Lead Statistician

**Responsibilities**
- Conduct day-to-day activities while ensuring compliance to policies and procedures
- Contribute to the identification of opportunities for continuous improvement of systems, processes in line with leading practices
- Establish working relationships with relevant internal stakeholders
- Collect feedback from internal stakeholders on issues being faced and other requirements
- Contribute to the preparation of progress reports directed to all relevant stakeholders to keep them informed of progress
- Support in the development of guidelines and methodologies to produce statistics in line with international best practices
- Support in feasibility studies and business cases development for relevant initiatives / projects
- Support in developing technical proposals for relevant initiatives / projects including detailed description of the proposed work, objectives and resources required
- Engage with concerned stakeholders to align on statistical requirements and expectations, and request clarifications as needed to develop plans accordingly
- Design variables to be collected, variables to be derived and / or collection methods in line with identified requirements and expectations
- Identify data needs and check necessary ICT resources (i.e., data storage, technology required to handle and process incoming data) as well as established agreements with concerned internal / external data providers for accessing and sharing data (i.e., formats, delivery, accompanying metadata and quality check)
- Support in the identification of optimal methods for input data classification and coding based on target objectives
- Support in data editing and imputation to finalize data files needed to enable downstream processes
- Oversee the derivation of new variables to ensure appropriate methods and order of derivations
- Review and validate calculated weights and aggregates to account for the desired representation of targeted output
- Support in mathematical and statistical analyses to draft statistical outputs, and conduct validation checks against general quality framework and expectations
- Support in finalizing statistical reports and adding visuals needed to convey statistical information
- Analyze and consolidate inputs into evaluation report or control dashboard to enable corrections and modifications throughout the process, and escalate unresolved issues
- Develop post-process evaluation reports highlighting issues and deviations of performance metrics from expected values

**Qualifications**
- 4+ years of experience in a Statistics field
- Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics / Statistics or equivalent is required
- Proficiency in Microsoft office
- Proficiency in English
- Focuses on Results and Quality
- Demonstrates Customer Centricity
- Displays Integrity and Professionalism
- Innovates and Demonstrates Agility