Volunteer Community Support

Details

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

Frontier Tech Leaders Programme starts the second global Machine Learning Bootcamp cohort in March. Volunteers are expected to support the training coordinator and course guides during the live training sessions by moderating. Also, volunteers are expected to provide support for the tasks related to community members such as tracking student progress, making announcements, communicate with the students etc.

Task description

The Volunteer Community Support is expected to1. Support the team throughout the training (March-June)2. Moderate live training sessions (Evening sessions during the weekdays and morning sessions on the weekend. Approximately 3/4 sessions a week and weekdays sessions are usually 1-2 hours and weekend sessions are 3-4 hours.)3. Support the FTL community by communicating with the members via Discord and other channels.4. Dedicate sufficient time for the interaction with students5. Track student progress