Career Opportunity: UNICEF Information/Data Specialist Vacancy Available
- Job no: 580874
- Contract type: Temporary Appointment
- Duty Station: Abuja
- Level: NO-3
- Location: Nigeria
- Categories: Health
- Deadline: 15 Apr 2025 W. Central Africa Standard Time
Join UNICEF Nigeria in Abuja as a temporary NO-C level Information Management / Data Specialist focused on polio eradication efforts. You will manage critical data, develop information systems, and provide analysis to support impactful polio programs, contributing directly to child health and well-being in Nigeria. Apply your expertise to this vital mission.
UNICEF is a place where careers are built: they offer their staff diverse opportunities for personal and professional development that will help them develop a fulfilling career while delivering on a rewarding mission. They pride themselves on a culture that helps staff thrive, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.
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Responsibilities
- Build the capacity of the national and state teams on data collection, analysis, and interpretation for polio SBC, gender, and misinformation management impacting outbreak response. This includes the development/update of tools and guidance, technical assistance, in-country training.
- Analyze available pre-campaign, campaign, and post-campaign data for consequential geographies and other states in alignment with the global templates and including vaccine management data.
- Design tools and guidance for gender assessments in outbreak and build the capacity of the national and state on gender assessment.
- Compile and coordinate key performance indicators for SBC.
- Provide data management support to NEOC data management working group and ACSM working group focusing on social data
- Assist state in the design and analysis of rapid qualitative assessments.
- Design training sessions and materials to support the training of trainers (TOT) on social data management for polio outbreaks
- Provide ongoing maintenance and support to program managers on improving and updating the relevant SBC dashboards.
- Document key activities, lessons learned, and best practices from outbreak response activities.
- Support the organization of relevant outbreak response assessments, tracking recommendations, and following up on implementation.
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Requirements
Education:
An advanced university degree (master’s or higher) in Computer science, Statistics, public health or social sciences.
Experiences:
- A minimum of five years progressively working in Information management, analytics, data visualization, Statistics or M&E preferably in a public health setting.
- Experience working with Open Data Kit (ODK).
- Advance knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint.
- Familiarity with SQL, ArcGIS/QGIS/Open Street mapping.
Technical Skills:
- Knowledge of Python and a front-end development framework.
- Familiarity with Kibana, Power BI or Tableau.
- Working experience in UN or other international development organizations
- Familiarity with emergency responses is considered as a strong asset.
- Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency.
Language Requirements:
- Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
