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assignment(s)
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General
Description of assignment title
Support the labelling of texts by goals of the African Union’s Agenda 2063
Assignment country
United States of America
Expected start date
Invalid Date
Sustainable Development Goal
17. Partnerships for the goals
For how many hours per week will the volunteer be required?
6 – 10
Host entity
UNDP Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
Type
Online
Duration
4 weeks
Number of assignments
100
Details
Mission and objectives
The United Nations Development Programme, Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS) has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan. BPPS’s staff provides technical advice to Country Offices; advocates for UNDP corporate messages, represents UNDP at multi-stakeholder fora including public-private dialogues, government and civil society dialogues, South-South and Triangular cooperation initiatives, and engages in UN inter-agency coordination in specific thematic areas. BPPS works closely with UNDP’s Crisis Response Unit (CRU) to support emergency and crisis response. BPPS ensures that issues of risk are fully integrated into UNDP’s development programmes. BPPS assists UNDP and partners to achieve higher quality development results through an integrated approach that links results based management and performance monitoring with more effective and new ways of working. BPPS supports UNDP and partners to be more innovative, knowledge and data driven including in its programme support efforts.
Context
The SDG Integration Team located with UNDP’s Global Policy Network (GPN) offers a menu of services emphasizing direct short- to medium-term engagements to respond rapidly to requests from country offices for support on national implementation and monitoring of integrated policy solutions, qualitative and evidence-driven analysis for accelerated progress, and knowledge sharing and upscaling of innovative approaches to sustainable development. The team’s work emphasizes the application of evidence-driven data and analytics for SDG implementation and reporting. In this regard, advances in digital technology are creating data at unprecedented levels of detail and speed, turning the stories of people’s lives into numbers every minute of every day, across the globe. An important focus of the integration work is to complement traditional data (e.g., national statistics,) with new and alternative sources including digital ‘breadcrumbs,’ satellite data, social media to identify emerging trends and gain new perspectives on issues in development.
Task type
Data processing
Task description
The team is looking for motivated volunteers to support the labelling of texts by goals and aspirations of the African Union’s Agenda 2063. The purpose of this assignment is to collect high-quality human-labelled dataset to support the development of multi-purpose Artificial Intelligence (AI) applications at UNDP. All candidates will complete a short online quiz to assert the required level of knowledge about Agenda 2063. Selected volunteers will be provided with access to a web-based annotation tool together with detailed instructions on how to use the tool and a selection of texts to label. Each volunteer is expected to contribute a number of labels during the course of the assignment to successfully complete it. If you have already applied for this opportunity in 2024, kindly refrain from applying.
Requirements
Required experience
– At least a bachelor’s degree in social sciences, humanities or STEM. – Proficiency in English is a requirement. – Familiarity with the work of the African Union is required. – Previous experience working in a development context in Africa is an asset.
Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Required
Other information
Inclusivity statement
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.