Data Management Specialist ? Pulse Lab Jakarta - Jakarta

Duration of Initial Contract :Organizational Context

Global Pulse is an innovation initiative in the Executive Office of the United Nations Secretary-General, harnessing today's new world of digital data and real-time analytics to gain a better understanding of changes in human well-being. Global Pulse hopes to contribute a future in which access to better information sooner makes it possible to keep international development on track, protect the world's most vulnerable populations, and strengthen resilience to global shocks. Global Pulse is being implemented as a global network of Pulse Labs, bringing together expertise from UN agencies, governments, academia, and the private sector to research, develop, test and share tools and approaches for harnessing real-time data for more effective and efficient policy action.

Pulse Lab Jakarta

Global Pulse established a Pulse Lab in Jakarta in 2012 in partnership with the Government of Indonesia. Pulse Lab Jakarta will function as an open innovation space where policy experts together with UN development practitioners and other partners can experiment with new types of data and emerging technologies and evaluate their potential to enhance both public policy decision-making and community resilience.  Following the development of useful approaches, Pulse Lab Jakarta will support institutional adoption of these innovations into policy and practice.

Under the supervision of the Pulse Lab Project Manager, and working closely with the global research team, the Data Engineer and Research Project Officer, the Data Management Specialist will apply data mining techniques (anomaly detection, association learning, cluster detection, classification, and predictive modeling) to create actionable insights from a broad range of structured and unstructured data that is growing rapidly in scale. 

The Data Management Specialist will be responsible for the acquisition, analysis and visualization of data from a variety of sources in order to:
i) help understand emerging human vulnerabilities to socio-economic shocks;ii) detect and highlight patterns that could indicate how people are coping with emerging hardship, andiii) gather evidence of changes in behavior and perception correlated with public sector policies and programmes. 

Functions / Key Results Expected

Summary of Key Functions:

In coordination with Pulse Lab Jakarta main stakeholders, define, design and implement research projects harnessing Big Data to improve both understanding of population behavior, needs, and vulnerabilities as well as capacity to monitor and evaluate the impacts of development polices and programmes;Perform data studies and data discovery around new data sources or new uses for existing data sources;     Assist in developing new approaches to detecting events and trends within real-time data sources such as online media, social networks, imagery, geospatial data, communications logs, transaction records, etc.;Think strategically about uses of data and how data use interacts with data design;     Design and implement statistical data quality procedures around new data sources;    Ensure that report data findings are introduced to PLJ stakeholders creatively in a variety of formats that make them accessible;Coordinate joint data mining research projects with diverse partners; Interact with the global data community through a variety of media.Expected Results

The Data Management Specialist would be expected to contribute to the following results:
Produce reports that summarise key findings of research projects and inform the work of both UN agencies and government counterparts;Produce methodological papers that can be shared as a public good with the broader development community; Conduct scoping exercises that provide stakeholders with a broad perspective of what is possible to achieve with new data sources and develop prototypes based on their feedback; Help build data capacity in both government and UN counterpart agencies; Interact with the global development and data communities to share the work of the PLJ and maximize its impact.

Impact of Results

The key results have an impact on the overall success of UN agencies programs and government activities in Indonesia and beyond. In addition, the work of the Data Management Specialist will have an impact on the design, operation and programming of research activities, creation of strategic partnerships as well as reaching resource mobilization targets.

Functional Competencies:      

Advocacy/Advancing A Policy-Oriented Agenda
Analysis and creation of messages and strategies Performs analysis of topics that are of interest to PLJ counterparts, and contributes to the formulation of institutional responses.Results-Based Programme Development and Management:
Contributing to results through provision of information
Provides information for linkages across research activities to help identify critical points of integration; Provides information and documentation on specific stages of research implementation; Provides background information to identify opportunities for research development and helps drafting proposals; Participates in the formulation of research proposals.

Building Strategic Partnerships:
Identifying and building partnerships

Effectively networks with partners seizing opportunities to build strategic alliances relevant to UN Global Pulse’s mandate and strategic agenda; Identifies needs and interventions for capacity building of counterparts, clients and potential partners; Promotes UN Global Pulse’s agenda in inter-agency meetings.

Innovation and Marketing New Approaches:
Developing new approaches

Seeks a broad range of perspectives in developing research proposals; Identifies new approaches and promotes their use in other situations; Creates an environment that fosters innovation and innovative thinking; Makes the case for innovative ideas from the team with own supervisor.

Resource Mobilization:
Implementing resource mobilization strategies

Analyzes information on potential bilateral donors and national counterparts to recommend a strategic approach;Identifies and compiles lessons learned ; Develops a resource mobilization strategy at the country level.
Promoting Organizational Learning and Knowledge SharingDeveloping tools and mechanisms:
Makes the case for innovative ideas documenting successes and building them into the design of new approaches; Identifies new approaches and strategies that promote the use of tools and mechanisms.

Job Knowledge/Technical Expertise:
In-depth knowledge of the subject-matter

Understands more advanced aspects of primary area of specialization as well as the fundamental concepts of related disciplines; Keeps abreast of new developments in area of professional discipline and job knowledge and seeks to develop him/herself professionally; Demonstrates comprehensive knowledge of information technology and applies it in work assignments; Demonstrates comprehensive understanding and knowledge of the current guidelines and research project management tools and utilizes these regularly in work assignments.

Client Orientation:
Contributing to positive outcomes for the client

Anticipates client needs; Works towards creating an enabling environment for a smooth relationship between the clients and service provider;Demonstrates understanding of client’s perspective; Solicits feedback on service provision and quality.

Core Competencies:

Promoting ethics and integrity, creating organizational precedents; Building and promoting effective teams; Creating, promoting and enabling environment for open communication; Creating an emotionally intelligent organization; Sharing knowledge across the organization and building a culture of knowledge sharing and learning; Promoting learning and knowledge management/sharing is the responsibility of each staff member; Fair and transparent decision making; calculated risk-taking.
Education:   
Masters degree or equivalent in statistics, applied mathematics, physics, computational finance, economics, computer science, engineering or other related technical disciplines. Experience:   
At least 5 years of relevant experience working in the field of Data Management; Familiarity with analytical techniques such as text mining, sentiment analysis, predictive analysis, event detection, and modeling of complex systems; At least three years of experience in analysis and data visualization; Experience in a branch of computational informatics (development, health, bio-, geo-, etc), using machine learning; Experience working with Big Data, social network data, and geospatial data/satellite imagery; Experience analyzing data from social monitoring systems, monitoring and evaluation work, or other survey work in developing countries; Experience writing research proposals, scientific articles and technical reports; Familiarity working with quantitative and qualitative data; Experience with scripting, coding, and web design required for data access, analysis, and presentation; Demonstrated experience presenting work to both technical and non-technical audiences; Willingness to evaluate and adopt the latest advances in AI, machine learning, predictive analysis and visualization. Language:   
Fluent in English. Knowledge of another UN language desirable (both oral and written). Note:

Applicants must complete P11 form and submit as part of their application. Click here to down load the form P11. UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply . All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP Indonesia reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement. We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UNDP Indonesia at the same grade level and with similar job description, experience and education requirements.

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

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