Administrative Data Analyst; DAPM; Data and Analytics Education Section NYHQ, remote. Req#581696

Consultancy Title: Administrative Data Analyst

Division/Duty Station: Division of Analysis, Planning & Monitoring, DAPM; Data and Analytics Education

Duration: 30 June 2025 – 31 July 2026

Home/ Office Based: Remote

About UNICEF

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.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the preparation and analysis of education administrative data, with a particular focus on linking administrative sources to household survey data for deeper insight into education system performance. The consultant will work closely with the Technical Working Group and country teams to acquire and clean administrative datasets, build workflows to standardize and integrate EMIS data, and develop reproducible scripts using R.

As part of this assignment, the consultant will support the creation of a linked database across six countries, enabling joint analysis of administrative and household survey data. This will involve producing country-specific factsheets, exploring econometric approaches to respond to national policy questions, and contributing to the validation and finalization of outputs. All scripts and documentation will be maintained on GitHub to ensure transparency and facilitate future updates by teams and country partners.

Scope of Work:

The Consultant will perform the following tasks:

1. Working with countries to acquire, clean and prepare education administrative sources for analysis
   • Work with Technical Working Group to acquire administrative data
   • Design and Documentation:
   • Work with colleagues to build on the update data prep script to clean data (merging data, resolving merge issues, cleaning category variables, calculating aggregations
   • Workflow Development:
   • Create a workflow to clean and prepare EMIS data, link EMIS data to household survey data
   • Validate the generated output and iterate based on feedback
   • Reproducibility:
   • Ensure that the code is well-annotated and published on a GitHub repository for future reproducibility and scalability
2. Produce analysis using administrative and household data (6 countries):
   • Analyse and explore econometric methods to analyse the linked data to respond to country needs
   • analysis using R and produce a country factsheet with findings
   • Validate the estimates
   • Finalization:
   • Publish the updated workflow on GitHub with comprehensive documentation and a user guide for future maintenance and updates
   • Support publication of factsheet
   • Work with country offices and ministry of education to finalize and publish the analysis

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline

1. Workplan and proposal

• Development of Workplan and proposal

20 July 2025

2. Work with Technical Working Group to acquire and prepare administrative education data

• For 3 countries, processed (cleaned, merged, generated new variables, and prepared for analysis) EMIS data from national administrative sources. This includes relevant variables from EMIS and other sources, with cleaned datasets, binary/categorical variables, and reproducible R scripts for analysis

30 August 2025

30 September 2025

31 October 2025

3. Develop and document workflow to clean EMIS data and link it to household survey data

• Three Merged EMIS and household survey data, with a reproducible, well-documented R script for cleaning and merging, posted on GitHub with an example dataset or usage instructions

30 November 2025

4. Produce analysis and factsheets using administrative and household data (3 countries)

• Three Country-level analytical products , with reproducible R codes for analysis, analytical outputs, summary notes, and validated results

31 January 2026

31 March 2026

31 May 2026

5. Finalize and publish full workflow and support dissemination

• Published GitHub repo with complete workflow, user guide, and documentation along with final factsheets prepared with country offices

31 July 2026

Qualifications

Education: Advanced university degree in Economics. Sociology, Statistics, Education, Social Sciences, or other related discipline

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:

1. Advanced Data Analytic Proficiency:

• Demonstrable expertise in data analysis with a strong command of statistical software, with an emphasis on R programming skills as a significant asset. The candidate must be adept at utilizing these tools for complex data manipulation, analysis, and visualization to support decision-making processes. Skills/familiarity with Stata and/or SPSS is an advantage.

2. Reproducible Research Techniques:

• Proficiency in using GitHub for version control, with a proven track record of developing and maintaining reproducible codes. This skill is critical for ensuring transparency, consistency, and collaborative potential in all analytical work.

3. Sector-Specific Experience with MICS and other household survey data:

• In-depth knowledge and practical experience in handling, interpreting, and analyzing education data from the Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) household survey program. This experience is crucial for generating actionable insights from large datasets. Experience with producing educational estimates from DHS and other household surveys is an advantage.

4. Project Management in Education Data:

• A history of effectively managing education data projects, demonstrating a capacity to oversee complex tasks from inception through to completion while maintaining high standards and meeting deadlines.

5. Collaborative Work with Educational Authorities:

• A background in working collaboratively with Ministries of Education, aiding in data project delivery. This includes providing technical support, facilitating capacity-building initiatives, and ensuring that data projects align with educational policies and goals

6. Delivery of Donor-Specific Outputs:

Experience in creating and delivering high-quality donor products, such as reports and presentations, that align with donor requirements and effectively communicate the outcomes of education data analysis

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and

• Upload copy of academic credentials
• Financial proposal that will include/ reflect :
  • the costs per each deliverable and the total lump-sum 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, and living costs 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.

U.S. Visa information:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, should the selected candidate and his/her household members reside in the United States under a different visa, the consultant and his/her household members are required to change their visa status to G4, and the consultant’s household members (spouse) will require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to be able to work, even if he/she was authorized to work under the visa held prior to switching to G4.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process

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UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks:

Individuals engaged under a consultancy will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants. Consultants are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.

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