Job Description

• Should have a Bachelor's Degree or Master's Degree or Doctorate in Statistics or Social Science.
• For UAE nationals, preferably with 6 to 9 years of work experience.
• For Non-UAE nationals, preferably 8 to 11 years of work experience.
• At least two years in a management or expert role.
• Experience in Abu Dhabi Government entity or leading private sector firm as a statistician.
• Experience of working with international statistics bodies.
• Provide expertise to the Department and advice at Sector level across the statistics cycle, with reference to the design, development and production of population and social statistics, proposing recommendations for improvements; lead directors, managers and specialists in statistical processing, analysis and finalisation to ensure that statistical products serve the company's mandate and role in Abu Dhabi's statistical ecosystem, meet the needs of users and comply with applicable legal and other requirements.
• Provide domain-related leadership for projects and routine operations.
• Provide coaching and mentoring for Department employees in statistics and demographics / social science.
• Lead cross-functional project teams where applicable, including those involving contractors, consultants and ADGEs or other Government entities.
• Provide expertise on the preparation of Department policies and procedures, from a technical perspective.
• Advise on the preparation of SLAs with internal and external stakeholders, from a technical perspective.
• Review Department plans with reference to their impact on the integrity of statistical processes and products; identify relevant risks and advise on their assessment and treatment.
• Act as a focal point for stakeholder communication and engagement, from a technical perspective.
• Build and maintain expertise in demographics, social science and relevant statistical disciplines.
• Monitor new developments in domain and statistical disciplines regularly, identifying potential impacts on Department and Sector products and processes.
• Serve as domain expert in demographics, social science and relevant statistical disciplines, challenging assumptions and proposing improvements to the company's population and social science statistics portfolio, methodologies and quality standards.
• Use and advise team members on the use of systems and technologies for statistical production.
• Identify potential improvements to systems and technologies in use for enhancing process efficiency and product quality.
• Provide advice to other Statistics departments during product development planning to ensure that output design for social and population statistics products meets stakeholder needs and quality requirements.
• Work with Data Sector with reference to data for population and social statistics products.
• Work with Stakeholder Management and Statistical Portfolio Planning to advise them on population and social statistics components of the portfolio and calendar; identify potential risks to the quality and integrity of Department products.
• Advise Director, managers and specialists in the following processes: Integration Classification and coding Review and validation Editing and imputation Variable and unit derivation Weight and aggregate calculations.
• Help to check and validate data files before transformation.
• Help to validate outputs; provide subject matter expertise to team members and to other departments, where required.
• Advise on the application of analysis (e.g., time series, consistency and comparability, revision analysis, asymmetries).
• Recommend interpretations of output statistics, applying domain expertise.
• Challenge proposed interpretations and resolve issues arising from interpretation, where necessary.
• Review the application of UAE and / or international regulations on disclosure and confidentiality.
• Advise on the application of models for disclosure risk, actual protection and residual disclosure risk.
• Provide expertise on the following processes:
• Complete consistency checks.
• Determine level of release and apply caveats.
• Collate supporting information, interpretation commentary, technical notes, briefings, measures of uncertainty and metadata.
• Produce supporting internal documents.
• Conduct pre-release discussion with subject matter experts.
• Translate statistical ouptuts, if necessary.
• Work with Statistical Output Quality during quality checks and advise Directors, and specialists how to correct non-conformances.
• Serve on project teams as a domain expert.
• Contribute to the knowledge management database.
• Assist in the preparation of scopes of work and specifications for suppliers.
• Review supplier technical proposals.
• Comply with company policies and procedures, Example but not limited to HSE policy & procedures.