Volunteer Online with UN: Natural Language Processing support in Arabic language for a Platform

UN Volunteers platform is offering an online volunteer opportunity, as UNDP Istanbul International Center for Private Sector in Development is seeking experienced individuals in Natural Language Processing support in Arabic language, as SDG AI Lab is developing a social listening platform, which would provide insights about people's opinion -specifically vulnerable groups- on regulatory changes to allow authorities to shape their decisions.

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 Turkey, 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.

Volunteer duration and working hours:

11-20 hours per week for 12 weeks.

The online volunteers will support the ongoing project Suptech for Digital Finance with Social Listening for support authorities to reach out vulnerable groups. The volunteers woll work on the data collection, data analysis and visualization on a django based web application. The followings describes the tasks, but not limited to:

1. Real time data collection in Arabic language for popular social media platforms
2. Trend analysis
3. SDG AI Lab will support the volunteer as needed, with regular check-ins and maintaining collaboration through MS Teams, Slack and GitHub group repository. The volunteer will work under the coordination of the Technical Specialist of the IICPSD.

1. Bachelor’s in computer science/engineering, software engineering or related field with a strong interest in data science and web development for data visualization.
2. Strong knowledge of - Python - Git/GitHub
3. Experience on data collection from popular social media platforms would be an asset
4. English, Level: Working knowledge, Required
5. Arabic, Level: Mother tongue, Desirable

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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