Consultant - Population and Development Branch, Technical Division, New York

  • Level: Consultant
  • Contract type: Consultancy
  • Closing date: 22 Jun 2017 05:00 PM (America/New_York)
  • Duty station:

To provide technical support and research assistance to Population and Development Branch's work on:

  • Strengthening population data systems in humanitarian settings;
  • Generating new insights into the drivers and consequences of adolescent/youth migration to/through major city transit hubs in the Middle East, North and East Africa; and
  • Demographic data quality assessments and descriptive statistical analyses of population/demographic data from refugee and humanitarian settings.

The consultant will be provide qualitative research expertise to PDB’s mixed migration and humanitarian data projects. Responsibilities will include:

  • Overseeing quality assurance of data collection from the field;
  • Overseeing transcription and translation/back-translation;
  • Overseeing coding and analysis of qualitative data;
  • Overseeing background research and literature synthesis;
  • Contributions to preliminary and final reports;
  • Participation in technical meetings, focus group discussions, workshops.

Possible travel to support consultative workshops and/or field work in the Middle East, North and East Africa.

Qualifications and Experience:

  • Experience and advanced training in mixed methods research design, implementation, and analysis – including both qualitative and quantitative methods;
  • Experience providing quality assurance for transcription, translation/back-translation;
  • Skills and experience in qualitative data analysis, including relevant tools (e.g. Atlas.TI, Dedoose, or NVivo, etc.);
  • Strong communication and writing skills compiling synthesizing research/policy reports;
  • Literature review construction and bibliographic database management;
  • Familiarity with statistical programmes (for data cleaning, data management, data processing, data analysis and data visualization):  R, Stata or Tableau;
  • Competence working with productivity software:  Microsoft Office, including MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint. Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets.
  • Familiarity with migration and SRH issues in low-/middle-income countries an asset
  • Language Skills: English (essential), French (preferred) & Arabic (preferred)

Applicants are requested to send a CV with "Migration and Humanitarian Data project" in the subject line to Romesh Silva, rosilva@unfpa.org, with copy to Madeline Sacco, sacco@unfpa.orgby 22 June 2017

 

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