Data Analyst Specialist

United Nations Population Fund - UNFPA

Nairobi, Kenya

Volunteer Closes 22 Jun 2026 12 days left

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Overview

The Data Analyst Specialist will strengthen results-based management in planning and implementation related to the UNFPA–UNICEF Joint Programme on the Elimination of Female Genital Mutilation.

Key Responsibilities

Generate FGM risk incidence and attitudinal risk incidence from DHIS, MICS, and other surveys for 18 countries.
Generate Subnational Administrative Estimates (SAE) of FGM prevalence from DHIS, MICS, and other surveys for 18 countries.
Feed the FGM social media database from 2008 to 2025 into UNFPA’s Demographic Intelligence from Open Sources (DIOS) platform.
Link geospatial Joint Programme (JP) programmatic data with the above data, FGM social media (DIOS), and Google embeddings.
Pilot test social norm indicators in existing surveillance/health information systems using Open Data Kit (ODK) or Kobo Toolbox.
Pilot test generating FGM data among small or hidden populations using a respondent-driven sampling approach.

Required Experience

3 years of relevant experience.
A technical professional with a strong interdisciplinary background in data science, with extensive experience in statistical analysis using large datasets.
Hands-on expertise in geospatial and artificial intelligence (AI)-driven analysis, applying tools such as QGIS, Python, R, small area estimation models, and large language models to generate epidemiological insights across complex, multi-country settings is preferred.
Demonstrated experience in large-scale data management, including the design and use of data entry systems such as the District Health Information Software 2 (DHIS2 ) and Structured Query Language (SQL).
Experience in the design and operationalization of indicator measurement drawing on survey methodology, respondent-driven sampling, and field surveillance systems, using digital data collection tools including Open Data Kit (ODK) and Kobo Toolbox.

Qualifications

Master's degree in statistics or biostatistics or epidemiology or Public Health with special focus on quantitative/biostatistics track. Public health applications in Computer Science will be an added advantage.

Other Details

Languages Required

English, Level: Fluent, Required

Languages Preferred

Not specified

Contract Duration

12 months (with possibility of extension)

Work Modality

On UN premises

Remuneration

A UN Volunteer receives a Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) per month and is paid at the end of each month to cover housing, utilities, transportation, communications and other basic needs. The VLA can be computed by applying the Post-Adjustment Multiplier (PAM) to the VLA base rate of US$1,602. The VLA base rate is a global rate, while the PAM is country-specific and fluctuates on a monthly basis according to the cost of living. In non-family duty stations that belong to hardship categories D or E, as classified by the ICSC, international UN Volunteers receive a Well-Being Differential (WBD) on a monthly basis. Furthermore, UN Volunteers are provided a settling-in-grant (SIG) at the start of the assignment (if the volunteer did not reside in the duty station for at least 6 months prior to taking up the assignment) and also in the event of a permanent reassignment to another duty station. UNV provides life, health, permanent disability insurances as well as assignment travel, annual leave, full integration in the UN security framework (including residential security reimbursements). UN Volunteers are paid Daily Subsistence Allowance at the UN rate for official travels, flight tickets for the final repatriation travel (if applicable). A resettlement allowance is paid for satisfactory service at the end of the assignment.

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