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Job Title: Data Engineer
Organisation: United
Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Duty Station: Kampala,
Uganda
Reports to: Technical Team Leader

About UNDP:
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.
Global Pulse is establishing a Pulse Lab in Kampala in 2013. Pulse Lab
Kampala 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 Kampala will support
institutional adoption of these innovations into policy and practice.
Job Summary: The Data Engineer will work to access and derive insights from large data sets to solve problems.
He or she must be able to work with a variety of data types, programming
languages and platforms, must be comfortable with both hands-on development and
research support, and must be adept at both understanding the information
content of data and transforming and preparing it for analytical and reporting
purposes.
Key Duties and Responsibilities:
  • Assist in defining, designing and building
    projects harnessing Big Data to address development and humanitarian
    challenges;
  • Develop and use software tools to extract,
    process and analyze data sets from a variety of sources;
  • Develop algorithms that can scale to very
    large data sets;
  • Develop systems for classifying content;
  • Produce interactive data visualizations
    and user interaction environments;
  • Develop working prototypes and
    applications for the Pulse Library that will be used by UN agencies
    and partners.
Qualifications, Skills and
Experience:
  • The candidate should possess MS in
    Computer Science, Machine Learning, Mathematics, Statistics, or related
    field;
  • A combination of a first degree and additional
    two relevant experience may be accepted.
  • Three or more years of experience in the
    following;
·        
Experience working on machine learning
algorithms or other aspects of AI;
·        
Experience with stream computing and data
warehousing;
·        
Experience with rapid application development
(agile, extreme, scrum, lean);
·        
Experience working with Amazon EC2 or Hadoop or
similar;
·        
Experience working with open source data
processing frameworks is a plus.
Language Requirements:
  • Fluency in both written and spoken
    English;
  • Knowledge of a language widely spoken in
    Uganda would be an asset.
Language Requirements: Fluency
in English.

Core Competencies:
Personal Competencies:
  • Demonstrates integrity by modeling the
    UN’s values and ethical standards;
  • Advocates and promotes the vision,
    mission, and strategic goals of the UN;
  • Displays cultural, gender, religion, race,
    nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
  • Treats all people fairly without
    favoritism;
  • Demonstrates and promotes the values of
    the UN in actions and decisions and acts in accordance with the standard
    of conduct for international civil servants;
  • Shows willingness to work without bias
    with all persons regardless of gender, nationality, religion or culture;
  • Contributes effectively to team-based
    activities, working collaboratively and sharing information openly; works
    effectively with colleagues inside the UN as well as its partners and
    other stakeholders to pursue common goals
  • Facilitates and encourages open
    communication in the team, communicating effectively;
  • Remains calm, composed and patient when
    facing conflict, manages conflict productively, focusing on mutually
    acceptable solutions;
  • Takes initiative and seeks opportunities
    to initiate action;
  • Actively produces and disseminates new
    knowledge; creates/contributes to mechanisms to collect and share
    knowledge;
  • Actively seeks learning opportunities;
    demonstrates commitment to ongoing professional development;
  • Proposes innovative ideas and new
    solutions to work.
Functional Competencies:
  • Familiarity with statistical programming
    and discrete mathematics;
  • Comfortable working with diverse
    programming languages, design patterns, frameworks, libraries and
    platforms;
  • Independent and driven, and able to manage
    and lead without close supervision;
  • Flexible, adaptable, and comfortable
    working in a start-up environment;
  • Ability to work directly with internal and
    external clients to define requirements for analysis and reporting;
  • Excellent communication skills;
  • Flexible, adaptable, and comfortable
    working in a start-up environment.
How to Apply:
If you believe you are one of the ideal candidates for this opportunity
in working with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), then visit the
web link below for full job details http://jobs.undp.org
NB: UNDP is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified Women are
encouraged to apply.
Deadline:  19th August,
2013
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