Independent Trainer-Statistical Literacy

About the role

Responsibilities

• Deliver interactive training to professionals, managers, analysts, and senior specialists.
• Adapt examples to ADEK’s education and regulatory context for UAE/GCC delivery.
• Facilitate discussion of privacy, transparency, responsible interpretation, and ethical communication.
• Guide participants in weighing conflicting evidence, challenging assumptions, and presenting balanced recommendations.

Required expertise

• Explain how institutional priorities, social context, definitions, classification choices, and stakeholder perspectives influence data collection and interpretation.
• Explain averages, distributions, percentages, rates, trends, sample size, uncertainty, and statistical significance in accessible language.
• Identify misleading averages, inappropriate comparisons, relative versus absolute changes, and unsupported conclusions.
• Address selection, measurement, survivorship, confirmation, and algorithmic bias, plus framing, anchoring, and availability effects.
• Distinguish correlation from causation and recognise confounding variables and evidence limitations.
• Evaluate sampling approaches, survey design, response bias, margins of error, and research reliability.
• Assess chart and dashboard scales, visual framing, missing context, and misleading presentation.
• Facilitate discussion of data privacy, transparency, responsible interpretation, and ethical communication.
• Guide evidence-based decisions by weighing conflicting evidence, challenging assumptions, and presenting balanced recommendations.

Qualifications and experience

• Master’s degree or PhD in Sociology, Social Statistics, Applied Statistics, Behavioural Science, Public Policy, Social Research, or a closely related discipline.
• Demonstrated expertise in quantitative research methods and social or behavioural dimensions of data interpretation.
• Ideally 8–10 years of relevant experience in applied research, data interpretation, policy analysis, behavioural insights, or organisational decision support.
• At least 5 years of experience delivering interactive training to professionals, managers, analysts, and senior specialists.
• Experience with government entities, education authorities, or public-sector research organisations.
• Recognised adult-learning or facilitation qualification is an advantage.
• UAE/GCC delivery experience is preferred; ability to adapt examples to ADEK’s context is stated.