Since the beginning of the war, the National Agency on Corruption Prevention (NACP) has completely refocused its work on achieving Ukraine’s victory. Among other activities, NACP is a part of an interdepartmental project on increasing sanction lists and identification of the assets of sanctioned persons for their seizure for the reconstruction of Ukraine. NACP has a deep understanding and knowledge of the state-owned data registries as well as open sources, which combined with corruption investigation brings the required framework to perform data mining and preparation of the sanctions-related lists. In this process, NACP is cooperating with the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Office of the Prosecutor General.  Also, NACP is playing a significant role in data management within the cyber defense of Ukraine against full-scale Russia invasion.

In order to support NACP in these activities, IFES Ukraine is seeking a Data Analyst to process large amounts of information and provide general advisory on data organization. 

Scope of work

• Analysis of open data registries on intersections with sanctions lists of different sources.
• Analysis of internal NACP data registries on intersections with sanctions lists of different sources.
• Gathering and combining data regarding all sanction lists into one storage.
• Data mining in terms of working with public state registries of different countries in order to prepare information for international requests.
• Working with API (REST, SOAP) of state authorities in order to extract data.
• Providing recommendations to NACP on data management principles.
• Open-source data mining tools research.
• Designing data model of new means for detecting corruption schemes using risk analysis approach.

Expected deliverables

• Report on data registries intersection analysis tasks performed.
• General recommendations for data management with regards to NACP’s intention of building the comprehensive DWH.

Professional Requirements

• Master’s/Bachelor’s degree in IT, Mathematics, or related field (or equivalent work experience);
• At least 3 years in the IT industry;
• At least 3 years of working experience as a Data Analyst, Data Scientist, or Business Analyst;
• Experience in consulting and/or developing State IT services; 
• Technical expertise in data models, database design development, data mining, and segmentation techniques;
• Experience using statistical computer languages (R, Python, SQL, etc.) to manipulate data and draw insights from large data sets;
• Experience working with and creating DB/DWH/DL architectures, designing ETL/ELT;
• Knowledge of a variety of machine learning techniques (clustering, decision tree learning, artificial neural networks, etc.) and their real-world advantages/drawbacks;
• Knowledge of advanced statistical techniques and concepts (regression, properties of distributions, statistical tests, and proper usage, etc.) and experience with applications;
• Ability to work in a team;
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to collect, organize, analyze, and disseminate significant amounts of information with attention to detail and accuracy;
• Effective problem-solving, negotiation, and decision-making skills;
• Fluency in written and oral Ukrainian and English.

Period of performance: April 20 – July 20, 2022.

Level of efforts: 60 days.

Interested candidates are invited to submit their CV and a short letter of interest clearly outlining how their candidacy meets the above criteria with “Application for NACP Data Analyst” in the subject line to Kateryna Polishchuk ([email protected]) and Olesia Liesnikova ([email protected]) no later than April 17, 2022.