Statistics & Monitoring Specialist (Climate & Environment Lead), (P-4), Fixed Term, DAPM, #126514

UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to succeed in the world’s most deprived youngsters. To avoid wasting their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.

Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in all places, on daily basis, to construct a greater world for everybody.

And we by no means surrender.

For each youngster, a future

The Division of Knowledge, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) was established in 2019 to drive resolution making and organizational studying, enhance effectiveness and achievement of outcomes of UNICEF and its companions to appreciate the rights and enhance the life of each youngster. DAPM promotes the usage of knowledge and monitoring to attain transformative impression on lives of youngsters.

The Division is accountable for driving, shaping and guiding UNICEF’s evidence-informed evaluation, strategic planning, programme monitoring and organizational efficiency administration. As such, DAPM allows the group to ship on ends in a extra coherent method, primarily based on agile and contextualized programming course of, and on knowledge, proof, and evaluation, in addition to the appliance of human-rights primarily based and results-based administration approaches.

The Knowledge & Analytics Crew (DAT) is positioned throughout the Division of Knowledge, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (DAPM) at UNICEF’s New York headquarters. DAT is the hub of UNICEF’s technical steerage, high quality assurance and technical knowledge structure for programme work on knowledge throughout the group. DAT supplies management, strategic and normative steerage and technical assist to UNICEF’s work on producing proof on the state of affairs of youngsters by supporting the gathering, evaluation, understanding and use of sturdy knowledge and statistics, programme knowledge, knowledge science, massive knowledge analytics and knowledge literacy.

The Senior Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (WASH) is the UNICEF HQ focus for WASH knowledge and Chief of the WASH knowledge unit. The incumbent has general duty for growing WASH knowledge requirements, sustaining world databases and analyzing knowledge to tell world programmes and to contribute to world stories on the state of affairs of youngsters. The incumbent can be overseeing the event of a brand new knowledge unit on Local weather and Surroundings throughout the Knowledge & Analytics Crew.  

Beneath the direct supervision of the Senior Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (WASH) and the general and technical supervision of the Chief Statistician, the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (Local weather and Surroundings Lead) is accountable for the event of knowledge requirements and estimation strategies, the combination of knowledge on local weather and environmental dangers into UNICEF world databases, and the evaluation of knowledge on local weather and environmental dangers going through youngsters at nationwide, regional and world ranges. The incumbent works carefully with colleagues in nation and regional places of work and with different groups inside UNICEF headquarters and represents UNICEF in inter-agency and knowledgeable teams on monitoring local weather and surroundings.

How will you make a distinction?

The first function of this publish is to function UNICEF HQ focus for knowledge and analyses associated to local weather and surroundings. The incumbent is accountable for the event of knowledge requirements and estimation strategies, the combination of knowledge on local weather and environmental dangers into UNICEF world databases, and the evaluation of knowledge on local weather and environmental dangers going through youngsters at nationwide, regional and world ranges. The incumbent works carefully with different members of the Local weather and Surroundings Knowledge Unit, together with the P3 Knowledge Science Specialist (Local weather and Surroundings) on the combination of geospatial and different knowledge on local weather and environmental dangers into UNICEF world databases. As local weather and surroundings are cross-cutting the incumbent additionally works with different DAT models, together with the Frontier Knowledge and Tech Unit.

The incumbent works carefully with different groups inside UNICEF headquarters together with Programme Group staff on Local weather Surroundings Vitality and Catastrophe Danger Discount (PG-CEED) and the Workplace of Emergency Programmes Danger Evaluation and Preparedness Part (EMOPS-RAPS). The incumbent additionally works carefully with nation and regional places of work to seek the advice of with nationwide authorities and to compile dependable knowledge for inclusion in UNICEF’s world databases. The incumbent supplies technical assist to construct the capability of nationwide stakeholders to gather and analyze knowledge for the needs of nationwide and world monitoring of local weather and environmental dangers going through youngsters. The incumbent works carefully with different UN companies, universities, nationwide statistical places of work, and different establishments with technical experience on this space.

