Data Analyst

About the role

The United Nations Development Coordination Office (DCO) is transforming into a stand-alone coordination office within the UN Secretariat, overseeing the Resident Coordinator system. This Data Analyst position is in the DCO Regional Office for Europe and Central Asia in Istanbul, part of the Data, Digital and Innovation function. It supports Resident Coordinators and UN Country Teams in evidence-based decision-making, strategic planning and the delivery of development results, and reports to the Head of the Regional Office.

Key responsibilities

• Develop and implement databases, data collection systems, analytics strategies and quality control capabilities, and identify new data analysis process improvements.
• Analyze trends and patterns in structured and unstructured data, and develop reports, dashboards and interactive or static visualizations to summarize findings for management.
• Lead the production of data products such as reports and newsletters.
• Collaborate with data engineers and data scientists to improve data flows and data quality, and coordinate with other parts of the organization to request data.
• Keep up with data analytics best practices, technologies and tools, and share findings with management.
• Build staff capacity through training on data analytics and support project execution with robust data analysis.

Required profile

• Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in a quantitative field such as computer science, data science, statistics, applied mathematics, information systems or a related field; a Bachelor's degree plus two years of qualifying experience may be accepted.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in data analysis, data engineering or data science.
• Knowledge of data structures, statistical methods and the data life cycle (collection, wrangling, analysis, visualization, deployment, monitoring, reporting).
• Knowledge of database management and SQL; knowledge of Python and R is required.
• English is required; French is the other working language of the UN Secretariat and Russian is desirable.

Required skills

• Data manipulation and analysis, including data validation and quality assurance.
• Relational databases (SQL) and programming (Python, R).
• Data visualization tools such as Tableau, Power BI, Qlik and R.
• Data storytelling and communicating technical matters to diverse audiences (desirable).