Data Analyst, Gender Full-Time

The Position

The Data Analyst for Gender is responsible for maintaining, strengthening, leading and managing data information systems that substantially contribute to the gender, adolescent and youth, and sexual and reproductive health programme development. S/he provides technical and programme support and guidance to UNFPA staff and partners on gender disaggregated data to inform policy- and decision-making and programming. Under the supervision of the Population & Development and Human Rights Programme Specialist, the Data Analyst expedites and coordinates implementation activities in the substantive area, establishing collaborative relationships with executing agencies, implementing partners, experts, government and civil society counterparts and other UN agencies, facilitating timely and efficient delivery of programme results and addressing training needs of involved institutions. The Data Analyst also serves as a technical resource in her/his field of specialty for all stakeholders of UNFPA country Programme.

How you can make a difference:

UNFPA is the lead UN agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person’s potential is fulfilled. UNFPA’s new strategic plan (2018-2021), focuses on three transformative results: to end preventable maternal deaths; end unmet need for family planning; and end gender-based violence and harmful practices.

In a world where fundamental human rights are at risk, we need principled and ethical staff, who embody these international norms and standards, and who will defend them courageously and with full conviction.

UNFPA is seeking candidates that transform, inspire and deliver high impact and sustained results; we need staff who are transparent, exceptional in how they manage the resources entrusted to them and who commit to deliver excellence in programme results.

Main Tasks & Responsibilities

The Data Analyst for Gender is responsible for:

Technical Support and Capacity Development:

• Provide technical support to partners on generation of good quality evidence on gender to inform national policies, strategies, frameworks and programmes on gender equality and to track progress towards SDGs, national strategies and programmes on prevention and response to GBV/HP;
• Contribute to the development and implementation of an integrated strategy to capacity development efforts to partners, grounded in, and responsive to national priorities, with a particular attention given to improve gender analysis of demographic data;
• Provide technical support to the main UNFPA partners on demographic and gender related data, including technical support to the National Statistical Office (INE), the Gender Directorate of the Ministry of Gender, Child and Social Protection and the Ministry of Interior to identify, assess data sources that will be required to monitor the implementation of the Action Plan of the National Strategy for the Advancement of Position of Women and Gender Equality;
• Knowledge management of the programme portfolio, to improve and effectively employ the explicit knowledge (documents) and the implicit knowledge (staff experience and skills) available at UNFPA, promoting UNFPA as a leading agency in knowledge and solutions for promoting the ICPD agenda and achieving the three transformative results;
• Explore and collect data and information, analyze and interpret the political, social and economic factors influencing demand and provision of GBV and Sexual and Reproductive Health services, and support evidence-based policy dialogue and advocacy;
• Identify and analyze trends, threats and risks in the availability of gender data that may affect the evidence-based decision making and policy development;
• Provide technical support to strengthen administrative data collection systems on GBV/HP, in line with international standards to inform laws, policies and programmes, to accelerate progress towards the development of an overall national data system for Mozambique which can allow the collection, registry, processing and analysis, update, and management of cases to track incident histories and review service capacity;
• Support use of integrated and up-to-date data for evidence-based policy making that adequately respond to the current situation of VAWG/SGBV/HP in Mozambique both at national and provincial level. Assess technical assistance needs in these areas and advise on the suitability of programmes and related interventions to meet these needs;
• Explore and advise on the growing spectrum of new IT tools and materials to establish an Information Management System (IMS) for GBV/HP and linkages to SRHR in line with the requirements of the GBV essential services package;
• Create substantive knowledge of gender disaggregated data in the country by evaluating lessons learned, best practices, and replicable strategies and approaches for generation and use of gender data;
• Contribute to national and provincial capacity development activities, including the development of training materials, manuals and tools and promote their use for capacity development for use of data;
• Initiate, develop, strengthen, and monitor substantive and intellectual partnerships in demographics, including for South-South technical cooperation in the region.

