Data Manager at United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS)

Functional Responsibilities:

The Data Manager will be responsible for the following:

1. Work with partner organizations to support their data sharing efforts on HDX.
2. Develop data visualizations and analysis for data-sharing organizations.
3. Support daily maintenance of HDX by creating new organization pages, reviewing the quality of new datasets, adding gallery items to featured datasets, and archiving out-of-date data.
4. Curate the HDX Data Grids by focusing on specific countries or sub categories and helping to increase data completeness in priority humanitarian operations.
5. Identify potential data contributors and work to bring new organizations into the HDX community.
6. Promote the use of the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL) data standard to increase interoperability of data from spreadsheets and systems.
7. Work with HDX data contributors and data users to explore opportunities for data integration and backend development; propose improvements to existing processes and systems.
8. Provide training to partners on the HDX platform, data cleaning and data visualization tools.
9. Attend meetings and workshops to represent HDX and the Centre.
10. Participate in team and partner meetings as required.

Education

1. Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) preferably in statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science, or related field.
2. A first-level university degree in similar fields in combination with two (2) years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Work Experience

Required

1. A minimum of 2 years of experience using spreadsheets, statistical software and/or open source tools to analyze, evaluate and visualize data is required.
2. Strong interpersonal and networking skills are required.

Desired Experience (The following experiences are optional. Candidates who do not have them are welcome to apply)

1. Knowledge of geographic (GIS) data, its analytical procedures and software is desirable
2. Knowledge of statistical programming languages (e.g. R, Python / NumPy) is desirable.
3. Knowledge of web-development technologies is a plus (e.g. JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
4. Experience with humanitarian data and indicators is desirable.

Language:

1. Fluency in English (read, write, speak) is required
2. Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.