Apply for Coordination and Technical Consultant (based in Moroni), New York, United States Job Vacancy | Position

Result of Service

The goal of this consultancy is to work carefully with the nationwide staff, led by INSEED, to observe up on undertaking deliverables, oversee administrative duties, present technical help and tailor-made country-specific recommendation for the undertaking implementation, and facilitate communication between the core nationwide staff, different nationwide stakeholders/collaborators, worldwide consultants and DESA workers to realize a shared final result and frequent targets underneath the undertaking. The guide will report back to DESA by way of UNSD workers designated as his/her Supervisor. Specifically, the work project will contain the next:

• Under the steerage of INSEED and DESA focal factors, liaise with, and assist, the core nationwide staff (led by INSEED), different nationwide stakeholders/collaborators (together with representatives from the federal government businesses, worldwide organizations, academia, civil society and non-public sector, and many others.), worldwide consultants (technical consultants, methodological specialists, and many others.) employed by the undertaking, and DESA workers for efficient supply of coaching and advisory companies underneath the undertaking.
• Develop and monitor an in depth plan of actions, specifying key outputs and timelines, in addition to accountable focal factors, underneath the steerage of the INSEED undertaking focal factors and in shut session with the core nationwide staff, DESA workers in addition to the RCO, UN Country Team, UN Regional Commission and different improvement companions in-country.
• Provide translation between English and French throughout casual conferences and working degree paperwork for the undertaking implementation when and the place that is needed.
• Provide technical recommendation for elevated stakeholder engagement and collaboration underneath prioritized areas.
• Maintain common communications with the focal factors of every subject to determine bottlenecks in the processes and wants in time.
• Coordinate workshops and coaching classes in session with the INSEED and the DESA.
• Identify alternatives for outreach and advocacy in-country and regionally and develop communication supplies for person engagement actions geared toward integrating key outputs of the undertaking in the coverage course of and advocacy.
• Develop communication advocacy supplies for outreach and advocacy laying out the undertaking’s worth proposition, together with information tales and social media content material.
• Foster accountability and coordination by way of the issuance of month-to-month progress stories, which spotlight the present state of the agreed deliverables and suggesting outreach actions, to each the DESA and INSEED workers. The stories are additionally a software for coordinating actions inside the nation staff and will likely be shared with the Director General of the National Statistical Office, the UN Resident Coordinator Office, and the DATAS and Data For Now core staff.
• Prepare complete progress report back to be submitted to the Government of Ireland and to the United Nations for monitoring and reporting functions each 6 months of the undertaking.
• Other associated duties as assigned by supervisor. Expected outputs and supply dates By 1 April: oDraft workplan as ready collectively with INSEED and DESA (Output 1) oMonthly report on the progress of the implementation of undertaking actions in keeping with the listed duties and the workplan, additionally offering hyperlinks or attaching concrete outcomes of the work (Output 2) By 1 May: oMonthly report on the progress of the implementation of undertaking actions in keeping with the listed duties and the workplan, additionally offering hyperlinks or attaching concrete outcomes of the work (Output 3) By 1 June: Monthly report on the progress of the implementation of undertaking actions in keeping with the listed duties and the workplan, additionally offering hyperlinks or attaching concrete outcomes of the work (Output 4) By 1 July: oMonthly report on the progress of the implementation of undertaking actions in keeping with the listed duties and the workplan, additionally offering hyperlinks or attaching concrete outcomes of the work (Output 5) By 1 August: Monthly report on the progress of the implementation of undertaking actions in keeping with the listed duties and the workplan, additionally offering hyperlinks or attaching concrete outcomes of the work (Output 6) By 31 August: oMonthly report on the progress of the implementation of undertaking actions in keeping with the listed duties and the workplan, additionally offering hyperlinks or attaching concrete outcomes of the work (Output 7) o6 month report on the implementation of actions in keeping with the workplan, to be submitted to the Government of Ireland and DESA (Output 8) Performance indicators
• Range and frequency of contacts with completely different stakeholders in the nation, diploma to which in-country contacts are dealt with diplomatically and high quality of data offered to DESA colleagues on new developments in the nation elF1aLS DRxVGN
• Ability to arrange work in a logical method
• Quality of the assembly supplies and documentation supplied with each output
• Degree to which stories are reader-friendly, concise, clearly structured and written
• Timeliness of supply of outputs
• Adherence to the contractual necessities of DESA

Work Location

The guide have to be home-based in Moroni, Comoros. The consultancy is anticipated to have common telephone and internet convention conferences with workers members of NSO, UNSD and different DATAS and Data4Now core companions and stakeholders, in addition to in-country visits to companions and authorities workplaces. Travel or commute time to and from United Nations Headquarters, in addition to associated bills, won’t be coated as part of the consultancy. Until the required visa/work allow is acquired, the guide will work remotely from his/her home nation.

