Data Analysts, BPPS /GPN/ SDG Integrator

Consultant Elections & Governance

Overview

Analyze data to identify trends and support policy development.

You have:

• Advanced degree in Finance, Economics, Statistics or related fields is required.
• At least 2 years’ experience in designing, conducting and analyzing household and country level data survey to measure and assess socio-economic impacts is required.
• Experience analysing national budgets and development plans, desired.
• Fluency in written and spoken English is required.
• At least two years of experience using data analysis software such as STATA, R, GAMS, and MATLAB, desired.
• Previous experience in an international organization or a large global company, preferred.

Contract

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Background

The UN Reform Resolution tasks UNDP to provide countries with an “integrator function” to accelerate progress towards the SDGs by tackling multiple interlinked and interdependent development challenges. The UNDP Global Policy Network (GPN) draws on expertise globally to provide more effective responses to the complex development challenges countries face in achieving the SDGs and responding to crisis in an integrated and coherent manner. Anchored in the Crisis Bureau (CB) and the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), the GPN has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDG).

An SDG Integration Team located with UNDP’s Global Policy Network (GPN) aims to build a coherent and consolidated menu of services (the SDG Integrator “offer”) emphasizing direct short-to-medium-term engagements to respond rapidly to requests from country offices for support on national implementation and monitoring of integrated policy solutions, qualitative and evidence-driven analysis for accelerated progress, and knowledge sharing and upscaling of innovative approaches to sustainable development.

UNDP's offer on SDG Integration will unpack and leverage the lessons from existing UNDP initiatives to respond with agility to the demand of support from Programme countries in their efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda. These include integrated policy support building on the Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support (MAPS) engagements to date and emphasize the application of evidence-driven data and analytics for SDG implementation and reporting.

In this regard, advances in digital technology are creating data at unprecedented levels of detail and speed, turning the stories of people’s lives into numbers every minute of every day, across the globe. An important focus of the integration work is to complement traditional data (eg. national statistics, NHDR like analysis) with new and alternative sources including digital ‘breadcrumbs,’ satellite data, social media to identify emerging trends and gain new perspectives on issues in development.

Under the guidance of the Global Policy Advisor of the SDG Integration Bureau for Policy and Programme Support/Global Policy Network, the Data Analysis Consultant will support the Integration Team’s economic analysis of a variety of data from different sources to strengthen the identification of emerging trends, improve understanding of evolving development issues and lead to the design of better development solutions. The consultant should have a mastery in understanding and utilizing multiple forms of data (qualitative and quantitative) to make sense of a situation, identify patterns, correlations and causations, in order to perform the required economic analysis. This will provide a more complete and rigorous information when developing new solutions or validating decisions.

Duties and Responsibilities

SCOPE OF WORK, RESPONSIBILITIES AND DESCRIPTION OF THE PROPOSED ANALYTICAL WORK

The consultant will contribute to the following tasks:

• Interpret data, analyze results using statistical techniques and provide ongoing reports (policy briefs and reports reviewing literature, explaining analytical methods and presenting the results.) that enable tracking various development trends over time (and in close to real time);
• Develop and implement databases, data analytics and other strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality;
• Acquire data from primary or secondary data sources and maintain databases/data systems;
• Identify, filter, analyze, and interpret trends or patterns in complex data sets;
• Generate insights and analysis to support UNDP data platform in one or more GPN.

Expected outputs and deliverables:

By the end of the assignment, the Consultant will be expected to have contributed to the following:

• Data exploration, analysis and modeling performed on the identified data, resulting in a data pipeline and dashboard or written reports related to the unit’s priorities.

Deliverables/ Outputs

Estimated Duration to Complete

Target Due Dates

% payment

Deliverable 1. Develop a framework for collecting and collating data from multiple sources to inform policies

5 days

Mar 31, 2022

15%

Deliverable 2. Finalize training for a team of data collectors on how to collect and generate data from documents, reports, etc that will inform policies.

10 days

Apr 30, 2022

30%

Deliverable 3. Conclude Quality Assurance and analysis on the information and data collated and develop summary report

20 days

May 31, 2022

55%

Competencies

Corporate:

• Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
• Promotes the vision, mission, and strategic goals of UNDP;
• Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
• Treats all people fairly without favouritism.

Technical:

• Ability to carry out data exploration and analytics

Functional:

Communications

• Able to communicate effectively in writing to a varied and broad audience in a concise and straightforward manner.

Professionalism

• Capable of working in a high- pressure environment with sharp and frequent deadlines, managing many tasks simultaneously.
• Excellent analytical and organizational

Teamwork

• Works well in a team;
• Projects a positive image and is ready to take on a wide range of tasks;
• Focuses on results for the client;
• Welcomes constructive feedback.

Required Skills and Experience

Academic qualifications:

Academic Qualifications:

• Advanced degree in Finance, Economics (any area of specialization), Statistics or other related fields is required.

