Consultancy 12 Months: Data Science

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**Job no**: 575954
**Contract type**: Consultant
**Duty Station**: Geneva
**Level**: Consultancy
**Location**: Switzerland
**Categories**: Innovation

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

**For every child, Connectivity**

UNICEF has a 70-year history of innovating for children. We believe that new approaches, partnerships and technologies that support realizing children’s rights are critical to improving their lives.

The Office of Innovation is a creative, interactive, and agile team in UNICEF. We sit at a unique intersection, where an organization that works on huge global issues meets the start-up thinking, the technology, and the partners that turn this energy into scalable solutions.

**About Giga**

Launched in 2019 as a joint initiative between UNICEF and ITU, **Giga** has set the ambitious goal to connect every school in the world to the internet. Half of the world’s population has no regular access to the Internet. Millions of children leave school without any digital skills, making it much more difficult for them to thrive and contribute to local and global economies. This has created a digital divide between those who are connected and those who are not, a divide that has become even wider during the Covid-19 pandemic. UNICEF and ITU have therefore joined forces to create **Giga**, an initiative to connect every school in the world to the Internet and address this new form of inequality.

**Giga** focuses on connecting schools so that children and young people have access to information, opportunity, and choice. It also uses schools as anchor points for their surrounding communities: if you connect the school, you can also connect local businesses and services. This creates opportunities for service providers to generate revenue from paying users, making connectivity more sustainable. A 2021 report by the Economist Intelligence Unit found that a 10% increase in school connectivity can increase effective years of schooling by 0.6% and increase GDP per capita by 1.1%.

**How can you make a difference?**

Giga seeks a data scientist to join one of the most innovative and impactful initiatives at the United Nations whose aim is to connect every school in the world to the Internet and every young person to information, opportunity, and choice. The data scientist will support the development of machine learning and/or statistical models to generate new insights that will help Giga’s Procurement Section to better predict global and regional supply and demand of school connectivity to implement a procurement strategy at scale. The data scientist will be part of the Applied Science team, with a primary focus on providing support to the Procurement and Market Influence section based in Geneva. Under the technical guidance of the Applied Science Lead, the consultant will provide applied science support to the Giga Procurement Section and will report to the Market Development Manager

**Key responsibilities include**:

- Gather and document data sources for school connectivity demand and other critical datasets.
- Familiarize and extend Giga ML utils for its use in school connectivity demand.
- Build an ML/statistical model to estimate school connectivity demand in Africa (number schools per country, as well as their location and connectivity status)
- Develop a tool to scrape and vectorize structured data from unstructured data sources (public contracts).
- Build a country-level ML/statistical model to estimate the costs of connecting schools.
- Build country-level model to predict pricing for school connectivity services.
- Build an interactive app or visualization tool for school connectivity pricing data analysis.
- Capture findings in appealing stories and documentation.

**Please access the full Term of Reference (ToRs) and read a more detailed description of the assignment in this file in order to prepare your financial proposal and know more about the role**:Data Science Consultant FINALv.pdf**

**To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have**
- A PhD or master's degree in data science, computer science, statistics.
- Minimum 5 years of professional work experience in data science, computer science, statistics, or a related field with at least 3 years of experience in machine learning or related fields.
- Strong experience in classical machine learning algorithms such as Regression, Classification, Clustering and Forecasting.
- Strong experience in algorithm development in Python
- Experience with cloud services, like AWS, Azure.
- Experienced and comfortable with remote team dynamics, process, and tools (Slack, Zoom, etc.)
- Excellent communication skills and ability to present complex

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