Data Analytics and Product Specialist Home-based (Open to tier 0, 1 and 2 candidates)

Tiered Approach

In line with the commitment to safeguard capacity and support personnel already in the Organization, a majority of UNDP UNCDF/UNV vacancies are advertised using a tiered application process whereby:

• Tier 0: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV IP staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments, whose posts will be abolished, or contracts will be terminated or not renewed during 2026.
• Tier 1: Other UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding permanent (PA) and fixed-term (FTA) appointments
• Tier 2: UNDP/UNCDF/UNV staff holding temporary appointments (TA), personnel on regular PSA contracts, and Expert and Specialist UN Volunteers
• Tier 3 or no tier indicated: All other contract types from UNDP/UNCDF/UNV and other agencies, and other external candidates

Please make note of the Tier(s) indicated in the vacancy title, if any, and ensure that you satisfy the eligibility to apply.

Background

Office/Unit/Project Description 

UNDP is the knowledge frontier organization for sustainable development in the UN Development System and serves as the integrator for collective action to realize the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). UNDP’s policy work carried out at HQ, Regional and Country Office levels, forms a contiguous spectrum of deep local knowledge to cutting-edge global perspectives and advocacy. In this context, UNDP invests in the Global Policy Network (GPN), a network of field-based and global technical expertise across a wide range of knowledge domains and in support of the signature solutions and organizational capabilities envisioned in the Strategic Plan. Within the GPN, the Crisis Bureau guides UNDP’s corporate crisis-related strategies and vision for crisis prevention, response and recovery.

One of the areas of responsibility of UNDP’s Crisis Bureau is to ensure that UNDP is well positioned to anticipate and to respond in the timeliest and most effective manner to crisis, primarily regarding sudden onset crises and complex protracted crises, triggered by disasters, armed conflicts, and health crises alike. 

The UNDP Crisis Bureau continues to enhance its data-driven analysis and prevention efforts through its Risk Anticipation Hub. The Risk Anticipation Hub has been further developed as the Crisis Risk Unit (CRU), which aims to advance UNDP’s value proposition by transforming developmental work through the application of a risk lens. This involves developing key services and products to support UNDP country offices and external audiences, particularly the UN Country Teams and governments, in their risk-informed decision-making, planning, and programming. Key products include the development and implementation of Crisis Risk Dashboards (CRDs), the Risk Anticipation Datahub (RAD), INFORM Warning and other initiatives designed to strengthen forward-looking approaches to crisis and fragility.  CRD is UNDP’s integrated, forward-looking risk analytics platform designed to support risk informed programming, while RAD is a public facing data platform that aggregates and visualizes multidimensional risk information to enhance anticipatory action and is scheduled for launch in early 2026.INFORM Warning will be an open system to aggregate and present quantified, multi-hazard information to support crisis preparedness and anticipatory action. It will present reliable, quantified, multi-hazard information that warns about risk trends, forecasts, scenarios and events that could lead to crisis impacts in the next 12 months and can be easily used to support decisions on preparedness and anticipatory action. looking risk analytics platform designed to support risk informed programming, while RAD is a public facing data platform that aggregates and visualizes multidimensional risk information to enhance anticipatory action and is scheduled for launch in early 2026

In this context, the Research, Analytics, Learning and Innovation Team (RALI) is seeking a Data Analytics and Product Specialist to support the organization's capacities in data science, analytics and visualization as key decision intelligence to inform time-critial programmatic and operational decisions. Specialist will be responsible for the following: 

Scope of Work 

1.          Lead technical product and project management of the data analytics platforms

• Revamping CRD as a Risk-Informed Programming Tool: Lead the transformation of Crisis Risk Dashboard (CRD), UNDP’s digital platform supported with data-backend to conduct risk analytics, into a dynamic, forward looking risk analytics and risk-informed programming tool.
• Management of CRD Architecture and Data Warehouse:  Oversee the architecture and management of the CRD and data warehouse; Ensure integration of diverse data so