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• Assist UNDP understand
  emerging human vulnerabilities to socio-economic shocks;
• Detect and highlight patterns
  that could indicate how people are coping with emerging hardship and;
• Gather evidence of changes in
  behaviour and perception correlated with public sector policies and
  programmes. He/she will support specially the visualization of data on the
  research conducted by PLK.

• Regularly interface
  application development using technologies such as HTML5, D3 and InfoVis;
• Ensure data processing and
  statistical analysis with programming languages including Python is done;
• Responsible for the
  deployment of applications on Linux servers.
• Significantly contribute to
  the efforts of the team in defining, designing and building projects
  harnessing data innovation to address global challenges;
• Assist in the development of
  interactive data visualisations for the web;
• Develop and use software
  tools to extract, process and analyze data sets from a variety of sources;
• Support the team in the
  development of working prototypes and applications for the Pulse Library
  that will be used by UN agencies and partners.
• Work closely with overall
  reporting to the Data Scientist and manager, he/she will work on
  day-to-day basis with the basis with the Data Engineer;
• The consultant will report to
  the Manager on a regular basis on the progress but this will be done in
  line with the set deliverables of the assignment The consultant will
  liaise, interact, collaborate/meet staff and partners.
• UNDP (GPL) will support the
  consultant in the access to all past reports and data relevant to the
  assignment. These will include donor reports and project documents:
• He / she will also access to
  GPL and its infrastructure;
• Support and assistance to
  gain access to relevant stakeholders for consultations to the extent
  possible.

• The ideal candidate for the
  United Nations UNDP Junior Data Engineer should hold a bachelor’s degree
  in Computer Science, Electrical engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or
  related field. A combination of a first degree and relevant experience may
  be accepted;
• A minimum of two years’
  experience of web application development, preferably having worked on
  examples of interactive data visualisation;
• Past working knowledge of
  various programming languages and experience with software development.
  Experience with Python is an advantage;
• Prior experience of writing
  software to process different types of data (e.g. numerical data, text,
  images or audio);
• Past exposure and experience
  of working with Linux servers;
• Possess excellent
  communication skills;
• Familiarity with statistical
  programming and discrete mathematics;
• Significant experience
  working with open source data processing frameworks desirable
• Language: Fluency in English (oral and written).

• Mathematical and statistical
  aptitude;
• Plans and produces quality
  results to meet established goals;
• Generates innovative,
  practical solutions to challenging situations;
• Demonstrates substantive and
  technical knowledge to meet responsibilities and post requirements with
  excellence;
• Demonstrates openness to
  change and ability to manage complexities;
• Ability to conceptualize,
  plan and execute innovative ideas;
• Displays open, co-operative
  behavior with other team members;
• Remains calm and in control,
  and good humoured even under pressure;
• Responds positively to
  critical feedback and differing points of view;
• Sets priorities, produces
  quality outputs;
• Meets deadlines and manages
  time efficiently;
• Excellent oral and written
  skills.

• Demonstrates integrity and
  ethical standards;
• Displays cultural, gender,
  religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

• Duly completed Letter of
  Confirmation of Interest and Availability using the template provided by
  UNDP (Annex II);  Download
  Here
• Updated Personal CV indicating
  all past experience from similar projects, as well as the contact details
  (email and, telephone number) of the Candidate and at least three (3)
  professional references.

• Indicates the
  all-inclusive fixed total contract price, supported by a breakdown of
  costs, as per template provided (Annex II): Download
  Here

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