UNDP Jobs - 79952- Local Consultant for Statistical Office of Montene

Local Consultant for Statistical Office of Montenegro (MONSTAT) - two positions

Location :

Podgorica, MONTENEGRO

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

03-Sep-2018

Application Deadline :

03-Aug-18 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

National Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

3 September 2018 - 31 May 2020

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

21 months

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

One of the goals of the Statistics Development Strategy 2014-2018 refers to the greater use of administrative resources in order to reduce costs and burden of reporting units. With respect to this, the Statistical Office of Montenegro has significantly increased the use of administrative resources for the production of statistical data in different domains in the previous period. However, there is still space to increase the use of administrative data.

Before moving on to usage of the administrative data, each potential source of data must be analysed and checked in terms of the contents, definition, as well as completeness of the data in the registry itself. In this way, the quality of registers and the ability to use them for the production of official statistics are assessed. If the quality of a register is not satisfactory, a register holder will indicate noted deficiencies and is expected to undertake activities with the aim of improving its content. If the quality of a register is satisfactory, decision will be made to use it for statistical purposes and a trial investigation is carried out to test the data processing methodology.

Duties and Responsibilities

Objectives of the assignment:

The objective of the assignment is to support the Monstat to be able to use more efficiently administrative data across various institutions by hiring two local consultants through the following activities:

Quality assurance of the contents of registers from the perspective of the needs of official statistics.

Conduct a control of the content of the variables of all registers used by the Statistical Office of Montenegro as administrative sources. This will ensure a clear definition of the legislation and subordinate legislation governing the content of each specific register on one side, while ensuring full compliance of variables contained in registers with statistical needs, on the other. These activities will ensure identification of a proposal for improving existing legislation in a sense to satisfy statistical needs for the production of official statistics using administrative sources.

Quality assurance of filling in the registers from the perspective of the needs of official statistics.

Conduct a coverage analysis of each register variable. Namely, specific variables that exist in the registers have a low percentage of availability i.e. a large number of unknown phenomena, which, given the statistical aspect, are considered inaccurate, cannot be used in statistical production and is considered unavailable. By indicating lack of availability of existing variables in the specific register, the quality of data and the quality of the statistical product would be significantly improved when the data from the administrative registers are used.

Job content:

Under the supervision of the UNDP Project Manager and Director of Monstat, local consultants will perform the following tasks:

Maintain active communication and close cooperation with Monstat colleagues;
Maintain active communication with owners of the administrative registers;
Conduct practical work on the control of the content and coverage of the register variables;
Prepare data and other relevant input (requested from the expert or Monstat staff) for the preparation of two analysis on: (i) content of the variables of seven chosen registers and (ii) coverage within these seven registers used by the Statistical Office;
Prepare final report on the achieved results;
Prepare monthly progress reports;
Perform other relevant tasks upon request of the UNDP Project Manager and Director of Monstat.

Expected results:

Data and other relevant input (requested from the expert or Monstat staff) for the preparation of two analysis on: (i) content of the variables of seven chosen registers used by the Statistical Office and (ii) coverage within these seven registers;
Final report on the achieved results.

Timing and reporting: The local consultants will work under direct supervision of UNDP Project Manager and Director General of Monstat. They will be obliged to provide monthly reports on the respective deliverables during the assignment.

Time duration and travel: The local consultants will be engaged in the period from 3rd September 2018 until 30th June 2020. The consultants will be placed at Monstat premises and work during the Monstat working hours.

Competencies

Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
Promotes the vision, mission and strategic goals of UN/UNDP/Monstat;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability;
Ability to lead strategic planning, results-based management and reporting;
Builds strong relationships with clients, focuses on impact and result for the client and responds positively to feedback;
Consistently approaches work with energy and a positive, constructive attitude;
Excellent communication skills, facility in working with teams and capacity to compose clear and readable narrative reports;
Demonstrates ability to manage complexities and work under pressure, as well as conflict resolution skills.
Excellent organizational and time management skills.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

University degree, in statistics or economics or a sector relevant for implementation of this contract;

Experience:

Minimum two years of working experience in the relevant field;

Language:

Excellent command of spoken and written English language;

Other:

Academic orientation towards policy planning would be considered as an asset;
Computer literacy – Microsoft office
Database development, sql, vb.net, metadata, statistical data processing, web services, XML is considered an advantage;

Criteria for selection:

Combined Scoring method will be used. When using this weighted scoring method, the award of the contract should be made to the inidividual consultant whose offer has been evaluated and determined as: (i) responsive, compliant, acceptable, and (ii) having received the highest score out of a pre-determined set of weighted technical and financial criteria specific to the solicitation.

Technical criteria weight - 70% (Background and education 10%; Relevant previous experience 20%; Substantial knowledge/Required competencies 30%; Required language 10%);
Financial criteria weight - 30%.

Only offerors obtaining a minimum 490 points for technical criteria will be considered for the financial evaluation. For more information on procurement methodology for Individual Contractors, please refer to Procurement Notice.

Application procedure:

Interested applicants are requested to submit their applications by July 24, 2018 by using the Apply now button. The application should contain a duly completed Personal History Form (P11) that can be downloaded from http://www.me.undp.org/content/montenegro/en/home/operations/jobs.html. Please note that UNDP jobsite system allows only one uploading of application document, so please make sure that you merge all your documents into a single file.

Only the short-listed applicants will be contacted and requested to submit a letter of interest including a price quotation indicating the lump sum (in EUR) requested for the work envisaged in the section "Description of Responsibilities".