Carry out data cleaning, quality and completeness checks for datasets combined from various organisational data systems that are maintained and set up by different stakeholders as necessary. Documentation, data protection and anonymity principles should be considered in this process.
Refine organizational terminology and metadata frameworks, leveraging this knowledge to confidently and credibly convey results to senior management across diverse functional areas, ensuring alignment and clarity in data-driven discussions.
Develop data products visualizations, and interactive tools for assessments of UNHCR's current organizational structure, operating models and business processes to identify inefficiencies, redundancies, or misalignments with strategic goals. Tailor products to the purpose and audience.
Leverage up-to-date knowledge of digital technologies and AI to support the service and team in managing and tracking ongoing projects and tasks, while strengthening the use of modern technologies and tools.
Ensure DDRMS colleagues have access to aligned, consistent and integrated organizationa
Benefits
Vision insurance
Additional Information
Please note that this vacancy is only open to eligible staff members who have been individually notified of their eligibility to apply for positions advertised in the Accelerated Posting Compendium.
Deadline for Applications
June 12, 2026
Hardship Level
H (no hardship)
Family Type
Family
Residential location (if applicable)
Grade
PR3
Staff Member / Affiliate Type
Professional
Reason
Regular > Regular Assignment
Target Start Date
2026-05-26
Standard Job Description
Organizational Data Officer
Organizational Setting and Work Relationships
The Design, Development and Risk Management Service (DDRMS) has been established to ensure that UNHCR is set up for the future. The Service is under the overall supervision of the Deputy High Commissioner and contributes to shaping and implementing UNHCR's management vision. It advises the Senior Executive Team (SET), headquarters divisions and entities, as well as regional bureaux and country operations on ways in which UNHCR's architecture, policies, processes and systems can be optimized (effectiveness and efficiency) and streamlined (fit for purpose) to help achieve the organization's strategic priorities. DDRMS is responsible for institutionalizing change management across the organization and supporting the High Commissioner and the SET to reinforce UNHCR's culture fostering new ways of working. In addition, it is the custodian of UNHCR's risk management framework and policy.
The Organizational Data Officer reports to the Senior Organizational Analyst. The incumbent of the position contributes towards ensuring that UNHCR's structure and staffing are coherent, fit for purpose, and aligned with its organizational vision and delivery models, including Regionalization and Decentralization. The incumbent closely collaborates with a wide range of data owners from all entities of the organization to ensure solutions proposed are informed by organisational and operational data which is regularly updated and made available to evidence-based decision making inside and outside DDRMS. Within DDRMS the incumbent closely coordinates with and supports other workstreams, notably the workstream on policy and processes with review process and automation, as well as change management and culture with impact assessments and information products. S(he) will also be flagging risks and opportunities emerging from the collection and analysis of organizational data.
The incumbent will contribute to the work of the Design, Development and Risk Management Service to address the UNHCR's diverse organizational data needs. The primary focus of this internally facing, cross-functional role is to ensure the availability of accurate and timely data to inform decision-making, organizational design, and development planning within a broader strategic context. This requires fluency in business process management practices, design thinking and change management.
All UNHCR staff members are accountable to perform their duties as reflected in their job description. They do so within their delegated authorities, in line with the regulatory framework of UNHCR which includes the UN Charter, UN Staff Regulations and Rules, UNHCR Policies and Administrative Instructions as well as relevant accountability frameworks. In addition, staff members are required to discharge their responsibilities in a manner consistent with the core, functional, cross-functional and managerial competencies and UNHCR's core values of professionalism, integrity and respect for diversity.
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