Overview
The International Consultant will provide methodological design and data quality assessment for a Statistical Population Register in Ukraine, supporting the State Statistics Service of Ukraine and IOM.
Key Responsibilities
- Develop the methodological concept for the Statistical Population Register, including record linkage, data alignment, inclusion/exclusion rules, and identifier strategy.
- Design a framework for assessing the quality of administrative data and registers, defining dimensions, criteria, and procedures for identifying and documenting errors.
- Consolidate methodological proposals with existing findings and ensure outputs inform technical architecture and ICT solutions.
- Prepare and submit deliverables including an inception note, draft methodological packages, and final methodology and data quality packages.
Required Experience
- At least 8 years of relevant professional experience in population statistics, statistical population registers, census methodology, or administrative data integration.
- Demonstrated hands-on experience in the development, implementation or maintenance of a Statistical Population Register.
- Experience working with administrative data from multiple information systems.
- Experience working with geospatial data or geocoded statistical information.
- Experience in international technical assistance or advisory projects.
- Strong knowledge of Eurostat and/or UN recommendations on register-based statistics and population registers.
- Proven experience drafting technical or methodological reports in English.
- Desirable experience includes register-based or combined censuses, working with a national statistical office, familiarity with EU territorial typologies and grid-based statistics, and experience in contexts of population displacement, migration, or post-crisis statistical reconstruction.
Qualifications
Advanced university degree in Demography, Statistics, Population Studies, Social Statistics, Data Science, Geography/GIS, Economics, or a related field.
