Internship (Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys), Data & Analytics Section, DAPM, NYHQ (full time June-September)

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UNICEF works in 190 countries and territories to protect the rights of every child. UNICEF has spent 70 years working to improve the lives of children and their families. Defending children's rights throughout their lives requires a global presence, aiming to produce results and understand their effects. UNICEF believes all children have a right to survive, thrive and fulfil their potential – to the benefit of a better world.

For every child, hope. The Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) is an international household survey programme developed and supported by UNICEF. MICS is designed to collect estimates of key indicators that are used to assess the situation of children and women. Over the past 20 years, MICS has evolved to respond to changing data needs, expanding from 28 indicators in the first round to more than 200 indicators in the current sixth round, and becoming a key source of data on child protection, early childhood education, and a major source of data on child health and nutrition. In addition to being a data collection tool to generate data for monitoring the progress towards national goals and global commitments for promoting the welfare of children, MICS provided valuable data for MDG monitoring as a major source of data for the UN Secretary General’s Final Millennium Development Goals Report.

Since the inception of MICS in the 1990s, over 300 surveys have been carried out in more than 100 countries. As part of the global effort to further develop national capacities to generate and analyse high quality and disaggregated data, UNICEF launched the sixth round of MICS in October 2016. This present round is in accordance with the list of Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) indicators endorsed by the UN Statistical Commission in 2016, following the global adoption of the 17 SDGs and 169 targets of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development. The final SDG indicator framework currently includes around 230 global indicators, of which around 30 per cent are household survey-based. MICS covers almost half of these.

How can you help make a difference?

MICS is currently preparing for its seventh round launching in 2022. Activities relating to this include rigorous reviews of every single tool and process of the global programme to identify what aspect of the programme can be improved. Outside the more visible and in-focus central tools of the List of Indicators and associated questionnaires, tools range from simple template terms of references for committees to complex under-the-hood data collection and analysis programming. Processes include guidance and methodology on every aspect of household surveying. A new round naturally kicks off an opportunity to align priorities of work.

One such priority is now to work on making geospatial data available for MICS surveys.

Under the guidance and mentorship of the Statistics Specialist, the intern will support the Global MICS Team in the Data Collection Unit of DAPM’s Data and Analytics Section. This will include:

  1. Supporting tool and process development in relation to geospatial data collection and anonymisation.
  2. Undertaking data archive reviews to create a complete list of current geospatial data availability for completed surveys.
  3. Testing and identifying data quality and information gaps on existing geospatial data.
  4. Preparing simple geospatial analysis on existing data for advocacy use.
  5. Reviewing and undertaking in-depth searches for missing data.
  6. Consulting with other members of the Global Team and participating in internal meetings as required.
  7. Providing support on additional tasks as required.

To qualify as a champion for every child, you will:

  • Be currently enrolled in a university or a graduate school, or have graduated within the last two years. Some specialisation in GIS is a strong advantage.

  • Have experience with and/or knowledge on household surveys. Geospatial work in this aspect is a strong advantage.

  • Have strong command (written and spoken) of English. Knowledge of other official United Nations languages, in particular Arabic, French, Russian or Spanish is an advantage.
  • Have excellent knowledge of MS Office.

For every Child, you demonstrate

Our core values of Care, Respect, Trust, Integrity, and Accountability.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.

Added 2 years ago - Updated 2 years ago - Source: unicef.org