Experience:

• At least 2 years’ experience in designing, conducting and analyzing household and country level data survey to measure and assess socio-economic impacts is required.
• Experience analysing national budgets, Medium Term and national development plans, desired
• Experience with macroeconomic or microeconomic analysis including policy scenario analysis using partial and general equilibrium or welfare analysis, desired
• At least two years of demonstrated experience using at least one data analysis software such as STATA, R, GAMS and MATLAB, desired.
• Previous experience in an international organization or a large global company executing similar assignment, desired. UNDP experience will be an added advantage.

Language:

• Fluency in written and spoken Englishis required;

Application Procedure

The application package containing the following (to be uploaded as one file):

• A cover letter with a brief description of why the Offer considers her/himself the most suitable for the assignment;
• Personal CV or P11, indicating all past experience from similar projects and specifying the relevant assignment period (from/to), as well as the email and telephone contacts of at least three (3) professional references;

Note: The above documents need to be scanned in one file and uploaded to the online application as one document.

Shortlisted candidates (ONLY) will be requested to submit a Financial Proposal.

• The financial proposal shall specify a total lump sum amount, and payment terms around the specific and measurable deliverables of the TOR. Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified in the TOR, and deliverables accepted and certified by the technical manager.
• The financial proposal must be all-inclusive and take into account various expenses that will be incurred during the contract, including: the daily professional fee; (excluding mission travel); living allowances at the duty station; communications, utilities and consumables; life, health and any other insurance; risks and inconveniences related to work under hardship and hazardous conditions (e.g., personal security needs, etc.), when applicable; and any other relevant expenses related to the performance of services under the contract.

• This consultancy is a home-based assignment, therefore, there is no envisaged travel cost to join duty station/repatriation travel.

• In the case of unforeseeable travel requested by UNDP, payment of travel costs including tickets, lodging and terminal expenses should be agreed upon, between UNDP and Individual Consultant, prior to travel and will be reimbursed. In general, UNDP should not accept travel costs exceeding those of an economy class ticket. Should the IC wish to travel on a higher class he/she should do so using their own resources.

• If the Offeror is employed by an organization/company/institution, and he/she expects his/her employer to charge a management fee in the process of releasing him/her to UNDP under a Reimbursable Loan Agreement (RLA), the Offeror must indicate at this point, and ensure that all such costs are duly incorporated in the financial proposal submitted to UNDP.

  The Financial Proposal is to be emailed as per the instruction in the separate email that will be sent to shortlisted candidates.

Evaluation process

Applicants are reviewed based on Required Skills and Experience stated above and based on the technical evaluation criteria outlined below. Applicants will be evaluated based on cumulative scoring. When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract will be made to the individual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as:

• Being responsive/compliant/acceptable; and
• Having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation where technical criteria weighs 70% and Financial criteria/ Proposal weighs 30%.

Technical evaluation - Total 70% (70 points):

• Criteria 1. Experience with macroeconomic or microeconomic analysis including policy scenario analysis using partial and general equilibrium or welfare analysis Weight = 20%; Maximum Points: 20;
• Criteria 2. At least two years of demonstrated experience using at least one data analysis software such as STATA, R, GAMS and MATLAB, Weight = 10 %; Maximum Points: 10;
• Criteria 3. Previous experience in an international organization or a large global company executing similar assignment Weight = 10 %; Maximum Points: 10;

Having reviewed applications received, UNDP will invite the top three/four shortlisted candidates for interview. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

• Interview: Weight = 30 %; Maximum Points: 30.

Having reviewed applications received, UNDP will invite the top three/four shortlisted candidates for interview. Please note that only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

Candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% (49 points) of the maximum obtainable points for the technical criteria (70 points) shall be considered for the financial evaluation.

Financial evaluation - Total 30% (30 points)

The following formula will be used to evaluate financial proposal:

• p = y (µ/z), where
• p = points for the financial proposal being evaluated
• y = maximum number of points for the financial proposal
• µ = price of the lowest priced proposal
• z = price of the proposal being evaluated

Contract Award

Candidate obtaining the highest combined scores in the combined score of Technical and Financial evaluation will be considered technically qualified and will be offered to enter into contract with UNDP.

Institutional arrangement

The consultant will work under the guidance and direct supervision of Global Policy Advisor of the SDG Integration Bureau for Policy and Programme Support/Global Policy Network and will be responsible for the fulfilment of the deliverables as specified above. The Consultant will be given access to relevant information necessary for the execution of the tasks under this assignment. The Consultant will be responsible for providing her/his own laptop. Given the global consultations to be undertaken during this assignment, the consultant is expected to be reasonably flexible with his/her availability for such consultations taking into consideration different time zones.

The Consultant will be responsible for providing her/his own laptop.

Payment modality

• Payments are based upon output, i.e. upon delivery of the services specified above and deliverables accepted and upon certification of satisfactory completion by the manager.
• The work week will be based on 35 hours, i.e. on a 7 hour working day, with core hours being between 9h00 and 18h00 daily.

Annexes (click on the hyperlink to access the documents):

• Annex 1 - UNDP P-11 Form for ICs
• Annex 2 - IC Contract Template
• Annex 3 – IC General Terms and Conditions
• Annex 4 – RLA Template

Any request for clarification must be sent by email to [email protected]

The UNDP Central Procurement Unit will respond by email and will send written copies of the response, including an explanation of the query without identifying the source of inquiry, to all applicants.

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