Ghana Statistical Service Recruitment 2020 - Statisticians & HR

The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) invites applications from suitably qualified Ghanaians who are goal-oriented, results-driven with good leadership qualities and enthusiasm into the positions below.

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Director of Human Resource Management

JOB PURPOSE

To lead the HR Directorate, drive the HR transformation programme which will be critical in GSS delivering improvements to practice_; systems and service. As a senior leader you will ensure personnel have the right skills and support to develop themselves and the objectives of GSS

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

HR Governance

• Facilitating regular review and update of HR polices, procedures and protocols to support GSS in promoting professionalism, consistency and continuous improvement. For example. the Scheme of Service, Organogram, Conditions of Service, Establishment Schedule, Collective Agreement, Human Resource Manual. resourcing and learning and development, among others etc,
• Advising the Organisation on employment legislation and employment practices. and
• Overseeing the management of labour issues in accordance with existing labour laws. regulations and practices to ensure industrial harmony

Leadership, Performance & Strategic Direction

• Building, nurturing. stimulating and supporting GSS senior leaders to equip and guide them in delivering on their mandate as well as ensuring organisational cohesion;
• Providing and empowering leadership and direction in the development of HR strategies in line with the Organisation's overall strategy and ensuring that HR plans support business needs but are also flexible enough to cope with changes in internal or external business context:
• Working with senior management team and heads of  functions to manage GSS's performance management system_: rewards regimes and ensuring that they are in line with best practices and also, supports the Organisation's strategic objectives;

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Chief Statistician, Quality Assurance

JOB PURPOSE

To bring acceptable quality assurance standards and to ensure the implementation of these standards in the generation of statistics in the GSS.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Quality Assurance principles, standards and best practice Lead the development, implementation and periodic revision of a:

• National Statistical System (NSS) Code of Practice, in accordance with the UN Fundamental Principles for Official Statistics and other international standards;

• NSS Quality Assurance Framework for the collection, analysis and dissemination of statistics about Ghana's economy, society and population. This should include standardised error detection measures;
• NSS best practice for compilation and publication of survey and administrative metadata. The 2013 'Compendium of statistical standards, definitions of concepts. variables and classifications' used in the production of national statistics. In line with international and regional standards: and
• NSS suite of common statistics and methods, that are reproducible and transferrable across the whole national statistical system

Quality Assurance for Data Management

• Develop a data management framework and standards for the secure collection, transmission, storage and dissemination/publishing of data by Ghana Statistical Service,
• Advise and administer a corporate set of data management and analytical tools should be used by the Service for the collection and production of statistics, and
• Ensure that data collected and analysed by GSS are published in open, transparent and reusable formats

Trust in Statistics and Transparency

• Develop and publicise a Release Calendar for the dissemination of national statistics. This should include publishing corrections to national statistics and ad hoc data requests (tables) received by the Service;

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Deputy Government Statistician. Social & Population Statistics

JOB PURPOSE

To offer support to the Government Statistician through the provision of strategic leadership for the efficient production and optimal use of social and population statistics at all levels of governance (national, regional and district) and by all other stakeholders for evidence-based decision making culture

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and oversee the implementation of an integrated framework for the transformation of social and population statistics in a manner that responds to national, regional and global development agenda,
• Provide strategic direction and lead the production and use of high quality and relevant social and demography statistics including, but not limited to education, health, living conditions, governance and security, cultural, migration. births and deaths, marriages. population, crime, household characteristics, elections, housing, sanitation, leisure and tourism, personal and household finances;
• Implement an effective data collection operation and drive its transformation, including integration of complete Information and Technology systems, generation of robust data structures (drift from repeated-cross section to longitudinal), complementing survey and administrative data sources; engagement with hybrid modes of data collection procedures such as online, Paper Assisted Personal Interviews, Computed Assisted Personal Interviews and Computer Assisted Telephone Interviews; and modernisation of field operation systems.

• Redesign the mandate of the Regional Offices to make them more visible through the dispensation of functions including, but not limited to. analysing and disseminating economic, social and once statistics within the regional level
• Coordinate and lead discussions with the regional policy and political leaders on how to use statistics to inform development for the region, identifying resources to improve the work of statistics in the region
• Institute innovative interventions for a catch-up with international standards. coordinate and lead the production of social and population statistics within the national statistical system.
• Build and maintain professional and forward-looking relationships with at government agencies responsible for social and population and statistics and other key user and opinion formers:
• Lead the determination and regular update of the scope, granularity and frequency of social and populations statistics;
• Lead the production of high-quality social statistics for tracking the performance of national, regional and international development agenda. notably the National Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies, the Africa Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
• Generate, publish, and defend all needed social and population statistics for national and global development:
• Estimate and publish projections of relevant social and population statistics.
• Develop systems for linking (within and between) different surveys, censuses and administrative data
• Design and implement monitoring and evaluation systems that uncover staff potential and motivation for optimal growth of GSS in a manner that impacts Ghana's development agenda
• Provide effective oversight for the conduct of censuses through the design of transformative systems that engender high data quality. timeliness and cast-effectiveness

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Deputy Government Statistician, Economic & Data Science

JOB PURPOSE

To offer support to the Government Stalistician through the provision of strategic leadership for the efficient production and optimal use of economic statistics at all levels of governance (national, regional and district) and by all other stakeholders for promoting an evidence-based decision-making culture

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Develop and oversee the implementation of an integrated framework for the transformation of economic statistics and engagement with data in a manner that responds to national. regional and global development agendas,
• Provide strategic direction and lead the execution of the mandate of the sections under the remit of the Deputy Government Statistician for Economic and Data Science, namely National Accounts and Macroeconomic Analysis, Business Statistics and Prices. Methods and Standards. Research and Data Science.
• Institute innovative interventions and ensure compliance with international standards to help coordinate and lead the production of economic statistics within the national statistical system;
• Build and maintain professional and forward-looking relationships on economic statistics with the Bank of Ghana. Ministries for Finance and Planning and other key user and opinion formers,
• Position and protect Ghana Statistical Service on the international pedestal as a leader in the production of quality and policy-relevant economic statistics;
• Lead the determination and regular update of the scope granularity and frequency of economic statistics;
• Generate. publish, and defend all needed economic statistics for national and global development:
• Design and implement monitoring and evaluation systems that uncover staff potential and motivation for optimal growth of GSS in a manner that impacts Ghana's development agenda,
• Engage with and ensure collective adherence to fundamental codes of ethics. conducts and practices in data handling and analysis.
• Lead the production of high-quality economic statistics for tracking the performance of national. regional and international development agenda, notably the National Coordinated Programme for Economic and Social Development Policies_ the Africa Agenda 2063 and the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals
• Deploy contemporary data science tools in harnessing different data sources while ensuring complementarities and convergence with traditional surveys and censuses:

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