| Overview : The UN Reform Resolution tasks UNDP to provide countries with an “integrator function” to accelerate progress towards the SDGs by tackling multiple interlinked and interdependent development challenges. The UNDP Global Policy Network (GPN) draws on expertise globally to provide more effective responses to the complex development challenges countries face in achieving the SDGs and responding to crisis in an integrated and coherent manner. Anchored in the Crisis Bureau (CB) and the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), the GPN has the responsibility for developing all relevant policy and guidance to support the results of UNDP’s Strategic Plan, which is aligned with the 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). An SDG Integration Team located with UNDP’s Global Policy Network (GPN) aims to build a coherent and consolidated menu of services (the SDG Integrator “offer”) emphasizing direct short- to medium-term engagements to respond rapidly to requests from country offices for support on national implementation and monitoring of integrated policy solutions, qualitative and evidence-driven analysis for accelerated progress, and knowledge sharing and upscaling of innovative approaches to sustainable development. UNDP's offer on SDG Integration will unpack and leverage the lessons from existing UNDP initiatives to respond with agility to the demand of support from Programme countries in their efforts to implement the 2030 Agenda. These include integrated policy support building on the Mainstreaming, Acceleration and Policy Support (MAPS) engagements to date and emphasize the application of evidence-driven data and analytics for SDG implementation and reporting. In this regard, advances in digital technology are creating data at unprecedented levels of detail and speed, turning the stories of people’s lives into numbers every minute of every day, across the globe. An important focus of the integration work is to complement traditional data (eg. national statistics, NHDR like analysis) with new and alternative sources including digital ‘breadcrumbs,’ satellite data, social media to identify emerging trends and gain new perspectives on issues in development. Under the guidance of the Team Leader of the SDG Integration Team within the GPN, the Data Visualization Consultant will lead the Integration Team’s ability to tap into and leverage a variety of data sources to strengthen horizon scanning and identification of emerging trends, improve understanding of evolving development issues and lead to the design of better development solutions in the SDG integration team. The consultant should have a mastery in understanding and utilizing multiple forms of data (qualitative and quantitative) to make sense of a situation, identify patterns, correlations and causations, in order to provide a more complete and rigorous information when development new solutions or validating decisions. The candidate in this way helps join up insights and leverage new evidence and intelligence based on a more diverse data set. Objective: The purpose of this procurement exercise is to contract an individual consultant to lead the Integration Team’s ability to tap into and leverage a variety of data sources to strengthen horizon scanning and identification of emerging trends, improve understanding of evolving development issues and lead to the design of better development solutions. Details are provided in the Terms of Reference as advertised on UNDP job site VA # 86656 click on (https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=86656) Interested bidders are requested to submit their application using the following link: https://jobs.undp.org/cj_view_job.cfm?cur_job_id=86656 (VA # 86656) the instruction in the notice and using templates provided. | 
