Data and Reporting Officer

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Mission and objectives

as the un secretary-general's appointed representative in the kingdom of bahrain, the un resident coordinator directs the united nations' participation in development activities in the country. the responsibilities of the united nations resident coordinator include ensuring that united nations development activities are coordinated, establishing a platform for coordinated delivery, promoting the strengthening of national capacities, and ensuring effective advocacy of united nations values, standards, principles and activities on behalf of the united nations with the highest level of government officials. the office of the resident coordinator supports the united nations team in: strengthen coordination of development activities within the united nations and between the united nations and development partners; promoting consistency within the united nations through joint strategic planning and programming of development activities; support the coordination and simplification of business practices and administrative procedures; promoting joint communications, advocacy and reporting on the collective development of the united nations in the kingdom of bahrain; participating in identifying innovative and sustainable funding resources.

Context

The UN Resident Coordinator’s Office in Bahrain became a separate entity in 2018 with the delink from UNDP as part of the UN development system reforms. The Office coordinates a UN Country Team of 20 UN agencies across the government, with the Ministry RCO is providing policy and strategic support to the government to SDGs. The purpose of this assignment is to support the RCO Bahrain in enhancing its coordination role through data collection and reporting of the cooperation framework and SDGs-related, developments and findings; promoting the work of UNCT at the national level; and contributing to communications activities on delivering the UNCT cooperation framework in support of the national development plan.

Task description

Under the supervision of the Head of RCO, the UNV Data and Reporting Specialist will: • Track all developments in the Arab States region related to socio-economic trends, events and developments, especially related to war-effected countries. • Collect, extract and compile basic information and technical data on socio-economic affairs in Bahrain and the region; • Maintain and update database(s), or initiate new database(s) when required, in relation to socio-economic affairs for all indicators with special attention to closures and access matters. • In collaboration with the Economist and Head of RCO, work to streamline and improve the socio-economic researching and reporting, including information updates on UNInfo; • Provide daily updates on access/closure developments and other urgent socio-economic matters in relation to crisis situations; • Support research assignments for RCO Bahrain and (R)DCO as required; • Provide data related information and reports to other UN agencies within the UNCT(s); • Prepare fact sheets and brief information packages for use of RC office, UNCT and (R)DCO; • Assist with archiving and managing the office library and/or online data management system; • Provide data for RCO reports as required (including on SDG, ECOSOC, UNCT related reports); and perform any other duties as assigned. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are required to: • Strengthen their knowledge and understanding of the concept of volunteerism by reading relevant UNV and external publications and take active part in UNV activities (for instance in events that mark International Volunteer Day); • Be acquainted with and build on traditional and/or local forms of volunteerism in the host country; • Reflect on the type and quality of voluntary action that they are undertaking, including participation in ongoing reflection activities; • Contribute articles/write-ups on field experiences and submit them for UNV publications/websites, newsletters, press releases, etc.; • Assist with the UNV Buddy Programme for newly-arrived UN Volunteers; • Promote or advise local groups in the use of online volunteering, or encourage relevant local individuals and organizations to use the UNV Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible.