HP+ Guatemala Data Visualization Specialist
Company Overview:
Palladium is a global leader in the design, development and delivery of Positive Impact - the intentional creation of enduring social and economic value. We work with foundations, investors, governments, corporations, communities and civil society to formulate strategies and implement solutions that generate lasting social, environmental and financial benefits.
For the past 50 years, we have been making Positive Impact possible. With a team of more than 2,500 employees operating in 90 plus countries and a global network of more than 35,000 technical experts, Palladium has improved - and is committed to continuing to improve - economies, societies and most importantly, people's lives.
Palladium is a child-safe organisation, and screens applicants for suitability to work with children. We also p rovide equal employment to all participants and employees without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, disability, sexual orientation, veteran or marital status.
Project Overview and Role:
Primary Duties and Responsibilities:
Data Visualizatión Specialist
Background:
* Health and Education Policy Plus (HEP+) is part of a seven -years global initiative jointly executed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) and Palladium Group, subject to funds availability.
* HEP+ creates and promotes conditions for dialogue among civil society, government, and other social stakeholders. Its purpose is to improve access to health, nutrition, and education for peoples, mainly of indigenous and rural peoples in the western highlands.
* Its main actions are aimed at fostering the implementation of the legal framework in hea lth, nutrition, and education. It strengthens advocacy and policy dialogue processes in these fields. It provides tools and fosters the use of strategic information for the planning, monitoring, and accountability reports, to contribute with the governance.
To perform technical assistance activities regarding Information Systems, HEP+ requires hiring an individual with the necessary competences to support such.
Purpose of the post
Analyzing, designing, and creating tools to make informed decisions though the visual representation of understandable and convincible data with the necessary infographics quality for state officers, senior management, or general public. For that purpose, he/she must provide significant visual analysis in a context manner, aimed to decision-making, in addition to being able to implement visual thinking to extract knowledge from different information sources. Working in close collaboration with the Data M anagement area to provide base input for the development of ETL processes and incorporation of new data necessary for the running of tools to be developed. These inputs refer to the definition of criteria, indicators, dimensions, and measurements according to the definition outcome and analysis of data sources.
Activities under his/her responsibility
* Conceptualization and design of systems that respond to and comply with specific needs and requirements submitted as outcome of the activities jointly developed with the project technical teams and teams outside the organization.
* Determining base visualization criteria and best technology to be used, depending on the nature of the information system to be incorporated or developed.
* Identifying and defining necessary data sources to address needs regarding monitoring, reporting, research, assessment, and quality assurance to obtain validation.
* Incorporating data sources with tools on data visualizatio n, business intelligence, information mapping, and any other tool facilitating the creation of data visualization according to the Project needs.
* Providing significant visual analysis in a context manner and aimed to decision-making, implementing visual elements to extract knowledge from different sources and domains.
* Creating visualizations that abstract information and allow exchanging qualitative and quantitative measurements for technical and non-technical audiences.
* Developing and maintaining complete and accurate data dictionaries using Confluence® or similar tools to facilitate documentation and knowledge management.
* Developing and maintaining standard written operating procedures for processes regarding data recovery, incorporation, and generation of reports.
* Taking part in strategic activities of debate, discussion, and conceptualization of solutions in order to provide solutions to the interested parties’ needs.
* Developing strateg ic and technical documentation and necessary presentations to inform on the action and solution proposals for the corresponding audience.
* Creating technical documentation of the complete tool-development cycle, from its conceptualization to the integration of the proposed solution, providing support to the building and review of specific technical documents from the production area.
* Developing IT tools to present information, including dashboards, reports, and simulators, among others.
Solving issues sent by the Component Management or the Project Steering and other ones designated.
Required Qualifications:
MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS
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