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Job Title:  Intern – Graphics Designing (No Experience Jobs)

Organisation: United Nations Global Pulse (UNGP)

Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda

About UNGP:

Global Pulse is an innovation initiative of the United Nations Secretary-General, established to harness today’s new world of digital data and real-time analytics to gain a better understanding of changes in human well-being. Global Pulse aims to contribute a future in which access to better information sooner makes it possible to keep international development on track, protect the world’s most vulnerable populations, and strengthen resilience to global shocks.

Job Summary:  The selected candidate will join a multidisciplinary team and benefit from rich interaction with experts in different fields, including development, data analysis and visualization, technology and communications. Throughout the internship, the intern will be involved in different aspects of the project.

The Intern-Graphics Design will work closely with the data science specialist to support Global Pulse’s overall data mining, analysis and visualization activities. The internship will provide an excellent opportunity to learn about the applications of new data sources and artificial intelligence technology to support the SDGs Agenda 2030, as well as to understand communications inside large international organizations like the UN system.

Key Duties and Responsibilities:

The outputs for each specific assignment will depend on scope of work engaged by the hiring unit. List of deliverables may include, but not limited to, the followings:

• Graphic design for all types of communication materials
• Layout design and typesetting for printed and electronic publications
• Video graphics and animation design
• Art-work editing of photos and other graphic elements

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Qualifications, Skills and Experience: Applicants to the UNDP internship programme must at the time of application meet one of the following requirements:

• Be enrolled in a postgraduate degree programme (such as a master’s programme, or higher) in Industrial Art, Graphics Design or professional course on graphics design.
• Be enrolled in the final academic year of a first university degree programme (such as bachelor’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, Electrical engineering, Mathematics, Statistics.
• Have recently graduated with a university degree (as defined in (a) and (b) above) and, if selected, must start the internship within one-year of graduation;
• Be enrolled in a postgraduate professional traineeship program and undertake the internship as part of this program.

Competencies

• Have a strong sense of collaborative work, excellent communication and interpersonal skills.
• Possess keen attention to detail.
• Have excellent analytical and research skills.
• Be able to work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals and solicit input by genuinely valuing others’ ideas and expertise.
• Be willing to learn from others by placing team agenda before personal agenda;
• Support and act in accordance with final group decision, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect own position
• Be fluent in English and the working language of the duty station
• Have prior experience in data collection and analysis in the field of social or economic development fields;
• Have knowledge of statistical software like R/SPSS/STATA;
• Have good command in MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) as well as handling web-based applications.

How to Apply:

All suitably qualified and interested candidates who wish to join the United Nations should apply online at the link below

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Deadline: 18^th April 2023

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