Under the direct supervision of the PG SPSP HCT team data manager, and in close collaboration with the ICTD Core Solution Unit IT Manager, the consultant will be responsible for the following deliverables:
1. Complete the front end and backend HOPE refactoring coupling within one Docker, Move from Graph QL to Django Rest Framework, ensure Code Coverage ~95%
2. Implement technical measures to pull out grievances’ modules from HOPE stack in order to benefit from independent maintenance across modules.
3. Support the development of a biometrics solution for registration/deduplication and beneficiary authentication, utilizing Voice and Face Photo information.
4. Support the Development of the Country workspace, a system enabling the manipulation of registration data before uploading into HOPE.
5. Refactor deduplication by removing data husband elastic search and enable programme specific deduplication rules
6. Complete Country Report features to allow users to have granular access to HOPE data
7. Achieve HOPE distributed architecture by defining and implementing a technical solution to have different databases (e.g.: per group of time zones) to optimize maintenance time slot and performance
UNICEF seeks to engage an experienced individual consultant to drive the work of designing and establishing the platform to better attract, structure and consolidate funding flows to UNICEF’s global Education Programme, and to create joint ownership and accountability for achieving global goals. It is anticipated that this new approach will attract and leverage new partnerships by aligning with donor priorities and deploying creative financing models to maximize the impact of every dollar invested. The Consultant will also support partner sensitization, strategic communication to position and promote aligning with donor interests and launch of the platform.
The consultant will help define the architecture of the platform, and pathways to operationalize it. This will include the launch of a new partnership platform that enables coordinated and equity-focused allocation of resources together with partners. The platform promotes joint ownership and accountability.
This consultancy will provide critical support to the continued roll-out of the MRMIMS+ system to situations where it is most needed, building on its existing use in 15 situations included in the Secretary General’s annual report on CAAC. Beyond expanding access, the consultancy will focus on strengthening user support, refining tools and guidance, and enhancing system functionalities to ensure the MRMIMS+ is used effectively. By providing technical assistance to both new and existing users, this work will help optimize the system’s efficiency, enabling colleagues to better document, analyze, and report on grave violations against children in armed conflict and other complex emergencies. Additionally, it will contribute to the development of analytical reports to inform global advocacy efforts on child protection in armed conflict.
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the preparation and analysis of education administrative data, with a particular focus on linking administrative sources to household survey data for deeper insight into education system performance. The consultant will work closely with the Technical Working Group and country teams to acquire and clean administrative datasets, build workflows to standardize and integrate EMIS data, and develop reproducible scripts using R.
As part of this assignment, the consultant will support the creation of a linked database across six countries, enabling joint analysis of administrative and household survey data. This will involve producing country-specific factsheets, exploring econometric approaches to respond to national policy questions, and contributing to the validation and finalization of outputs. All scripts and documentation will be maintained on GitHub to ensure transparency and facilitate future updates by teams and country partners
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to build a workflow for processing education data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). The education team maintains a repository of key education indicators by harmonizing MICS surveys, and moving forward, the team seeks to update the workflow in R by building on the existing systems with the support of a consultant. This work will involve leveraging both past and forthcoming MICS data to develop a system for microdata harmonization that produces education indicators. In addition, the consultant will support the country validation exercise, working closely with country offices to validate recent education estimates.
Under the direct supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (Immunization) in the Data and Analytics Section (DAPM), the consultant will focus on enhancing the quality and consistency of immunization and related health databases. This includes expanding and integrating databases to incorporate additional health indicators and environmental factors that may affect immunization coverage. The consultant will also develop and implement a robust BCU monitoring methodology to assess data quality, analyze trends before and after BCU activities, and evaluate performance at national and subnational levels.
The objective of this assignment is to provide comprehensive advisory support to DAPM digital systems by collaborating with concerned units to conceptualize and develop new digital modules and platforms, analyze help desk support systems for efficiency and better user experience and identify opportunities for performance improvements across digital platforms. The consultant will facilitate stakeholder engagement, produce analytical reports, and support the development and rollout of existing and new systems. Additionally, the consultant will coordinate efforts to maximize efficiency, reduce redundancies and enhance overall systems management within DAPM.
