Project Officer (Data Integration and Dissemination)

OVERVIEW Position Number: 1CAUIS0105PA Grade: P-3 Parent Sector: Institute for Statistics (UIS) Duty Station: Montreal Job Family: Education Contract Type: Project Appointment Duration of contract: 1 year Recruitment open to: Internal and external candidates Application deadline (Midnight Paris Time): 17/06/2026 UNESCO Core Values: Commitment to the Organization, Integrity, Respect for Diversity, Professionalism Duration of contract: 1 years with possibility of extension subject to availability of funds and satisfactory performance ORGANIZATIONAL CONTEXT Established in 1999, the UNESCO Institute for Statistics (UIS) serves as UNESCO’s statistical agency for its 193 Member States and 12 Associate Members. Its mandate focuses on producing cross-nationally comparable data to support global, regional and national development agendas across the fields of education, science, culture, and communication and information. The UIS is the official statistical agency of UNESCO and serves as the custodian agency for several indicators under the Sustainable Development Goals. The UIS provides technical support to Member States to help them generate high-quality, transformative data, guided by three core pillars: standards and methodologies, data production, and brokering and outreach. As outlined in its 2022–2029 Medium-Term Strategy, the UIS envisions a world in which countries’ policies and decision-making are grounded in robust statistical information, enabling them to benchmark progress toward national and international goals and to learn from the experiences of others. The UIS provides data and technical inputs for global, regional and funding mechanisms supporting education, including the UN Transforming Education Summit, the Global Education Cooperation Mechanism (GCM), the G7, the G20, and the Global Partnership for Education (GPE) Results Framework. As part of its mandate to strengthen data reporting, the UIS, in partnership with the Global Education Monitoring Report (GEMR), achieved global consensus on the adoption of an SDG 4 benchmarking process. As co-leaders of the data and monitoring function of the GCM, the UIS supports countries in setting and monitoring their national targets for 2025 and 2030. Within this framework, the UIS is responsible for: Developing and maintaining international statistical standards. Supporting Member States in data production and reporting. Ensuring data comparability and interoperability across countries and sectors. Providing data to fuel policies and investments that transform lives and propel global development goals. The growing diversity of data sources — including administrative systems, surveys, learning assessments and emerging data streams — requires enhanced capacity in data integration, metadata governance and the application of advanced analytics, including artificial intelligence (AI).OVERVIEW OF THE FUNCTIONS OF THE POST Under the authority of the Director of the UIS and the direct supervision of the Chief of the Education Section, the Project Officer will contribute to the development, implementation and maintenance of data integration and dissemination processes within the UIS. The incumbent will support the production of high-quality, timely and comparable education data and contribute to the update and dissemination of the global education indicator database. The role focuses on technical implementation, data processing, data validation, metadata management, data dissemination, and operational support to standards and interoperability initiatives.KEY ROLE AND RESPONSIBILITIES 1. Data Integration and Interoperability Support the design and implementation of frameworks for integrating multi-source data (administrative, survey, assessment and alternative sources). Contribute to the operationalization of interoperability standards such as SDMX, APIs and data exchange protocols. Assist in harmonizing datasets across countries and domains to ensure comparability. Support the developmen