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Job Type: Non-staff opportunities
Type of Requisition: Consultant / PSA (Personal Services Agreement)
Grade Level: N/A
Primary Location: Italy-Rome
Duration: Up to 11 months
Post Number: N/A
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Organizational Setting
The Food and Agriculture Organization is the specialized Agency of the United Nations leading international efforts to defeat hunger. FAO works in over 130 countries worldwide to achieve food security for all and make sure that people have regular access to high-quality food.
The Digitalization and Informatics Division (CSI) is responsible for all IT activities within the Organization. CSI performs the following critical roles: defining FAO IT policies and providing strategic advice on IT architecture and standards, governance, policy and operational matters while monitoring organizational compliance; defining the mechanisms for managing FAO’s information and data; protecting FAO’s information assets and ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability; ensuring provision of IT services that are core for the Organization’s global operations and supporting the information and business processes; coordinating organization-wide IT activities in order to reduce duplication and fragmentation and to increase integration of information data, systems and platforms, mobilizing IT resources from across the Organization.
Reporting Lines
The FDP Data Specialist will work in CSI’s Digital Public Goods team, which has an overall responsibility for digital strategy, governance and capacity building in Digital Public Goods and related technologies to support FAO’s field programme delivery.
Technical Focus
Data Management, Data Visualization, Data Analysis
Tasks and responsibilities
The Data Specialist will lead data and information management activities in support of the ongoing maintenance and evolution of the FAO Digital Portfolio (FDP). The FDP provides global insights and a growing catalogue of over 400 digital products to trigger programmatic and strategic approaches to the Organization’s Field Programme investments.
He or she is expected to lead the following:
CANDIDATES WILL BE ASSESSED AGAINST THE FOLLOWING
Minimum Requirements
For Consultants:
For PSAs:
FAO Core Competencies
Please note that all candidates should adhere to FAO Values of Commitment to FAO, Respect for All and Integrity and Transparency
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations is a specialized agency of the United Nations that leads international efforts to defeat hunger and improve nutrition and food security. Its Latin motto, fiat panis, translates to "let there be bread". It was founded on 16 October 1945.