Data and Analytics Consultant, NYHQ, GPD-Partnership Lead Remot

Data and Analytics Consultant, NYHQ, GPD-Partnership for a Lead Free Future, 11.5 months (Remote/Work from home) #593924

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Contract type: Consultant
Duty Station: New York
Level: Consultancy
Location: United States
Categories: WASH (Water, Sanitation and Hygiene)

The Partnership for Lead-Free Futures (PLF) requires strengthened data collection and analysis to support:

• Strategic resource mobilization and coordination
• Improved visibility of country-level activities and financing flows
• Annual reporting on progress against the PLF framework and indicators

To meet these needs, PLF seeks a Data & Analytics Consultant to provide technical support for targeted data collection, data management, analysis, and reporting-related analytics, ensuring timely, high-quality datasets and analytical products that inform decision making, advocacy, accountability, and Secretariat-led reporting processes.

The objective of this consultancy is to design and implement a streamlined and fit-for-purpose data cycle that:

• Maps PLF-relevant country projects and financial flows
• Produces periodic, decision-ready analytical products to support coordination and resource mobilization efforts
• Provides technical support to the PLF Annual Report process through indicator tracking, data collection and validation, analysis, visualizations, and the compilation of reporting inputs for Secretariat-led reporting products

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have:

Education: Bachelor's Degree in Data Analytics, Statistics, Data Science, Economics, Public Health, Development Studies, Information/Data Management, Monitoring and Evaluation

Work Experience:

• At least 5 years of progressively responsible professional experience in data management, monitoring and evaluation, research, analytics, knowledge management, or related fields within global health, environmental health, international development, or humanitarian contexts
• Demonstrated experience supporting multi-country programmes, partnerships, or initiatives in global health, environmental health, international development, humanitarian, or related sectors
• Proven experience managing large and complex datasets and producing high-quality analytical outputs, reports, and evidence products for decision-making
• Experience designing and implementing data collection methodologies, tools, templates, surveys, and reporting systems
• Experience coordinating partner reporting processes and ensuring data quality, consistency, and completeness across multiple countries or organizations
• Demonstrated experience translating complex quantitative and qualitative data into clear, actionable insights, visualizations, dashboards, and analytical products for technical and non-technical audiences
• Experience delivery consultancy assignments or technical support services within agreed timeline and quality standards

Knowledge/Expertise/

Skills:

• Strong experience in multi country data collection, analysis, and synthesis in global health, environmental health, or development contexts
• Experience working with multi-country datasets and partner reporting processes
• Ability to translate complex data into clear, decision-ready analytical products, including simple visuals
• Strong database management skills, including experience in organizing, cleaning, validating, integrating, and maintaining large multi-country datasets from multiple sources
• Experience analyzing financial data and funding flows, including tracking who is funding what, validating and mapping funding information, creating visualization and comparison and interpreting data to identify funding trends, gaps, concentrations and opportunities
• Experience designing and managing end-to-end data collection processes, including tool rollout, tracking, and follow-up across multiple stakeholders
• Experience developing practical data collection tools (e.g. surveys, templates, dashboards) and accompanying guidance for non-technical users
• Strong project management skills, with the ability to work independently, manage competing priorities, and deliver against tight timelines
• Excellent communication skills and sensitivity in engaging partners at different levels

Language Requirements:

• Fluency in English is required
• Experience working with UN agencies, multilateral organizations, global partnerships, or international NGOs
• Experience supporting annual reporting processes, results frameworks, indicator reporting, or donor reporting requirements
• Experience in environmental health, climate and health, water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH), air pollution, child health, or related thematic areas
• Experience supporting skills mapping, partner landscape analyses, financial flow analyses, or project mapping exercises
• Experience working with countries, government counterparts, academic institutions, and civil society partners across diverse geographic regions

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people…