Data Collection Clerk - Committee on Missing Persons

About the role

The UNDP Projects Management Office in Nicosia, Cyprus, is recruiting a Data Collection Clerk for the Committee on Missing Persons in Cyprus (CMP) project. The project aims to recover, identify and return the remains of persons who went missing during the inter-communal fighting of 1963-1964 and the events of 1974, and to foster reconciliation between the two communities. The clerk is based in the CMP Greek Cypriot Member's Office, reports to the UNDP Project Analyst and works closely with the CMP and UNDP teams.

Key responsibilities

• Support research on the fate of missing persons: collecting, analysing, reviewing and reporting information, including interviewing witnesses or informants and researching archives, newspapers and social media.
• Help identify potential burial sites and last-seen places, review and give feedback on them, and update the CMP database with relevant information.
• Report on activities, deliverables and milestones, and attend meetings with relatives of missing persons under strict data protection and confidentiality standards.
• Collaborate with the CMP archaeological team before and during excavations, conduct site visits, and communicate with CMP geneticists on cases undergoing genetic analysis.
• Take part in staff training and perform other duties needed for the office and organisation.

Required profile

• Secondary education; minimum of 3 years of experience in data collection.
• Fluency in English and Greek; basic Turkish is an asset.
• Nationals or permanent residents of Cyprus are eligible.
• An asset: good understanding of the sensitive, bi-communal work of CMP, experience in bi-communal actions, knowledge of Cyprus's modern history, forensic investigation or missing persons experience, and a certificate in criminology or a similar subject.

Required skills

• Research: collecting and analysing information from a variety of sources such as archives, newspapers and social media.
• Interviewing witnesses or informants sensitively and professionally.
• Critical evaluation of information and evidence to propose potential burial sites.
• Maintaining a database on missing persons and potential burial sites.
• Microsoft Office tools.