DoA reserved for persons with disabilities: No
Host entity: UNDP
Type: Onsite
Duration: 12 months
Number of assignments: 1
Duty stations: Dar es Salaam
Details
Mission and objectives
UNDP is the UN’s global development network whose focus is to help countries build and share solutions to the challenges of sustainable development as informed by the 2030 sustainable development agenda. The overall focus for UNDP Tanzania is to support the Government of Tanzania to improve lives of the people through strategic programmatic areas of Inclusive Democratic Governance, Inclusive Economic Growth and Sustainable Livelihoods and Environment Sustainability, Climate Change and Resilience.
Context
The overall focus for UNDP Tanzania is to support the government to improve the lives of all Tanzanians through the strategic programmatic areas of inclusive democratic governance, inclusive economic growth, sustainable livelihoods, environmental sustainability and resilience. UNDP’s Tanzania Country Office (CO) supports the government of Tanzania to realize its development agenda through the implementation of five-year Country Programme Documents (CPDs). The CO is formulating a new CPD whose central theme is transformation for sustainable development. To support the implementation of the new CPD, the CO is establishing a new innovative policy research and advocacy unit, which will be led by the CO’s senior economics advisor, with responsibility for positioning UNDP as a center of influence for innovative, strategic, and transformative policy advice and solutions among government stakeholders and the development community in Tanzania. The CO is seeking to hire an experienced economic research assistant to support the analytics and policy advocacy unit in delivering this mandate.
Task description
Under the supervision and guidance of the senior economics advisor the research assistant will be expected to undertake the following duties: 1. Provide research support including data collection and analysis, literature reviews, fact checking and quality assurance on the unit’s and CO’s analytical and knowledge products. 2. Organize and manage the outreach, dissemination and advocacy for the CO’s knowledge products with wide-ranging audiences including the UN Country Team, central and local government authorities and development partners. 3. Draft blogs, summaries and social media posts on key policy findings of the CO’s research outputs. 4. Assist in designing an e-library to house the CO’s research products and other publications relevant to Tanzania’s development. 5. Attend internal and external meetings and events as required. 6. Undertake training courses focused on building research and professional skills as required. 7. Assist the senior economics advisor in other research-related activities (including drafting sections of analytical reports, briefing notes/talking points for senior management and minutes of meetings) as required.
Eligibility criteria
Age: 27 - 80
Nationality: Candidate must be a national or legal resident of the country of assignment.
Requirements
Required experience
3 years of experience in conducting economic research is essential. Familiarity with MS Office applications – especially their data visualization and analytics functions – is essential. Experience with econometrics, statistics or data science is required. Experience with statistical packages such as R or EVIEWS is an asset. Knowledge of database management is desirable. Experience collaborating and working in teams, exchanging information and ideas with others to reach common goals and making a substantial contribution to the team's outputs. Practical experience working on African economic development issues is an asset.
Area(s) of expertise
Economics and finance
Driving license
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Languages
English, Level: Fluent, Desirable
Required education level
Bachelor degree or equivalent in economics is required. Master’s degree in economics, development studies, public policy or a related field is highly desirable.
Competencies and values
Integrity, Team work, Communication
Other information
Living conditions and remarks
Dar es Salaam is Tanzania's most important city for both business and government. The city contains high concentrations of trade and other services and manufacturing compared to other parts of Tanzania, which has about 80 percent of its population in rural areas. Downtown includes many small businesses, many of which are run by traders and proprietors whose families originated from the Middle East and Indian sub-continent areas of the world with which the settlements of the Tanzanian coast have had long-standing trading relations.
Inclusivity statement
United Nations Volunteers is an equal opportunity programme that welcomes applications from qualified professionals. We are committed to achieving diversity in terms of gender, care protected characteristics. As part of their adherence to the values of UNV, all UN Volunteers commit themselves to combat any form of discrimination, and to promoting respect for human rights and individual dignity, without distinction of a person’s race, sex, gender identity, religion, nationality, ethnic origin, sexual orientation, disability, pregnancy, age, language, social origin or other status.
Note on Covid-19 vaccination requirements
Selected candidates for certain occupational groups may be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) in line with the applicable host entity policy
