Data Manager

Full-time
- Grade: PAL3

**Company Description**:
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation comprised of 38 member countries, that works to build better policies for better lives. Our mission is to promote policies that will improve the economic and social well-being of people around the world. Together with governments, policy makers and citizens, we work on establishing evidence-based international standards, and finding solutions to a range of social, economic and environmental challenges. From improving economic performance and creating jobs to fostering strong education and fighting international tax evasion, we provide a unique forum and knowledge hub for data and analysis, exchange of experiences, best-practice sharing, and advice on public policies and international standard-setting.

The International Energy Agency (IEA) is an intergovernmental organisation with 31 member countries committed to advancing security of energy supply, economic growth and environmental sustainability through energy policy co-operation. The IEA operates as an autonomous body within the framework of the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development. Both the OECD and the IEA seek opportunities to work with an increasing number of non-member countries of growing importance to the world economy. The Agency aims to foster the contribution of the energy sector to economic development and environmental sustainability.

As a core component of its mandate, the IEA Energy Data Centre (EDC) is responsible for collecting and disseminating a broad portfolio of energy statistics to monitor developments in the energy sector and to provide to its Members and beyond a sound basis for policy decisions. EDC seeks to hire multiple Data Managers for the collection, compilation, verification, research and dissemination of energy data, and their use in IEA modelling tools.

**Main Responsibilities**

**Data collection, validation and development**
- Contribute to and enable the production of data and statistics as well as the development of advanced analytical models in the field of data and statistics in order to support related analysis. This includes the collection, processing, dissemination and management of data and information based on governance and legal requirements.
- Contribute to and enable continuous improvement of methods to ensure data quality and international comparability.
- Contribute to and enable the development and implementation of robust methods for the estimation of missing values if and when necessary.
- Contribute to and enable the development of derived indicators and metrics to support tracking of energy market developments globally.
- Contribute to and enable the identification of new data sources (e.g. commercial, administrative, etc.) and collection methods (e.g. web-scraping) to track relevant areas of national and global energy systems.
- Maintain appropriate documentation on data series, draft methodological and technical notes on statistics for various releases and publications.
- Keep abreast of the work of other international and national organisations (e.g. UN, Eurostat, the World Bank, etc.) on related topics, and collaborate as needed.
- As needed, oversee and guide the work of more junior staff for the data collection, validation and dissemination tasks.

**Database management, support, dissemination and analysis**
- Contribute to and enable the maintenance and development of statistical databases exploiting new software developments to improve the efficiency of working methods covering a range of statistical areas.
- Contribute to and enable the integration of new data sets into the existing data infrastructure including those developed from micro-data and through the use of data science methods.
- Contribute to and enable provision of guidance to internal and external users on data preparation and interpretation for use in empirical analysis and modelling and contribute to addressing the changing needs of users by contributing to statistical development work.
- Contribute to and enable the production of statistical and analytical publications, reports and data products.
- As needed, deliver presentations and training in different settings, whether classroom or online, including to experts worldwide.
- As needed, train new recruits to the energy data center on statistical methodologies and processes.

**Qualifications**:
Academic and Professional Background
- A university degree in fields relevant for energy data, i.e. statistics, data science, economics, mathematics, computer science, information technology, engineering, physics, environmental studies. A postgraduate degree in one of these fields would be an advantage.
- At least two years to three years of experience in the production and/or use of data or statistics gained in the private sector, university, public research institutes, national administrations or international organi