Contract type: Temporary Appointment, Consultant
Level: P-3
Location: Angola, Botswana, Burundi, Comoros, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Rwanda, Somalia, South Africa, South Sudan, Eswatini (formerly Swaziland), United Republic of Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mauritius, Seychelles
Categories: Emergency, Social and Behavior Change
Seeking external candidates only
Contract Type: Temporary Appointment (TA) or Consultancy
Duration: 3 months to 364 days
Location: Countries based in Eastern and Southern Africa
Job Description
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.
Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.
And we never give up.
For every child, hope
Since two years, countries in the ESA region have experienced an alarming increase in the number of new, or re-emerging humanitarian emergencies, including public health (including Ebola, Crimean Congo haemorrhagic fever, yellow fever, wild poliovirus, and Cholera), armed conflicts and natural disasters emergencies.
UNICEF ESAR has prioritized the critical need to support countries to rapidly scale up capacity to prevent, mitigate, and manage ongoing and anticipated emergencies as well as to enhance capacity for preparedness and response to these emergencies.
Purpose
The purpose of this external announcement is to attract suitable Social and Behaviors Change (Data Analyst) candidates interested in working in any of the countries within UNICEF’s East and Southern Africa region to respond to emergencies for the next 36 months. The countries within each region are listed on the following website: http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/index.html.
How can you make a difference?
Key activities & duties
Under the technical guidance of the SBC Specialist Emergencies, the consultant will:
1. Build high-quality evidence system for emergency response by collating, analysing and synthesizing SBC data into periodic reports and dashboards, catering to the needs of different internal and external stakeholders;
2. Provide support to build capacities at national and subnational levels and on all elements related to SBC/RCCE data analysis
3. Support the monitoring and evaluation components of SBC interventions in the country.
In close co-ordination with the UNICEF SBC unit, the data analyst will undertake the following tasks:
1. Submission of an inception report with a data capacity assessment and workplan.
2. Track and document the use of SBC/RCCE evidence emerging from the UNICEF supported interventions
3. Act as liaison person in RCCE coordination mechanisms to encourage collaboration and exchange of information between programmatic interventions and social science and data specialists; provide weekly update on the findings collected and analyzed to support adjustments of interventions in RCCE and other pillars.
4. Overview quality assurance of every data stream collected (including U-Report/Chatbot; hotline reports; social media monitoring; CRAs findings; anthropology related findings).
5. Triangulate data from various data sources and main findings compiled on a fortnightly basis.
7. Final report with an overview of key concerns and challenges with findings and recommendations.
Key Expected Results
The position will be responsible to embed and strengthen SBC data capacity in UNICEF and the RCCE pillar with the aim to strengthen community-centred approaches in the overall public health response. The position will contribute to evidence-based decision-making by UNICEF and partners in emergency response through building and strengthening systems for SBC data collection, analysis, triangulation, visualisation and utilisation including building capacity of UNICEF and partners.
To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…
Education-
- A Master’s degree in social sciences, information management, public health with experience in quantitative data analytics and presentation or any other related field.
- A first level university degree in combination with an additional two (2) relevant experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university
Work Experience-
- Minimum 2 to 5 years responsible work experience in social sciences research and data analysis, including experience in large scale public health response, working with NGOs/UN in/with developing countries, with practical experience in developing methodologies and tools to inform action/programmes/ policies.
- Must have excellent skills in excel and data analytics
- Demonstrated experience in developing dashboards and presenting findings from different sources (methods, tools etc.)
- Experience analysing data from social monitoring systems, monitoring and evaluation work, or other survey work.
- Experience performing data extraction, cleaning, analysis and presentation for medium to large datasets.
- Excellent writing skills planning and coordination skills, with proven ability to work independently.
- Skills in building the capacity of a range of stakeholders including UN, NGOs and local organizations to collect, analyze and utilize data for action.
Additional qualifications:
- An inquisitive and creative mindset, as well as excellent written and verbal communication skills for coordinating across teams and countries.
- Ability to communicate complex ideas in data science to relevant stakeholders.
- A passion for empirical research and for answering hard questions with data.
- Proven record of solving challenging problems in emergency and humanitarian settings.
- A Team Player mentality and desire to collaborate with multicultural and diverse colleagues, as well as work independently.
- Excellent project management skills.
- Experience using Power Bi or other data analytics and interactive visualization software.
- Experience using HTML, CMS management, and specifically Wagtail CMS, is a plus.
- Experience working with the UN and/or one of its entities is an asset but not necessary.
Language Requirement:-
- Fluency in verbal and written English and/or French (depending on the country office’s official language). Knowledge of another UN language or a local language is an asset.
For every Child, you demonstrate…
UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues
UNICEF competencies required for this post are…
Drive to achieve impactful results (1)
Manages ambiguity and complexity (1)
Works Collaboratively with others (1)
Builds and Maintains Partnerships (1)
Innovates and Embraces Change (1)
Thinks and Acts Strategically (1)
Demonstrates Self Awareness and Ethical Awareness (1)
During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.
UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children.
The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children.
All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.
Remarks:
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.
UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions.
Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF.
UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.
Deadline: E. Africa Standard Time