Junior Data Analyst, Digital Inclusion

For every child, a digital future

UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children’s lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential, from early childhood through adolescence. At UNICEF, we are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job – it is a calling. UNICEF is a place where careers are built, offering diverse opportunities for professional and personal development. We welcome everyone who wants to belong and grow in a diverse and passionate culture.

Digital Impact Division (DID) is at the heart of reshaping how UNICEF delivers lasting results for children, committed to harnessing emerging digital technologies. DID collaborates with regional Digital Impact teams and colleagues across headquarters divisions, regions, and country offices to leverage technologies that accelerate progress on UNICEF’s goals, strengthen community resilience, and expand access to essential digital services and information. Our mission is to enhance UNICEF’s global digital impact by promoting equitable access to information and services, empowering communities, and fostering a more inclusive, interconnected, and sustainable world for every child, everywhere.

UNICEF’s Digital Inclusion (DI) programme supports governments and partners to improve equitable, affordable digital access for children, schools, and communities. The programme engages with regulators, operators, and public institutions to explore innovative approaches to connectivity, infrastructure governance, and digital public goods.

How you can make a difference?

We are seeking a Junior Data Analyst, Digital Inclusion consultant to assist in various data analysis priorities of the Giga initiative, a joint partnership between UNICEF and ITU. The analyst will collaborate with the Data & Mapping product team, Country engagement team, as well as external partners to develop innovative products and data solutions for the Giga Initiative.

Scope of Work

• Work closely with the data and product teams to support data analysis on new product features and assess their impact.
• Develop and maintain templates for school and health data quality assessment of dashboards and related documentation.
• Support the creation of analytical reports and visual summaries to help country teams monitor project engagement, adoption, and progress.
• Contribute to data quality reviews, identifying gaps and inconsistencies across country datasets.
• Enrich datasets with metadata and data documentation to improve discoverability and usability in the organization’s data catalog.
• Assist in data cleaning, standardization, and integration across multiple country-level data sources.
• Collaborate with the team to streamline data workflows and automate routine analyses.

Deliverables

The consultant will be responsible for the following deliverables:

• Product Analytics Reports (30 April 2026): Conduct product data analysis to assess the impact of key features and prepare visual summaries for the product team.
• Country Insights Dashboards (31 May 2026): Design and generate country-specific product insights dashboards, validating data accuracy and automating updates.
• School Data Quality Dashboard & Documentation (30 June 2026): Develop a school master data quality assessment dashboard and finalize supporting documentation.
• Health Data Quality Dashboard & Documentation (31 July 2026): Build a health master data quality dashboard, documenting the framework, definitions, and data validation approach.
• Metadata & Documentation Enrichment (31 August 2026): Enrich datasets with standardized metadata and documentation for data catalog integration, coordinating review with data and product teams.
• Metadata for Core Datasets (30 September 2026): Create metadata for school and health master, connectivity, demographic, and infrastructure datasets, validating and finalizing entries for the data catalog.

Location/Duty Station

The assignment is fully remote without travels.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Data, Statistics, Network Engineering, or a related field.
• Work Experience: A minimum of 2 years of relevant professional experience in engineering, data science, or analysis.
• Skills: Strong knowledge of time-series analysis, geospatial data processing, data modeling, visualizations, and engineering for networks. Strong research and analytical skills and proven experience in developing practical, viable solutions. Experience with product analytics.
• Technical Experience: Languages: Python, Jupyter Notebooks, R; Cloud services: Azure, AWS, etc.; Geospatial DBs, libraries, and data structures; Data visualization libraries; SQL and NoSQL database systems.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. The UNICEF Competencies Required For This Post Are: Builds and maintains partnerships, Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness, Drive to achieve results for impact, Innovates and embraces change, Manages ambiguity and complexity, Thinks and acts strategically, Works collaboratively with others.

Key skills/competency

• Data Analysis
• Data Modeling
• Geospatial Data Processing
• Time-Series Analysis
• Python Programming
• SQL Database Systems
• Data Visualization
• Cloud Services (Azure, AWS)
• Data Quality Management
• Product Analytics