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Internship

2024-10-01

August 21, 2024

TERMS OF REFERENCE FOR INTERNSHIP

Title: Internship

Organizational Unit: Cash Based Interventions (CBI) – Basic Needs programme

Duty station: Amman, Jordan

Contract Type: Internship

Duration: 6 months (1 October 2024 to 31 March 2025)

Expected start date: October 1, 2024

Background information/Organizational Context:
UNHCR Jordan, has one of the largest cash operations globally. The operation provides different types of cash assistance like monthly cash for basic needs, urgent cash assistance, cash for health and cash for education.
As part of the operation’s monthly cash for basic needs programme (henceforth referred to as the Basic Needs (BN) programme), the operation provides support to 23,000 families living in host communities to meet their most urgent survival needs, mainly rent, water and utilities.
In 2023, UNHCR introduced a new targeting model for its BN programme, in close coordination and collaboration with the UN World Food Programme (WFP). The new UNHCR/WFP joint targeting model uses the World Bank’s Proxy Means Test (PMT) as a starting point to rank estimated refugee poverty levels based on their consumption patterns, and then prioritizes the refugees with the least capacity to self-rely for BN cash assistance—using a package of vulnerability filters that support the objectives of the programme.
The operation also provides cash assistance to approximately 23,500 families residing in the Azraq and Za’atari refugee camps. This financial assistance to camp residents is provided quarterly and is intended to help them to cover their basic needs not otherwise covered by other humanitarian actors within the camp context.
The cash assistance UNHCR provides to eligible refugees—both in host communities and in camps—is transferred digitally, either through virtual bank accounts or through refugee owned mobile wallets.
Duties and Responsibilities:
The intern will support UNHCR Jordan’s Cash Based Interventions (CBI) unit in Amman, Jordan, which manages the BN programme and is responsible for the delivery of all of the cash assistance provided by the Jordan operation.
The intern will primarily support the CBI unit’s analysis of the BN programme targeting model by undertaking statistical analysis of the model’s accuracy and effectiveness in achieving its intended objective of providing monthly cash assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable refugees in Jordan with the limited resources available for the cash assistance programme.
General responsibilities will include, but not be limited to:
• Data quality checks.
• Analysis and revision of BN programme’s targeting scripts/coding (Phython).
• Statistical impact analysis of targeting model.
• Other statistical analyses related to the operation’s CBI programming.
• Participation in internal and external meetings of relevance (particularly with WFP).
Minimum qualifications required:
• Degree in data analytics/ data science/ statistics or economics
• Knowledge in python, “r”, SQL
• Proficient English language skills (reading, writing, and speaking).
Supervision:
As a member of the CBI unit of the Jordan operation, the intern will report directly to Haneen Abu-Sunbul, Assistant Programme CBI Officer (acting).

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