Programme and Data Analyst

UNDP through its Sustainable Energy Hub (SEH) is designed to respond to these challenges and to harness networks, experience, and innovation. UNDP will focus on three pillars to guide its “Sustainable Energy for Development” pathway:

Close the gap on energy access so that marginalized people and communities gain access to sustainable, clean, energy and the dignity and opportunities it brings.

• Accelerate the energy transition through system-changes that support a green recovery and improves the efficiency by bringing together the best ideas from the worlds of government, business, finance, digital, and most importantly from people, communities, and civil societies.
• Increase energy resilience in crisis and fragile contexts to communities affected by conflict and crises to help them meet basic needs in the short-term and build back better in the long-term.
• The Sustainable Energy Hub is a platform to bring together and catalyze UNDP’s work on energy for development. The Hub is a network of partners that work alongside countries to transform energy systems through an integrated agenda focused on the policy, technology and financial shifts that shape sustainable economic development. It helps countries build a net-zero society that puts people first and is driven by a just, sustainable energy transition that leaves no one behind.
• The Sustainable Energy Hub focuses on five integrated lines of service, each of them offering viable entry points for additional partners to engage in these efforts. One of these lines of service is ‘Data Analytics and Digital and Exponential Technologies’. This workstream aims to orient our programming to be more innovative through new digital and innovative tools that can enhance project planning, preparation and results tracking, as well as implement the digital principles in the UNDP Digital Strategy 2022-2025 to catalyze inclusion and safeguards in a systemic approach to digital, data, and innovation in the context of sustainable energy.

Scope of Work 

• Under the supervision of the Director of the Sustainable Energy Hub, the Analyst will be responsible for the following activities under the SEH current initiatives:

Thought Leadership

• Coordinate the development of several knowledge products include papers on AI in energy, Hydrogen for Development, Debt and Energy, Sustainable Transport, and other thought leadership;
• Contribute to the drafting of the Sustainable Energy Hub bulletin including standard editions and Several special edition bulletins aligned with key thematics. Each bulletin also is accompanied by a social media campaign of videos and written content, which the consultant will be coordinating and reviewing;
• Facilitate regional strategies editing and design to develop published reports and media content for each of the five UNDP regional bureaus and SIDS
• Develop strategic documents on how to leverage digital technologies and innovation to inform and leverage UNDP’s policy and programming support – including opportunities to utilise digital, data, technology, and high-tech and low-cost innovation in the context of sustainable energy.

Energy Youth Program

• Facilitate the design and launch of a youth program supporting global youth through capacity-building, research at regional,
• Coordinate a youth needs assessment and a report developed to analyze gaps and opportuinties to support youth in their professional, academic, and entrepreneurial goals in the just energy transition
• Lead a pilot of the Sustainable Energy Academy with the network involved in the youth program, and support youth leading trainings in their communities and universities
• Energy AI
• Lead project management for the Energy AI tool including developing workplans, system architectures, design, concept notes, and coordinating deliverables;
• Coordinate updates to the AI model through the development of an LLM fine-tuned on UNDP data and energy reports, and integrated data processing modules for the synthesis AI approach;
• Support cuation of database and development of data pipeline for ingesting and cleaning documents to create vectorized text database;
• Sustainable Energy Academy (SEA)
• Contribute to the development and review process for the 12 the modules of the SEA through developing workplans, reviewing module outlines and drafts;
• Lead the project management for the visual studio working on production and mastering of the video content for the SEA course;
• Launch pilots of the SEA with country offices and regional partners, including a first phase with the first 4 modules and a later phase with the full set of 12 modules.

Data Science

• Lead the development of the web tools for access and visualization of energy data and documents for the Sustainable Energy Knowledge Platform (SEKP);
• Provide data analytic support for the development of energy reporting and regional strategic documents;
• Facilitate the development of an analysis of entry points for using UNDP and IBM geospatial products to advance national and regional energy modeling tools
• Refine the data and analytics on the Energy Moonshot Tracker with detailed disaggregated outputs on the UNDP portfolio of energy-related project

Communications and Social Media

• Conduct data analytics to support the SEH narrative and analyze progress towards energy targets;
• Facilitate the communications effort of the SEH through drafting, copyediting, and graphic design;
• Provide ad-hoc strategic communications support to the Director of the Sustainable Energy Hub.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Institutional Arrangement

• The Analyst will work from his/her home base;
• The Analyst will report to, and be directly supervised by, the Director of the Sustainable Energy Hub;
• The Analyst will be given access to relevant information necessary for the execution of the tasks under this assignment;
• The Analyst will be responsible for providing her/his own work station (i.e. laptop, internet, phone, scanner/printer, etc.) and must have access to reliable internet connection;
• Given the global consultations to be undertaken during this assignment, the Analystis expected to be reasonably flexible with his/her availability for such consultations taking into consideration different time zones.

Qualifications

Min. Education requirements   

• Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent)  in International Relations/Affairs, International Development, Innovation, Data Science, Economics, Political Science or related fields. or
• A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas mentioned above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree

Min. years of relevant work experience 

• Minimum of 2 years (with masters degree) or 4 years (with bachelors degree)  of experience in international development, data science or related fields.

Required skills 

• Relevant project management experience leading development teams for online data platforms;
• Experience in innovative use of technology for development, particularly in the area of sustainable energy;
• Practical knowledge/experience in one or more of these fields (Javascript, D3, HTML, CSS, Python, and experience in PostgreSQL, PostGIS, Azure);
• Experience in implementing machine learning architectures;
• Design experience in user interface design and human-computer interaction; Adobe Creative Suite
• Experience in working with cloud computing services and server-side architectures;
• Experience with GIS software such as QGIS, or ArcGIS, or ESRI;
• Experience in conducting data science research in international development or related field;
• Experience in communications and social media skills to translate technical concepts for decision-makers.
• Desired skills in addition to the competences covered in the Competencies section
• Prior work experience at, or familiarity with, the work of UNDP and/or other UN agencies;
• Experience and knowledge of latest international development issues in UNDP’s areas of work (e.g., poverty reduction, democratic governance, human rights, environment and natural resources management, climate change, blue economy disaster risk reduction and resilience, gender equality and women’s empowerment);
• Copy-editing experience.

Required Language(s)   

• Fluent in written and spoken English is required.

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