Data Collection and Processing Officer – European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

Vacancy for a post of Data Collection and Processing Officer (Contract Agent, FG IV) in the European Asylum Support Office (EASO)

The European Asylum Support Office (EASO) strengthens European Union (EU) Member States practical cooperation on asylum, enhances the implementation of the Common European Asylum System (CEAS) and supports Member States whose asylum and reception systems are under particular pressure.

Specifically, EASO focuses on three main tasks:
1. Supporting practical cooperation among Member States on asylum mainly through training, quality activities, country of origin information (COI), statistics and analysis, specialized expert networks, practical cooperation workshops, thematic support on unaccompanied minors, trafficking in human beings and gender;
2. Supporting Member States under particular pressure through emergency support, including the deployment of asylum support teams to assist EU Member States in managing asylum applications and in putting in place appropriate reception facilities;
3. Contributing to the implementation of the CEAS by collecting and exchanging information on best practices, drawing up an annual report on the asylum situation in the EU covering the whole asylum procedure in EU Member States and adopting technical documents, on the implementation of the new EU asylum acquis.

The Data Collection and Processing Officer will be one of two such Officers working in the Centre for Information, Documentation and Analysis (CIDA) and will be mainly occupied with ensuring the smooth, regular, timely and accurate collection and storage of data gathered on a monthly basis by EASO from Member States as part of its Early Warning and Preparedness System. This will involve liaising with national experts who are members of the Group for the Provision of Statistics (GPS). The Data Collection and Processing Officer will be working with SAS and ArcGis on a regular basis ensuring that accurate data is available for the use of analysts and will be called upon to produce data visualisations (maps, charts) necessary for the analyses that CIDA uses in its regular analytical products (monthly, quarterly reports).

The main task of the Data Collection and Processing Officer will therefore be to:

• Supervise and improve the systems for data collection used by the Unit;
• Input collected data (Quantitative and Qualitative) and organise the filing of all data received;
• Manage data storage systems including improving quality control activities;
• Design templates for statistical data exploration in table or graph format as requested by relevant staff;
• Update templates for data collection in cooperation with relevant staff, principally the Senior data and analysis coordinator;
• Carry out any other relevant tasks as requested by the Head of Centre in the interest of EASO

The pay for a Contract Agent FG IV (grade 13, step 1) consists of a basic salary of EUR 3170.61 weighted by the correction coefficient (for Malta currently 84.4%) supplemented with various allowances, including expatriation and family allowances. The salaries of staff members are subject to a Community tax deducted at source. Staff members are exempt from national tax on salary and are members of the Community social security and pension schemes.

The place of employment is Valletta Harbour (Malta).

The closing date for submission of the applications is Tuesday, 19 August 2014 at 13:00hrs (Brussels time).

Read more and apply here.