Web scraping Specialist Consultant

Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)

JOB DESCRIPTION

Results of Service
Coordinate the event and implementation of a capability improvement programme for taking part Nationwide Statistical Workplaces to utilise net scraping for CPI manufacturing. Particularly, the incumbent will: • Lead the event and implementation of a capability improvement programme on net scraping for CPI, incorporating distant and in-person studying and mentoring, with enter from the online scraping capability constructing coordinator and different mission crew members. • Work with the coordinator to determine potential coaching useful resource individuals/mentors from numerous NSOs, notably from NSOs within the Asia-Pacific area to contribute to the supply of the programme. • As a part of this programme, lead the event of and act as lead facilitator for a number of in-person coaching workshop that builds on the distant periods with a selected deal with the practicalities of integrating net scraped knowledge into shopper value statistics. • Present distant mentorship to a sub-set of nations on net scraping instruments and strategies referring to shopper value indices and supply assist to different mentors as mandatory. • With enter from the online scraping capability constructing coordinator, draft a report on the actions, outcomes and classes from the capability improvement actions. • Lead the drafting of a data product for publication, specializing in greatest practices on net scraping and shopper value indices and their software in Asia and the Pacific.
Work Location
Residence-based with journey to Bangkok
Anticipated length
9 months
Duties and Tasks
ESCAP works to enhance the standard of official statistics and the usage of knowledge for decision-making in Asia and the Pacific. Related, well timed and correct statistics are key to offering coverage decision-makers with the proof they should make knowledgeable selections. High quality statistics present determination makers with proof, inform people of their rights and tasks, and provides native communities a voice to affect coverage and talk coverage impacts. By the improved use of information and statistics, ESCAP allows stakeholders to construct inclusive, sustainable and resilient societies. ESCAP helps nationwide statistical techniques with financial, setting and social statistics and accounting following the imaginative and prescient and precedence areas set out by Governments within the area. Additional, ESCAP continues to cater to the evolving wants of the statistical neighborhood and has positioned emphasis on that includes massive knowledge for official statistics in its work. The ESCAP Committee on Statistics determined at its seventh Session to “characteristic massive knowledge for official statistics in its future work, with an emphasis on sharing nation analysis, experiences and good practices and facilitating capability improvement”. Following this determination, ESCAP launched the mission “The 2030 Knowledge Decade – Strengthening the institutional capability of nationwide statistical workplaces in Asia and the Pacific to make use of modern, new and massive knowledge sources for official statistics in assist of the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Growth”, funded by the by the UN Peace and Growth Belief Fund. The mission is being applied by the Statistics Division of ESCAP between April 2023 – December 2024. The mission includes a vary of actions to assist construct the institutional capability of nationwide statistical workplaces of nations within the Asia-Pacific area in the usage of modern, new and massive knowledge sources for official statistics. The mission is utilizing a partnership-based method to supply, enlisting world, regional, and nationwide companions to make sure profitable implementation and sustainability. The work contains in-depth in-country assist for 4 goal nations, the event of information merchandise, and capacity-building actions for a broader group of twenty beneficiary nations on precedence purposes of huge knowledge. ESCAP Statistics Division seeks the companies of guide to behave as an online scraping specialist. The guide might be a member of the mission implementation crew, with accountability for growing and implementing capacity-development actions for beneficiary nations within the subject of net scraping for CPI statistics. Extra particularly, the guide will work with the online scraping capability constructing coordinator to design and implement a programme of assist for members of the 20 beneficiary nations who’ve recognized this as a precedence space, in collaboration with the broader mission crew inside ESCAP Statistics Division. Core actions of the project will contain growing and working distant on-line coaching periods, mentoring, and facilitating an in-person coaching workshop on the subject.
{Qualifications}/particular expertise
Diploma in statistics, arithmetic, economics, or in a associated subject is required. • A minimal of seven (7) years of expertise within the assortment, compilation, evaluation and dissemination of official statistical knowledge, with a selected deal with value statistics is required. • Information and expertise of making use of strategies, purposes and applications for utilizing different knowledge sources for value statistics is required. • Expertise with statistical programming, in languages corresponding to Python, SQL, Visible Primary and R is required. • Expertise working with a number of Nationwide Statistical Techniques inside the ESCAP area or worldwide/subregional organisations on statistical work inside Asia-Pacific could be an asset.
Languages
For this place, fluency in English together with glorious drafting expertise is required.
Extra Data
Not obtainable.
No Payment
THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.


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