Nutrition Data Analyst Consultancy/Data and Analytics Section/DAPM/Req # 580621

Consultancy Title: Nutrition Data Analyst Consultancy

Division/Duty Station: Data & Analytics Section, DAPM, New York

Duration: 15 April 2025 to 30 June 2026

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / 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. 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. UNICEF has over 12,000 staff in more than 145 countries.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

To primarily support the D&A nutrition team in collating data and undertaking data analysis for the upcoming 2026 Flagship Child Nutrition Report (CNR) and support the finalization of different advocacy products for 2025 CNR. The 2025 report is delayed and now scheduled to be released in September 2025. As a result, data and analysis will need to be updated to ensure that UNICEF’S flagship nutrition report features the most up to data for countries worldwide. At the same time, the team needs to conceptualize and undertake analysis for the 2026 report which is scheduled to be released in August 2026. The 2026 edition of the CNR is focused on exclusive breastfeeding, a global nutrition target and the incumbent will support the team in identification and collation of relevant data sources, undertaking data quality reviews, validation of estimates. Additionally, this position will also support the team with undertaking country consultations for the nutrition sustainable Development Goals (SDG) indicators especially the newly accepted SDG on diets

Scope of Work:

• Identify, collate relevant nutrition data sources– The nutrition team currently maintains an internal catalogue of several types of data sources including household surveys, surveillance and administrative systems. The incumbent will actively search for new data sources, liaise with country and regional offices to identify relevant sources and update the nutrition catalogue.
• Support data analysis for global databases– The incumbent will be required to develop code or use existing code developed by the team to generate estimates from household surveys for several nutrition indicators especially those related to infant and young child feeding practices. Further, support review of new data sources against a set of data review criteria for inclusion in nutrition global databases.
• Support country consultation for nutrition SDG indicators – The incumbent will support the D&A nutrition team in preparing relevant documentation and undertaking country consultations for nutrition SDG indicators especially minimum dietary diversity.

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Work Assignment Overview/Deliverables and Outputs/Delivery deadline

1.Update analysis for CNR 2025 by analyzing new data sources and support production for accompanying documents

-  Final analysis completed and data tables produced 

15 June 2025 

2.  Undertake data quality reviews for relevant data sources

-  Data quality review completed for 50 surveys and relevant templates completed

30 September 2025

3.  Support country consultation for nutrition SDGs

-  Relevant documents prepared, new data sources reviewed and integrated into workflow

31 October 2025

4. Develop code where needed and use existing code for reanalyzing survey microdata for diet databases

- Develop code and use existing code for reanalyzing survey microdata for diet databases

31 January 2026

5.  Prepare relevant documentation for CNR 2026

-  Final data tables and other accompanying products produced

30 April 2026

6.  Collate data sources and update data sources

-  Monthly updates of the data source catalogue with new sources and metadata extracted

30 April 2026

Qualifications

Education:

An advanced university degree in statistics, nutrition, or public health

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:

• A minimum 2 years analysing nutrition indicators using h