Data Visualization Specialist

Contract

This is a UNV National Specialist contract. This kind of contract is known as National UN Volunteer. It is normally only for nationals. More about UNV National Specialist contracts.

UNDP set out on an ambitious mission in the Strategic Plan 2022-2025 to significantly advance the future of development and the achievement of the 2030 Agenda. UNDP is supporting countries towards three directions of change:

• Structural transformation: including green, inclusive and digital transitions. • Leaving no-one behind: a rights-based approach centered on empowerment, inclusion, equity, human agency and human development. • Building resilience: strengthening countries and institutions to prevent, mitigate and respond to crisis, conflict, natural disasters, climate and social and economic shocks.

UNDP’s new Strategic Plan aims to make UNDP more agile and anticipatory, including by investing in data and analytics, early warning and horizon scanning, in line with UNDP’s Data Strategy As the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System, UNDP serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan.

Within the GPN, the Crisis Bureau guides UNDP’s corporate crisis-related strategies and vision for crisis prevention, response, and recovery. The Crisis Bureau aims to ensure that UNDP is well-positioned to anticipate crises and shocks, and address multidimensional crisis risks in a comprehensive way. To that end the Crisis Bureau has developed the Crisis Risk Dashboard (CRD), a platform that facilitates integrated risk analysis by drawing from diverse quantitative and qualitative data. Increasingly, these CRDs are being co-designed by UNDP in partnership with different UN agencies, aiming to serve crisis-related data and analysis needs of regional and country-based teams. A regional CRD for Asia-Pacific is currently being prototyped, alongside several country-based CRDs for the region.

Support the development of the Crisis Risk Dashboard (CRD) tool for the Asia Pacific region, in close collaboration with UNDP Country Offices and Regional Hubs, as well as UN RC Offices when relevant. • Provide support to relevant UN/UNDP teams in the region in the development of new or existing country- and region-specific CRDs. • Support regional and country offices with risk model development, indicator identifica-tion, data mapping and data visualisation • Ensure regular technical support and solutions to the regional CRD and country specific CRDs.

Under the direct supervision of both the Crisis Risk and Early Warning Specialist in UNDP Crisis Bureau and the Regional Programme Specialist for Asia and Pacific in the Joint UNDP-DPPA Programme on Building National Capacities for Conflict Prevention / UNDCO, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

• Build and integrate data pipelines, ETL processes, data input methods, for complete deployment of Crisis Risk Dashboards in the Asia Pacific region; • Develop customized visualization dashboards using Tableau-based CRD architecture and stack.

Accountability, Adaptability and Flexibility, Client Orientation, Communication, Ethics and Values, Integrity, Knowledge sharing, Planning and Organizing, Professionalism, Technological Awareness, Working in Teams.

Data Visualization with Tableau;

Strong knowledge of best practices for data visualization and dashboards;

Experience with the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) process and its implementa-tion and building and deploying data pipelines;

Experience managing information and producing analytical products in international development or humanitarian context as well as relevant experience within the UN system is highly desirable;

Project management to ensure timely delivery of knowledge products.

As this is a national UN Volunteer assignment, the UN Volunteer will be responsible for arranging his/her own housing and other living essentials.

Benefits and Entitlements: The purpose of the allowances and entitlements paid to UN Volunteers is to enable UN Volunteers to sustain a secure standard of living at the duty stations in line with United Nations standards without incurring personal costs. The allowances are in no way to be understood as compensation, reward, or salary in exchange for the UN Volunteer’s service. Contingent on specific eligibility criteria, location of the volunteer assignment and contractual type and category, the payment of allowances will begin from the date of Commencement of Service. See Annex 05 for allowances.

Monthly living Allowance (per month) is around 47,500 Thai Baht Entry Lump Sum (one-time payment) USD 400 Exit Allowance (for each month served paid on completion of assignment) USD 112.82 Medical and Life Insurance Coverage

Leave entitlements: Annual leave: 2.5 days accrued per calendar month Certified sick leave: 30 days Uncertified Sick Leave: 7 days Learning leave: 10 working days per consecutive 12 months Maternity Leave: 16 weeks Paternity Leave: 10 days