This is a three-term position with the possibility of extension based on funding and organizational needs. The salary range for this position is $61,000 to $72,000
Organization Overview
As a strategic partner of the United Nations, the United Nations Foundation brings together fresh thinking and diverse voices around innovative ideas to drive progress and tackle problems. Sometimes we work behind-the-scenes, shaping negotiations and connecting experts, advocates and decision-makers. Other times we drive public awareness and involvement through communications, campaigns, and convenings. Over the years we’ve developed a diverse and dynamic portfolio of capabilities, tools, and platforms to help the UN build a better world for everyone, everywhere.
The Global Partnership for Sustainable Development Data (the Global Partnership), an alliance hosted at the UN Foundation, is a fast-growing, dynamic international partnership bringing together over 700 different organizations including governments, UN agencies, private companies, civil society organizations, and many others. We make connections and broker partnerships to address the problems of gaps in data production, poor data use, access, quality, and to work with stakeholders to fully harness the new opportunities of the data revolution in the service of sustainable development. We aim to link and align action, capacities and resources across geographies, sectors and data communities.
Job Summary
Reporting to the Senior Director of Operations, and in close coordination with the Agriculture Program Lead, the Manager will support the Global Partnership’s thematic engagements on agriculture data.



This includes working with the Global Partnership’s Regional Leads to strengthen agriculture and food security data systems in Global Partnership countries and coordinating advocacy related to country work in Rome, where the UN’s food agencies are headquartered. They will develop and maintain strong trusted relationships with government representatives and Global Partnership partners from all regions, with a strong focus on West Africa. The Manager will also develop and contribute to knowledge products that aim to shape key stakeholders’ view of the importance of agricultural data, the need to strengthen data systems and capacities, and how to achieve that.
Country Duties
Develop strong relationships with government partners at the country-level in National Statistical Offices, Ministries of Agriculture and other entities to understand their data needs, identify ways to strengthen data systems, and promote data use and sharing in the food and agriculture sector
Develop use cases in collaboration with government partners and provide advice and assistance on their implementation
Engage with select political and technical partners to identify opportunities for their engagement in support of country level implementation on agricultural data
Develop and organize various meetings, seminars, events and roundtables that aim to address issues related to the gap in agricultural data, and data use and sharing
Procure and manage consultants engaged to assist with the work
Advocacy




Provide support for the Global Partnership’s activities related to advocacy in Rome, where the UN’s food agencies are headquartered, by:
Understanding the political landscape and helping to implement the strategy for stakeholder engagement and influence in Rome;
Building relationships with member state representatives and other stakeholders in Rome;
Assisting with the management of consultants; and,
Assist with the coordination of meetings and events
Engage at regional and global levels to support the Global Partnership’s strategy on agricultural data, in diverse areas spanning official and non-official data communities
Develop and contribute to various knowledge products that make the case for investing in agriculture data and statistics, improving data governance and data sharing, leveraging concrete country examples, and linking to related global policy processes
Other Duties
Develop and maintain an understanding of the dynamics and key issues on data for development and identify how these may affect or help strengthen agricultural data
Liaise with key donors and program partners in the agriculture sector to build and maintain new funding and project relationships
Coordinate closely with the Communications team and MEL Manager to capture impact stories, results and lessons from country and Rome-based work, and contribute content that supports the Global Partnership's communications and reporting efforts
Other duties as assigned
Supervisory Responsibilities
The Agricultural Data Manager is not a supervisory role.
EDUCATION/CERTIFICATION And/or EXPERIENCE
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowled

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