Mission and objectives

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.

Context

Tech4R online volunteers are working on digital solutions for data collection and visualization. Data is collected from the Turkish NGOs meanwhile online volunteers developing the solutions are international. There’s a language barrier to understand the data provided by the NGOs, this is where the written translation is requred.

Task Description

SDG AI Lab is looking for skilled and reliable online volunteers to provide written translation for data/information provided by the Turkish NGOs in disaster management context. The data will be used for developing data collection and organization tools to be used during the disasters. Online volunteers will be expected to translate materials from 4 different NGOs maximum. The information will be provided in excel or word formats.

Competencies and values

Living conditions and remarks