Summary

We seek a product and data analyst who can work with a diverse, global, and interdisciplinary team to help us improve and scale our products and processes through their critical data analysis. You´d be the caretaker of Giga´s main datasets, the one taking care of their quality and integrity. This would mean creating automated reports and alerting systems, using existing open-source tools to analyze different datasets, setting, and managing data quality benchmarks, and supporting the engineering team with writing high quality data pipelines.

Your main responsibilities will be…

• Create automated reports to track and analyze Giga’s progress in mapping schools, their connectivity, and the infrastructure available to them.
• Analyze real-time school internet Quality of Service (QoS) data from different sources, including Internet Service Provider (ISP) data through APIs as well as data obtained directly from schools through Giga’s desktop application and browser extension (www.projectconnect.world).
• Setup product and user analytics and suggest product and process improvements and contribute directly to the efforts in mapping schools and their connectivity across the globe.
• Be the data quality expert within the team and support data engineers to write robust data quality checks across data pipelines and workflows.
• Lead the process of data documentation and metadata management within the data and tech team.

Please click here to access the full TOR and related information.

To qualify for this position, you will have…

• An academic degree in Statistics, Data Analytics, Computer Science or equivalent work experience.
• A minimum of five (5) years of relevant professional experience in data and products analytics
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience in open-source analytical stack Superset, Metabase, PostgreSQL DB, Apache Airflow.
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience with SQL and python or R
• A minimum of three (3) years of experience in data governance best practices and toolkit like Datahub, Deltalake, Great expectations.
• Knowledge of computer networks and understanding how ISP (Internet Service Providers) work is an asset
• Experienced and comfortable with remote team dynamics, process, and tools (Slack, Zoom, etc.)
• Near obsession with quality, accuracy and actionable data insights for product and process improvements.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency conditions is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

Payment details and further considerations

• Payment of professional fees will be based on the submission of agreed deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.   
• Consultant is responsible for his/her own health and travel insurance.
• Consultant is responsible to arrange his/her own travel, including visa.

How to apply

• Interest applicant is required to submit a financial proposal with all-inclusive fee. 
• Financial proposal must include travel costs (economy class) and daily subsistence allowance, if travel is required as per TOR and any other estimated costs: visa, travel/health insurance. 

Applications without a financial proposal will not be considered. Please find attached the financial proposal template.

About Our Team

We are a fast-paced, multi-disciplinary team of software engineers, finance specialists, data scientists, policy experts, and much more. Our team is a distributed workforce and plans to remain distributed into the foreseeable future. We are growing fast. Our team has grown by over 400% in the last 6 months as we rapidly scale to meet our stated mission.