Job Purpose:
The purpose of this post is to provide UNFPA with a Technical Specialist (Population Data and Estimation in Humanitarian Settings) who will support the production and refinement of Common Operational Datasets on Population Statistics (COD-PS), related population data products, analyses and documentation for Ukraine. This post is located in the UNFPA Ukraine Country Office in Kyiv, and will report to the UNFPA Deputy Representative/Senior Emergency Coordinator in the UNFPA Ukraine Country Office and receive technical guidance and support from the Population and Development Branch at UNFPA headquarters and EECARO Population and Development Regional Advisor.
How you can make a difference:
UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025), reaffirms the relevance of the current strategic direction of UNFPA and focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results capture our strategic commitments on accelerating progress towards realizing the ICPD and SDGs in the Decade of Action leading up to 2030. Our strategic plan calls upon UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build forward better”, while addressing the negative impacts of the Covid-19 pandemic on women’s and girls’ access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and realize our goals.
In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.
UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.
Qualifications and Experience:
Education:
Post-graduate university degree or equivalent in the quantitative social sciences, such as public health epidemiology, statistics, demography, sociology, economics, data science, or related discipline. The graduate or post graduate degree should be directly related to the substantive area identified in the post.
Knowledge and Experience:
- At least 5 years of experience in data collection, analysis, visualization, dissemination, database management and research within an academic or development institution in an international setting
- Strong knowledge of statistical methodologies, including strong competencies in the use of statistical packages such as R, Python, or STATA.
- Experience in constructing subnational population projections in low- and middle-income countries
- Familiarity and/or experience working with refugee and internal displacement data from international humanitarian settings is an asset
- Mastery of demographic methods and statistical techniques for data quality assessment, processing and analysis using a variety of health and population sources (DHS, MICS and population census)
- Ability to provide advice and guidance on the analysis, interpretation and application of data from incomplete and deficient population/demographic data
- Experience and ability in meeting tight deadlines to support humanitarian response and disaster preparedness
- Familiarity and experience with mark-up languages such as MarkDown, RmarkDown, is an asset.
- Strong interpersonal communication skills
- Excellent report writing and compelling oral presentations
- Familiarity with the UN system is desirable
Languages:
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Fluency in English, working knowledge of other languages especially Ukrainian or Russian is desirable.
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