Seconded National Expert - Innovations in Statistics (ESTAT-A-5)

Eurostat Unit A5 "Methodology; innovation in official statistics" is a dynamic and friendly unit with >20 colleagues providing Eurostat and the European Statistical System (ESS) with services and expertise in the areas of statistical methodology, data analytics, statistical confidentiality, enterprise architecture, research and innovation.

Under the supervision of a Commission official, the expert would reinforce the capacity of the Eurostat unit A.5 methodology and innovation in official statistics, in particular in the team working on new statistical methodologies, transformative innovations related to AI and topics of statistical confidentiality and privacy preservation. The tasks comprise the development and promotion of methods to ensure efficient use of data while protecting their confidentiality, contribution to the implementation of the amended regulation on European Statistics related to matters of integration of new data sources into European statistics in privacy preserving ways, analysis and development of AI techniques as regards data processing implementing ethical standards.

The tasks include in particular:

- Advancing innovative statistical methods and tools useful for production of high-quality European statistics;

- Supporting and developing methods to integrate data in privacy and confidentiality preserving manner in the production of European statistics;

- Pilot and supervise projects in the domain of the use of advanced AI approaches for statistics production in general and in particular the data integration, data analytics and privacy preservation.

- Contribute to setting the conditions for using new data sources by demonstrating the value of these new information sources for the production of official statistics and identifying tailored and transparent approaches meeting a set of standard quality and confidentiality requirements of the data for processing them in close collaboration with the data holders.

- Analysing and promoting new methods and tools for microdata anonymisation, including methods for synthetic data generation.

The Permanent Representation of Austria to the EU points out that ONLY applications submitted by the Permanent Representation will be considered. Interested parties are therefore requested to send application documents (Europass CV, letter of motivation and declaration of approval of the employer) in English by November, 18, 2024 by email to sne.bruessel-ov@bmeia.gv.at.

Only the “Europass CV” form should be used to create the CV. Applicants must state the exact name of the position for which they are applying (e.g. JRC-B-5) in all documents submitted.

For more detailed information on the job profile, requirements and selection procedure, please refer to the detailed vacancy notice below.

Reference: ESTAT-A-5