Statistician

Job Posting: 09/Dec/2024

Closure Date: 06/Jan/2025, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit: ESS

Job Type: Staff position

Type of Requisition: Professional

Grade Level: P-2

Primary Location: Italy-Rome

Duration: Fixed-term: two years with possibility of extension

Post Number: 2009271

CCOG Code: 1M02

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- **FAO is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, background and culture**:

- **Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply**:

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- FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations._

The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agrifood systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a _better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind.

**Organizational Setting**

FAO’s commitment to environmental sustainability is integral to our strategic objectives and operations.

The Statistics Division (ESS) develops and advocates for the implementation of methodologies and standards for data collection, validation, processing and analysis, in the food and agriculture statistics domains. In these statistical domains, it also plays a key role in the compilation, processing and dissemination of internationally comparable data, and provides essential capacity building in support of Member Nations. The Division also disseminates publications, working papers and statistical yearbooks, that cover agriculture and food security statistics, including prices, investments, production, trade and agri-environmental statistical data. Finally, as the ESS Director also plays the role of FAO Chief Statistician, the Division supports the various functions of the Chief Statistician, that is to ensure stronger governance of FAO's data and statistical system, foster consistency of FAO's Data and Statistical programme within the Strategic Framework, ensure statistical excellence through the implementation of statistical standards and quality assurance mechanisms, and position FAO's presence in data and statistical discussions at global level.

The post is located in the Data and Statistics Coordination Team of ESS at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy. The Data and Statistics Coordination Team supports the governance and coordination of FAO’s data and statistical activities, both within FAO and within the broader international data and statistical community. It oversees the planning, monitoring and reporting on FAO data and statistical programme of work and more generally supports the monitoring of FAO’s corporate results. It coordinates FAO’s role as custodian agency for 21 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators. Finally, it acts as focal points for any queries on intellectual property matters concerning FAO databases.

**Reporting Lines**
The Statistician reports to a Senior Statistician in ESS, under the general supervision of the Director ESS.

**Technical Focus**
The incumbent will be responsible for providing technical support to the governance, coordination, planning, monitoring and reporting of data and statistical activities at corporate level, in particular in the area of SDG monitoring, and to the design and monitoring of FAO results framework.

**Key Results**
Collection, analysis and review of information, data and statistics and project/meeting services to support programme products, projects, publications and services.

**Key Functions**
- Participates in the development of improved and/or updated technical, statistical and/or analytical tools, systems, databases; participates in the collection, review, processing and/or analysis of key social/economic/environmental indicators, based on both traditional statistical methods/sources or on unstructured sources and data science methods, to support the delivery of economic and social development programmes of work, which can be focused on products, projects, publications or services.
- Participates in the design and conducts research, data collection, validation, analysis and/or reporting in support of the development of technical standards, international instruments, innovative tools and met