Job Title: Research Assistant (Luganda) – UNDP Jobs Uganda 2022
Organization: United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Duty Station: Kampala, Uganda
Reports to: Data Associate
United Nations Development Programme Profile:
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) is the United Nation’s global development network. UNDP advocates for change and connects countries to knowledge, experience and resources to help people build a better life. The UNDP provides expert advice, training, grant support to developing countries including Uganda with increasing emphasis on assistance to the least developed countries.
Job Summary:
Pulse Lab Kampala developed a radio content analysis system, with an AI powered Automatics Speech Recognition (ASR) tool, that makes the public radio discussions (voices of the people) readily available for programming. The current language support includes Luganda, Acholi, and Ugandan English.
Roles and responsibilities:
Provide day-to-day support for project implementation:
- Creation of speech – text pairs through annotation, compiling large text corpus and language vocabulary list with their equivalent English translations;
- Performing FM radio landscape analysis to capture broadcasting stations with metadata, including listenership/ geographical coverage, broadcasting frequency, nature, and schedule radio programming;
- Support the preparation and actual analysis of radio content analysis that includes defining search and tagging taxonomies; and perform rapid evaluations, tagging and translations.
Carry out research based on programmatic needs:
- Conduct background research and/or supporting studies for the project;
- Compile research materials in a systematic way and prepare background briefs/briefing notes as and when required;
- Conduct other activities in support of data, innovation, digital transformation, behavior sciences, futures, and foresight implementation.
Provide support to knowledge building and knowledge sharing:
- Codify and share knowledge by capturing best practices, lessons learned and client’s feedback;
- Support activities related to assessing capacities and needs of government organizations and partners, in close collaboration with national counterparts, at both central and local level;
- Facilitate team’s learning and knowledge sharing;
- Perform other duties as required.
Qualifications
- The applicant for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Research Assistant – Luganda should have completed secondary education with five years of experience. Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, Business Administration, or related field with 2 years’ experience would be desirable.
- One year of paid working experience in translating, data management, analytics, and visualization, preferably in a developing country;
- Experience in collecting text corpus, and meta data on radio station programming;
- Experience in preparing training and test data for Automatic Speech Recognition using Praat software or related software;
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.)
- Experience in conducting research, analysis and generating reports;
- Past UN experience is desirable.
- Language(s): Fluency in both written and spoken English and Luganda are required.
How To Apply for UNDP Jobs Uganda 2022
All interested and suitably qualified candidates should submit their applications through the link below.
Closing Date: 24th March 2022
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