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the development and implementation of a streamlined, reproducible workflow for the production of MICS-EAGLE factsheets. These factsheets provide countries with accessible, data-driven insights on key education indicators derived from MICS data. The consultant will enhance and automate the existing R-based workflow to generate standardized factsheets across multiple countries, covering eight core topics and producing over 50 charts per country.
In addition to workflow development, the consultant will work with up to six countries to produce customized factsheets, ensuring that estimates are validated against official sources and aligned with national priorities. The consultant will be responsible for writing per-country scripts, maintaining the GitHub repository, and supporting the publication process in collaboration with country offices and ministries of education. All code and documentation will be prepared to ensure long-term scalability and reproducibility of the process.
This consultancy aims to strengthen UNICEF’s scientific and research capabilities in the domains of Generative AI, machine learning, and natural language processing for addressing challenging in the domains of children on the move, environmental emergencies, as well as assessment of biases in data and methodologies. The consultant will undertake research and applied data science analysis to drive forward UNICEF’s innovation agenda in key focus areas.
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to work with foundational learning data from past and forthcoming Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). Since 2016, the foundational learning module has been administered in over 50 countries and territories, and about 20 surveys are expected to collect this data next year. The consultant will work with both historical and upcoming data to maintain the database, update code in Stata and R, and manage the GitHub repository. In addition, the consultant will use microdata to support three analytical and knowledge products based on key research questions, which requires familiarity with building dashboards using Shiny in R or creating innovative data visualizations. Lastly, the consultant will support the Learning and Skills Data Lab, focusing on harmonization efforts and maintaining the database in preparation for the lab.
Under the close supervision of the Knowledge Management Manager, the consultant will support the implementation of community activities geared towards building stronger KM implementation in offices. Specifically, the consultant will support in:
• Community management planning and core group coordination
• Roll out of KM community and staff engagement communication efforts
• Planning and delivery of community activities and events
• Implementation of the community recognition programme
UNICEF seeks a Geospatial Consultant who will provide technical and analytical support to activities related to assessing and strengthening connectivity of health programs under both the HealthConnekt and MasterCard Foundation initiative.
The geospatial consultant will support the design, production, delivery and dissemination of spatial information products that will inform analysis of gaps in the availability of internet connectivity at health facilities, CHW distribution, the geographic coverage of health services and target population. The consultant will support country personnel to identify spatial information needs in each country, gather necessary data for the analysis, assess the quality of core input datasets such as HMFLs, CHW master lists and associated registries, and enhance them with connectivity information. The consultant will perform spatial analysis, produce information products for communication with countries and global audiences, and make the outputs available on a global platform.
The consultant will complement the HealthConnekt Country Engagement consultant under the oversight of the DHIS team senior health advisor and geospatial health specialist, as well as the ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence team based in Nairobi. The consultant will support UNICEF Regional and Country Offices in engaging with government counterparts as needed. Additionally, the consultant will be expected to engage with Africa CDC, the UNICEF GIGA and the Community Health team in UNICEF Programme Group.
The consultant will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing and producing high-quality products featuring UNICEF data, in collaboration with D&A focal points.
More specifically, the designer will support the production of a number of data-driven publications and dissemination products on mortality and children on the move. The designer will be responsible for the conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of the publications, and for ensuring broad alignment of the products with UNICEF design standards and branding. Since most of the products will be data-driven with a number of graphs, maps and figures, the designer will need to produce creative and visually appealing final products.
Household surveys such as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) enable countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children and women in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, water and sanitation, and nutrition. For many countries, household surveys have been among the most important data sources used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and informing the public about the situation of children and women.
Household surveys such as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) enable countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children and women in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, water and sanitation, and nutrition. For many countries, household surveys have been among the most important data sources used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and informing the public about the situation of children and women.
We are seeking to recruit an exceptional consultant to provide support for a period of 12 months to develop and implement EOF’s communication strategy across the breadth of its work.
