Azerbaijan Tourism Board (Milli Turizm Təbliğat Bürosu) is a newly established entity under the State Tourism Agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan and is responsible for the enhancement of destination value and for the creation of a unique portrait for the country. Azerbaijan Tourism Board is making extensive efforts to ensure successful tourism development; marketing and promoting the tourism potential of the destination.

We are looking for an experienced Statistical Research Specialist.

Responsibilities:

• To respond to requests for information in tourism statistics to the Tourism Research & Statistics Division
• To conduct analyses of tourism statistics and research in cooperation with other divisions of the State Tourism Agency, Azerbaijan Tourism Board and publish corresponding reports within and outside of the organisation
• To help collate tourism statistics and to support other partners involved in statistical tourism research 
• To supervise the continuous updating and refining of information in tourism statistics stored within the Tourism Research & Statistics Division, including file maintenance, database and spreadsheet management
• To supervise updating information on the State Tourism Agency and Azerbaijan Tourism Board websites
• To help prepare statistical material for marketing, PR and promotion and where appropriate, to support the production of marketing or promotional publications

Requirements:

• Good general level of education, including English and Statistics at tertiary education level, or demonstrably equivalent abilities and good English oral and written communication skills
• Experience of working within an empirical research environment and ability to use information technology and related systems (e.g. R, Excel, statistical software packages).
• Understanding of Data Protection legislation and Freedom of Information legislation
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively

Candidates are requested to send their CVs to [email protected]  until August 05 , 2018.

Please indicate the name of the position (Statistical Research Specialist) you are applying for in the subject line of the email.

Please be advised that only shortlisted candidates will be invited to the further stages of the recruitment process.