Expected length

1 Mar – 31 Aug 2025

Duties and Responsibilities

Data and statistics are important in understanding, managing and mitigating the financial, environmental, and human and social of exterior shocks and stressors and for designing applicable responses and accelerated actions to place nations again on monitor to reaching the SDGs. Almost 10 years after the adoption of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, nations nonetheless depend on out-of-date and incomplete statistics to tell implementation and evaluate progress. SIDS, in specific, are going through a novel set of challenges. These are nicely documented and are underlined in the latest “Antigua and Barbuda Agenda for Small Island Developing States (ABAS): A Renewed Declaration for Resilient Prosperity”, the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Addis Ababa Action Agenda (AAAA), the Paris Agreement and the 2018 OECD report “Making Development Co-operation Work for Small Island Developing States”, These paperwork all acknowledge that improved information assortment and statistical evaluation are required to allow SIDS to successfully plan, observe up on, consider the implementation of and monitor success in attaining the SDGs and different internationally agreed improvement targets. To assist SIDS to handle their information capability challenges, DESA’s United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) and the SIDS Unit of the Division for the Sustainable Development Goals (DSDG) have collectively developed the undertaking Data for SIDS (DATAS), with the general goal of strengthening the capacities of nationwide statistical techniques to supply and disseminate higher and extra well timed information and statistics to tell resolution making by way of 4 interconnected parts; (i) nationwide information governance and coordination; (ii) nationwide information manufacturing and availability; (iii) nationwide information dissemination and reporting and; (iv) SIDS to SIDS collaboration and expertise change. This will speed up the nation’s progress in direction of reaching the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) whereas pursuing nationwide improvement goals. DATAS will bridge information and data gaps in precedence areas recognized by the nation by enhancing human and institutional capabilities for gathering, producing and integrating information from throughout the info ecosystem to publish extra well timed and granular indicators and statistics. It will even assist nationwide statistical workplaces (NSOs) in their efforts to collaborate with different authorities entities and companions to acquire and preserve entry to non-traditional information sources to extend timeliness and granularity of statistical data. The work will, general, take the identical work strategy because the Data for Now initiative, at present applied by UNSD. The Data for Now initiative (Data4Now), co-led by the United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD), the World Bank, the Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (GPSDD), United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), and the Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN), goals to assist nations in growing their capacities to ship the knowledge wanted by native and nationwide coverage and resolution makers to realize the 2030 Agenda. To this finish, it helps members of the nationwide statistical techniques in taking part nations to collaborate extra successfully with native, nationwide and world companions from intergovernmental organizations, academia, civil society and the non-public sector, in order to leverage progressive sources, applied sciences and strategies for the streamlined manufacturing and dissemination of higher, extra well timed and disaggregated information for sustainable improvement. The objective is to combine new strategies, information sources, and applied sciences into present nationwide statistical techniques, explicitly to not create parallel information infrastructures on the nation degree. To implement the DATAS initiative, by way of the undertaking “Supporting informed decision making through the DATA for Small Island Developing States (SIDS) initiative (DATAS)” funded by the Government of Ireland, DESA is searching for a guide to supply help in line with nationwide priorities to the National Institute of Statistics and Economic and Demographic Studies (INSEED) in Comoros and different members of the National Statistical System to coordinate and implement actions associated to:

• Strengthening intra-governmental collaboration, with specific deal with recognized undertaking precedence areas, contributing to the DATAS initiative and enabling improve availability, high quality and timeliness of disaggregated information underneath prioritized areas.
• Stakeholder engagement with key producers and customers of information throughout the nationwide statistical system to make sure a typical understanding and agree on roles and obligations and improve information uptake in decision-making
• Improving capacities nationwide statistical workplaces and different members of the National Statistical Systems to independently and sustainably reproduce, replace, and enhance high-quality, well timed and disaggregated information on key areas associated to particular Sustainable Development Goals and Targets.
• Streamlining workflows primarily based on information sharing agreements and collaboration for information integration among the many varied members of the nationwide statistical techniques in goal nations.
• Strengthening information integration and information administration capabilities, together with cloud applied sciences, interoperability requirements, and information linkage/matching strategies, and modernization of IT infrastructure essential to deal with the info sources and implement the strategies, primarily based on the IT infrastructure of the NSO.
• Strengthening capability of nationwide workers in statistical estimation and information science strategies to supply particular statistical indicators on the areas of precedence.
• Validating and documenting statistical indicators produced on the areas of precedence.
• Increasing abilities and data on information high quality, together with information and metadata standardization, change, and validation methodologies.
• Ensuring high quality of supply information and strategies to supply statistical indicators on the areas that the nation has recognized as a precedence (associated to the Sustainable Development Goals and targets).
• Strengthening capability of nationwide workers to disseminate and talk disaggregated and high-frequency SDG-related information, together with by way of web-based, built-in, and open entry to nationwide SDG datasets, in addition to information visualizations, maps, dashboards, information tales and different analytic merchandise. The actions highlighted above require shut collaboration throughout a number of organizations contributing to a variety of information property, applied sciences, abilities, data and experience. They additionally require shut coordination between the DATAS nationwide staff led by INSEED and representatives of DESA’s UNSD and SIDS unit, GPSDD, the World Bank, UNDP and SDSN, in addition to the Resident Coordinator’s Office (RCO), UN nation staff, donors and different worldwide companions supporting statistical improvement initiatives in the nation. The guide will work with and report back to the Statistics Division of DESA. The guide will even hold the nationwide point of interest of the DATAS undertaking and Head of the INSEED commonly knowledgeable of the progress of the undertaking actions, together with sharing the month-to-month stories with INSEED.

Qualifications/particular abilities

Advanced college diploma (Master’s diploma or equal) in improvement research, economics, worldwide relations, public administration, or a associated discipline with three (5) years of expertise. A bachelor’s diploma in mixture with seven (7) years of expertise could also be accepted in lieu of a sophisticated diploma. A minimal of 5 (5) years of progressively accountable expertise in social sciences, together with statistics, economics, inhabitants sciences or a associated discipline is required. Good data of nationwide planning processes in Comoros and the panorama of improvement companions in the nation is required. Experience in undertaking coordination or administration, and stakeholder engagement in statistics or associated space is required. Knowledge of the Sustainable Development Goals and nationwide efforts to implement them is fascinating. Experience in growing statistical capacities, participating with nationwide governments, is desired. Experience working with National Statistical Offices is fascinating.

Languages

Full command of spoken and written English and French is required. Knowledge of different UN languages is a bonus.

Additional Information

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No Fee

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