Under the direct supervision of the PG SPSP HCT team data manager, and in close collaboration with the ICTD Core Solution Unit IT Manager, the consultant will be responsible for the following deliverables:
1. Complete the front end and backend HOPE refactoring coupling within one Docker, Move from Graph QL to Django Rest Framework, ensure Code Coverage ~95%
2. Implement technical measures to pull out grievances’ modules from HOPE stack in order to benefit from independent maintenance across modules.
3. Support the development of a biometrics solution for registration/deduplication and beneficiary authentication, utilizing Voice and Face Photo information.
4. Support the Development of the Country workspace, a system enabling the manipulation of registration data before uploading into HOPE.
5. Refactor deduplication by removing data husband elastic search and enable programme specific deduplication rules
6. Complete Country Report features to allow users to have granular access to HOPE data
7. Achieve HOPE distributed architecture by defining and implementing a technical solution to have different databases (e.g.: per group of time zones) to optimize maintenance time slot and performance
UNICEF seeks to engage an experienced individual consultant to drive the work of designing and establishing the platform to better attract, structure and consolidate funding flows to UNICEF’s global Education Programme, and to create joint ownership and accountability for achieving global goals. It is anticipated that this new approach will attract and leverage new partnerships by aligning with donor priorities and deploying creative financing models to maximize the impact of every dollar invested. The Consultant will also support partner sensitization, strategic communication to position and promote aligning with donor interests and launch of the platform.
The consultant will help define the architecture of the platform, and pathways to operationalize it. This will include the launch of a new partnership platform that enables coordinated and equity-focused allocation of resources together with partners. The platform promotes joint ownership and accountability.
This consultancy will provide critical support to the continued roll-out of the MRMIMS+ system to situations where it is most needed, building on its existing use in 15 situations included in the Secretary General’s annual report on CAAC. Beyond expanding access, the consultancy will focus on strengthening user support, refining tools and guidance, and enhancing system functionalities to ensure the MRMIMS+ is used effectively. By providing technical assistance to both new and existing users, this work will help optimize the system’s efficiency, enabling colleagues to better document, analyze, and report on grave violations against children in armed conflict and other complex emergencies. Additionally, it will contribute to the development of analytical reports to inform global advocacy efforts on child protection in armed conflict.
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the preparation and analysis of education administrative data, with a particular focus on linking administrative sources to household survey data for deeper insight into education system performance. The consultant will work closely with the Technical Working Group and country teams to acquire and clean administrative datasets, build workflows to standardize and integrate EMIS data, and develop reproducible scripts using R.
As part of this assignment, the consultant will support the creation of a linked database across six countries, enabling joint analysis of administrative and household survey data. This will involve producing country-specific factsheets, exploring econometric approaches to respond to national policy questions, and contributing to the validation and finalization of outputs. All scripts and documentation will be maintained on GitHub to ensure transparency and facilitate future updates by teams and country partners
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to build a workflow for processing education data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). The education team maintains a repository of key education indicators by harmonizing MICS surveys, and moving forward, the team seeks to update the workflow in R by building on the existing systems with the support of a consultant. This work will involve leveraging both past and forthcoming MICS data to develop a system for microdata harmonization that produces education indicators. In addition, the consultant will support the country validation exercise, working closely with country offices to validate recent education estimates.
Under the direct supervision of the Statistics and Monitoring Specialist (Immunization) in the Data and Analytics Section (DAPM), the consultant will focus on enhancing the quality and consistency of immunization and related health databases. This includes expanding and integrating databases to incorporate additional health indicators and environmental factors that may affect immunization coverage. The consultant will also develop and implement a robust BCU monitoring methodology to assess data quality, analyze trends before and after BCU activities, and evaluate performance at national and subnational levels.
The objective of this assignment is to provide comprehensive advisory support to DAPM digital systems by collaborating with concerned units to conceptualize and develop new digital modules and platforms, analyze help desk support systems for efficiency and better user experience and identify opportunities for performance improvements across digital platforms. The consultant will facilitate stakeholder engagement, produce analytical reports, and support the development and rollout of existing and new systems. Additionally, the consultant will coordinate efforts to maximize efficiency, reduce redundancies and enhance overall systems management within DAPM.
