Data Visualization and Graphic Design Intern (DAPM, Strategic Planning & Corporate Analysis), (6 months full time)

UNICEF works in a number of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential. 

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each baby, in every single place, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody. 

And we by no means surrender. 

For each baby, hope

The Division of Knowledge, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) was established in 2019 to drive choice making and organizational studying, enhance effectiveness and achievement of outcomes of UNICEF and its companions to understand the rights and enhance the life of each baby. DAPM promotes the usage of information and monitoring to realize transformative affect on lives of kids.

The Division is liable for driving, shaping and guiding UNICEF’s evidence-informed evaluation, strategic planning, programme monitoring and organizational efficiency administration. As such, DAPM allows the group to ship on ends in a extra coherent method, primarily based on agile and contextualized programming course of, and on information, proof, and evaluation, in addition to the applying of human-rights primarily based and results-based administration approaches.

The intern will likely be working within the Strategic Planning and Company Evaluation (SPCA) Unit, throughout the Programme Effectiveness Group (PET). PET is liable for driving agile, environment friendly, and knowledgeable evaluation and decision-making throughout all ranges of the group to make sure the simplest programming in various contexts. The staff’s goals embrace selling coherence between company strategic and programme planning, reworking programme monitoring, partnership, and threat administration, and enhancing organizational efficiency requirements. PET additionally focuses on streamlining programs and processes for higher outcomes measurement and accountability, optimizing enterprise programs and reporting, and leveraging data and studying to enhance programme effectiveness.

The Strategic Planning and Company Evaluation Unit leads the method for UNICEF’s Strategic Plan growth, monitoring, reporting and evaluation of efficiency, together with evaluation of the cross-cutting methods, alignment of assets to outcomes, in addition to the standard assurance of and efficiency of HQ Divisions and Places of work and Regional Places of work, primarily based round their respective Workplace Administration Plans and Annual Experiences.

Function and goals

In UNICEF’s broadest sense, information visualization refers back to the visible illustration of knowledge to speak data clearly and effectively to folks. Efficient visualization helps customers perceive and analyze the proof offered, permitting us to identify patterns, traits, and correlations that in any other case might need gone unnoticed in conventional tables, spreadsheets, or datasets. 

The general function of this internship is to help the SPCA unit in information visualization, graphic design, presentation growth, and enterprise intelligence instruments. The intern will contribute by creating, updating, and enhancing visible options that successfully talk complicated information, concepts and timelines. They may collaborate throughout totally different D&A Items to make sure that displays and dashboards are each correct and visually partaking, serving to the group make data-driven selections and meet strategic goals. This internship supplies a possibility for the intern to use their current expertise in a real-world setting whereas contributing to key initiatives.

Particular Actions

1. PowerPoint Displays:

• Help in designing and updating slides for inside and exterior conferences.
• Guarantee displays are visually partaking and aligned with branding pointers.
• Work on changing complicated information or textual content into easy-to-understand visuals, diagrams, or infographics.

PowerBI Dashboards:

• Assist create new dashboards by gathering and integrating related information.
• Replace current dashboards usually with contemporary information and insights.
• Collaborate with staff members to refine metrics and be certain that SP indicators and micro-data are effectively represented.

Visible Options for Knowledge and Timelines:

• Develop visualizations that simplify complicated timelines or information units, making them extra accessible for displays or stories.
• Work on designing clear, user-friendly charts, graphs, or flowcharts to depict progress, timelines, and/or traits.

Knowledge assortment and Knowledge Analytics:

• Conduct background analysis to help information visualization and evaluation.
• Help in gathering and organizing information to feed into dashboards or displays.

Collaboration and Suggestions:

• Collaborate with totally different members of the SPCA Unit and different Items in PET and D&A to grasp how information and different data might be higher offered.
• Current visible options for suggestions and iteratively enhance them primarily based on staff enter.

