Nutrition Data Analyst Consultancy

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Description

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If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world’s leading children’s rights organization would like to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children’s survival, protection and development. The world’s largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

Purpose of Activity/Assignment:

To primarily support the D&A nutrition team in collating data and undertaking data analysis for the upcoming 2025 Flagship Child Nutrition Report on overweight and obesity throughout the various stages of childhood following the agreed outline. This is an entirely new area of work for the team and a huge undertaking as there are currently limited data to systematically assess the nutritional status and diets of older children. There are no existing datasets that include cross-country comparable data for monitoring diets of children 2+years of age or assessing inequities in nutritional status of children 5+. The incumbent will support the team to develop the first global database on diet data for children 2-19 years of age.

Scope of Work:

• Identify, collate relevant data sources for pre-school, school-age children, adolescents nutrition – The nutrition team currently maintains an internal catalogue of several types of data sources including household surveys, surveillance and administrative systems. The incumbent will be required to undertake a detailed review of all files for individual data sources (including reports, questionnaires, individual level datasets, etc.,) in the catalogue and fill out a standard template containing several fields of metadata for each source. The incumbent will actively search for new data sources, liaise with country and regional offices to identify relevant sources related to the nutritional status and diets of children 2-19 years of age.
• Support data analysis for global databases– The incumbent will be required to develop code or use existing code developed by the team to generate estimates from household surveys for several nutrition indicators especially those related to diets of children 2-19 years of age. Further, support review of new data sources against a set of data review criteria for inclusion in nutrition global databases.

Qualifications:

Education:

• A Master’s degree in statistics, nutrition, public health or related field.

Work experience:

• A minimum of two (2) years experience analysing nutrition indicators using household survey data. Experience analysing diet data is an asset.
• Experience analysing data from large-scale household surveys like MICS and DHS is preferred.

Requirements: 

• Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system
• Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal that will include:
• the costs per each deliverable and the total all-inclusive (lump-sum) fees for the whole assignment (in US$) to undertake the terms of reference.
• travel costs and daily subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or travel is required as per TOR.
• Any other estimated costs: visa, health insurance, as applicable.
• Indicate your availability
• Any emergent / unforeseen duty travel and related expenses will be covered by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the selected candidate must have in place current health insurance coverage.
• Payment of professional fees will be based on submission of agreed satisfactory deliverables. UNICEF reserves the right to withhold payment in case the deliverables submitted are not up to the required standard or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the consultant.

Source: https://jobs.unicef.org/cw/en-us/job/566975

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