UN Jobs: Senior Statistics Specialist (Poverty and Gender), New York

• Organization: UNICEF - United Nations Children's Fund
• Country: United States
• City: New York
• Office: UNICEF New York
• Grade: P-5
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Closing date: Wednesday, 21 December 2016

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Job no: 501457
Work type: Fixed Term Staff
Location: United States of America
Categories: Statistics and Monitoring, P-4
Pay Grade: P-5
If you are a committed, creative professional and are passionate about making a lasting difference for children, the world's leading children's rights organization would like to hear from you.
For 70 years, UNICEF has been working on the ground in 190 countries and territories to promote children's survival, protection and development. The world's largest provider of vaccines for developing countries, UNICEF supports child health and nutrition, good water and sanitation, quality basic education for all boys and girls, and the protection of children from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded entirely by the voluntary contributions of individuals, businesses, foundations and governments.
Purpose of the Position
Under the supervision of the Chief of Data Analysis Unit, the Senior Statistics Specialist, Poverty and Gender supervises and leads the staff responsible for poverty, gender and social inclusion monitoring and statistics. The incumbent of the post represents the monitoring work in these areas in a number of internal and external fora and thus Works in close collaboration with other staff in the section and the division, as well as other UN agencies and organizations.
The primary function of this post is to lead improvement in the quality, availability and use of data on children and women throughout UNICEF. The work focuses on the areas highlighted by the Strategic Plan, mainly poverty, gender and social inclusion. This post Supervises and guides the core areas of monitoring work on poverty, gender and Social inclusion - development of measurement methodologies, Compilation of data for global reporting, data analysis, and capacity development/technical support to countries. This function is carried out in Collaboration with main institutional partners, national governments, and other organizations with expertise in this area.
Key Accountabilities and Duties & Tasks

• Overall leadership and oversight of social inclusion monitoring work
• Lead overall strategic thinking and direction of poverty and gender monitoring and Support to the organization,
• Lead overall development and establishment of poverty and gender monitoring
• Work plan and reporting,
• Monitor deliverables against work plan, and provide support and guidance to ensure objectives are met.
• Technical leadership, advice and quality assurance of social inclusion monitoring work
• Provide technical leadership on poverty and gender core monitoring activities (methodological Work, data Collection and Compilation, analysis, capacity development etc.)
• Provide technical input and review all major poverty and gender monitoring deliverables for quality assurance, with special attention to publications and country support work,
• Lead in developing monitoring guidelines, tools, processes, and approaches to support country, regional and global monitoring of poverty and gender programmes,
• Lead the generation of poverty and gender evidence for use in country, regional and global advocacy and programmes.
• Strategic partnerships and representation in poverty and gender monitoring collaborations
• Represent UNICEF and provide its perspective in high level national, regional, global, UN, and other initiatives and events,
• Leading and promoting inter-agency monitoring and Consultative processes,
• Initiating opportunities for South to South collaboration, especially for poverty and gender monitoring and evaluation and technical support to countries.
• Manage the staff, budgets, and coordinate poverty and gender monitoring activities
• Overall accountability for the management of poverty and gender monitoring work, financial allocations and efficient and effective use of resources,
• Oversee staff accountability, learning and career management,
• Supervise, manage, and direct technical staff, including appraisal of staff performance,
• Brief the Senior management adequately on current activities and issues,
• Communicate Standards of performance, and assign responsibilities for achieving results according to the defined tasks,
• Ensure cordial staff relations, motivation, and team-building.

Qualifications of Successful Candidate

• An advanced university degree (Master's or higher) in economics, demography, statistics, Social sciences or a directly-related technical field(s) is required.
• A minimum of 12 years of professional experience at the national and international levels in poverty, gender and Social inclusion analysis, data collection, measurement methodological development and other areas of applied statistics, data interpretation is required.
• Previous work experience in technical cooperation work with lower and middle income countries in these areas is required.
• Prior experience in supervisory capacity is required.
• Previous work experience with large-scale household Surveys, particularly MCS and DHS is highly desirable.
• Previous work experience writing technical reports and/or peer reviewed journal articles is highly desirable.
• Fluency in English (written & verbal) is required. Knowledge of an additional UN Language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian and Spanish) is considered an asset.

Competencies of Successful Candidate
Core Values

• Commitment
• Diversity and Inclusion
• Integrity

Core competencies

• Communication - Level III
• Working with People - Level III
• Drive for Results - Level III

Functional Competencies

• Leading and Supervising - Level III
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts - Level III
• Analyzing - Level III
• Relating and Networking - Level III
• Applying Technical Expertise - Level III

To view our competency framework, please click here.
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organisation.
Advertised: Nov 29 2016 Eastern Standard Time
Application close: Dec 20 2016 Eastern Standard Time