1. Lead UNICEF HQ knowledge and evaluation on local weather and surroundings

1. Function UNICEF HQ focus for knowledge and analyses associated to local weather and surroundings.
2. Lead the dissemination of knowledge, estimates, analyses and different merchandise to maximise the use for advocacy, programming and planning function.
3. Perform in-depth evaluation and interpretation of knowledge associated to local weather and environmental dangers going through youngsters, together with contributions to UNICEF flagship publications and different main stories and the preparation of technical papers together with peer reviewed journal articles.
4. Present technical recommendation on the supply and robustness of knowledge regarding particular local weather and environmental dangers going through youngsters, together with responding to advert hoc requests from senior administration, Programme Group, EMOPs, Regional Places of work, Nation Places of work, companion organizations and others

2. Undertake methodological work associated to local weather and surroundings

1. Present technical inputs to the methodological growth of indicators and requirements for measurement and monitoring of adaptation and resilience to local weather and environmental dangers; play a key position within the methodological growth of indicators and estimation strategies.
2. Lead the continued growth and refinement of strategies for integrating datasets on child-related dangers and vulnerabilities, and for analyzing nationwide, regional and world developments in adaptation and resilience to local weather and environmental dangers.
3. Play a key position in on-going enhancements in availability, high quality and accessibility of knowledge for resolution making. In collaboration with exterior companions, modify current measurement instruments and develop new instruments the place applicable. Take a look at instruments in subject conditions, develop tips for his or her use and supply assist for implementation at nation stage. 

3. Capability growth and nation assist

1. Present technical assist in knowledge and capability constructing of regional and nation places of work and nationwide stakeholders to systematically monitor local weather and environmental dangers going through youngsters. The incumbent will oversee the event of coaching supplies and assist to ship coaching workshops by delivering displays and offering technical assist and recommendation.
2. Develop capability throughout the group for evidence-based coverage, planning, programming and advocacy by supporting the event of recent methods to visualise and disseminate WASH and environmental knowledge.

4. Strategic partnerships, exterior illustration and useful resource mobilization

1. Construct and keep partnerships with different UN companies or organizations/establishments working in related areas.
2. Lead or take part in interagency monitoring teams and partnerships with regard to local weather and environmental monitoring and statistics
3. Guarantee common sharing of knowledge and associated merchandise with companions on the world, regional, and nation ranges
4. Signify UNICEF at worldwide conferences and different areas of labor as required.
5. Help fundraising actions (together with throughout the broader knowledge staff) and reporting to donors.
6. Contribute to coordination and collaboration throughout the knowledge staff and throughout the division
7. Preserve shut coordination with key inner stakeholders, together with Programme Group, Emergency Operations, Division of International Communication & Advocacy. Public Partnerships Division, and Regional Places of work.

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To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…

• A sophisticated college diploma (Grasp’s or increased) in statistics, economics, public coverage, public well being or one other related topic with sturdy quantitative coaching and expertise. PhD is very fascinating.
• A minimal of eight (8) years of related skilled expertise in knowledge evaluation, knowledge assortment, measurement, methodological growth and different areas of utilized statistics, knowledge interpretation and use, related to local weather and surroundings statistics.
• Expertise within the evaluation of knowledge from environmental and public well being surveillance, meteorological knowledge, local weather change knowledge, earth commentary knowledge and different related sources.
• Expertise writing technical stories and/or peer reviewed journal articles.
• Expertise delivering displays and coaching on knowledge assortment and evaluation to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Sturdy pc expertise together with Microsoft Workplace (Phrase, Excel, PowerPoint), statistical evaluation software program (SPSS, Stata, R).
• Fluency in English is required. Data of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) or a neighborhood language is an asset.

For each Baby, you reveal…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin every little thing we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Constitution: UNICEF Values

UNICEF competencies required for this publish are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (3) Drive to attain outcomes for impression (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

Through the recruitment course of, we check candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges: competency framework here.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, regardless of their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender id, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or every other private attribute.
We provide a wide range of benefits to our staff, together with paid parental depart, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the usage of versatile working preparations.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and targets of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to advertise the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will, subsequently, endure rigorous reference and background checks, and might be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embody the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply extra data to conduct a background test.

Remarks:

The Division is presently present process organizational adjustments, subsequently the precise location of the publish remains to be into account. As such, the chosen candidate has the choice of beginning the task remotely or ought to the candidate transfer to New York, s/he could be anticipated to relocate to a different location because the case could also be, through the contractual interval. 

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the responsibility station, which might be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for IP positions. Appointments are additionally topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Authorities staff which can be thought of for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities earlier than taking over an task with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the suitable to withdraw a suggestion of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is just not obtained, or vital inoculation necessities aren’t met, inside an affordable interval for any motive.

Solely shortlisted candidates might be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of.