Consultancy: Household Survey Data Analyst Consultant - Req. #581656

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Vacancy Announcement: Consultant Consultancy Title: Household Survey Data Analyst Consultant Section/Division/Duty Station: Division of Data, Analytics, Planning and Monitoring (D&A education,  – DAPM ), Florence/ NYHQ  Duration: June 2025 – July 31, 2026 Home/ Office Based: REMOTE About UNICEF  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. 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. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries. BACKGROUND Purpose of Activity/Assignment:   The overarching aim of this consultancy is to support the development and implementation of a streamlined, reproducible workflow for the production of MICS-EAGLE factsheets. These factsheets provide countries with accessible, data-driven insights on key education indicators derived from MICS data. The consultant will enhance and automate the existing R-based workflow to generate standardized factsheets across multiple countries, covering eight core topics and producing over 50 charts per country. In addition to workflow development, the consultant will work with up to six countries to produce customized factsheets, ensuring that estimates are validated against official sources and aligned with national priorities. The consultant will be responsible for writing per-country scripts, maintaining the GitHub repository, and supporting the publication process in collaboration with country offices and ministries of education. All code and documentation will be prepared to ensure long-term scalability and reproducibility of the process. Scope of Work: The Consultant will perform the following tasks:  1. Develop a Per-Country Workflow for MICS-EAGLE Factsheet: o Design and Documentation: • Work with colleagues to build on the update data prep script to produce MICS-EAGLE factsheet using R o Workflow Development: • Create a workflow to automate the production of MICS-EAGLE factsheet (covering 8 topics and with over 50 charts)  • Validate the generated output using sample data and iterate based on feedback o Reproducibility: • Ensure that the code is well-annotated and published on a GitHub repository for future reproducibility and scalability 2. Produce factsheet for new MICS-EAGLE countries (6): o Write per country scripts for factsheet production and maintain github repository • Run MICS-EAGLE analysis using R and produce a country factsheet with findings o Validate the estimates • Cross-check estimates against the MICS Survey Findings Report  o Finalization: • Publish the updated workflow on GitHub with comprehensive documentation and a user guide for future maintenance and updates o Support publication of factsheet • Work with country offices and ministry of education to finalize and publish the factsheet Terms of Reference / Specific Deliverables Workplan and proposal - Document elaborating workplan and proposal for workflow automation 20th Jun 2025 Develop and document workflow for MICS-EAGLE factsheet automation - Reproducible R script that produces MICS-EAGLE factsheet with charts (8 topics, 50+ charts). GitHub documentation with comments and usage guide 30th Sept 2025 Produce MICS-EAGLE factsheet and R scripts for 2 countries - Per-country R script, draft factsheet, validated estimates, GitHub update 31st Oct 2025 Produce MICS-EAGLE factsheet and R scripts for additional 2 countries - Per-country R script, draft factsheet, validated estimates, GitHub update 30th Nov 2025 Produce MICS-EAGLE factsheet and R scripts for additional 2 countries - Per-country R script, draft factsheet, validated estimates, GitHub update 31st Dec 2025 Support the finalization and publication of 6 factsheets - PDF version of 3 factsheets published 28th Feb 2026 Develop a dashboard of MICS-EAGLE analysis -covering all MICS6 countries - Shiny Dashboard 30th April 2026 Finetune and release the dashboard - Shiny Dashboard on data.unicef.org 30th Jun 2026 Draft Blogpost on impact of MICS-EAGLE initiative - Blog 31st Jul 2026 Qualifications (1) Education • Advance University Degree (Masters) in Economics, Sociology, Sta