Background: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of
Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has created a new humanitarian data platform – the
Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). The goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data
easy to find and use for analysis.
HDX is being piloted in Colombia and
Kenya in 2014.
As part of its roll out in Kenya, the HDX team will be establishing a Data Lab in Nairobi.
As part of its roll out in Kenya, the HDX team will be establishing a Data Lab in Nairobi.
The Data Lab will serve as a front
line, in-person service to the HDX platform and create a neutral, physical
space for humanitarian partners, government officials, technologists,
universities, and international stakeholders to collaborate on all things data.
Data services will include data
extraction, cleaning, storage, analysis and visualization.
The Lab will also provide the
opportunity to find new ways of working together on humanitarian data.
Nairobi was chosen as the initial location for the Data Lab because it is a regional setting that is often dealing with multiple emergencies.
Nairobi was chosen as the initial location for the Data Lab because it is a regional setting that is often dealing with multiple emergencies.
We also wanted to explore the
relationship between data and resilience in a region that has persistent
drought and food insecurity. As we get established, we hope to benefit from the
experience of local innovators involved in the local tech scene.
The HDX Data Lab requires an experienced Data Manager to collaborate with data partners.
The HDX Data Lab requires an experienced Data Manager to collaborate with data partners.
The consultant will be part of the
HDX Data Lab team which will include a Lab Manager and a Data Analyst.
The Data Lab team will be expected to
work closely with staff from the OCHA regional office, based in Nairobi, and
with the global HDX team.
Lab Manager - Humanitarian Data Exchange - Data Lab
Position Type:Consultant
Position Type:Consultant
Duration: 3-6 months
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Date: as soon as possible
Reporting Lines: The consultant will report to the Project Manager of
the Humanitarian Data Exchange project in New York.
Accountabilities
Accountabilities
- Oversee all aspects of the Nairobi Data Lab
including operational (staffing, resource allocation, office logistics)
and programmatic elements (community building and outreach, partner
services, representation, data management/analysis, and user experience
research).
- Support the hiring process of local lab staff
in close coordination with the OCHA Regional Office in Nairobi.
- Research, recommend, and secure a physical
office space(s) for the Data Lab and oversee the set up of that space.
- Maintain rigorous financial records and
contribute to donor reporting for the Data Lab grant; write blogs and
other communications material as needed.
- Define the services for the humanitarian
community to be offered by the Data Lab based on an understanding of the
needs of humanitarian partners with a focus on innovation and
collaboration. Conduct formal and informal outreach to the humanitarian
community to promote these services. Develop partnerships and identify
useful networks for Data Lab staff to cultivate.
- Offer training and events through the Data Lab
aimed at increasing the data capacity and connectedness of the
humanitarian community; host innovation and research projects within the
physical lab.
- Support the creation of a virtual Data Lab
through the HDX platform to promote projects and connect collaborators.
- Represent the HDX project in high level
meetings, trainings, workshops, hackathons and conferences; communicate
the goals of the Data Lab and the HDX platform to a variety of audiences.
- Develop a user experience component to test
country, regional, and crisis specific pages and features. Provide
feedback on user experience elements to the HDX project team on the
specific needs of local users.
- Take part in HDX project team meetings as
required.
Deliverables
- Well-functioning HDX Data Lab in Nairobi.
- Hiring and management of local staff.
- Clear understanding by partners of the work of
the Data Lab and the services it provides.
Qualifications
Education: First level university degree in business development, management, information management, information technology, or related field.
Experience: At least five years of professional work experience with business development, project management and innovation projects. Demonstrated experience in staff management and communication. Humanitarian or tech experience a plus.
Language: Fluency in English is required (both oral and written). Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.
Education: First level university degree in business development, management, information management, information technology, or related field.
Experience: At least five years of professional work experience with business development, project management and innovation projects. Demonstrated experience in staff management and communication. Humanitarian or tech experience a plus.
Language: Fluency in English is required (both oral and written). Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.
Data Manager - Humanitarian Data Exchange, Data Lab
Position Type:Consultant
Position Type:Consultant
Duration: 3-6 months
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Date: as soon as possible
Background: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has created a new humanitarian data platform – the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). The goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis.
