Data Management and Analysis Assistant

The Data Management and Analysis Assistant leads data collection, cleaning, processing, and analysis activities to enable timely production of market price analyses, reports, and data products. The role ensures high data quality, produces visualization tools, and leads the team with routine and ad‑hoc statistical tasks in line with established procedures.

Responsibilities

• Support with setting up assessment systems for food security monitoring, through existing government exercises and new initiatives.
• Support programme targeting at geographic and household levels.
• Collect, compile, and clean quantitative datasets from internal and external sources.
• Verify data accuracy, completeness, and consistency following agreed standards.
• Maintain updated datasets and support routine data management processes.
• Categorize and process data using standard statistical and analytical methods.
• Conduct statistical analyses and oversee outputs and estimates using predefined models.
• Lead in extracting and analyzing national statistical datasets on food insecurity, poverty, and socioeconomic vulnerabilities.
• Produce charts, tables, and visualizations to support analytical reporting.
• Lead on the development and maintenance of dashboards and data presentation tools.
• Prepare data inputs and supporting materials for reports and knowledge products.
• Work closely with the VAM regional office to support market price analysis and related outputs.
• Liaise with team members to ensure data requirements are clearly understood and met.
• Share technical inputs to improve data organization and workflow efficiency.
• Liaise with counterparts from sister agencies on analyses, surveys, and other related tasks.
• Support the Monitoring Unit with providing strategic and technical guidance to ensure delivery of high-quality monitoring outputs.
• Develop and standardize monitoring frameworks, reporting templates, questionnaires, data collection tools, and analytical methodologies.
• Guide the analysis and interpretation of monitoring data to generate actionable insights for programme management and decision-making.
• Assist the team with ad‑hoc statistical or data‑related tasks.
• Perform other related duties within the scope of the role as assigned by the supervisor.

Requirements

• Completion of secondary school education required.
• Post‑secondary training or coursework in statistics, data analysis, economics, information management, or a related field is A MUST.
• Minimum of five years of progressively responsible experience in data management, statistics, or analytical support.
• Demonstrated experience working with large quantitative datasets.
• Practical experience supporting statistical analysis or estimation techniques.
• Proficiency in spreadsheet software and basic statistical tools.
• Experience with data visualization and reporting tools is an advantage.
• Familiarity with data quality principles and structured data workflows.
• Knowledge of, or exposure to, market analysis or VAM‑related data is desirable.
• Good understanding of the local context in Iran.
• Fluency in the duty station language required.
• Working knowledge of English required.

Skills

• Data Management
• Statistical Analysis
• Data Cleaning
• Data Processing
• Quantitative Analysis
• Spreadsheet Software Knowledge
• Statistical Tools
• Data Visualization
• Data Reporting
• Data Quality Assurance
• Structured Data Workflows
• Market Analysis
• VAM Data Analysis

Languages

English, Persian