Project Assistant

Client of United Nation careers

Project Background The project aims at sustaining a time series of purchasing power parities and other real indicators to enable spatial comparisons of economies and enhance monitoring of SDGs, developing national capacities in the area of price statistics and data treatment, encouraging the application of best practices in national statistical work, and integrating spatial and temporal price indices for better national and regional comparative economic analysis. The project also includes the update of a comprehensive detailed PPP database and innovative tools which allow users to download, analyze and use the developed indicators in user-friendly ways. This project shall provide accessibility to online reliable, timely, comparable, consistent and accountable data for spatial and temporal comparisons of real economy sizes and other important indicators across the region.

Duties and responsibilities The incumbent shall: - Assist in compiling, processing and manipulating data sets derived from a variety of sources; - Assist in constructing price indices; - Assist in conducting hands-on training on HCPI and CPI compilation templates; - Assemble and examine original statistical material to ensure accuracy, clarity and validity, and make appropriate adjustments; - Assist in research and drafting papers, reports and presentations; - Assist in the administrative assistance and backstopping services in the organization of the upcoming regional workshops and trainings that are programmed within the above-captioned project; - Conduct research and undertake adhoc tasks in areas related to the project field; - Perform other duties as assigned.