Volunteer Online with UN: Applying Natural Language Processing for SDGs Analysis

UN Volunteers platform is offering an online volunteer opportunity, as UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development is looking for 24 online volunteers that will participate in the implementation of an ongoing project, applying Natural Language Processing to analyze and classify textual data related to the SDGs. 

Volunteer duration and working hours:

11-20 hours per week for 13 weeks.

1. The selected candidates will have an opportunity to choose the specific workstream which aligns with their interest and work as part of a developer team under the SDG AI Lab guidance.
2. The assigned tasks may include data preparation (cleaning and annotating), model selection, feature engineering, syntactic and semantic analysis.
3. SDG AI Lab will support the volunteer as needed, with a bi-weekly check-in and maintaining collaboration through MS Teams and GitHub group repository.
4. The volunteer will work under the coordination of the Technical Specialist of the IICPSD.

1. Bachelor’s in computer science, electrical engineering, mathematics, statistics, or related field with a strong interest in data science;
2. Background knowledge and ability to grasp techniques such as text mining, sentiment analysis, text extraction, topic classification, data visualization, and ML modelling;
3. Applied knowledge of programming languages, such as Python or Java, as well as experience of open-source software library such as TensorFlow, Scikit-Learn, Pandas, Gensim, spaCy and NLTK;
4. Required language: English.

About UN Volunteers:

The United Nations Volunteers (UNV) program contributes to sustainable human development through volunteerism worldwide.

Online volunteering allows organizations and volunteers to team up to address sustainable development challenges – anywhere in the world, from any device. Online volunteering is fast, easy – and most of all, effective.

Through the Online Volunteering service, UNV offers: 

A global platform for organizations and online volunteers to connect.

An easy-search database of online volunteering opportunities.

Tools to manage volunteers’ and organizations’ online collaboration.

Access to online volunteering experiences, best practices and lessons learned.

The possibility for volunteers and organizations to expand their networks.

The advantage of the universal reach and neutrality of the United Nations.

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