About UNICEF: Employment
Senior Statistics Specialist (Monitoring), P-5, Policy and Practice, New York Headquarters
If you are a passionate and committed professional and want to make a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you. UNICEF seeks a Senior Statistics Specialist (Monitoring) to be based in its Policy and Practice Division, New York Headquarters.
In the context of improving availability and use of data on children and women throughout UNICEF, both HQ and field, and across the UN system: you will coordinate, advise and provide support at global, regional and country level for the implementation of UNICEF’s strategy on goal monitoring and statistics; you will develop and maintain a corporate database on key social indicators and promote its use in corporate planning, policy formulation, programme design, advocacy and flagship publications; you will develop and maintain effective inter-agency cooperation and liaison with the main institutional partners, in particular UNAIDS, WHO, WB, PEPFAR, national governments, academic institutions and other partners with related interests.
You will ultimately responsible for planning and coordinating all activities relating to goal monitoring and statistics of HIV/AIDS to ensure that all project objectives are met on time, and on budget, and to ensure that expectations are met or surpassed.
Your profile:
Advanced university degree in one of the social sciences with demography/statistics/epidemiology; strong data manipulation and analysis skills.
Ten or more years of experience at national and international levels in social statistics, surveys, data analysis and other areas of applied statistics, information systems and data interpretation and use in sectors of concern to UNICEF, such as in health and HIV/AIDS. At least seven years experience in technical cooperation work with developing countries in these areas.
Core Values: Diversity and Inclusion, Integrity, Commitment.
Core Competencies: Communication, Working with people, Drive for Results.
Functional Competencies: Deciding and Initiating Action, Leading and Supervising, Relating and Networking, Persuading and Influencing, Applying Technical Expertise, Analyzing, Formulating Strategies and Concepts, Planning and Organizing, Adapting & Responding to Change, Coping with Pressure and Setbacks and Entrepreneurial Thinking.
Fluency in English and in another UN language required.
If you have got experience of working in a similar capacity and want to make an active and lasting contribution to build a better world for children, send a detailed curriculum vitae in English, AND a duly completed United Nations Personal History form (available at www.unicef.org/employ), quoting VN-09-713 to: recruit.PME@unicef.org. Applications should be received by 10 November 2009. Only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.
UNICEF’s salary and benefits package is based on the United Nations Common System; visit www.un.org/Depts/OHRM/salaries_allowances for further information.
UNICEF is committed to gender equality in its mandate and its staff. Well qualified candidates, particularly women are strongly encouraged to apply.
