About The Position
The purpose of this assignment is to support UNICEF senior management's engagement in the Humanitarian Restart and UN80 in relation to humanitarian planning, humanitarian coordination, and humanitarian data. This includes IASC principals and deputies, as well as the UN80 Humanitarian Group on issues related to the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC), data, and the Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF). The consultancy will also facilitate information gathering from UNICEF regional and country offices to collect feedback and lessons learned during implementation. This role is transitional in support to EMOPS sections dealing with humanitarian data, interagency coordination and planning, anticipating increased volume and complexity of work in 2026.
Requirements
- Master’s degree in social sciences, public policy or public administration, international relations, international development, humanitarian affairs, or other related fields or a related field is required.
- A minimum of eight (8) years of relevant progressively responsible professional experience at the national / international level in assessment of humanitarian needs, planning and monitoring; programme management and coordination/clusters in humanitarian contexts.
- Fluency in English (written and spoken) is required.
- Experience in interagency humanitarian needs assessment, data management and planning, including with the Cluster/sector systems
- Experience with UNICEF’s planning and monitoring policies, procedures and systems.
- Familiarity with the Humanitarian Reset, including the JIAF 2.0 methodologies.
- Familiarity with Humanitarian Data systems (e.g. HDX), and clusters data systems, and issues around beneficiary data sharing, data governance and ethics, and the use of A.I.
- Strong writing skills for reports, compendiums, and guidance documents and systematization processes.
- Ability to simplify complex information.
- Ability to produce quality analysis/and briefs using data
- Capacity in knowledge management to ensure proper organization and use of resources collected and developed.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
- Experience working with diverse teams and partners.
- Proven ability to manage timelines and deliver high-quality outputs.
Nice To Haves
- Knowledge of another official UN language is an asset.
Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to reinforce UNICEF’s leadership in humanitarian action for children and in key humanitarian sectors, particularly in relation to planning processes, evidence generation, and data management within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee scope specially for the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC)
- Provide expert advice and review technical guidance to improve and simplify global processes in relation to current changes (humanitarian reset, UN80)
- Offer strategic recommendations on the use of sectoral and cluster information and analysis (sourced via the IM Pool a GCCS) to strengthen global HPC products
- Gather, analyze and synthesize UNICEF country office experiences in the HPC implementation to generate evidence-based insights. This includes identifying challenges related to boundary settings, prioritization and targets capping.
- Advice on the alignment of JIAF guidance for HNOs/HNRPs and the Humanitarian Reset and simplification/streamlined process with UNICEF child centered systems/approaches- including UNICEF led clusters systems), in relation to needs assessment, fundraising, programme planning, and monitoring.
- Provide technical support and backbone role for UNICEF with an integrated approach in forums related to inter-cluster information management issues and humanitarian data:
- Provide technical oversight to ensure IASC data working groups, JIAF1, Severity 5 assessments, and IM task forces adopt common data standards and ethical principles.
- Aligning GCCS IM pool and joint cluster/PG initiatives (e.g., WASH Insecurity Analysis, IPC) with UNICEF’s governance framework.
- Support development and integration of data platforms that connect cluster-level systems with other global coordination mechanisms.
- Use the IM Pool for GCCS to strengthen data literacy and analytical capacity in clusters and sectors.
- Provide surge and transition support to countries phasing out HC or cluster systems, ensuring continuity of data-driven decision-making.
- Convene joint analysis workshops and promote integrated data-sharing agreements across clusters.
- Support the humanitarian data innovation task force with EMOPS (optimizing data from GCCS, RAPS etc) and DPAM for interoperability of UNICEF data.
- Communicating changes in the interagency space need to be accommodated in new and revised UNICEF governance documents to relevant teams.
- Acknowledging the current transition of responsibilities and changes in capacity, this consultancy should plan for the governance of the work above beyond 2026.
- Attendance and participation in Data Quint meetings with DAPM (OSE)
Benefits
- attractive compensation and benefits package
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Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
