Consultancy - HIV Data Analytics Consultant, OSE, Integrated Health Analytics Unit Florence, Italy, 8 Months (Remote)

Consultancy - HIV Data Analytics Consultant, OSE, Integrated Health Analytics Unit Florence, Italy, 8 Months (Remote)

Job no: 596362
Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: Florence
Level: Consultancy
Location: Italy
Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

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.

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For every child, the right to education

TERMS OF REFERENCE

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

The Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) sets the corporate direction for evidence-informed analysis, strategic planning, program monitoring, and performance management. Within UNICEF it provides global leadership and oversight for evidence, including the generation, governance, quality, and strategic use of evidence. Within the Office, the Data and Analytics Section serves as the organization’s primary source of global statistics on children. It leads the collection, validation, analysis, use and communication of the most statistically sound, internationally comparable data on the situation of children, adolescents and women around the world. It curates administrative records, household surveys, geospatial information, and other large datasets, maintains their quality and public availability through data.unicef.org, and drives investments that help national statistical systems measure what matters most for children.

The Integrated Health Analytics (IHA) seeks to advance UNICEF’s role as a global leader in turning data into action, embedding analytics into decision-making processes at both policy and operational levels. The IHA is central to tracking progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), supporting data-driven programme improvements, and positioning UNICEF as a global leader in health analytics.It works with countries to strengthen and institutionalize capacities to generate robust, reliable, relevant and responsive population level data and analytics that are contextualized, operational, scalable, and aligned with national systems. It embodies UNICEF’s commitment to evidence-based action—bridging the gap between data collection and impact, and transforming fragmented data into integrated, actionable insights.When analytics are timely, trusted, and locally owned, they become powerful tools for improving service delivery by highlighting gaps, informing prioritization of scarce resources, and saving lives

Against this backdrop, the primary function of this consultancy is to support countries to design, adapt, and implement cross-cutting analytics within AHEAD, with focus on HIV and its integration with other priority health areas. The consultant will work with UNICEF country teams and national counterparts to adapt and deploy automated, reproducible data pipelines, harmonize, quality-assure, and analyse data from HIV and other relevant health services, including immunization, nutrition, and MNCAH; and translate analytical findings into actionable insights for policy, programme planning, and implementation. This work will strengthen country capacity to generate, interpret, and use integrated data equity-focused, and systems-oriented analytics across UNICEF’s health portfolio, supporting the institutionalization and sustainable use of AHEAD approaches within national systems.

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

Education: Master’s University degree in epidemiology, public health, Demography, Applied Statistics, Biostatistics, or a closely related health analytics field.

Work Experience:

• At least 4 years of experience in data analytics, preferably in the health sector.
• Documented proficiency in R, Python or STATA as well as data visualization tools (Shiny, Tableau, Infogram).
• Experience conducting statistical analysis of household surveys (MICS, DHS, PHIA) and administrative data (DHIS2/HMIS}

Language Requirements: Excellent written and oral communication of technical content in English. Proficiency in another UN language is highly desirable.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills: