Data Management Specialist Verified listing

At FAO Pakistan Office, FAO, with funding from the Green Climate Fund, is implementing a project called Transforming the Indus Basin with Climate Resilient Agriculture and Water Management in Punjab and Sindh Provinces (GCP /PAK/146/GCF). The project aims to develop the country’s capacity to get and use the information it needs to cope with the impacts of climate change on agriculture and water management. Detailed project activities can be found from the approved funding proposal available on the Green Climate Fund’s website: (https://www.greenclimate.fund/document/transforming-indus-basin-climate-resilient-agriculture-and-water-management).

The project will develop the country’s capacity to get and use the information it needs to cope with the impacts of climate change on agriculture and water management by putting in place state-of-the art technology (Component 1); building farmers resilience to climate change through skills, knowledge and technology (Component 2), and creating a wider enabling environment for continuous adaptation and expanded sustainable uptake of climate-resilient approaches (Component 3). The project has a large volume of data of budget, expenditure, beneficiaries, contracts, and capacity building, and they are currently fragmented in different computers and files. The data management specialist will work on development of budget-related Excel sheets, a database of project information and analysis of the data for planning and reporting of the project

Tasks and responsibilities

• Gather various data in relation to the project in a central folder/server, including data on budget, expenditures, the project beneficiary and stakeholder, training records and materials, travel records, communication records with partners, links to project developed software/tools, reports to donors, plans developed for various purposes.

• Maintain a database where project staff can search for the data mentioned above.

• During project planning activities, prepare the budget sheets and summary of budgets to be shared with stakeholders.

• Extract relevant data and analyse when the supervisor needs such information for reporting purpose.

• Provide capacity building to project staff on the use of the database, and assist project staff on the use of the database when needed

• Develop the final report describing the achieved tasks, challenges and recommendations to the project on data management.

• The specialist may also provide support for the other tasks of the project and FAO Pakistan’s projects/programs other than the above-mentioned project.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in data science, statistics or data management or closely related field

• Minimum 1 year experience in working for a development sector in the area related to data management

• Experience in data management tools/software

• Working knowledge (level C) of English

Technical/Functional Skills

• Experience in handling project data at the UN organization is strongly desired

• Experience in writing reports collecting, analyzing and presenting project data is strongly desired