AI-Assisted Analysis Consultant

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🕒 September 30

🇨🇦 Canada – Remote

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

🤖 Artificial Intelligence

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UNESCO

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1001 - 5000 employees

Founded 1945

📚 Education

🤝 Non-profit

🌍 Social Impact

Education • Non-profit • Social Impact

UNESCO is a specialized agency of the United Nations aimed at promoting international collaboration in the fields of education, culture, natural sciences, and social sciences. It works to foster peace, development, and sustainable practices through educational programs and cultural initiatives. UNESCO advocates for equal access to education and cultural preservation around the world, leveraging its partnerships with various entities, including governments and institutions, to achieve its goals.

📋 Description

• Lead a demonstration project in one case-study country, preferably in Southern or Eastern Africa • Produce policy-relevant tables, figures and findings on learning quality and equity from the country's assessment data • Develop and field-test an updated analytical framework with AI-assisted analytical protocols for analysts in other countries • Strengthen the capacity of national analysts and policy officials • Recommend how the approach can be replicated in other countries • Consult UIS and national counterparts to confirm the country, datasets and participants • Prepare an inception note with the analytical plan and work plan • Review dataset quality, documentation, limitations, sample design and feasible analyses • Work with national analysts to identify priority policy questions and useful analyses • Develop and test AI-assisted protocols, including methods accounting for complex sample design and plausible values, such as BRR/PV standard errors • Work intensively with national analysts for approximately four days during the in-country mission • Meet senior policy officials to examine findings, implications and policy questions • Prepare a policy-relevant country report with statistical tables, figures and findings • Draft the updated analytical framework as a UIS publication • Prepare a final report covering lessons learned, assessment of the demonstration and recommendations for replication • Produce and submit deliverables according to the specified deadlines

🎯 Requirements

• A PhD or equivalent advanced degree in statistics, econometrics, psychometrics, education or a related field; OR a Master's degree in a related field • Minimum of ten (10) years of relevant professional experience in statistics, psychometrics, education data analysis or a related field • Demonstrated expertise in analysing large-scale learning assessment data, including international or regional learning assessment programmes • Senior-level experience in multilevel modelling and complex survey data analysis, including estimation using replicate weights and plausible values • Demonstrated experience in policy-oriented analysis of learning assessment data • Experience using, or the ability to develop, AI-assisted and reproducible analytical workflows • Proven experience in capacity building and training delivery, including work with national analysts and senior policy officials; at least five (5) years of experience or three (3) comparable assignments, with references available upon request • Proficiency in at least one statistical software package, such as HLM, R, or Stata, sufficient to verify AI-assisted analyses • Ability to design reproducible analytical protocols and document responsible use of AI tools in line with data-protection requirements • Excellent drafting skills, with proven ability to produce technical reports, publications and policy-oriented outputs for diverse audiences • Ability to work independently in a remote setting and meet deadlines • Excellent proficiency in English, written and spoken, required • Before travelling, must complete UN BSAFE security awareness training and obtain security clearance through the UNDSS Travel Request Information Process (TRIP) • Daily rate and estimated number of working days must be quoted in a single currency: EUR, USD, CAD, or GBP • At least two references from comparable assignments

🏖️ Benefits

• International travel costs agreed as a separate lump sum and may be paid in advance • Payment linked to satisfactory delivery and acceptance of deliverables, in three instalments: 20%, 40%, and 40% • Consultant credited as author of the analytical framework publication in accordance with UIS publication policy • Travel arrangements made in accordance with UNESCO rules and procedures • Opportunity to contribute to a UIS publication