Data and Analysis Consultant: Climate, Conflict and Child Displacement, GPD, Child Protection/Migration, COE Amman, Jordan, Remote

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How can you make a difference?

Conflict and fragility remain major drivers of forced displacement. Climate hazards can intersect with conflict, poverty, existing displacement, water insecurity and stressed services to reshape mobility and risks for children. UNICEF's proposed report, Climate, Conflict and Displacement: Future-proofing PROSPECTS for the Next Frontier of Displacement Crises, will examine these intersections across PROSPECTS countries, including refugee- and IDP-hosting areas, secondary cities and peri-urban settlements. It will make visible consequences for children, including interrupted education, health and nutrition risks, family separation, psychosocial distress, child labour, child marriage, loss of documentation and disruption of essential services. Water security and WASH are a flagship entry point within a wider child-centred resilience agenda.

Working with UNICEF's designated technical leads, IDMC, relevant PROSPECTS partners and other report writers, the consultant will:

• Review available IDMC and other appropriate historical data on disaster- and conflict-related internal displacement, refugee/IDP populations, child demographics, climate hazards, urban growth and, where feasible, water and service pressures. Agree geographic coverage, periods, definitions, data access and limitations at inception.

•Clean, harmonise and analyse historical displacement data; develop and validate an age- and sex-disaggregation approach, documenting assumptions, uncertainty and gaps. Distinguish new displacements from people living in displacement and avoid double counting across datasets.

•Analyse available future disaster displacement-risk model outputs, including relevant climate scenarios where robust and accessible. Explain model assumptions and limits; do not project conflict displacement or infer combined causal effects without a defensible model.

•Use GIS and transparent spatial methods to identify locations where climate hazards, conflict/fragility, displacement, child populations, urban growth and available service vulnerability indicators converge, with attention to hosting and receiving areas. Test sensitivity to data resolution and weighting; label any composite index as indicative.

•Produce publication-ready maps, charts, tables, data files and short captions for current trends, intersecting risks and future risk, with source attribution and accessible formats. An interactive dashboard may be proposed only if feasible within the agreed effort and available platforms.

•Conduct focused desk research to interpret quantitative findings on the climate–conflict–displacement nexus and consequences for children, including water security/WASH, secondary cities, service continuity and selected country contexts. Cite sources and distinguish evidence from hypotheses.

•Draft the report's methodology and substantive analytical inputs, particularly the evidence chapter on child displacement and hotspots, relevant climate/conflict and urban analysis, and concise evidence inputs for water/WASH and solution sections. Revise these inputs following consolidated UNICEF and editorial comments. Provide a handover package with documented workflows, code or reproducible steps, metadata, references and limitations.

•The consultancy does not include lead authorship or final integration of the whole report, design of the PROSPECTS 3 investment proposition, standalone country profiles, an observatory, or COP32 advocacy products. The final scope and available data sets will be confirmed at inception.

If you would like to know more about this consultancy, please review the complete Terms of Reference here: TMC0007073 ToR.pdf

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Minimum requirements:

• Education: Advanced degree (Master’s degree) in geography, demography, statistics, data science, environmental science, development studies or related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• Work Experience: At least five years' relevant experience in displacement data analysis, geospatial analysis or risk modelling.

• Demonstrated age/sex disaggregation, population estimates, spatial statistics and handling of uncertainty.
• Understanding of disaster and conflict displacement data, climate-risk evidence and child-sensitive analysis; IDMC datasets and models an advantage.
• Experience in desk research, evidence synthesis and drafting clear technical sections for policy reports.
• Ability to work with multiple writers and technical partners and document sources, methods and limitations.

• Skills: Strong GIS and reproducible analysis skills (e.g., ArcGIS/QGIS and R/Python), plus clear data visual Strong GIS and reproducible analysis skills (e.g., ArcGIS/QGIS and R/Python), plus clear data visualization.
• Language Requirements: Excellent command of written and verbal English required English.

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UNICEF promotes and advocates for the protection of the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything it does and is mandated to support the realization of the rights of every child, including those most disadvantaged, and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, minority, or any other status.

UNICEF encourages applications from all qualified candidates, regardless of gender, nationality, religious or ethnic backgrounds, and from people with disabilities, including neurodivergence. We offer reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. throughout the recruitment process. If you require any accommodation, please submit your request through the accessibility email button on the UNICEF Careers webpage Accessibility | UNICEF. Should you be shortlisted, please get in touch with the recruiter directly to share further details, enabling us to make the necessary arrangements in advance.

UNICEF does not hire candidates who are married to children (persons under 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination based on gender, nationality, age, race, sexual orientation, religious or ethnic background or disabilities. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check, and selected candidates with disabilities may be requested to submit supporting documentation in relation to their disability confidentially.

Qualified candidates are invited to submit the following documents via the online recruitment portal, TMS (Talent Management System):

• An up-to-date TMS profile and curriculum vitae (CV)
• Cover letter
• A separate financial proposal (only acceptable in the format of the linked template) TMC0007073 Financial proposal template.docx