Statistician At Al-Haq

Title:

Statistician

Department:

Monitoring and Documentation Department, Al-Haq

Unit:

Databank unit

Contract Type:

One year (renewal)

Hours:

40h/ week

Type of Contract:

National – Palestinian citizens or resident of the OPT

Main Duty Station and Location:

Ramallah, Palestine

Expected start date:

October 2021

About Al-Haq

Al-Haq is an independent Palestinian non-governmental human rights organisation based in Ramallah, West Bank. Established in 1979 to protect and promote human rights and the rule of law in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT), the organisation has special consultative status with the United Nations Economic and Social Council.

Al-Haq documents violations of the individual and collective rights of Palestinians in the OPT, irrespective of the identity of the perpetrator, and seeks to end such breaches by way of advocacy before national and international mechanisms and by holding the violators accountable. The organisation conducts research; prepares reports, studies and interventions on breaches of international human rights and humanitarian law in the OPT; and undertakes advocacy before local, regional and international bodies. Al-Haq also cooperates with Palestinian civil society organisations and governmental institutions in order to ensure that international human rights standards are reflected in Palestinian law and policies. The organisation has a specialised international law library for the use of its staff and the local community.

Al-Haq is the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists – Geneva, and is a member of the Euro-Mediterranean Human Rights Network (EMHRN), the World Organisation Against Torture (OMCT), the International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH), Habitat International Coalition (HIC), the Palestinian NGO Network (PNGO), and the Palestinian Human Rights Organisations Council (PHROC).

About the position

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The statistician will be heading the databank unit which is part of the Monitoring and Documentation Department. She/he will be responsible for Al-Haq’s Databank and supervising the data-entry colleagues working in the Unit. This position is a new position and will therefore include an institutionalisation process along the daily work. The unit has two data-entry colleagues that are responsible for examining the data sent from the field researchers and then entered into the databank system, the colleagues are also in charge of extracting data upon internal and external requests. The statistician will oversee the entire process of examining, entering and extracting data, in addition to the data; cleaning, management, analysis and presentation. The presentation of data will include the creating of illustrations, charts, graphics to create educational and informative visuals. The statistician will prepare trends and patterns based on data to help Al-Haq in its human rights work.

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Duties

• • Database and data-set administration including data- cleaning, data management and data organisation.
• • Supervise data examination, entry and extraction.
• • Extract relevant data upon request from colleagues.
• • Carry out configuration and customization process upon need.
• • Cross-check data with relevant Palestine-based databanks.
• • Analyse trends and identify prognoses based on hypothesis testing.
• • Apply statistical methodology and analyses to complex and multivariable data, including ensuring that relevant assumptions are met for the statistical analyses performed.
• • Act in a consultancy capacity for the legal researchers and other human rights organisations if need be.
• • Design and implement data gathering/management computer systems and software.
• • Present information in a variety of formats.
• • Convey complex information to people who may not be specialists.
• • Liaise with colleagues.
• • Attend relevant meetings.
• • Perform field visits.
• • Supervise the development phases of the Databank and the Databank unit.
• • Head the data unification process.
• • Recommend and design data collection tools.
• • Supervise unit staff.
• • Create Standard of Procedures (SOP) for the unit.
• • Any other duties as required by the head of the department.

Education:

A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in a numerate discipline such as statistics, economics or mathematics.

Required Competencies

• • Minimum 5 years of experience as a statistician, preferably with data related to humanities.
• • Good IT skills and numerical skill.
• • Advanced analytical skills.
• • Written and verbal communication skills in both English and Arabic.
• • Knowledge in Human rights and/or Palestine context.
• • Good managerial and supervision skills.
• • Good interpersonal skills.
• • Ability to present data and information in an informative manner.
• • Fluency in one of the following Statistical programs:

SPSS, (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences)

R (R Foundation for Statistical Computing)

SAS (Statistical Analysis Software)

STATA (Software for Statistics and Data Science)

Languages:

Fluency in written and spoken Arabic and English is required.

Core values:

1. 1. Integrity
2. 1. Professionalism
3. 1. Respect for diversity and gender equality
4. 1. Commitment

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Core competencies:

1. 1. Results orientation
2. 1. Planning and organising
3. 1. Problem solving
4. 1. Communication and trust
5. 1. Team orientation
6. 1. Organisational development and innovation
7. 1. Time management