Data and Statistics Intern

Background

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the center of all its efforts, UN Women leads and coordinates United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

Generation Equality is a multi-stakeholder initiative convened by UN Women to catalyze partners, increase investments for gender equality, drive results and accelerate the full and effective implementation of the Beijing Platform for Action and the Sustainable Development Goals. The initiative also aims to sustain and expand a movement of support for gender equality with civil society and youth leadership and activism at its heart. Generation Equality is fully embedded in UN Women’s Strategic Plan and aims to accelerate the achievement of results contained therein, notably by operationalizing the Strategic Plan’s vision of achieving results through partnerships. Generation Equality is also recognized by the Secretary-General’s “Common Agenda” as an important initiative for the UN system to take stock of and build on.

During the 2021 Generation Equality Forum, the Action Coalitions were launched to take on six critical issues that underpin gender equality.  Concerted effort, investments and accountability together with sustained solidarity for action is required to secure the gains secured at the Forums in Mexico and Paris, as well as ensure new momentum and commitments.  Established through consultations with Generation Equality Stakeholders, the Action Coalitions Monitoring and Accountability Framework outlines the efforts required to hold Action Coalition Leaders and Commitment Makers accountable for the pledges made towards a better life for women and girls. The Framework is anchored in the Action Coalition’s Global Acceleration Plan for Gender Equality that outlines bold results that are to be achieved for each Action Coalition by 2026. The Monitoring and Accountability Framework for the Action Coalitions include four elements:

• Annual reporting on implementation of COMMITMENTS
• Biannual assessment of progress towards the global TARGETS set by blueprints in the Global Acceleration Plan
• Assessment of the extent Generation Equality reflects transformative PROCESSES
• STORIES OF IMPACT that demonstrate experience of challenges and change

The data analyst intern will provide support to the Accountability Framework Lead in Research and Data on supporting building and monitoring a clear, transparent and participatory process for effective implementation of the Action Coalition Monitoring and Accountability Framework. In addition, the Accountability Framework intern will assist in the data compilation and analysis as relevant for monitoring and evaluation of the Action Coalitions and stakeholder engagement process, and provide support to contribute to the production of summaries of evaluations, donor and monitoring reports and further programmatic work.

Duties and Responsibilities

Support survey development and data collection for the Monitoring and Accountability Framework (MAF)

• Support the update Commitment Dashboard directory (check inconsistencies, matching different datasets using STATA or Excel) under the supervision of the Research and Data analyst
• Support quality assurance process of the survey data, including organizing datasets and cross-checking the survey data with the Global Platform Data to ensure consistency
• Assist in developing and implementing the Accountability Framework annual survey using STATA
• Support and prepare analytical outputs, including graphs, figures and tables with STATA/R/Excel/Tableau.

Research and data analysis to support the implementation of the Monitoring and Accountability Framework (MAF) 

• Support mapping of available gender-specific indicators, mapping of data gaps, compile data and conduct analysis related to the using UN Women and other global gender indicator databases.
• Provide research and data assistance support related to the production on the annual Monitoring and Accountability Report.
• Provide substantive support to the supervisor and Accountability Framework Lead as requested;
• Work on other assignments as and as requested by management

• Learning objectives

• Increase understanding of UN Women’s work and the UN system;
• Increase knowledge of women’s rights and gender equality;
• Increase knowledge regarding applied gender-responsive research and gender policy work;
• Increase knowledge regarding quantitative research methods and gender statistics;
• Work as a team member in a multicultural setting

   

Competencies

Core Values:

• Respect for Diversity
• Integrity
• Professionalism

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues
• Accountability
• Creative Problem Solving
• Effective Communication
• Inclusive Collaboration
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Leading by Example

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Core Values and Competencies: 

Functional Competencies:

• Interest in development, research, advocacy, and gender policy work.
• A good understanding of quantitative research methods.
• Interest and some background in statistical programming or database programming
• Experience on Stata/Tableau will be an added advantage.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

• University studies in social science with a focus on statistics, gender, social, economic, or political aspects of development.
• Meet one of the following:
  1. Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher);
  2. Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent);
  3. Be enrolled in a mandatory national service programme of which the internship may form a part;
  4. Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within two-years of graduation.

Language:

• Excellent communication skills (written and oral) in English are required;
• Working knowledge of another UN language is a strong advantage.

Renumeration:

Interns who are not in receipt of financial support from other sources such as universities or other institutions will receive a stipend from UN Women to partially subsidize their basic living costs for the duration of the internship.

Application Information:

• All applicants must submit a completed and signed with their application.
• Due to the high volume of applications received, UN Women can ONLY contact successful candidates.
• The successful candidate will be required to provide proof of enrollment in a valid health insurance plan at the duty station of the internship, proof of school enrollment or degree, a scanned copy of their passport/national ID and a copy of a valid visa (as applicable).
• This internship may be full-time or part-time over the six-month period, to be determined in consultation with the successful candidate.

Note:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women’s empowerment.

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.  

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.  

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