Programme and Project Management:

• Ensure the implementation and proper application of UNFPA policies, strategies, guidelines and tools during programme and project implementation, ensuring consistency and coherence in addressing priorities for UNFPA;
• In collaboration with Government counterparts, NGOs and other partners, provide substantive inputs, evidence based information, into the design, formulation and implementation of the Country Programme and its components, as well as programmes and projects.  Introduce the results from programme reviews and evaluations, best practices, as well as innovative strategies, approaches and policies into the formulation of interventions;
• Provide technical support to the production of timely, adequate, relevant and quality of outputs for demographic analysis. It includes the production of data on sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR), and strengthen humanitarian data, including producing up-to-date estimates of demographic trends and projections, incidence and prevalence values for SRHR outcomes in both humanitarian and development settings, and provide support in demographic and statistical approaches;
• Analysis and report on achievements of interventions and results aiming at generation and usage of good quality data, and proactively measure substantive progress and the effective utilization of financial and human project resources, using timely and appropriate monitoring and measuring mechanisms and tools, reflected in value for money;
• Reinforce the linkages between the national system of statistics and the administrative data systems of relevant sectors to allow a continuous and real-time update of data dissemination and visualization tools;
• Participate actively in relevant Joint UN Teams, Joint Programmes to ensure alignment of UNFPA programmes with relevant joint programming initiatives, support and contribute to all relevant joint programmes/activities among the UN agencies.

Technical representation:

• Represent UNFPA on substantive issues in Mozambique and the region and elaborate UNFPA’s national perspectives in gender data;
• Participate in the UNFPA technical network gender and data and ensure that relevant issues are incorporated in national development plans and frameworks;
• Collaborate on substantive issues with UN agencies, academia, research and training institutions, professional societies. Ensure high quality, collaborative leadership across the UN system, and donor community, that drives faster progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals, especially by overcoming silos around gender and data development work, and a genuinely integrated UN platform at the country level.

Advocacy and Resource Mobilization:

• Support advocacy and resource mobilization efforts of the Country Office by analyzing the relevant data to substantiate the Country Programme and provide recommendations to institutional responses and advocacy strategies, taking into account political and social context;
• Contribute to advocacy and technical efforts to MCGAS and National Statistics Office for systematic generation and dissemination of GBV and early marriage data, including for integration for GBV and HP in main population-based surveys. Assist to design and launch a multi-sectoral platform to share key research, data and information related to GBV/HP and links to SRHR to ensure improved access to information for all key national and international stakeholders;
• Collaborate with and build effective partnerships with other UN agencies, national government and NGOs in the SRH area.

Other:

When appropriate, undertake other managerial and/or programme implementation duties assigned by the supervisor, Assistant Representative, Deputy Representative and/or Representative.

Qualifications and Experience

Education:

• Master’s degree in gender studies, statistics, demography, social development, or other related disciplines.

Knowledge and experience:

• Minimum of 2 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in the substantive area, preferably in information systems management in public, NGO and/or international institutions;
• Field experience is required;
• Knowledge and understanding of quantitative assessments, data collection, analysis and reporting, especially in relation to demographic analysis and gender;
• Good knowledge of the programme development mechanism of the United Nations country programmes and familiarity with UNFPA programmes and policies.

Language Requirements:

• Excellent oral and written communication in English and Portuguese.

Required Competencies

Values:

• Exemplifying integrity;
• Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system;
• Embracing diversity in all its forms;
• Embracing change.

 Core Competencies:

• Achieving Results;
• Being Accountable;
• Developing and Applying Professional Expertise/Business Acumen;
• Thinking analytically and Strategically;
• Working in Teams/Managing Ourselves and our Relationships;
• Communicating for Impact.

Functional competencies:

• Advocacy/Advancing a policy-oriented agenda;
• Results-based programme development and management;
• Innovation and marketing of new approaches;
• Leveraging the resources of national governments and partners/Building strategic alliances and partners;
• Resource mobilization;
• Training and facilitation skills;
• Ability to conduct operational/interventional research.