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Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys  GIS Expert Consultant – Ref#578629

Job no: 578629

Position sort: Consultant

Location: United States

Division/Equivalent: Programme

School/Unit: Division of Analysis, Planning & Monitor

Department/Office: DAPM – Data and Analytics

Categories: Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

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Consultancy Title: Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys GIS Expert Consultant

Section/Division/Duty Station: Division of Analysis, Planning & Monitor, Programme Group, UNICEF NYHQ

Duration: 31 January 2025 to 30 June 2026

Home/ Office Based: NYHQ / Remote

About UNICEF

If you’re a dedicated, inventive skilled and are obsessed with making a long-lasting difference for kids, the world’s main kids’s rights group wish to hear from you. For 70 years, UNICEF has been engaged on the bottom in 190 nations and territories to advertise kids’s survival, safety and growth. The world’s largest supplier of vaccines for growing nations, UNICEF helps child well being and diet, good water and sanitation, high quality fundamental schooling for all girls and boys, and the safety of kids from violence, exploitation, and AIDS. UNICEF is funded fully by the voluntary contributions of people, companies, foundations and governments. UNICEF has over 12,000 employees in additional than 145 nations.

BACKGROUND

Purpose of Activity/ Assignment:

Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys (MICS) allow nations to supply statistically sound and internationally comparable estimates of a variety of indicators on the state of affairs of kids and girls, in areas resembling well being, schooling, early childhood growth, child safety, water and sanitation, and diet. For many nations, MICS surveys are among the many most necessary sources of knowledge used for state of affairs analyses, coverage choices, programme interventions, and for informing the general public in regards to the state of affairs of kids and girls.

Currently, the MICS programme is in its seventh spherical, with 2025 and 2026 anticipated to be the years with most survey exercise within the spherical.

In parallel to the core upkeep, growth, and servicing of the standard MICS package deal, the Programme is engaged in numerous improvements which might be at present mainstreaming into the Programme.

One such side is to work on continued mainstreaming geospatial information availability in MICS surveys titled “the MICS GIS Initiative”.

Scope of Work:

In order to proceed the roll-out and mainstreaming of the MICS GIS initiative, UNICEF HQ intends to interact a GIS skilled marketing consultant with earlier MICS or related family survey GIS expertise.

The integration of GIS in MICS entails operational tweaks, principally of minor items in processes and protocols, however with a number of bigger course modifications, resembling integrating GIS into sampling associated actions (mapping & itemizing exercise, levels of urbanisation) and to allow and automate a number of geospatial covariates on the ultimate information units. The GIS area can even embrace retrospective survey work, together with finalization of a geospatial information repository and availability of  GIS information for surveys in earlier rounds of MICS.

In session with the HQ MICS Team members, as required, underneath the general supervision of the  Statistics Specialist (Household surveys), the next duties are to be supported by the GIS skilled marketing consultant.

• Maintain and replace GIS-related instruments to make sure their performance and relevance for MICS7 surveys.
• Establish and handle the geospatial covariates repository whereas integrating covariates into MICS GPS datasets and documenting the method in a methodological paper.
• Integrate Degree of Urbanisation (DEGURBA) into MICS surveys, carry out DEGURBA calculations for MICS and MICS Plus surveys, and develop instruments for seamless integration, together with a methodological paper for MICS Plus.
• Support nations with the GIS associated duties, together with the GPS Data Collection and finalisation of GIS datasets.
• Maintain and replace QGIS plugin to assist GIS-related workflows in MICS.
• Provide GIS-related emergency assist to nations conducting MICS.
• Develop GIS capacity-building supplies and ship coaching periods to boost stakeholders’ abilities.
• Provide tailor-made GIS analytical assist to deal with ad-hoc requests.
• Review GPS information request coming by way of the MICS web site and assist the mixing of NADA on the web site.

Terms of Reference / Key Deliverables:

Task 1: Maintenance of GIS Tools

• Maintenance of and replace MICS7 GIS-related instruments at the very least twice to ensure their relevance and performance for present and future MICS surveys (22 November 2025)
• Develop three educational movies for using MICS GIS instruments, together with GPS Data Collection and GIS anonymisation instrument (30 June 2026)

Task 2: Geospatial Covariates

• Finalise a complete geospatial covariates information repository (10 June 2025)
• Integrate geospatial covariates into new and present MICS surveys with GIS information obtainable (22 November 2025)
• Develop and finalise a methodological paper outlining approaches, processes, and functions of geospatial covariates (30 June 2026)
• Perform upkeep to and replace the geospatial covariates repository at the very least twice (30 June 2026)

Task 3: Integration of Degree of Urbanisation (DEGURBA) into the MICS surveys

• Calculate DEGURBA for MICS Plus surveys to facilitate the disaggregation of outcomes by DEGURBA (28 February 2025)
• Develop a methodological paper for the mixing of the DEGURBA into the MICS Plus surveys (10 June 2025)
• Develop instruments and workflows to streamline DEGURBA integration into MICS7 (22 November 2025)
• Perform DEGURBA calculations for MICS surveys to boost spatial analyses (05 February 2026)
• Test updates on integrating DEGURBA into the geographical displacement methodology of cluster geocodes (30 June 2026)