Background: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has created a new humanitarian data platform – the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). The goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis.
The platform will
include three technical components: a dataset repository for sharing data from
across the community; data visualization and analysis functionality to compare
indicators across countries and crises; and standards for the exchange of
humanitarian operational data (the Humanitarian Exchange Language or HXL). HDX
is being piloted in Colombia and Kenya in 2014.
As part of its roll out in Kenya, the HDX team will be establishing a Data Lab in Nairobi.
As part of its roll out in Kenya, the HDX team will be establishing a Data Lab in Nairobi.
The Data Lab will serve as a front
line, in-person service to the HDX platform and create a neutral, physical
space for humanitarian partners, government officials, technologists,
universities, and international stakeholders to collaborate on all things data.
Data services will include data
extraction, cleaning, storage, analysis and visualization.
The Lab will also provide the
opportunity to find new ways of working together on humanitarian data.
Nairobi was chosen as the initial location for the Data Lab because it is a regional setting that is often dealing with multiple emergencies.
Nairobi was chosen as the initial location for the Data Lab because it is a regional setting that is often dealing with multiple emergencies.
We also wanted to explore the
relationship between data and resilience in a region that has persistent
drought and food insecurity. As we get established, we hope to benefit from the
experience of local innovators involved in the local tech scene.
The HDX Data Lab requires an experienced Data Manager to collaborate with data partners.
The HDX Data Lab requires an experienced Data Manager to collaborate with data partners.
The consultant will be part of the
HDX Data Lab team which will include a Lab Manager and a Data Analyst.
The Data Lab team will be expected to
work closely with staff from the OCHA regional office, based in Nairobi, and
with the global HDX team.
Reporting Relationships: The consultant will report to the Lab Manager with oversight from the Statistician and Analytical Lead of the Humanitarian Data Exchange project who is based in New York.
Reporting Relationships: The consultant will report to the Lab Manager with oversight from the Statistician and Analytical Lead of the Humanitarian Data Exchange project who is based in New York.
Accountabilities
Within the limits of delegated authority, the consultant will be responsible for the following:
Within the limits of delegated authority, the consultant will be responsible for the following:
- Work with partner organizations to support
their data management processes.
- Advise partners on the use of data extraction
processes for their data systems; develop scripts and APIs for data
transferring when appropriate.
- Monitor the use of HDX by partners in the
region and undertake outreach to bring new organizations into the HDX
community.
- Ensure data freshness of region-specific data
in HDX
- Promote the use of shared data and
interoperability standards within partner spreadsheets and systems using
the Humanitarian Exchange Language (HXL).
- Manage and distribute standard reference data,
including taxonomies, code lists, and geodata.
- Clean the common operational datasets for
countries in the Eastern Africa region and move the cleaned files into the
HDX platform.
- Work with non-traditional data sources
(telcos, social media) to see what data can be used to inform humanitarian
decision making.
- Take part in HDX project team meetings as
required.
Deliverables
- Cleaned partner data and logical processes for
sharing data with HDX.
- Agreements with data providers for sharing
data with the HDX platform.
- Ongoing curation of data into the HDX
analytical database.
- Cleaned common operational datasets for
countries in the region.
- The use of HXL in partner spreadsheets or
systems.
Qualifications
Education: First level university degree in computer science, information management, information technology, or related field.
Experience: At least five years of professional work experience with managing data systems. Proven experience in database programming.
Education: First level university degree in computer science, information management, information technology, or related field.
Experience: At least five years of professional work experience with managing data systems. Proven experience in database programming.
Demonstrated experience in technical
communication. Experience with the following a plus: the Java and Python
programming languages, relational databases, the CKAN open-data portal.
Language: Fluency in English is required (both oral and written). Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.
Language: Fluency in English is required (both oral and written). Knowledge of another UN official language is an advantage.
Vacancy: Data Analyst Consultant-
Humanitarian Data Exchange, Data Lab
Duration: 3-6 months
Date of Entry: as soon as possible
Location: Nairobi, Kenya
Background: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has created a new humanitarian data platform – the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). The goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis.
