Statistics & Monitoring Specialist (Immunization), P-4, Data & Analytics, DAPM

Contract

This is a P-4 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 7 years of experience, depending on education.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 171,387 USD and 220,969 USD.

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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, Hope Data & Analytics (D&A) is located within the Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) at UNICEF’s New York headquarters. D&A is the hub of UNICEF’s technical guidance, quality assurance and technical data architecture for programme work on data across the organization. D&A provides leadership, strategic and normative guidance and technical support to UNICEF’s work on generating evidence on the situation of children by supporting the collection, analysis, understanding and use of robust data and statistics, programme data, data science, big data analytics and data literacy.

How can you make a difference? The primary function of this post is to improve relevance, quality, availability and use of data and contextual information on children and women throughout UNICEF. The work focuses on the areas highlighted by the MTSP and, for this post, gives particular emphasis to immunization plus. This function is carried out in collaboration with main institutional partners, in particular WHO, national governments and other organizations with expertise in these areas.

This will include:

• Identify key immunization-related indicators for monitoring immunization and primary health care programmes, through ongoing assessment of the current data landscape and data science best practices, as well as review of existing approaches, indicators, and measurement tools.
• Expand existing measurement tools such as the Joint Reporting Form; develop new tools to capture immunization programme and child population data; monitor key indicators for global and corporate reporting; and advance modeling of child health outcomes and predictive analytics capacity within D&A
• Test measurement and monitoring tools in field situations, develop guidelines for their use and provide support for their implementation at regional and country level.
• Collaborate with the World Health Organization and other partners on the estimation of immunization coverage and trends and other related programmatic data at the global, regional and country levels.
• Carry out data assessment and analysis of immunization data for inclusion in advocacy materials, evidence-based products, and for programme monitoring and development purposes.
• Coordinate technical inputs into UNICEF programmes on key areas noted in purpose of the post.
• Guide related collaboration with international partners to maximize effectiveness of data science work and to position UNICEF as a leader in immunization data.
• Represent UNICEF in international meetings and fora and in key partner meetings on immunization data and data science related activities.
• Provide technical advice on reporting of immunization-related data as required, including answering requests by senior management and outside agencies and organizations.
• Contribute to developing capacity within the organization for better appreciation of the uses of immunization-related data in policy, planning, programming and advocacy.
• Develop data pipelines, tools to encourage data use, and content for reporting on the situation of children and women in the area of immunization and primary health care.

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

• An advanced university degree in public health, epidemiology, biostatistics, data science, statistics, applied mathematics, economics, or quantitative social sciences
• At least eight years of experience at national and international levels in global health quantitative analysis
• Experience with immunization programmes and working with multiple types of data sources (household surveys, administrative data, supply data, mobility data etc.)
• Strong statistical and modeling competence (estimating and predicting child health outcomes preferred); experience analyzing geospatial data highly desirable.
• Fluency in R or Python highly preferred.
• Strong experience with data visualization tools (e.g. Shiny (preferred), Tableau, PowerBI) an asset.
• Experience using statistical analysis and machine learning methods to surface insights and build data-driven products 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, and Accountability (CRITA).

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

UNICEF is currently undergoing organizational changes; therefore, the exact location of the post has yet to be determined. Selected candidates may commence duties remotely until the location is confirmed. If reassigned or relocated to New York, candidates may be expected to relocate to a new location again during the initial contract or assignment period.