To provide technical support in the development and implementation of economic statistical programs pertaining to (national accounts, trade in services statistics and other balance of payments statistics, price statistics and the International Comparison Programs, industrial and business statistics, monetary and financial statistics and labour migration statistics) that supports the current and future needs of COMESA Treaty and MTSP objectives.

B. MAIN DUTIES AND ACCOUNTABILITIES

Under the direct supervision of the Head of Statistics and Research and the overall supervision of the Assistant Secretary General (Programmes), the incumbent of the post will perform the following duties:

i. Provide and coordinate technical support in Member States on the implementation of economic statistics programs to ensure they are implemented within the context of the COMESA Statistics Strategy and related MTSP Strategic Objectives;

ii. Provide statistical technical advice to COMESA operations Divisions and COMESA Institutions in order to support economic policy related work and in designing monitoring and evaluation systems;

iii. Undertake statistical capacity building work in Member states to generate quality, reliable and timely national accounts, trade in services statistics and other balance of payments statistics, price statistics and the International Comparison Program,
industrial and business statistics, monetary and financial statistics and labour migration statistics and infrastructure and ICT statistics;

iv. Ensure that datasets on national accounts, trade in services statistics and other balance of payments statistics, price statistics and the International Comparison Program, industrial and business statistics, monetary and financial statistics, labour
migration statistics and infrastructure and ICT statistics are useable and consistent and continually updated on COMSTAT

v. Prepare and contribute to the publication of statistical knowledge products to support COMESA’s MTSP particularly related to economic statistics. This includes COMESA’s annual International Trade Statistics Bulletin, the COMESA Investment Report, the
COMESA monthly Harmonized Consumer Price Index etc;

vi. Contribute to the work of relevant Statistical Technical Groups (STGs) on national accounts, trade in services statistics and other balance of payments statistics, price statistics and the International Comparison Program, industrial and business
statistics, monetary and financial statistics and labour migration and infrastructure and ICT statistics at AUC level;

vii. Develop and embed statistical sub programs for COMESA Divisions and COMESA Institutions that are formulating larger regional integration programs;

viii. Submit work plans and budget inputs for Statistics component of the Unit’s annual work plans in order to secure approval for resources required to implement Statistical programs in line with the unit mandate; and

ix. Perform any other duties assigned by the Supervisor from time to time.

C. MINIMUM ACADEMIC QUALIFICATIONS

i. Bachelor’s degree in any of the following fields: Statistics, Economics, Demography, Data Science or Mathematics or related field with a strong background in quantitative methods.

ii. A Postgraduate qualification in any of the above fields will be an added advantage.

D. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Minimum eight (8) years working experience in an economic statistics environment generally and on national accounts or price statistics in particular.

E. PROFESSIONAL CERTIFICATIONS/QUALIFICATIONS
Certification/training in the areas of national accounts or price statistics is desirable.

F. SPECIALIZED KNOWLEDGE
Core competence in national accounts and price statistics. Experience in the use of statistical analysis tools such as STATA, R, Python, SPSS, SAS, NADABAS, ERETRES etc. is essential; and use of standard desktop operational software applications (Word,
Excel, Access and PowerPoint) is desirable.

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