Azerbaijan Tourism Board (Azərbaycan Turizm Bürosu) 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 Senior Statistical Research Specialist.

Responsibilities:

• To respond to requests for information in tourism statistics to the Tourism Research and Statistics Unit
• To help prepare statistical material for marketing, PR and promotion and where appropriate, to support the production of marketing or promotional publications
• To produce press releases on the development of tourism in Azerbaijan
• To conduct analyses of tourism statistics and research in cooperation with other units of the Azerbaijan Tourism Board and publish corresponding reports within and outside of the Board
• To help collate tourism statistics and to improve the quality and availability of tourism statistics
• To supervise the updating of the statistical database of the Azerbaijan Tourism Board and of the statistical information provided on the website
• To establish and promote contacts and cooperation with stakeholders in tourism statistics and representatives of the Tourism Industry
• To establish and promote contacts and cooperation with academics and researchers

Requirements:

• Good education in statistics at the tertiary education level, or demonstrably equivalent abilities
• Experience in working within an empirical research environment and ability to use information technology and related systems (e.g. R, Excel, statistical software packages)
• Experience in cooperation with experts from other disciplines; experience in tourism are an advantage
• Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
• Good English oral and written communication skills

Candidates are requested to send their CVs to [email protected]  until March 07 , 2019.
Please indicate the name of the position (Senior 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.