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Contract Duration- 6 Months

Working arrangement: Office Based

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.

TERMS OF REFERENCE

The purpose of this assignment is to strengthen the use of the Integrated Data System (IDS) as a core decision-support platform within UNICEF Pakistan.
While IDS has consolidated programme, emergency, and situation monitoring data, its analytical and operational use remains limited. This assignment addresses that gap by shifting focus from system development to generating actionable insights, improving dashboarding and analytics, and enabling programme teams to use data more effectively.
The assignment will also introduce targeted enhancements, including improved data integration, stronger analytical outputs, and light AI-enabled methods for automated summaries and reporting, to support timely and evidence-based decision-making across the office.

Scope of Work:

The consultant will lead the analytical use, enhancement, and progressive expansion of IDS, working closely with the Data and Analytics Unit, ICT, and programme sections. The scope covers:

Analytics and Insight Generation
• Conduct continuous analysis of IDS datasets, including programme, administrative, and survey data.
• Produce structured analytical outputs and briefs using standardized templates and indicator-based interpretation.
• Translate data into actionable insights for programme planning, monitoring, and management decision-making.

Dashboard Development and Scaling
• Design, develop, and maintain dashboards aligned with programme priorities.
• Strengthen visualization, usability, and adoption of dashboards across sections.
• Ensure consistency, clarity, and relevance of analytical products.

IDS Enhancement and Data Integration
• Integrate priority internal and external datasets into IDS.
• Improve data quality, consistency, and interoperability.
• Apply data validation, transformation, and semantic modelling practices to strengthen reliability.

Progressive IDS Releases
• Deliver iterative analytical updates combining data integration, analytics, and dashboards.
• Expand system functionality in line with evolving programme and management needs.

AI-Enabled Reporting
• Introduce AI approaches to support automated summaries, reporting, and data narratives where relevant.

Capacity Building and Adoption
• Strengthen staff capacity to use IDS dashboards and analytical outputs.
• Provide training, mentoring, and guidance materials to promote sustained use across programme teams.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here:  Terms of Reference TMC0002443.pdf

Minimum requirements:

• Education:

Bachelor's degree in data science, Statistics, Computer Science, Information Systems, Data Engineering, Analytics, or another relevant technical field

• Work Experience:

• At least 7-10 years of progressively responsible professional experience in data analytics, integrated data systems, business intelligence, or programme monitoring and evaluation
• Proven experience designing, developing, and maintaining dashboards, analytical products, and decision-support tools for senior management and operational use
• Demonstrated experience working with integrated data platforms, data warehouses, or enterprise data ecosystems involving multiple internal and external data sources
• Strong experience in data integration, ETL/data pipeline processes, data transformation, data quality assurance, and metadata management across diverse datasets
• Experience working with programme, administrative, financial, geospatial, and survey data in complex institutional or development environments
• Experience supporting or maintaining institutional data systems, including troubleshooting, enhancement cycles, documentation, user support, and system sustainability
• Experience applying automation, AI-assisted analytics, or machine learning approaches for reporting, summarization, anomaly detection, forecasting, or operational insights is considered a strong asset
• Demonstrated experience in facilitating trainings, supporting user adoption, and strengthening institutional capacity for data use and analytics
• Experience working in international organizations, government institutions, or multi-stakeholder environments is highly desirable

• Skills:

• Strong expertise in data visualization and dashboard development using tools such as Microsoft Power BI or equivalent platforms
• Proficiency in SQL and programming languages such as Python or R for data transformation, analysis, automation, and quality assurance
• Hands-on experience with Microsoft Fabric, including data engineering, data integration, semantic modeling, and analytics components
• Experience designing and maintaining integrated data pipelines, data workflows, and scalable data architectures across multiple systems and data sources
• Familiarity with cloud-based data ecosystems, data governance principles, access management, and data security practices
• Experience or familiarity with AI and machine learning applications for data analysis, summarization, anomaly detection, forecasting, or workflow automation
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to transform complex datasets into actionable and decision-oriented insights for programme and management use
• Strong communication and facilitation skills, including the ability to explain technical concepts to non-technical audiences and support user adoption through training and engagement
• Microsoft certifications related to Fabric, Power BI, Azure Data Engineering, or Data Analytics are considered strong assets

• Language Requirements

• English Proficient

• Desirables:

• Experience supporting institutional or enterprise-level data systems, including troubleshooting, maintenance, enhancement cycles, and user support, is highly desirable

For every Child, you demonstrate...

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, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal (Please use the given template -  Financial proposal templateTMC0002443.docx

Remarks:  

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.