Background: The United Nations Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) has created a new humanitarian data platform – the Humanitarian Data Exchange (HDX). The goal of HDX is to make humanitarian data easy to find and use for analysis.
The HDX platform
includes three technical components: a dataset repository for sharing data from
across the community; data visualization and analysis functionality to compare
indicators across countries and crises; and standards for the exchange of
humanitarian operational data (the Humanitarian Exchange Language or HXL). HDX
is being piloted in Colombia and Kenya in 2014.
As part of its roll out in Kenya, the
HDX team will be establishing a Data Lab in Nairobi.
The Data Lab will serve as a front
line, in-person service to the HDX platform and create a neutral, physical
space for humanitarian partners, government officials, technologists,
universities, and international stakeholders to collaborate on all things data.
Data services will include data
extraction, cleaning, storage, analysis and visualization.
The Lab will also provide the
opportunity to find new ways of working together on humanitarian data.
Nairobi was chosen as the initial location for a Data Lab because it is a regional setting that is often dealing with multiple emergencies.
We also want to explore the
relationship between data and resilience in a region that has persistent
drought and food insecurity.
As we get established, we hope to
benefit from the experience of local innovators involved in the local tech
scene.
The HDX Data Lab requires an
experienced Data Analyst to collaborate with data partners.
The consultant will be part of the
HDX Data Lab team that will include a Lab Manager and a Data Analyst.
The Data Lab team will be expected to
work closely with staff from the OCHA regional office, based in Nairobi, and
with the global HDX team.
Reporting Relationships: The consultant will report to the Lab Manager with oversight from the Statistician and Analytical Lead of the Humanitarian Data Exchange project who is based in New York.
Accountabilities
Reporting Relationships: The consultant will report to the Lab Manager with oversight from the Statistician and Analytical Lead of the Humanitarian Data Exchange project who is based in New York.
Accountabilities
- Within the limits of delegated authority, the
consultant will be responsible for the following:
- Work closely with staff from partner
organizations to prioritize business and information needs for the purpose
of conducting analysis.
- Organize, design and carry out the evaluation
and analysis of Eastern Africa-specific data sets through meaningful
statistical techniques.
- Understand, document, and ensure the quality
of high-value humanitarian data for accuracy, consistency and
comparability within Kenya and across the region, where applicable.
- Participate in the development, implementation,
and management of new indicators, together with its accompanying data, to
be included in a Common Humanitarian Dataset.
- Advise on methodologies for key humanitarian
indicators such as the ‘number of people affected’ and the ‘number of
people in need of assistance’ and their application and use in
humanitarian crises in Eastern Africa.
- Make recommendations, as needed, on the data
visualization and analytic functionality of local systems and their
relationship to the HDX platform.
- Develop ad hoc analysis on demand for partner
organizations.
- Take part in HDX project team meetings as
required.
Deliverables
- Clean and validated high-value datasets
produced by the humanitarian community.
- Data visualizations and analysis of regional
data, using both print and web technologies, conveying key insights for
use by partner organizations and within the HDX platform.
- Oversight and curation of data analytics for
the relevant pages (e.g. country, region, crisis, or topic) in the HDX
platform.
Qualifications
Education: A first level university degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science or related field is required.
Experience:
Education: A first level university degree in statistics, mathematics, economics, computer science or related field is required.
Experience:
- A minimum of five years of progressively
responsible experience in the collection, compilation, analysis and
dissemination of statistical data or related area.
- Proven experience of statistical software to
analyze and evaluate complex data is required (e.g. SPSS, SAS,
STATA).
- Knowledge of geographic (GIS) data, its
analytical procedures and software is a plus.
- Knowledge of statistical programming languages
(e.g. R, Python / NumPy) is a plus.
- Knowledge of web-development technologies is a
plus (e.g. JavaScript, HTML, CSS).
- Experience with humanitarian data and
indicators desirable.
Language: Fluency in English is required (both oral
and written).
Send CVs to Mark Slezak at slezak@un.org and Javier Teran at teran1@un.org with a copy to hdx@un.org.
Send CVs to Mark Slezak at slezak@un.org and Javier Teran at teran1@un.org with a copy to hdx@un.org.
