Data and Analytics Consultant, NYHQ, GPD-Partnership for a Lead Free Future, 11.5 months (Remote/Work from home) #593924

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling.

UNICEF is a place where careers are built. We offer our staff diverse opportunities for professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

Visit our website to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

For every child, the right to a future

How can you make a difference?

The Partnership for Lead-Free Futures (PLF) requires strengthened data collection and analysis to support:

• Strategic resource mobilization and coordination,
• Improved visibility of country-level activities and financing flows, and
• Annual reporting on progress against the PLF framework and indicators.

To meet these needs, PLF seeks a Data & Analytics Consultant to provide technical support for targeted data collection, data management, analysis, and reporting-related analytics, ensuring timely, high-quality datasets and analytical products that inform decision making, advocacy, accountability, and Secretariat-led reporting processes.

The objective of this consultancy is to design and implement a streamlined and fit-for-purpose data cycle that:

• Maps PLF-relevant country projects and financial flows;
• Produces periodic, decision-ready analytical products to support coordination and resource mobilization efforts;
• Provides technical support to the PLF Annual Report process through indicator tracking, data collection and validation, analysis, visualizations, and the compilation of reporting inputs for Secretariat-led reporting products.

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the Terms of Reference here: ToR Data and Analytics Consultant TMS.pdf

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

Minimum requirements:

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Data Science, Economics, Public Health, Development Studies, Information/Data Management, Monitory and Evaluation.

Work Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in data management, monitoring and evaluation, research, analytics, knowledge management, or related fields within global health, environmental health, international development, or humanitarian contexts.
• Demonstrated experience supporting multi-country programmes, partnerships, or initiatives in global health, environmental health, international development, humanitarian, or related sectors.
• Proven experience managing large and complex datasets and producing high-quality analytical outputs, reports, and evidence products for decision-making.
• Experience designing and implementing data collection methodologies, tools, templates, surveys, and reporting systems.
• Experience coordinating partner reporting processes and ensuring data quality, consistency, and completeness across multiple countries or organizations.
• Demonstrated experience translating complex quantitative and qualitative data into clear, actionable insights, visualizations, dashboards, and analytical products for technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience delivery consultancy assignments or technical support services within agreed timeline and quality standards.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills:

• Strong experience in multi country data collection, analysis, and synthesis in global health, environmental health, or development contexts.
• Experience working with multi‑country datasets and partner reporting processes.
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, decision‑ready analytical products, including simple visuals.
• Strong database management skills, including experience in organizing, cleaning, validating, integrating, and maintaining large multi-country datasets from multiple sources.
• Experience analyzing financial data and funding flows, including tracking who is funding what, validating and mapping funding information, creating visualization and comparison and interpreting data to identify funding trends, gaps, concentrations and opportunities.
• Experience designing and managing end-to-end data collection processes, including tool rollout, tracking, and follow-up across multiple stakeholders.
• Experience developing practical data collection tools (e.g. surveys, templates, dashboards) and accompanying guidance for non-technical users.
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver against tight timelines.
• Excellent communication skills and sensitivity in engaging partners at different levels.

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required

Desirables:

• Experience working with UN agencies, multilateral organizations, global partnerships, or international NGOs.
• Experience supporting annual reporting processes, results frameworks, indicator reporting, or donor reporting requirements.
• Experience in environmental health, climate and health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), air pollution, child health, or related thematic areas.
• Experience supporting skills mapping, partner landscape analyses, financial flow analyses, or project mapping exercises.
• Experience working with countries, government counterparts, academic institutions, and civil society partners across diverse geographic regions.

For every Child, you demonstrate Care

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: UNICEF Values

UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). 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 based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. 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, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal(only acceptable in the format of the linked template) Financial Proposal Data and Analytics Consultant .docx

Remarks: If the TOR or financial proposal documents are not visible on certain recruitment platforms, please visit our official page Vacancies | UNICEF Careers.

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Additional information about working for UNICEF can be found here.