Organization Mission

Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development (IICPSD) supports the private sector and foundations to become transformative partners in development through research, advocacy for inclusive business, facilitation of public-private dialogue and brokering partnerships. IICPSD, established in 2011 in partnership with the Government of Türkiye, is one of UNDP”s six Global Policy Centres. It leads UNDP’s global work on private sector and foundations and supports UNDP’s offices all over the world. The Center focuses on four thematic areas:

1. Inclusive Business;

2. Private Sector Engagement in Skills Development;

3. Impact investing;

4. Resilience and Crisis Response.

The Center also hosts four global initiatives: Business Call to Action, SDG Philanthropy Platform, Global Islamic Finance and Impact Investing Platform and Connecting Business Initiative.

Context

Frontier Tech Leaders (FTL) Programme launches Ethiopia country implementation in 20th of August 2025. The online volunteers are expected to support the FTL Python Training Team during the live training sessions by moderating. Also, they are expected to provide support for the tasks related to community members such as tracking student progress, making announcements, communicate with the students, collect homework and projects etc.

Key Responsibilities

We are looking for 10 online volunteers to support community communication and administrative tasks. Each volunteer will be assigned a specific responsibility. The online volunteers are expected to:

-Support the team throughout the Bootcamp.

-Support FTL Community Trainings and volunteer teams.

-Support the FTL community by communicating with the members via Discord, WhatsApp and other channels.

-Support FTL team to contact students.

-Track student progress.

-Collect homework and projects.

Required Skills and Experience

-Minimum a senior year student, ideally a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences or in a relevant field; or Computer Science or in a relevant field.

-Community experience.

-Experience in tools such as: Discord, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft Office and Coursera.

-Strong communication skills.

-Strong verbal and written English skills.

-Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence knowledge is an asset.