Statistics & Monitoring Officer

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The Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) was established in 2019 to drive decision making and organizational learning, improve effectiveness and achievement of results of UNICEF and its partners to realize the rights and improve the life of every child. DAPM promotes the use of data and monitoring to achieve transformative impact on lives of children. The Division is responsible for driving, shaping and guiding UNICEF’s evidence-informed analysis, strategic planning, programme monitoring and organizational performance management. As such, DAPM enables the organization to deliver on results in a more coherent manner, based on agile and contextualized programming process, and on data, evidence, and analysis, as well as the application of human-rights based and results-based management approaches. Within DAPM, the data portfolio is managed by two sections: the Data & Analytics Team, led by the Chief Statistician, and the Chief Data Office, led by the Chief Data Officer. The Chief Statistician’s Office focuses on analyzing data on children to support UNICEF programming and advocacy. It also produces and maintains a number of data-related global public goods, such as a global monitoring database of child-related indicators and methodological standards and guidelines to help countries report on a number of child-related SDGs and other indicators. The Chief Statistician office collaborate with all UNICEF divisions and through regional offices to support and sustain the data an analytics capacity at the country offices by providing technical assistance, advocacy and partnerships on data-analytics for children. The Office of the Chief Data Officer collaborates with all UNICEF divisions and through regional offices to country offices to help UNICEF create and sustain (1) Establish safeguards to minimize risks and potential harms to children, UNICEF staff, beneficiaries, and donors associated with data and digital technology, ensuring a responsible and safe digital and data transformation. (2) Implement robust governance of all forms of data at UNICEF, enabling the organization to leverage relevant data for better decision-making and outcomes for children.

This position sits in the Chief Statistician’s Office. Under the supervision of the Statistics & Monitoring Specialist (P4), the Statistics and Monitoring Officer (P2), Nutrition will support improving the quality, relevance, availability and use of data and contextual information on children and women throughout UNICEF. UNICEF maintains global databases on a large number of nutrition indicators and convenes partners and experts to review and provide technical guidance on nutrition monitoring in several areas as child malnutrition, infant and young child feeding etc. The main functions of this job are to support data collection, analyses and database management of nutrition related indicators of primary concern to UNICEF, including with quality assurance of data; to assist in the analysis of core nutrition outcome and intervention coverage results in the MICS and DHS and other nationally representative surveys and some programme monitoring data; disseminating findings through different types of media (e.g. website and reports); and to support other interagency related activities. Work responsibilities will be performed in close collaboration with all Unit team members as well as other staff in the section and the division, UNICEF’s Programme Group, other UN agencies, organizations, and inter-agency groups. In particular, the incumbent will be responsible for:

• Data collection, compilation, analysis and quality assurance
• Capacity development and country support
• Data dissemination and advocacy
• Partnerships and representation
• Software and IT tools
• Data Workflow Methodologies – from data collection to publication

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have… 

Minimum requirements:

• Education: Bachelor or equivalent (First Level University Degree) in Health Administration, Public Health, Nutrition and Dietetics, Statistics, Economics, Epidemiology, Computer Science, Public Health, Public Policy, Social Sciences and any other related fields. An advanced University degree (master’s or higher) is considered a strong asset.
• Work Experience: At Least 2 years of relevant work experience in Nutrition, Statistics, Economics, Public Policy, Infant and Young Child Feeding, Monitoring, Data Collection, Data Analysis, Database Management, Data Dissemination, Data Analysis, Data Collection, Database Management.
• Skills: Nutrition data, Statistical programming, Statistical Software (Stata, SPSS, or R)
• Fluency in English is required. 

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/579830

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