Overview
This internship position is located in the Office of Internal Oversight Services, Inspection and Evaluation Division (OIOS-IED) office in Entebbe, Uganda. The internship provides practical experience working in a multicultural and intergovernmental organization.
Key Responsibilities
- Work on one or more of OIOS-IED’s ongoing inspection and evaluation projects.
- Assist in data collection, analysis and other assigned tasks.
- Support the evaluation team on background research and summarizing data.
- Assist the evaluation team in collecting, organizing and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data.
- Take notes of stakeholder interviews and minutes of meetings observed.
- Obtain, screen and organize documents and internal data from UN Secretariat entities.
- Program and test online surveys.
- Conduct statistical or geospatial analyses of the data collected.
- Develop and test a database and dashboards including data cleaning, and coding.
- Visualize data using MS Excel, PowerPoint and Power BI.
- Assist in other ad-hoc activities including reviews and edits of the various evaluation products.
Qualifications
- Be enrolled in or have completed a graduate school programme (second university degree or equivalent or higher).
- Be enrolled in or have completed the final academic year of a first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s level or equivalent).
- Have graduated with a university degree and commence the internship within a one-year period of graduation.
- Be registered for or have completed studies in political science, economics, international affairs, security and counter-terrorism studies, public administration, gender studies, statistics, data science, human rights, data science, information systems, computer science, programme evaluation and/or related fields.
- Be computer literate in standard software applications, preferably Microsoft Excel; familiarity with one or more data analysis software/tools such as PowerBi, NVivo, R, SAS, SPSS, Stata, Python, ArcGIS/QGIS and/or the ethical use of artificial intelligence.
- Skills in quantitative and qualitative analysis using large unstructured volumes of data are highly desirable.
- Have a demonstrated keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a personal commitment to the ideals of its Charter.
- Have a demonstrated ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural backgrounds and beliefs.
