, and workplaces
• Supporting the technical exploration, growth and rollout of early-stage DS/ML initiatives, fashions and prototypes, inside UNICEF with an intention to speed up outcomes for youngsters.
• Working with inside and exterior stakeholders to help the understanding, adoption and scale of DS/ML initiatives throughout UNICEF.

 Please see hooked up Phrases of Reference (ToR), with associated info  DS-ML advisor – v2.1.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you should have…

• A complicated college diploma (grasp’s or greater) in Pc Science, Information Science/Machine Studying, or one other related subject.
  *A primary College Diploma in a related subject mixed with 2 further years {of professional} expertise could also be accepted in lieu of an Superior College Diploma.
• A minimal of 5 years of related skilled, sensible expertise.
• Expertise and publicity to related software program growth applied sciences, together with:
• Robust coding capabilities in Python or R and with Information Science associated libraries.
• Expertise with analytics & visualization instruments (open viz libraries e.g. Shiny, flex dashboard or equal for R or Sprint, Panel or equal for Python)
• Git and different open-source software program growth instruments
• Expertise with cloud computing platforms resembling GCP, AWS, Azure or others.
• Sensible expertise with fast prototyping and analysis of person suggestions
• Demonstrated expertise in growth and deployment of moral and accountable DS/ML practices, with examples in UNICEF program international locations thought of an asset.
• Demonstrated understanding of open supply and open knowledge rules and practices.
• Demonstrated expertise working with non-technical groups in formulating their use circumstances, gathering enterprise necessities, and involving non-technical stakeholders within the undertaking supply.
• Fluency in English is required. Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

Journey:

• The guide is predicted to journey to Stockholm for onboarding, coaching and data administration facilitation functions over a interval of 10 working days. The precise dates to be confirmed.
• The guide is accountable for arranging his/her personal journey, together with visa and journey insurance coverage.

Fee particulars and additional issues

• Fee {of professional} charges will probably be based mostly on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the proper to withhold cost 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 guide. 
• Fee schedules as per outlined duties are clearly indicated within the hooked up (ToR) Phrases of Reference.

The best way to apply:

• Curiosity applicant is required to submit a monetary proposal with all-inclusive charge.  Please see the monetary proposal template.  Consultancy Financial Offer template.docx
• Functions with out a monetary proposal won’t be thought of.

For each Youngster, you reveal… 

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS). 

To view our competency framework, please go to  here. 

 UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived kids and our international workforce should mirror the range of these kids. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

UNICEF gives reasonable accommodation for consultants/particular person contractors with disabilities. This will likely embody, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want affordable lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your project. 

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and aims 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 will probably 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. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background verify. 

Remarks:  

Solely shortlisted candidates will probably be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of. 

People engaged beneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought of “employees members” beneath the Workers Rules and Guidelines 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 will probably be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Providers of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost 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 the complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of totally vaccinated standing in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which have to be met previous to taking on the project. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and should not anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply places or immediately work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out features for UNICEF at some point of their consultancy contracts.