Innovation Nodes Data Intern, Office of Innovation, Stockholm, Sweden, Remote (Part-time)

Innovation Nodes are collaborative spaces that illuminate, probe, reflect and generate novel ideas and
research in new and unknown areas of potential innovation for children. Innovation Nodes engage with
and learn from cutting edge research, ideas and networks. These are new types of collaborative
arrangements that connect/embed UNICEF in locations with a critical gravity of research, development
and deep expertise in key new and emerging technologies, approaches and other critical areas of
knowledge. You can be part of the team that works to realize this!

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential. 

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone. 

And we never give up. 

For every child, innovate…

Innovation Nodes in OOI carry out the work explicitly called for in UNICEF’s Global Innovation Strategy to: “…identify gaps and opportunities and expose unproven approaches and technologies to be explored. Potential solutions will be co-created or discovered through scanning the horizon for new and existing ideas. Research and development will be undertaken to meet clearly defined requirements and gain an understanding of current and future demand.” Innovation Nodes are collaborative spaces that illuminate, probe, reflect and generate novel ideas and research in new and unknown areas of potential innovation for children. Innovation Nodes engage with and learn from cutting edge research, ideas and networks. These are new types of collaborative arrangements that connect/embed UNICEF in locations with a critical gravity of research, development and deep expertise in key new and emerging technologies, approaches and other critical areas of knowledge. Node collaborations are with pioneering pre-eminent organizations with deep expertise and transdisciplinary capabilities and intentionally empower young researchers. Examples of current work include second- and third-generation renewable energy, precision health, applied biotechnology such as in diagnostics, additive manufacturing, next-generation materials, emerging business models for innovation for sustainable development. You can be part of the team that works to realize this! 

How can you make a difference? 

The Innovation Node intern will work directly with and under the supervision of the Senior Adviser on Innovation (HQ & Nodes) and Innovation Specialist (Nodes). They will concentrate on the data management, analysis, and visualization of multi-year indicators for the Innovation Nodes Team. The purpose of this internship is to complete analysis and generate visualizations that demonstrate the past and current, internal and external, impact of Node collaborations. This internship is ideal for a person who thinks holistically, can create insightful visualizations from various data sets, can simplify complexity, and understands how to effectively visualize data to support understanding, tell a story, and generate interest.

Main Duties / Responsibilities

Work with Supervisor and Node team members to:

• Utilize structured and unstructured data already captured from Node collaborations to develop analysis and visualizations of key performance indicators (KPIs) including:
• collaboration outputs (Insight Report, Insight Briefs, etc.)
• internal and external communications (webinars, blogs, etc.)
• and engagement (views, downloads, citations, etc.)
• Develop a replicable and sustainable data base of relevant data points, aggregate data, and effective visualizations able to be utilized after the completion of the internship
• Generate supplementary language/design that encourages understanding of the findings identified in the data analysis

Expected Deliverables

• Analysis and visualizations supporting the work of the Nodes team
• A replicable and sustainable data base supportive of continued data management, thse analysis of key performance indicators, and visualizations
• Supplementary language that describes findings and supports data analysis and visualizations.

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

• Be enrolled in an undergraduate or graduate degree programme or have graduated within the past two years in Data Analytics, Data Science, Information Design, or Research, etc.
• Experience in data visualization software (PowerBI, R, Tableau) strongly preferred
• Experience working in an emerging economy/programme country is an asset • Previous experience creating comprehensive research reports is an asset
• Experience working within the Microsoft Suite of tools e.g. SharePoint, Word, Excel, Powerpoint, Teams etc. is helpful
• Strong self-organizational skills and time management
• The candidate must have good interpersonal skills and be able to collaborate effectively in a diverse work environment.
• Excellence in both written and spoken English is required and essential. Proficiency in any other UN languages is an asset (French, Russian, Arabic, Spanish, Chinese).

Conditions

• Age: Interns must be at least 18 years.
• Have good academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.
• Have no immediate relatives (e.g. father, mother, brother, sister) working in any UNICEF office.
• Have no other relatives in the line of authority which the intern will report to.
• Individuals must have proof of medical insurance covering the time and location of their internship.
• Ability to engage in this internship on a full-time basis.
• Individuals are expected to provide their own laptop, access to internet connection and place to work.
• Selected candidates will receive a monthly stipend (unless already in receipt of any support for the internship from a third party).
• Individuals must fund their own living expenses.
• This internship is remote, meaning individuals undertake this work from their chosen location.
• No travel is required.

Employment: There is no expectancy of employment at the end of the internship. 

For information, please consult the Terms of Reference:  TOR Node Intern Data (1).docx

For every Child, you demonstrate… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

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 is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. 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.

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

In case of any questions, please contact us at swe-ooi-recruitments@unicef.org