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the development and implementation of a streamlined, reproducible workflow for the production of MICS-EAGLE factsheets. These factsheets provide countries with accessible, data-driven insights on key education indicators derived from MICS data. The consultant will enhance and automate the existing R-based workflow to generate standardized factsheets across multiple countries, covering eight core topics and producing over 50 charts per country.
In addition to workflow development, the consultant will work with up to six countries to produce customized factsheets, ensuring that estimates are validated against official sources and aligned with national priorities. The consultant will be responsible for writing per-country scripts, maintaining the GitHub repository, and supporting the publication process in collaboration with country offices and ministries of education. All code and documentation will be prepared to ensure long-term scalability and reproducibility of the process.
This consultancy aims to strengthen UNICEF’s scientific and research capabilities in the domains of Generative AI, machine learning, and natural language processing for addressing challenging in the domains of children on the move, environmental emergencies, as well as assessment of biases in data and methodologies. The consultant will undertake research and applied data science analysis to drive forward UNICEF’s innovation agenda in key focus areas.
The overarching aim of this consultancy is to work with foundational learning data from past and forthcoming Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS). Since 2016, the foundational learning module has been administered in over 50 countries and territories, and about 20 surveys are expected to collect this data next year. The consultant will work with both historical and upcoming data to maintain the database, update code in Stata and R, and manage the GitHub repository. In addition, the consultant will use microdata to support three analytical and knowledge products based on key research questions, which requires familiarity with building dashboards using Shiny in R or creating innovative data visualizations. Lastly, the consultant will support the Learning and Skills Data Lab, focusing on harmonization efforts and maintaining the database in preparation for the lab.
Under the close supervision of the Knowledge Management Manager, the consultant will support the implementation of community activities geared towards building stronger KM implementation in offices. Specifically, the consultant will support in:
• Community management planning and core group coordination
• Roll out of KM community and staff engagement communication efforts
• Planning and delivery of community activities and events
• Implementation of the community recognition programme
UNICEF seeks a Geospatial Consultant who will provide technical and analytical support to activities related to assessing and strengthening connectivity of health programs under both the HealthConnekt and MasterCard Foundation initiative.
The geospatial consultant will support the design, production, delivery and dissemination of spatial information products that will inform analysis of gaps in the availability of internet connectivity at health facilities, CHW distribution, the geographic coverage of health services and target population. The consultant will support country personnel to identify spatial information needs in each country, gather necessary data for the analysis, assess the quality of core input datasets such as HMFLs, CHW master lists and associated registries, and enhance them with connectivity information. The consultant will perform spatial analysis, produce information products for communication with countries and global audiences, and make the outputs available on a global platform.
The consultant will complement the HealthConnekt Country Engagement consultant under the oversight of the DHIS team senior health advisor and geospatial health specialist, as well as the ICTD Digital Centre of Excellence team based in Nairobi. The consultant will support UNICEF Regional and Country Offices in engaging with government counterparts as needed. Additionally, the consultant will be expected to engage with Africa CDC, the UNICEF GIGA and the Community Health team in UNICEF Programme Group.
The consultant will be responsible for conceptualizing, designing and producing high-quality products featuring UNICEF data, in collaboration with D&A focal points.
More specifically, the designer will support the production of a number of data-driven publications and dissemination products on mortality and children on the move. The designer will be responsible for the conceptualization, design, layout, picture selection and typesetting of the publications, and for ensuring broad alignment of the products with UNICEF design standards and branding. Since most of the products will be data-driven with a number of graphs, maps and figures, the designer will need to produce creative and visually appealing final products.
Household surveys such as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) enable countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children and women in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, water and sanitation, and nutrition. For many countries, household surveys have been among the most important data sources used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and informing the public about the situation of children and women.
Household surveys such as the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) and Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) enable countries to produce statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a range of indicators on the situation of children and women in areas such as health, education, early childhood development, child protection, water and sanitation, and nutrition. For many countries, household surveys have been among the most important data sources used for situation analyses, policy decisions, programme interventions, and informing the public about the situation of children and women.
We are seeking to recruit an exceptional consultant to provide support for a period of 12 months to develop and implement EOF’s communication strategy across the breadth of its work.