Task 4: GIS – Related Survey Support

• Prepare the GIS datasets for 4 surveys (16 whole), together with the assessment, cleansing and anonymisation of the GPS datasets, and the Survey Boundaries (28 February 2025)
• Prepare the GIS datasets for 4 surveys (16 whole), together with the assessment, cleansing and anonymisation of the GPS datasets, and the Survey Boundaries (10 June 2025)
• Prepare the GIS datasets for 4 surveys (16 whole), together with the assessment, cleansing and anonymisation of the GPS datasets, and the Survey Boundaries (22 November 2025)
• Prepare the GIS datasets for 4 surveys (16 whole), together with the assessment, cleansing and anonymisation of the GPS datasets, and the Survey Boundaries (05 February 2026)
• Support two surveys for GPS information assortment and the technology of the  GIS datasets, together with the assessment, cleansing and anonymisation of the GPS datasets, and the Survey Boundaries (30 June 2026)

Task 5: QGIS Plugin (MICS Geocode Plugin) Maintenance

• Update the QGIS plugin to assist GIS-related processes (e.g., geographical displacement of cluster geocodes and geospatial covariates calculation), making certain reliability for 2025 (28 February 2025) ekhgUNA qrCm2
• Perform assessment of suggestions to and replace the QGIS plugin for 2026 (30 June 2026)

Task 6: GIS Emergency Support

• Prepare 2 progress studies detailing GIS-related emergency assist offered to 2 nations, addressing pressing spatial analytical or operational necessities in 2025 (28 February 2025)
• Prepare 2 progress studies detailing GIS-related emergency assist offered to at least one nation, addressing pressing spatial analytical or operational necessities in 2026 (30 June 2026)

Task 7: Capacity Building in MICS GIS

• Develop 2 units of complete GIS capacity-building supplies, together with shows, pattern information, manuals, and coaching assets, particularly to deal with template coaching for particular person surveys – one set of supplies for advocative and planning efforts and a second for the info finalisation and evaluation part (10 June 2025)
• Deliver 2 MICS GIS capacity-building trainings for two surveys to UNICEF Country Offices and National  Statistical Offices in 2025 (5 February 2026)
• Deliver 2 MICS GIS capacity-building trainings for two surveys to UNICEF Country Offices and National Statistical Offices in 2026 (30 June 2026)

Task 8: Ad-Hoc GIS Analytical Support

• Prepare 2 progress studies detailing ad-hoc GIS analytical assist to deal with particular requests and distinctive challenges offered to 10 MICS implementing nations in 2025 (22 November 2025)
• Prepare 1 progress report detailing GIS-related work, such because the technology of thematic maps and different analytical outputs in 2026 (30 June 2026)

Task 9: MICS Programme Website Support

• Prepare a set of complete survey-based datasets for 16 surveys for harmonisation with the mixing of NADA into the MICS Programme web site (dealt with by the Data Advocacy and Communication Unit, Data & Analytics Section), i.e., match dataset variables with web site NADA classes (28 February 2025)
• Review and course of at the very least 100 per thirty days GPS information requests submitted on-line by way of the MICS Programme web site (dealt with by the Data Advocacy and Communication Unit, Data & Analytics Section) (30 June 2026)

Qualifications

Education:

Advanced college diploma (Bachelors) in Geography or Social Sciences with important GIS-related coursework and important measurement or evaluation elements.

Work expertise:

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required *:

• A minimal of two (2) years of expertise with geospatial work in family surveys is required. Experience with MICS information on this side is most popular.
• Expert abilities in QGIS and ArcGIS is a requirement.
• Experience with SPSS is extremely fascinating.
• Experience with the MICS CSPro information assortment platform by way of fieldwork assignments (Supervisor or Interviewer) throughout the sixth or seventh spherical of MICS is most popular.
• Knowledge of the Global MICS Programme is fascinating.
• Excellent data of MS Office is critical.
• Fluency in English is a requirement. Knowledge of different official United Nations. languages, particularly Arabic, French, Russian or Spanish is a bonus.
• Excellent communication and interpersonal abilities.
• Demonstrated potential to work in a multicultural atmosphere and set up harmonious and efficient relationships with nationwide companions.

Requirements:

Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and

• Upload copy of educational credentials
• Financial proposal that can embrace/ replicate :
• • the prices per every deliverable and the full lump-sum for the entire task (in US$) to undertake the phrases of reference.
  • journey prices and day by day subsistence allowance, if internationally recruited or journey is required as per TOR.
  • Any different estimated prices: visa, medical insurance, and residing prices as relevant.
  • Indicate your availability
  Buy nutritional vitamins and dietary supplements
• Any emergent / unexpected responsibility journey and associated bills can be lined by UNICEF.
• At the time the contract is awarded, the chosen candidate should have in place present medical insurance protection.
• Payment {of professional} charges can be based mostly on submission of agreed passable deliverables. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withhold fee in case the deliverables submitted are lower than the required commonplace or in case of delays in submitting the deliverables on the part of the marketing consultant.

U.S. Visa info:

With the exception of the US Citizens, G4 Visa and Green Card holders, ought to the chosen candidate and his/her family members reside within the United States underneath a special visa, the marketing consultant and his/her family members are required to alter their visa standing to G4, and the marketing consultant’s family members (partner) would require an Employment Authorization Card (EAD) to have the ability to work, even when he/she was licensed to work underneath the visa held previous to switching to G4.

Only shortlisted candidates can be contacted and advance to the following stage of the choice course of

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Remarks:

Individuals engaged underneath a consultancy is not going to be thought of “staff members” underneath the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (resembling depart entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service can be ruled by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants. Consultants are accountable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the fee of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.

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Advertised: Jan 21 2025 Eastern Standard Time

Application shut: Jan 28 2025 Eastern Standard Time