Overview
Support UNICEF senior management's engagement in humanitarian planning, coordination, and data governance, including the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC) and Joint Intersectoral Analysis Framework (JIAF). Facilitate information gathering from regional and country offices to collect feedback and lessons learned.
Key Responsibilities
- Provide technical support to reinforce UNICEF’s leadership in humanitarian action for children in planning processes, evidence generation, and data management within the Inter-Agency Standing Committee (IASC) scope.
- Offer strategic recommendations on the use of sectoral and cluster information and analysis to strengthen global HPC products.
- Gather, analyze and synthesize UNICEF country office experiences in HPC implementation to generate evidence-based insights.
- Advice on the alignment of JIAF guidance for HNOs/HNRPs with UNICEF child-centered systems/approaches.
- 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.
- Align GCCS IM pool and joint cluster/PG initiatives 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.
- Convene joint analysis workshops and promote integrated data-sharing agreements across clusters.
- Support the humanitarian data innovation task force with EMOPS and DPAM for interoperability of UNICEF data.
- Communicate changes in the interagency space to relevant teams.
- Plan for the governance of the work beyond 2026.
- Attendance and participation in Data Quint meetings with DAPM (OSE).
Required Experience
- 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.
- 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.
Qualifications
• 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.
