[studenti-eebl-2019] Internship opening at IFAD

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Dear Students,

 

At the UN-International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD), The Strategy and Knowledge Department (SKD) is looking for an intern to work on data analysis. The foreseen activities will be aimed at informing the Associate Vice-President (AVP) Jyotsna Puri on the potential contribution/effects of events related to the current crises (for example: What will happen after such peak in energy prices) on IFAD Beneficiaries.

 

Internship criteria

• be enrolled in a university or graduate school, have attended courses in the last 12 months, and have completed at least two years of undergraduate studies when joining IFAD through the programme or;
• have recently completed university studies at the undergraduate or postgraduate level;
• be fluent in English; fluency in other IFAD official languages is an asset. In the case of interns recruited in IFAD country office locations, fluency in the main country language may be required;
• be 30 years of age or younger. The EIP, in particular, is designed to enhance geographic distribution of staff at IFAD and is open to candidates who meet the above eligibility criteria and who are not based in Rome

Elements considered for evaluation of candidates:

 

-          Compulsory skills:

o   Data analysis and management in statistical software such as STATA/R or other similar;

o   Fluency in English language

-          It will provide a plus to have:

o   Already some experienced with geographical Information systems (GIS) software such as ArcGIS/QGIS/Google Earth Engine or similar;

o   Combine information from data to produce informative report/slides to communicate results to management staff

 

 

Activities

-          Data analysis for various sources of datasets:

o   Combine information relevant to the requests from IFAD Impact Assessments for 11^th replenishment cycle (shortly IFAD 11 IA Data - provided internally) or IFAD 10 IA Data

o   When needed, use the internal IFAD information from Portfolio analysis or IFAD Geonode data to process geographical information

o   External and secondary sources:

§  World Bank Living Standards Measurement Survey (LSMS) or

§  Household Budget Survey (HBS) or

§  World Bank Commodity Markets (worldbank.org)

§  GEOFABRIK for additional GIS layers

-          Support also, when needed, the SKD Front Office to various requests.

-          Follow Corporate IFAD induction

 

The internship provides a monthly allowance. The duration of the internship can be of maximum 6 months.

 

Physical presence in IFAD HQ in Rome is not strictly needed. The selected candidate, if interested to come to IFAD HQ in Rome, will be very welcomed.

 

Interested candidates should send an email and CV, with subject ‘Intern for IFAD’ by the 26^th of August, to: "> . After a screening of the CVs, the selection will follow with a short interview.

Best regards,

Jennifer L. Vieley

MSc European Economy and Business Law

Tor Vergata University of Rome

Department of Economics and Finance

Master of Science Program Office
Room 01.A.08, First Floor, Building B (Ricerca)

Via Columbia 2, 00133 Rome, Italy
Phone + 39 06 7259 5744