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PROJECT DESCRIPTION
The mission of the Human Development Report Office (HDRO)/UNDP is to advance human development. HDRO works towards this goal by promoting innovative ideas, constructively challenging policies and approaches that constrain human development, and advocating practical policy changes, through its research, data analysis, outreach, and advocacy work.
The Knowledge Project is a joint initiative between UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Arab States and the Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Foundation (MBRF) established in 2008 with a mission to promote knowledge societies and policies as transformative approaches to achieving sustainable development in the Arab States region and beyond producing, through producing high-quality knowledge products, including the Global Knowledge Index (GKI), and promoting knowledge sharing and dialogue. In 2024, the Knowledge Project plans to update the GKI data and initiate a structural revision for the index to better reflect evolving realities. This process involves forming a new advisory committee whose main task will be to comprehensively revise both the theoretical framework and statistical structure of the index.
HDRO will provide technical expertise, coordinated by a Statistics Analyst as advertised, to the revision of the GKI. Plans are also set for joint workshops aimed at fostering engagement and leveraging and enriching both networks.
SCOPE OF WORK
The Statistics Analyst will contribute to the statistical work at HDRO, with a particular focus on supporting the computation and refinement of the GKI and other knowledge products by the Knowledge Project. The Statistics Analyst reports jointly to the Chief Statistician at HDRO and the Policy and Data Specialist at the Knowledge Project. She/he will work closely with the entire HDR team and Knowledge Project team, establishing working relationships with international data agencies and other specialized agencies and research institutes in the process of data collection and measurement development related to the GKI, interact with UNDP’s Regional Bureaux and country offices to provide support, as well as with country governments and other external users of the GKI for information outreach.
The Statistics Analyst will assume the following responsibilities and duties:
1.Contribute to the production of UNDP’s GKI
• Research sources of relevant statistics and conduct independent evaluation of data quality and reliability;
• Clean and validate the raw data collected ensuring its accuracy, and conduct the various statistical steps leading to the calculation of the index (data treatment, normalization and index weighting);
• Apply statistical modelling and other quantitative techniques to obtain estimates as required;
• Conduct sensitivity and scenario analyses to understand the impact of different assumptions or external factors on the GKI;
• Research the best practices relating to data analysis including data imputation to address the problem of missing data among others;
• Support the production of the GKI tables, including taking part in the editing and quality control of the GKI tables to ensure accuracy, consistency and clear presentation.
2.Contribute to GKI-related statistical information outreach
• Contribute to the materials for the launch of GKI, including presentation materials and data visualization related to statistics and analysis;
• Support in drafting the GKI’s statistical methodology;
• Participate in meetings and consultations with data and statistical agencies and prepare meeting notes as needed;
• Work with national and international statistical agencies and UNDP’s Regional Bureau for Arab States and country offices to enhance the general understanding of the use of GKI in the report and to improve the international data availability and reliability of basic human development indicators;
• Develop case studies illustrating how GKI data and insights have informed policy decisions, highlighting the practical value and impact of the index.
3.Contribute to the innovative use and elaboration of human development statistics and measures for
Location: New York, NY
Posted: Nov. 13, 2024, 11:41 p.m.
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