Statistician at FAO

FAO Job Emptiness in Ethiopia:

Place: Statistician

Deadline: Might 03, 2024

Organizational Setting

FAO’s Subregional Workplace for Jap Africa (SFE) is answerable for growing, selling, overseeing and implementing agreed methods for addressing subregional food, agriculture and rural improvement priorities. It develops and maintains relations with subregion-wide establishments together with Regional Financial Integration Organizations (REIOs). 

The Subregional Workplace for Jap Africa is a subsidiary of FAO’s Regional Workplace for Africa (Africa). It helps subregional coverage dialogue on food security, agriculture and rural improvement points, facilitates the emergence of subregional partnerships and helps capability improvement and useful resource mobilization for food security, agriculture and rural improvement within the subregion. 

The place is situated in SFE, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. In collaboration with the Regional Statistician, RAF, the incumbent helps international locations within the manufacturing and dissemination of top quality statistics within the areas food security and nutrition, agriculture, rural improvement and sustainable management of pure assets.

Reporting Strains

The Statistician stories to the Subregional Coordinator for Jap Africa and works beneath the technical steering of the Regional Statistician.

Technical Focus

The place focuses on enhancing the provision and high quality of food, agricultural and rural statistics within the international locations of the Subregion of Jap Africa and on rising the reporting charge of FAO knowledge collections for world monitoring functions.

Key Outcomes

Analysis and evaluation of data, knowledge and statistics, statistical strategies, and statistical and econometric modeling. Growth and upkeep of specialised instruments, methodologies, methods and/or databases, and technical help providers to assist the implementation/supply and monitoring of the programme of labor and associated merchandise, initiatives, publications and providers.

Key Capabilities

• Collects, opinions, processes and/or analyses key social/financial/environmental/indicators, based mostly on each conventional statistical strategies/sources or on unstructured sources and data science strategies, to assist the supply of financial and social improvement programmes of labor, which will be targeted on merchandise, initiatives, publications or providers.
• Develops improved/up to date technical, statistical and/or analytical instruments, methods and databases.
• Conducts research, knowledge assortment, validation, evaluation and/or reporting in assist of the event of technical requirements, worldwide devices, revolutionary instruments and methodologies for use throughout the Group or by exterior stakeholders.
• Produces quite a lot of technical stories and offers enter in technical paperwork, divisional publications and/or net pages.
• Gives response to requests and offers technical and/or coverage recommendation, help and options to Regional, Subregional and Nation Places of work, together with technical backstopping to discipline initiatives.
• Participates in multidisciplinary groups, collaborates with different Divisions and businesses on work teams and committees and promotes greatest practices.
• Gives capability improvement providers, together with the planning and group of coaching workshops and seminars, and preparation of associated data, supplies, on-line instruments and knowledge kits.
• Participates in divisional groups, Group-wide committees, mission groups and dealing teams and offers specialised experience on worldwide technical networks and or technical coverage and standard-setting our bodies.
• Helps the group, conduct and follow-up of conferences, consultations and conferences, the event/manufacturing of required supplies and the supply of data and help to companions.
• Participates in useful resource mobilization actions in accordance with the Company Technique and divisional plans.
• Promotes worldwide cooperation and collaboration, advocates greatest practices, data sharing, elevated coverage dialogue and offers technical experience at worldwide conferences and conferences.

Particular Capabilities

• Helps SFE international locations within the implementation of the official strategies/pointers for the manufacturing and dissemination of the FAO-relevant Sustainable Growth Objectives (SDG) indicators.
• Promotes the implementation of the World Technique for Agricultural and Rural Statistics, the AGRISurvey programme, the 50 by 2030 Initiative and the World Programme for the Census of Agriculture (WCA 2020).
• Promotes the event of nation’s capability to design and implement agricultural censuses and surveys, analyses the info collected and disseminates the outcomes.
• Promotes the implementation of the FAO pointers and handbooks for the manufacturing of official statistics in SFE international locations.
• Each time related, advocates for and promotes the adoption of the Meals Insecurity Expertise Scale as a regular software for family or particular person food security measurement within the context of inhabitants surveys in SFE international locations.
• Promotes the event of Meals Stability Sheets on the nationwide stage, utilizing the FAO Statistics Division (ESS) methodology and the well timed transmission of knowledge to ESS by way of the Regional Statistician; the computation of environmental statistics, international locations’ capability to report on associated indicators and the well timed transmission of knowledge to ESS; the computation of economics statistics, and the well timed transmission of knowledge to ESS.
• Organizes, coordinates and participates in conferences, seminars and coaching programs on food and agricultural statistics, and represents SFE at subregional and regional statistical conferences
• Promotes cooperation and coordination between SFE international locations and facilitates the trade of data and good practices.
• Evaluations commonly FAOSTAT nation knowledge figuring out lacking official knowledge and metadata and observe up on statistical questionnaires to enhance response charges and the standard of data.
• Performs different associated duties as required.

CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING

Minimal Necessities

• Superior college diploma in statistics, arithmetic, economics, agricultural economics, or a associated discipline.
• Working data (proficient – stage C) of English and restricted data (intermediate – stage B) of one other FAO official language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish).
• 5 years of related expertise within the compilation and evaluation of food and agricultural statistics in nationwide or worldwide organizations.

Competencies

Technical/Practical Expertise

• Work expertise in multiple location or space of labor, significantly in discipline positions.
• Sturdy command of statistical strategies together with knowledge presentation, evaluation and descriptive statistics; most important steady and discrete random variables (binomial, regular, customary regular, log-normal) and their properties; chance distributions; conditional chance, possibilities of intersections of occasions, Bayes’ theorem; correlation and rank correlation; sampling and pattern dimension: easy, stratified, and multistage random sampling; Inference, confidence intervals, speculation testing and significance; linear regression (single and a number of) comparability of inhabitants means and variances, ANOVA; Chi-square and goodness of match assessments; nonlinear fashions: most probability estimation; components of survey and questionnaire design.
• Extent and relevance of expertise within the compilation, validation and evaluation of statistics.
• Extent and relevance of data and expertise in survey methodology.
• Extent and relevance of data of the primary knowledge sources used for the compilation of food and agricultural statistics.
• Extent and relevance of data and expertise in software program used for processing and analyzing knowledge.
• Demonstrated means to mobilize assets

FAO workers are anticipated to stick to FAO Values of Dedication to FAO, Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency.

GENERAL INFORMATION

• Extension of fixed-term appointments relies on certification of efficiency and availability of funds
• FAO reserves the suitable to not make an appointment.
• Appointment will likely be topic to certification that the candidate is medically match for appointment, accreditation, any residency or visa necessities, and security clearances. 

CONDITIONS OF SERVICE 

A aggressive compensation and benefits package deal is obtainable. For data on UN salaries, allowances and advantages, click on on the next hyperlink: http://www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances/wage.htm

  Different advantages, topic to eligibility, embrace:

• Dependency allowances
• Rental subsidy
• Training grant for kids
• Dwelling go away travel
• 30 working days of annual go away per yr
• Pension fund entitlements beneath the UN Joint Employees Pension Fund
• Worldwide health insurance; optionally available life insurance
• Incapacity safety

FAO encourages a constructive office tradition to extend inclusivity and variety inside its workforce. FAO applies measures by which all workers members contribute equally and in full to the work and improvement of the Group. This contains: 

• components of family-friendly insurance policies
• versatile working preparations
• requirements of conduct.