Organization: UNECA – United Nations Economic Commission for Africa
Location: Addis Ababa
Grade: Consultancy – International Consultant – Internationally recruited Contractors Agreement
Occupational Groups:
Statistics
Population matters (trends and census)
Scientist and Researcher
Closing Date:
Result of Service
• Programme of work and resource materials including presentations to be presented at the regional webinar. • Regional webinars and outcome report of the webinar. The report should highlight innovative country practices shared at the webinar in line with the theme of the programme. • Readiness and quality assessment tool kit for implementation of administrative population registers • Country case studies (2-3) on the process and requirements of constructing population registers.
Work Location
home based
Expected duration
The successful Consultant will be recruited for a period of 6 months from the date of Contract of Service; and will be paid after submission of a monthly activity report and deliverables agreed on the Consultant work plan.
Duties and Responsibilities
Under the general supervision of the Chief of the Demographic and Social Statistics Section, African Center for Statistics and the direct supervision of the Statistician of the Section the; Successful Consultant will have the following list of duties and responsibilities: 1. Work with relevant staff at ECA (and other partners) to develop a programme of work and resource materials to be presented at the regional webinars to share experiences on the use of Administrative Registers for Population and Housing Censuses. Identify relevant countries that can present at the webinars and provide them with relevant guidance. 2. Support organisation and delivery of regional webinars to share experiences on the use of Administrative Registers for Population and Housing Censuses. Prepare a report documenting the key outcomes of the webinars including key recommendations for countries and partners. 3. Work with selected countries (2-3) to support documentation of country case studies on the process and requirements of constructing population registers used for administrative purposes and how to improve it for producing population statistics. 4. Develop an assessment tool kit including checklist for implementation of population registers. The tool kit is aimed at assisting countries seeking to develop administrative population registers to evaluate their readiness and understand the necessary preconditions to have in place before embarking on them and those with population registers to assess their status and quality including their potential use for censuses.
Qualifications/special skills
Postgraduate degree in statistics, demography or related fields. Training in demographic data sources like censuses, civil registration, demographic surveillance systems and population registers will be essential.
Languages
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this consultancy assignment, fluency in English IS REQUIRED. Knowledge of the other is an advantage. Knowledge of another UN Language is an advantage
No Fee
THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.