Data and Analytics Officer

UNDP Pakistan has established a Development Policy Unit (DPU). The unit specializes in undertaking policy research, analysis, and dialogue on selected development issues including macro-economic stabilization, debt management, financial resilience, sustainable development, and policy level mainstreaming of vulnerable groups including gender and youth, poverty and inequality, urbanization, etc. These analyses are presented in several forms, as our quarterly publication the Development Advocate Pakistan, UNDP’s flagship National Human Development Report, and policy briefs and programmatic analysis, etc.

DPU is extensively engaged with the Government of Pakistan and Provincial Governments and their associated Ministries and departments to ascertain their needs for policy research and advocacy, and to provide timely advice to inform public policy. DPU’s policy work is also aimed to inform and provide cross-unit support in areas of sustainable development. Furthermore, DPU is engaged with other stakeholders, academia, think-tanks, and development partners to generate dialogue and advocacy around emerging development issues.

In this regard, UNDP is hiring the services of a Data and Analytics Officer to support in-house data mining, collection, cleaning, analysis, and data visualization.
 

Duties and Responsibilities

The Data and Analytics Officer will work directly under the supervision of the Communication and Publication Analyst, DPU, and the guidance of UNDP Assistant Resident Representative, Development Policy Unit. The Data and Analytics Officer will:

Undertake data mining, collation, collection, cleaning, and analysis;

• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems to effectively convey key insights. 
• Developing survey instruments, if needed, for any policy research work at DPU and monitoring quality and progress of surveys and analysis of survey results. 
• Provide technical support in interpreting data, and analyses results using statistical techniques.
• Synthesize output from research activities, data analysis, and consultation events into policy briefs and reports. 
• Organize and summarize collected data to write meaningful briefs, factsheets, or reports, in order to effectively convey key findings and trends, and use data visualizations to enhance the narrative.
• Contribute to providing data analysis based on primary and secondary data for the development of knowledge products, including the quarterly Pakistan Socioeconomic Profile, the Development Advocate Pakistan, and National Human Development Report.

Facilitate data visualization and data-infographics;

• Transform complex data and information derived from primary or secondary data sources and other studies into visually compelling, user-friendly visualizations.
• Work closely with the Graphic Designer and Communications and Publications Analyst to conceptualize and develop data-based reports, presentations, graphics, visuals, and infographics.
• Analyse, pre-process, and format data to tell a specific story through data visualization and infographics.
• Support design firms in creating animations for illustrative purposes, such as GIFs and animated visuals.
• Work closely with DPU colleagues in the development of DPU presentations.

Provide programme management and implementation support as and when required, for partners and stakeholders on behalf of UNDP.
 

Competencies

Digital & Innovation

• Data analysis; Ability to extract, analyze and visualize data (including Real-Time Data) to form meaningful insights and aid effective decision making.
• Data collection; Being skilled in Data Sorting, Data Cleaning, Survey Administration, Presentation and Reporting including collection of Real-Time Data (e.g., mobile data, satellite data, sensor data).
• Visualization & mapping; Ability to visualize and clarify ideas, processes or (complex) situations by making quick sketches, drawings or using diagrams, illustrations, photos, videos, animations, three dimensional mock-ups to support group dialogues, reflection, ideation, problem solving or decision making. Using abstraction, analogical and metaphorical thinking to create compelling visuals, maps, models, or embodied thinking that provide new perspectives and help a group of disparate actors to find a common language and develop a shared mental model. Ability to quickly grasp the dynamics of a complex system, identify key elements, entities, and their relations, create maps or models that help people inside the system, or outsiders, understand its dynamics; being able to swiftly make sense of an undifferentiated mass of information, extract its very essence, and turn that into key messages and visualizations.

Business Development

• Knowledge Generation; Ability to research and turn information into useful knowledge, relevant for content, or responsive to a stated need.

Communications

• Advocacy strategy and implementation; Ability to create and implement advocacy strategies which lead to impactful change.

2030 Agenda: Engagement & Effectiveness

• Strategic Policy Engagement; Economic forecasting

Partnership management

• Relationship management; Ability to engage with a wide range of public and private partners, build, sustain and/or strengthen working relations, trust, and mutual understanding
   

Required Skills and Experience