[Bachelor and Master Student] Data Science Research Intern - Online Internship 2020 at UNDP Istanbul, Turkey

Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD) is one of the UNDP’s six Global Policy Centers. IICPSD supports the private sector and foundations to become transformative partners in development through research, advocacy, facilitation of public-private dialogue and brokering partnerships. IICPSD leads UNDP’s global work on private sector and foundations and supports UNDP’s offices all around the world. IICPSD offers internship opportunities for outstanding graduate-level students. The research internship programme provides direct exposure to IICPSD's work as a center of excellence for the private sector’s role in development and inclusive markets. The programme is designed to provide support to IICPSD’s applied research and policy advisory services as well as to complement the interns’ practical experience in various issues related to private sector engagement, human capital development, impact investing in the achievement of SDGs and other topics of international development. The complexity of development challenges requires deploying advanced analytical systems that will harness insights from UNDP's experience and return synthesized and comprehensive information and visualizations for fast action. The objective of the Data Science Research Internship is to provide the intern with the opportunity to work on how to deploy big data and machine learning approaches on development issues; and particularly to analyze and learn from text-based sources of data using natural language processing algorithms and tools. In particular, the intern will contribute to data acquisition, preparation, analysis, and visualizations efforts.

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Financial Issues
Internships within the UN system are subject to conditions the applicant must get familiar with before signing his/her internship agreement.

• Starting from January 2020 interns will receive stipends according to UN rules and regulations.
• Any further costs associated with the internship must be borne by the nominating institution, related institution or government, which may provide the required financial assistance to its students; or by the student, who will have to obtain financing for subsistence and make his or her arrangements for travel, accommodation and other costs.

Duties and Responsibilities 

The Data Science Research Intern will work under the direct supervision and guidance of the technical specialist. The intern will perform the following functions:

• Participate in the developing machine-learning research;
• Apply advanced Natural Language Processing techniques to build, maintain, and improve on analytics, organize large datasets to get actionable insights from them;
• Help communicating findings accurately to different stakeholders;
• Support the implementation of data science projects;
• Collaborate with private and public organizations to get access to their databases;
• Outreach to organizations as well as academic institutions that apply data science to policymaking
• Provide other support and assistance as required.

Note that the internship will be 100% home-based and no travel to the office premices in Istanbul is required.

 

Requirement:

• Education:
  Applicants must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:
• be enrolled in a second university degree programme (Master Degree)
• be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (Bachelor Degree)
• have graduated with a university degree in fields such as Computer Science, Statistics, Data Science, Mathematics, Physics, Economics or similar and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation.
• Language:
• Fluent in English with excellent reading and writing skills.

How to Apply:
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The application should contain:

• Brief Cover Letter (in English) stating interest in and qualifications for the post;
• Current and complete CV in English;
• Prepeferably a link to code portfolio such as GITHUB code repository and/or one relevant recent writing sample showing your understanding in the field of data science.

Please group all your documents into one single PDF document as the system only allows to upload maximum one document.

Candidates who are selected for must submit prior to the interview the following documents:

• Official document(s) confirming your education status;
• proof of medical and life/accident insurance valid for the location in which the internship will be carried out. Selected intern must have medical and life insurance.

UNDP accepts no responsibility for costs arising from accidents and/or illness or death incurred during the internship.

Deadline:

09 November 2020

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