Lead Statistician

• Conduct day-to-day activities while ensuring compliance to policies and procedures
• Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes in line with leading practices
• Establish working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders
• Collect feedback from internal stakeholders on issues being faced and other requirements
• Contribute to the preparation of progress reports directed to all relevant stakeholders to keep them informed of progress
• Support in the development of guidelines and methodologies to produce statistics in line with international best practices
• Support in feasibility studies and business cases development for relevant initiatives / projects
• Support in developing technical proposals for relevant initiatives / projects including detailed description of the proposed work, objectives and resources required
• Engage with concerned stakeholders to align on statistical requirements and expectations, and request clarifications as needed to develop plans accordingly
• Design variables to be collected, variables to be derived and / or collection methods in line with identified requirements and expectations
• Identify data needs and check necessary ICT resources (i.e., data storage, technology required to handle and process incoming data) as well as established agreements with concerned internal / external data providers for accessing and sharing data (i.e., formats, delivery, accompanying metadata and quality check)
• Support in the identification of optimal methods for input data classification and coding based on target objectives
• Support in data editing and imputation to finalize data files needed to enable downstream processes
• Oversee the derivation of new variables to ensure appropriate methods and order of derivations
• Review and validate calculated weights and aggregates to account for the desired representation of targeted output
• Support in mathematical and statistical analyses to draft statistical outputs, and conduct validation checks against general quality framework and expectations
• Support in finalizing statistical reports and adding visuals needed to convey statistical information
• Analyze and consolidate inputs into evaluation report or control dashboard to enable corrections and modifications throughout the process, and escalate unresolved issues
• Develop post-process evaluation reports highlighting issues and deviations of performance metrics from expected values

• 4+ years of experience in a Statistics field
• Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics / Statistics or equivalent is required
• Proficiency in Microsoft office
• Proficiency in English
• Focuses on Results and Quality
• Demonstrates Customer Centricity
• Displays Integrity and Professionalism
• Innovates and Demonstrates Agility

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