Making numbers readable and useful
Data, impact & visualisation team
With the data, impact and visualisation team, YouthShare builds its own data, indicators and scenarios. This is a volunteer role in the team: you report to the Research, Quality and Impact Lead, who leads the team and sets its priorities; you coordinate the infrastructure and the day-to-day work of the data volunteers.
Assignments
- Look after the team’s data infrastructure: a catalogue of sources, a record for each dataset and clear processing stages (raw, cleaned, harmonised, published)
- Organise the team’s data library in Google Drive, with a folder and a record for each dataset
- Run data governance: an owner, a licence, a version and a validation status for every dataset, with classification aligned on the Classification label (public, internal, confidential)
- Review processing code and data dictionaries, kept under version control in GitHub, with the Data Pipeline Specialist
- Set access rules for datasets that contain personal data, with the Data Protection Coordinator
- Coordinate the data volunteers day to day: the Data Pipeline Specialist, the Open Data Research Officer, the GIS and Mapping Specialist, the Statistical Analyst, the Survey Research Officer and the lab analysts
- Support the labs on the data side of their work, and credit every contribution to a publication using the CRediT taxonomy
- Write the team’s guides on governance, validation and attribution with the Research, Quality and Impact Lead
Tools to master
- Google Drive and the Classification label: the data library
- Google Sheets and Looker Studio: tables, indicators and dashboards
- GitHub: processing code, dictionaries and catalogue
- Google Chat and Meet: coordinating the data volunteers
Your first three months
- First month
- Meeting each lab and each data volunteer, and a review of the data library and the data source register
- Second month
- Governance and access rules presented to the team lead, records of the first datasets in the catalogue
- Third month
- The first datasets published through the team’s processing stages, each with its catalogue record
How we measure success
- Every published dataset traces back to its source, licence and processing
- Labs that draw on a shared, up-to-date library
Profile we are looking for
- Experience in data management: a data warehouse, a database, a research or analytics project
- Hands-on SQL and an analysis language such as Python or R
- A feel for governance: documentation, licences, access rights
- The ability to coordinate a remote team and hold a steady course
A volunteer role, open to young people
Every role we offer is fully voluntary. The experience we ask for can come from a course, a student project, an internship, volunteering or a personal project: every skill counts, wherever you gained it. Our roles are designed first and foremost for young people, and we weigh your motivation and potential as carefully as your track record. Want to be part of something big? Apply.
Nice to have
- Experience of a data warehouse or a research database
- Knowledge of open data on Africa and the Global South
- Good English and French
What this role gives you
- Coordinating a research data infrastructure, from the first raw dataset to publication
- An international team of specialists and analysts, working with all five labs
- Recognised practice in data governance and CRediT attribution, to highlight on your CV
Applications open until ; a new cycle follows
Applications open in forty-five-day cycles, each followed by the next. YouthShare reserves the right to close this listing as soon as the right person is found. We therefore encourage you to apply now.
The one-year commitment
A non-profit project is built over time. Every volunteer therefore commits for at least one year: time to settle in, carry the assignment through and pass on what they have learned. The weekly time depends on the role and is given in each role description.
How selection works
Online application
You choose a role, present your background and attach your CV. A confirmation email gives you your reference.
Profile review
The Talent team reads every application, matches it with the needs of the role and sends you a first reply by email within three days on average.
Video interview
A conversation to get to know each other and shape the assignment together.
Decision and arrival
You receive our answer by email, followed by a welcome to the team and access to its tools.
Know the right person?
Recommend this role to them: they receive an email from YouthShare that presents it, with your name and the link to apply. You can also share the listing on your networks.