Deadline: 24 November, 2021
Location: Dakar, Senegal
The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of Data Manager.
UNOPS’ mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure, and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.
Responsibilities
- Work with partner organisations to support their data sharing efforts on HDX
- Develop data visualisations and analysis for data-sharing organisations
- Support daily maintenance of HDX by creating new organisation pages, reviewing the quality of new datasets, adding gallery items to featured datasets, and archiving out-of-date data
- Curate the HDX data grids by focusing on specific countries or sub-categories and helping to increase data completeness in priority humanitarian operations
- Identify potential data contributors and work to bring new organisations into the HDX community
- Promote the use of the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) data standard to increase interoperability of data from spreadsheets and systems
- Work with HDX data contributors and data users to explore opportunities for data integration and backend development
- Propose improvements to existing processes and systems
- Provide training to partners on the HDX platform, data cleaning and data visualisation tools
- Attend meetings and workshops to represent HDX and the centre
- Participate in team and partner meetings as required
Requirements
- Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) preferably in Statistics, Mathematics, Economics, Computer Science, or a related field
- University degree in any of the fields above combined with two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the above requirement
- Two years, minimum, of experience using spreadsheets, statistical software and/or open source tools to analyse, evaluate and visualise data
- Strong interpersonal and networking skills
- Knowledge of geographic data, its analytical procedures and software (desirable)
- Knowledge of statistical programming languages (desirable)
- Knowledge of web-development technologies (desirable)
- Fluency in English and French
- Knowledge of another UN official language will be a plus
To apply and for more information, click here.
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