Planning Monitoring Evaluation & Data Analyst Consultant, Accra - Ghana, (Open to Ghanaian nationals only) 11 months

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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, Future

The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, always and in everything the organization does in programs, in advocacy and in operations. UNICEF is committed to ensure special protection for the most disadvantaged and excluded children and families, and to translate this commitment to children's rights into action. For UNICEF, all children should have the opportunity to survive, develop and reach their full potential, without discrimination, bias or favoritism. To the degree that any child has an unequal chance in life - in its social, political, economic, civic, and cultural dimensions - her or his rights are violated. Evidence shows that investing in the health, education and protection of a society's most disadvantaged citizens will give all children the opportunity to fulfill their potential. It will also lead to sustained growth and stability of countries which can accelerate progress towards realizing the human rights of all children, which is the universal mandate of UNICEF, as outlined by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, while also supporting the inclusive and equitable development of nation.

The consultancy assignment in the next 11 months will support the PME section with data entry, data processing, knowledge management enhancement and production of data dashboards for a range of databases from administrative data from UNICEF partners and national survey data analysis and visualization.

How can you make a difference?

The Individual Consultant will be focused on databases such as ISS, DHIMS, EMIS, BaSIS, UNICEF RAM to clean, analyze and keep up to date reports and dashboards. A key component of the work will be data visualization by keeping up to data Power Bi reports on Bi online service. In addition, the work of the consultant is focused on support to knowledge management that will involve collaborating with sections on knowledge capturing to identify important publication worthy content including supporting the entire knowledge management continuum for the office. The work will also entail supporting the planning unit with reporting and updating of office data platforms.

Specific deliverables of the assignment will be the following:

1) Support with entries into RAM during mid-year and end of year reporting. 2) Work with sections to identify successful interventions to turn into knowledge products. 3) Set up, coordinate, and follow up on an office knowledge documentation for procedures, processes, meetings, and reporting including setting up and keeping KM collaboration site. 4) Development of Dashboards for data visualization. ISS, SWIMS, KRC and Emergency mapping. 5) Developing Knowledge management products and developing infographics and fact sheets. 6) Population and housing census Thematic analysis. Developing Infographics to highlight the main indicators

Deliverables/Outputs

1. 4 dashboards created
2. Develop documentation directories of UNICEF processes and procedures and key documents
3. Complete update of content and maintain knowledge management collaboration site
4. End of year RAM reporting completed with section updates
5. 5 sections supported to maintain vibrant collaboration sites
6. Power Bi report on end-year RAM reporting created.
7. Extract key knowledge items from RAM and support with a minimum of 3 publication.
8. A minimum of 5 knowledge products developed

Kindly provide your financial proposal as per the deliverables by completing the attached Planning Monitoring Evaluation- Budget Proposal.docx.

To qualify as a

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Economics, Development Management etc.
• A minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience in data analytics, planning, monitoring and evaluation.
• High proficiency in data modelling, visualization and data analysis.
• Background in Advanced Excel and Power BI is an advantage.
• Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency is considered an asset.
• Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

To view our competency framework, please visit 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 offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.