Data Resilience & Emergency Digital Platforms Officer

UNICEF, also known as the United Nations Children’s Fund, is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide. The agency is among the most widespread and recognizable social welfare organizations in the world, with a presence in 192 countries and territories. UNICEF’s activities include providing immunizations and disease prevention, administering treatment for children and mothers with HIV, enhancing childhood and maternal nutrition, improving sanitation, promoting education, and providing emergency relief in response to disasters.

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfil their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. 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 personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. We pride ourselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package. Visit our website (https://www.unicef.org/) to learn more about what we do at UNICEF.

At the core of UNICEF’s universal mandate is our commitment to protect and uphold the rights enshrined in the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) for all children – without discrimination and without leaving any child behind. The rights enshrined in the CRC apply equally to all children in a country, including children who are non-nationals or stateless, refugee and international migrant children. There is growing evidence that investing in the health, education, social protection, and protection of a society’s most disadvantaged residents — addressing inequity — not only will give all children the opportunity to fulfil their potential, but also will lead to sustained growth and stability of countries. A dedicated focus on children on the move is critical to meet the SDGs commitment to leave no one behind. UNICEF’s Strategic Plan (2022-2025) reflects children on the move across Goal Areas and as an important cross-cutting priority, supporting global commitments such as the Global Compact for Safe, Orderly and Regular Migration and Global Compact on Refugees. The Strategic Plan commits UNICEF to a renewed focus on inclusion of children on the move into education, child protection and social protection systems to tackle root causes for forced displacement or unsafe migration, discrimination and exclusion.

The Digital Solutions and Innovation team supports the regional office in Nairobi and 21 country offices in the region to better use technology and innovation to accelerate results for children. The team is seeking a UNV who will assist in providing technical support to enhance regional and country offices data readiness and improved evidence-based preparedness and response across programmes and specifically on:
• Providing technical support to country offices on preparedness and implementation of digital platforms for emergencies emphasizing data resilience and ensuring data securi-ty and privacy for beneficiaries’ data
• Liaise with sectors and governance groups in ESARO to support cross-sectoral work on data analytics using innovation and advance technology for data-driven decision making, trends analysis and predictive data analytics

Under the direct supervision of the Regional Chief of the Digital Solutions and Innovation team, the UN Volunteer will undertake the following tasks:

1. Supporting efforts to Identify and assist in the implementation of cross-sectoral digital engagement tools for data collection, analysis, programme monitoring as well as data visualization approaches

2. Researching the Identification and application of innovative methods (e.g. machine learning / AI, data mining, remote sensing, predictive analytics, etc.) to improve the production, analysis, usage and dissemination of data

3. Supporting rollout of the new global Digital Resilience programme of cybersecurity and information governance with focus on Technology-for-Development and Emergency contexts

4. Supporting the identification, preparedness and implementation of digital platforms for emergencies (i.e.: RapidPro, InForm, DRIP, Primero, HOPE, and IoGT) to ensure swift deployment when needed and adherence to digital resilience principles