Deputy Director, Statistics Division, Ess - Roma, Italia - FAO

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Descrizione

Job Posting: 18/Mar/2024

Closure Date: 15/Apr/2024, 4:59:00 PM

Organizational Unit:
Statistics Division, ESS

Job Type:
Staff position

Type of Requisition:
Senior-level

Grade Level:
D-1

Primary Location:
Italy-Rome

Duration:
Fixed term: two years with possibility of extension

Post Number:
CCOG Code: 1M02

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Qualified female applicants, qualified nationals of non-and under-represented Members and persons with disabilities are encouraged to apply:

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The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) contributes to the achievement of the 2030 Agenda through the FAO Strategic Framework by supporting the transformation to MORE efficient, inclusive, resilient and sustainable agri-food systems, for _better production_, _better nutrition_, _a_ _better environment,_ and _a better life_, leaving no one behind.

Organizational Setting

The Statistics Division (ESS) provides timely and reliable data on food and agriculture to facilitate the design and monitoring of evidence-based policy decisions by Member Nations, as well as serves as the foremost authoritative source of statistical standards and methods in agricultural and food statistics.

The Division aims to build statistical capacity at national, regional and international institutions to enhance their ability to collect, analyse and disseminate agriculture and food statistics, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) indicators.

At the same time, the Statistics Division has the role to coordinate FAO's data and statistical system which is composed of different Centres, Offices and Divisions that produce and disseminate data and statistics in FAO.

As such, ESS is responsible for the development, coordination and monitoring of corporate plans, procedures, policies and standards, as well as the management of the corporate processes of quality assurance of the data and statistics produced in FAO.

In correspondence with this, the Director of the Statistics Division also has the role of Chief Statistician of the Organization.

ESS is organized in two Groups or streams of work.

The Data Group is responsible for the functions of production of statistics that are relevant for FAO and the function of capacity development/technical assistance to Members on data generation.

The Governance and Quality Group is responsible for the functions of coordination of FAO's data and statistical system and quality assurance.

It is also responsible for fostering modernization and innovation of corporate data and statistical processes and for the corporate dissemination of data and statistics.

It also manages the coordination between FAO statistics and the broader statistical community. Each stream is composed of technical teams that are responsible for the implementation of the Division's biennial workplan.

The position is located in the Office of the Director of the Statistics Division (ESS) at FAO headquarters in Rome, Italy.

Reporting Lines

Under the overall guidance and supervision of the Director, ESS, as a member of the Economic and Social Development Stream Management Team, the Deputy Director will assist with the day-to-day management of the Division.

Specifically, he/she will support the Director in providing day-to-day strategic, managerial, and technical leadership in the functions that correspond to the Governance and Quality Assurance Group.

Summary of Duties and Functions

Supports the Director in the daytoday management of the Governance and Quality Assurance Group, including strategic vision, planning, and implementation as well as the costeffective use of financial and human resources, in contribution to FAO's Strategic Framework and strategic objectives; and handle daytoday matters in the absence of the Director;
Supports the Director in managing the implementation of divisional outputs under his/her responsibility and ensure their timely and effective delivery, including of project activities funded by extrabudgetary resources;
Supports the Director in providing overall technical guidance and oversight on the following areas:
Coordination of FAO's internal and external governance on data and statistics;
Corporate planning, monitoring and reporting of FAO Programme of work on data and statistics;
Corporate coordination of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) monitoring and reporting and coordination of capacity development related to SDG indicators;
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