Education Intern - Beirut, Lebanon (6 months)

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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, Education

UNICEF started to work in Lebanon in 1948 and established its office in 1950. For more than 70 years we’ve been working closely with the Government of Lebanon, other UN agencies, international and local NGOs, universities, and more than 100 partners to meet the needs of disadvantaged children in Lebanon. Responding to lifesaving needs and ensuring equal access to quality public services, the impact of our work is felt in every aspect and every sphere of society. To learn more about our work, please refer to: https://www.unicef.org/lebanon/what-we-do

How can you make a difference?

Objectives

The intern will support the UNICEF Lebanon Education Section in processing, administering, querying, and managing data sources, to support visualizations to be used in reports, presentations, infographics and other documents.

Background

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every girl and boy, everywhere, with equity. The Education Section seeks to achieve this by promoting multiple and flexible pathways in education that take into consideration individual characteristics and common goals. Interventions that lend themselves to this approach require evidence-based programming. As part of its mission, the Education Section supports the government of Lebanon and its partners in collecting, processing and analyzing data to produce this evidence. Optimal use of this information can only be achieved if queried correctly, visualized in a user-friendly manner, processed systematically, and archived efficiently. The officers responsible for using the evidence in programming need to maintain a strategic approach towards evidence-generation and do not always have the time or knowledge of the software necessary for the processing and visualization of the data. For this reason, an intern is being recruited to provide, under the supervision of the Information Manager Officer, the support to the members of the Education Section in these endeavors.

Scope of work

Under the supervision and guidance of the Information Management Officer, the intern (or interns) will:

• Support the IM officer in cleaning, managing, processing, and archiving the data that has been collected by the education section.

• When appropriate and with adequate technical support, assist in statistical analysis, visualization of data, production of tables and preparing data for infographics and reports.

• Provide support to members of the Education Section in the use of the software required to process, analyses and visualize data.

• Assist in the compilation of education results, data, and reports.

• Support in producing charts, datasheets and visuals based on the data archives.

• Support in the review of the publications to extract relevant data and trends and feed archives of the extracted data.

• Support in knowledge management products (produce summaries of all major projects undertaken by the section’s programme officers).

Deliverables and Schedules

The intern will provide every month a log of her contributions, which will include, but might not be limited to the following:

• Visuals and graphs.

• Data sets that have been cleaned, labeled and archived.

• Data processed to produce tables, reports, infographics or others.

• Support provided to team members in the processing, analysis or visualizing of data for infographics, presentations, reports or others.

• Consolidating data sets, either by extracting information from other sources, by merging other data sets or by creating sub-sets of larger data sets.

• Summarizing / registering publications and data sources produced by the government and partners.

• Support the archiving in the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) archive in Sharepoint.

Responsibilities

The supervisor and other members of the System Strengthening team will provide training and guidance to the Intern.

The Intern will schedule with her supervisor a mixture of office- and home-based workdays. UNICEF Lebanon CO will provide the necessary equipment.

No travel is anticipated as part of this assignment.

Timing: The duration of the assignment is 6 months on a part- or full-time basis.

The successful candidates can arrange their working days flexibly based on the work plan negotiated with her supervisor. However, it is expected the intern will attend the office at least three days per week (either full day or part time).

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have

• Enrolled in a university degree in Information Technology, Information Systems, Education, Engineering, Architecture, Communications, Mathematics, Psychology, Psychometrics, Statistics or related field.

• Excellent knowledge of MS Office (Excel, Word, Power Point, Access, Power BI).

• Basic understanding of descriptive statistics.

• Strong command of verbal and written English. Knowledge of written Arabic and/or French is considered an asset.

• A high level of organizational skills.

• Ability to present information in understandable tables, charts and graphs.

• Excellent academic performance as demonstrated by recent university or institution records.

• A high level of individual responsibility, commitment and initiative.

• Demonstrates openness in sharing information and keeping people informed.

Administrative issues

• The Intern will provide her/himself with a laptop.

• UNICEF will provide a temporary desk and access to Internet and printing facilities at the UNICEF offices.

• The selected intern will be required to share proof of health/medical insurance prior to contract issuance. Health/Medical Insurance costs will be borne by the intern.

• UNICEF Lebanon will provide the selected intern Malicious Acts Insurance Coverage for service-incurred injuries and malicious acts as per the Appendix D of UN Staff Rules.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

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.