Anticipated Educational and Skilled Outputs

By taking a part of this internship, it’s anticipated that the intern will enhance the next expertise:

• Technical Expertise: The intern can have a possibility to implement his/her proficiency in creating skilled PowerPoint displays, design graphical options, working with PowerBI and different infogram to visualise information, and designing compelling visualizations resembling charts, graphs, and timelines. They may improve their design considering capabilities, specializing in producing impactful and easy-to-understand visuals that talk complicated concepts successfully.
• Undertaking Administration Expertise: The intern will achieve invaluable expertise in managing a number of initiatives concurrently, honing their time administration and organizational expertise. They may be taught to pay shut consideration to element when updating information and making certain accuracy, all whereas assembly mission deadlines in a fast-paced atmosphere.
•  Collaboration and Communication: By cross-functional teamwork, the intern will improve their capability to collaborate with numerous departments and talk successfully with totally different stakeholders. They may achieve expertise in presenting their work, incorporating suggestions, and refining their initiatives to fulfill the wants of SPCA staff members.
• Downside-Fixing and Important Pondering: The intern will develop robust analytical expertise by deciphering information and turning it into significant insights by visualizations. They may be taught to strategy challenges creatively, devising progressive options to current complicated data in a transparent and comprehensible manner.
• Skilled Publicity: By engaged on real-world initiatives that instantly affect UNICEF’s selections, the intern will achieve sensible expertise in knowledgeable setting. They may learn the way groups collaborate inside a company to realize strategic objectives, gaining perception into organizational dynamics and processes.
• Portfolio Improvement: The intern will construct a portfolio of accomplished work, together with displays, dashboards, and visible options, which is able to showcase their expertise to future employers. This portfolio will likely be a invaluable asset in demonstrating their capability to deal with professional-level initiatives and produce high-quality work.
• Business Information: The intern will develop a deeper understanding of how data-driven decision-making and visible communication contribute to UNICEF’s technique and efficiency. They may achieve publicity to trade practices and learn to use visible instruments successfully in strategic planning and decision-making contexts.

Period

This will likely be a full-time internship, the length of the internship will likely be for six months. Anticipated beginning date is early January.

Wage/Cost:

In accordance with UNICEF’s pointers, interns will likely be paid a stipend of US $1,700 per 30 days. There isn’t a expectancy of employment on the finish of the internship. UNICEF shouldn’t be liable for acquiring any essential visas.

Insurance coverage:

UNICEF is not going to be liable for prices arising from accidents and/or sickness incurred throughout the intern’s service, whether or not on or off UNICEF premises. Due to this fact, the chosen candidate should present proof of enrollment in a well being/accident plan prior to start out his/her work with the Division.

Residing Circumstances and Working Atmosphere:

The internship might be distant, although ideally onsite. Desire is for interns who dwell in New York and may meet with the staff and work from UNICEF’s workplace no less than as soon as per week.

To qualify as an advocate for each baby you’ll…

• Be enrolled in a graduate diploma program (or as much as one 12 months put up commencement) within the following areas: information analytics, information science, advertising, communications, Graphic Design, Digital Media or comparable area.
• Proficiency in English.
• Candidates must also current the next further expertise:
  • PowerPoint Experience: The candidate needs to be extremely proficient in PowerPoint, with the power to create skilled, visually interesting displays, together with designing complicated slides with graphics, charts, and infographics.
  • PowerBI Proficiency: Robust expertise with PowerBI is crucial, together with the power to create and replace dashboards, combine information from totally different sources, and successfully visualize key efficiency indicators (KPIs) and traits.
  • Knowledge Visualization: The intern ought to have superior expertise in information visualization, together with data of finest practices for turning complicated information units into clear and accessible charts, graphs, and timelines utilizing a wide range of instruments.
  • Design Expertise: A stable understanding of visible design ideas is critical, particularly for creating compelling and user-friendly visuals. Familiarity with design software program (e.g., Adobe Illustrator or comparable) can be an asset.
  • Analytical Pondering: The intern have to be comfy analyzing information, figuring out traits, and translating these insights into visible codecs. Robust essential considering expertise are wanted to evaluate information accuracy and relevancy.
  • Consideration to Element: Precision is essential for duties involving information updates and presentation formatting, so the intern needs to be detail-oriented and able to making certain accuracy in all visible supplies.
  • Communication Expertise: The flexibility to collaborate with staff members, perceive their wants, and talk complicated concepts clearly by visuals is crucial. They need to even be comfy presenting their work and incorporating suggestions.

For each Youngster, you exhibit… 

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every part we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this put up are…
(1) Builds and maintains partnerships(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness(3)Drive to realize outcomes for affect(4)Innovates and embraces change(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity(6)Thinks and acts strategically(7)Works collaboratively with others.

In the course of the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

 

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our international workforce should mirror the variety of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental go away, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, due to this fact, bear rigorous reference and background checks, and will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background verify.

Remarks:  

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which will likely be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments may additionally be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities workers which might be thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking on an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the precise to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or essential inoculation necessities are usually not met, inside an inexpensive interval for any motive.

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