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Consultancy Title: Database Management Consultancy

Division/Duty Station: Health and HIV Unit/D&A/DAPM

Duration: 1 August 2025 – 31 July 2026

Home/ Office Based: Remote

 

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If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines fordeveloping countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment: 

The Maternal, Newborn, Child, and Adolescent Health (MNCAH) portfolio of the Health and HIV Unit, Data and Analytics Section of UNICEF New York Headquarters maintains and updates the global MNCAH database which is a key source for country- and regional-level MNCAH data. This database is used by a wide range of stakeholders for activities related to SDG monitoring, global, regional and country programme planning and policy advocacy. The MNCAH team is expanding the MNCAH database to align with emerging global health landscape and priorities to include administrative data, modelled data, and subnational data, and to improve timeliness and availability of the data which will necessitate strategic enhancements to the global database workflow. In addition to maintaining the global database, this consultancy will support maintenance and development of data products and data reporting processes such as SDG monitoring, Strategic Plan reporting, and other global reporting processes related to MNCAH. The consultancy will provide technical expertise needed to navigate this process successfully under the guidance and supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Adviser (MNCAH). Another priority of the team is to support countries in strengthening health data analytics and data use in decision making through the Actionable Health Analytics for Decision-making (AHEAD) project which requires additional analytic capacity on the team. The consultancy will support build-out of the AHEAD analytics package and respond to custom analytics requests from the countries.

Scope of Work:

This TOR is to recruit qualified candidate given a substantive scope of work at both global level and country level measurement, database management and monitoring support. Under direct supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Adviser (MNCAH), the consultant will actively contribute to the MNCAH portfolio, focusing on advancing the maintenance, expansion, and functionality of the global MNCAH database while providing data analytics and visualization support to priority countries through the AHEAD project

MAJOR TASKS TO BE ACCOMPLISHED

• Implement routine updates for the MNCAH global database, ensuring it reflects the latest information accurately.

• Expand the MNCAH global database and its indicator set to include emerging areas of interest and incorporate additional data sources, including modelled estimates and the data collected through the MNCAH Joint Reporting Form (JRF)

• Produce MNCAH data visualisation products, including the Adolescent Health Profiles, Children’s Environmental Health Profiles and MNCAH-related dashboards.

• Support curating and quality assuring the data provided for various reporting functions, including the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), State of the World’s Children (SOWC), and Strategic Plan (SP).

• Support country consultation processes, collecting essential information on administrative data and specific data needs.

• Provide the necessary code to successfully incorporate modelled estimates and administrative data to the MNCAH global database.

• Provide technical support in data analytics and data visualization to strengthen country health systems under the AHEAD project

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline

Global level support

1. Extract, process and QA new MNCAH data from various sources to update the global database

- Updated MNCAH global database spreadsheet

August 31, 2025

2. Expanded MNCAH global database covering administrative data and modelled data 

- Code needed to incorporate modelled estimates and administrative data into the global database

September 30, 2025

- Integrated MNCAH database 

October 31, 2025

3. Adolescent Health Profiles

- Curation of adolescent health data

November 30, 2025

- Updated dataset for adolescent dashboard 

December 31, 2025

4. Maintenance and updating of MNCAH data visualization tools and dashboards 

- MNCAH dashboards

January 31, 2026

5. Support for corporate data reporting for SDG report, SOWC report, and Strategic Plan report, and other global reports

- Data tables prepared in the appropriate formats that have been quality assured for reporting 

February 28, 2026

6. Support Joint Reporting Form (JRF) data collection, processing and validation 

- Processed JRF data 

March 31, 2026

7. Undertake and follow up for country consultation Report summarising country consultation support

- Country consultation summary report

April 30, 2026

Country-level support 

8. Support the AHEAD project countries in data analytics, visualization and interpretations

- National and subnational level data analytics products and statistical packages

May 31, 2026

- Supporting interpretations, orientations and explanations of the analysis findings for assigned countries

June 30, 2026

- A summary report on country support

July 31, 2026

Qualifications

Education: Advanced University degree  in data science, computer science, demography, public health, social sciences, epidemiology, statistics, or related field.

• Two years of work experience at the national or international levels in statistical data processing, data analysis, and development/maintenance of statistical databases.

• Proven experience in analysing, compiling, and presenting data, with a focus on MNCAH related areas preferably.

• Demonstrated expertise working with R (preferred), python or STATA 

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *: 

• Two years of work experience at the national or international levels in statistical data processing, data analysis, and development/maintenance of statistical databases.

• Proven experience in analysing, compiling, and presenting data, with a focus on MNCAH related areas preferably. • Demonstrated expertise working with R (preferred), python or STATA.

• Experience with enterprise databases and ETL tools (e.g. Databricks)

• Experience with data visualization software (e.g. Tableau, Power BI) is an asset.

• Demonstrated knowledge of global health data systems.

• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.

• Proven ability to work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary and multicultural environment.

• Proficient in English; knowledge of other UN languages (particularly French) is an asset 

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF's e-Recruitment system and

- Upload copy of academic credentials

- Financial proposal that will include/ reflect :

• • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
  • travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
  • Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, and living costs as applicable.
  • Indicate your availability

- Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.

- At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.

- Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.  

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

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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:  

Individuals engaged under a consultancy 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. Consultants 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.