HIV Statistics Consultant, OSE, Integrated Health Analytics Unit Florence, Italy remote

OSE, Integrated Health Analytics Unit Florence, Italy

8 months

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UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence.

At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do for as long as we are needed. 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 professional and personal development that will help them reinforce a sense of purpose while serving children and communities across the world. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture, coupled with an attractive compensation and benefits package.

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The Office of Strategy and Evidence (OSE) sets the corporate direction for evidence-informed analysis, strategic planning, programme monitoring, and performance management. Within UNICEF it provides global leadership and oversight for evidence, including the generation, governance, quality, and strategic use of evidence. Within the Office, the Data and Analytics Section serves as the organisation’s primary source of global statistics on children. It leads the collection, validation, analysis, use and communication of the most statistically sound, internationally comparable data on the situation of children, adolescents and women around the world.

It curates administrative records, household surveys, geospatial information, and other large datasets, maintains their quality and public availability through data.unicef.org, and drives investments that help national statistical systems measure what matters most for children.

The Integrated Health Analytics (IHA) seeks to advance UNICEF’s role as a global leader in turning data into action, embedding analytics into decision-making processes at both policy and operational levels.

It works with countries to strengthen and institutionalize capacities to generate robust, reliable, relevant and responsive population level data and analytics that are contextualized, operational, scalable, and aligned with national systems. IHA is central to tracking progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), supporting data-driven programme improvements, and positioning UNICEF as a global leader in health analytics. This unit embodies UNICEF’s commitment to evidence-based action—bridging the gap between data collection and impact, and transforming fragmented data into integrated, actionable insights.

When analytics are timely, trusted, and locally owned, they become powerful tools for improving service delivery by highlighting gaps, informing prioritization of scarce resources, and saving lives

Against this backdrop, the primary function of this consultancy is to improve relevance, quality, availability and use of data and contextual information on children, adolescents and women, with particular emphasis to the areas of HIV/AIDS. The main functions are to support data analyses and database management of HIV related indicators of primary concern to UNICEF, including with quality assurance of data;

to assist in the analysis of core HIV intervention coverage results to inform corporate reports and the strategic Plan; communicating and disseminating findings through different types of media (e.g. webinars, website and corporate reports); and to support other interagency related activities as guided.

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