UNECA Statistics Jobs 2023 – Ethiopia NGO Jobs. UNECA Ethiopia looking for “Statistics“. Applicants with a degree in Advanced University Degree may apply on or before 6th March 2023.
Established by the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) of the United Nations (UN) in 1958 as one of the UN’s five regional commissions, ECA’s mandate is to promote the economic and social development of its member States, foster intra-regional integration, and promote international cooperation for Africa’s development. Made up of 54 member States, and playing a dual role as a regional arm of the UN and as a key component of the African institutional landscape, ECA is well positioned to make unique contributions to address the Continent’s development challenges.
UNECA Statistics Jobs 2023
The UNECA has published a job vacancy announcement on 1st March 2023 for qualified Ethiopians to fill in the vacant post of Statistics to be based in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
| Recruiter | United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) |
| Position | Statistics in Data Science |
| Location | Addis Ababa, Ethiopia |
| Country | Ethiopia |
| Total Vacant Post | N/A |
| Qualification | Advanced University Degree |
| Experience Required | Minimum Three years |
| Application Deadline | 6th March 2023 |
UNECA Job Vacancy 2023
Duties and Responsibilities: Under the overall supervision of the Director, African centre for Statistics and the direct supervision of the statistician in charge of data science related workstream, the consultant is expected to perform the following tasks:
- Support to the organization of the regular meetings of the Africa Regional Hub on Big Data, Data science cafés and Data Science and the other data science related meetings of ACS.
- Help in the supervision of young data scientist in various data science project and in the production of quality datasets for training machine learning algorithms.
- Help in the production of reports and presentation on big data, data science and machine learning.
- Help in the development of data analytics pipelines to support the data needs of ECA’s various publications
- Assist in the preparation and execution of data science hackathons and data science webinars.
- Contribute to various data science projects, code testing and supervision of other data scientists working on other data science projects.
- Assist ACS in creating and maintaining a GitHub repository of code.
- Assist in maintaining the dialogue with African countries on data governance issues, the ethics of Artificial
- Intelligence and the risk arising from systematic biases in the data used to train AI algorithms with special focus on the issues that may arise in the African context, the role of national statistical systems in the quality control and the ethical validation of datasets used to train artificial intelligence algorithms, discussions on new data sharing mechanisms and the alignment of the continental and international frameworks and guidelines to tape into the opportunities offered by big data and data science while respecting privacy and other ethical considerations, in synergy with the ACS workstream about the modernization of national statistical systems.
- Assist in any other data science related activity as requested.
Position in Organization:
- Posting Title: ACS/Support the work of the African Centre for Statistics in data science
- Department/Office: Economic Commission for Africa
- Duty Station: ADDIS ABABA
- Posting Period: 28 February 2023 – 06 March 2023
- Job Opening Number: 23-Economic Commission for Africa-202418-Consultant
- Staffing Exercise: N/A
Qualification & Experience:
- Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in a field related to ICT (Computer science, Data science, Statistics, Information systems, or related) is required.
- A minimum of 3 years of practical experience in data science is required.
How to Apply UNECA Statistics Jobs 2023
Note: Before you apply, please download (link is given below) the full advertisement and read it carefully.
Then to apply, go to https://careers.un.org/lbw/jobdetail.aspx?id=202418
The Closing Date: 6th March 2023.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for interviews.
| Particulars | Details Link |
| Job Advertisement | Click To View |
| Official Website | www.uneca.org |
| Related Jobs | Ethiopia NGO Forum Jobs 2023 |
| More NGO Jobs | Latest NGO Job Vacancy |