Knowledge and Evidence Systems Consultant for East and Southern Africa

Leads UN Women's regional knowledge and evidence systems for East and Southern Africa, connecting research, data, learning and programme intelligence. The consultant will establish governance, repositories, dashboards and information architecture, improve the accessibility and reuse of gender evidence, and build country-office capacity to turn evidence into secure, practical insights for policy, programmes and accountability.

• Develop evidence governance and knowledge-management systems
• Maintain taxonomies, metadata standards and evidence catalogues
• Design repositories, databases and information architecture
• Develop dashboards, scorecards and automated reporting products
• Integrate data sources and establish quality-assurance procedures
• Build country-office capacity in evidence systems and digital platforms

• Master's degree in a relevant information, data, computer science or digital transformation field
• At least 5 years of experience managing information systems, databases, digital repositories or knowledge systems
• Experience developing business intelligence and dashboards using data-visualisation tools
• Fluency in English

• Experience programming with R or STATA
• Experience in gender equality, development, humanitarian, statistics, research or evidence programmes
• Experience with the UN system or international organisations
• Knowledge of another official UN language

• Knowledge Management
• Information Architecture
• Data Governance
• Dashboard Development
• Evidence Synthesis
• Capacity Building

• Power BI
• Tableau
• SQL
• KOBO Toolbox
• Excel
• SharePoint