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Data SpecialistNew

Position:Professional | NO-CDeadline:11 Sep 2026 (13 days left)Job ID:283000Posted on:27 Aug 2026 (2 days ago)
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Job Description

The UN Resident Coordinator Office seeks a Data Specialist in Maputo to strengthen data-driven coordination of the Cooperation Framework. The role builds databases, collection systems and analytics; produces dashboards, reports and visualisations; improves data quality and flows; leads data products and capacity building; and supports monitoring, evaluation and learning with national.

Key Details

Department

Resident Coordinator Office

Position Details

Experience level

Senior

Minimum experience

5 years

Arrangement

Onsite

Minimum education

Bachelor's degree

Language Requirements

Required

English, Portuguese

Summary of Responsibilities

  • Develop databases, data-collection systems and analytics strategies
  • Identify and interpret trends in structured and unstructured data using statistical methods
  • Develop reporting and quality-control capabilities and identify data sources
  • Create dashboards and data visualisations for management decision-making
  • Collaborate with data engineers and scientists to improve data flows and quality
  • Deliver data-analytics training and support the monitoring, evaluation and learning cycle

Role Requirements

  • Advanced university degree in a relevant data, computing, statistics, information-management, economic or social-science field, or first-level degree with two additional years of experience
  • At least five years of experience translating business requirements into technical solutions
  • Demonstrated data storytelling and visualisation skills using Tableau, Power BI, Qlik or R
  • Demonstrated quality assurance of data-analysis outputs
  • English and Portuguese are required

Desired Criteria

  • Data validation experience
  • Development-cooperation research, knowledge-management or programme-management experience

Skills

Tools and Technologies

Source & verification

IGO Jobs sourced this vacancy from UN RCS Careers, on 27 Aug 2026.