Statistician

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) is an international organisation comprised of 38 member countries, whose mission is to build better policies for better lives. The Economics Department (ECO) leads co-ordinated, innovative, international action with respect to the OECD’s work on economic policy.

• Gather data from OECD member and non-member countries, develop and implement innovative and efficient approaches to data collection, including the use of digital data sources, automated data collection and data transfer solutions and AI-assisted methods where appropriate.
• Convert national data collected from countries into specific OECD formats, including data manipulation and various other analytical calculations, using efficient, reproducible and increasingly automated data-processing workflows.
• Verify the accuracy, coherence, quality and internal consistency of the data and metadata using appropriate validation procedures, automated quality checks and other modern data-quality tools.
• Manage statistical databases covering the range of statistical activities relevant to the work area, ensuring that data are well structured, documented, accessible and fit for analytical and dissemination purposes.
• Update and maintain the international comparability of data including methodological changes, and research new data and data sources to expand the database coverage.
• Build and maintain contacts with statistical staff in national and other international statistical agencies.
• Keep abreast of the work of other international and national organisations (e.g. UN, Eurostat).

• Experience in the full cycle of statistical activities from data collection, data management and analysis, to data dissemination.
• Knowledge of data collection methods, data management, and analysis.
• Familiarity with automated data-processing workflows and modern data-quality tools.

• Full-time position.
• Directorate: ECO.
• Grade: PAL3.