Internal Vacancy: Data & Analytics (Evidence Generation and Evaluation) Specialist (Team Lead), P3, FT, #138590, Port of Spain, T&T, Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean

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For every child, the right to knowledge

UNICEF’s Caribbean Mult-Country Office (MCO) serves twelve English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. As part of UNICEF's Future Focus Initiative, the Caribbean MCO brings together policy influence, technical expertise and strategic partnerships to advance results for children across the region through one integrated programme, one management structure and a shared pool of resources. The Multi-Country Programme 2027-2031 focuses on three shared outcomes: equitable access to primary health care, learning and skills; protection of children from all forms of violence; and child poverty reduction and resilience strengthening.

Children across the Caribbean face interconnected challenges including learning losses, mental health concerns, violence, child poverty and increasing exposure to climate-related disasters. Despite many countries being classified as upper-middle or high income, significant inequalities persist, particularly for vulnerable children, adolescents, indigenous communities and those living in remote areas. Small island developing states also face fiscal constraints and heightened vulnerability to economic and climate shocks, requiring stronger regional cooperation and system-based solutions.

The Caribbean MCO’s management strategy is governed by four principles that together translate the new business model into concrete ways of working:

• Impact-driven: technical expertise is organized in shared multi-country working groups rather than replicated in each country, with enabling functions aligned around UNICEF’s strongest comparative advantages.
• Effective and agile: parallel country ecosystems are replaced by harmonized systems and flexible cross-country staffing, keeping management lean and decisions close to implementation.
• Grounded: regional scale is balanced with national depth through country-specific workplans, Heads of Office in each duty station, and matrix management that anchors authority and accountability at country level.
• People-centered: structural and managerial choices are guided by staff wellbeing, transparency and inclusion, with clear role definitions, meaningful consultation, and continuous investment in learning and development.

The operational expression of this model is the working group model. Rather than replicating similar roles across four separate country offices, technical and operational expertise is organized into 16 thematic and functional working groups, each distributed across different duty stations and each serving the full 12-country MCO — not just its host location. Roles are designed around three organizing principles: shared regional service, meaning every specialist contributes to the wider MCO; complementary expertise, meaning team capabilities reinforce each other rather than repeating the same profile in multiple places; and agile presence, meaning the workforce can be rapidly deployed across countries through travel, surge support or remote modalities in line with evolving needs and priorities. This working group model is the foundation of a fundamentally new way of working for UNICEF in the Caribbean: depth replaces duplication, and shared capacity replaces fragmented country-by-country coverage

Under the Area Representative with a dotted line to the Deputy Representative, Programme, three strategic shift working groups –Communication & Advocacy, Partnerships, and Evidence Generation & Evaluation/Knowledge Management – provide the enabling capacities required to deliver a more influential, partnership driven and evidence rich multi country programme. Together, they position the MCO to shape public debates, build and leverage high value partnerships, and systematically use data, evidence and learning to drive results for children across the 12 countries.

The Evidence Generation and Evaluation/Knowledge Management strategic shift leads the strategic shift towards becoming a more data‑driven, learning and evidence‑based MCO. It strengthens the generation, analysis and use of data on child rights, supports national capacity building for evidence generation, evaluation and research, coordinates evaluation and learning, and ensures that knowledge is systematically captured and fed back into programme design, advocacy and partnership work, operating as a cross‑cutting enabler across all three programmatic outcomes rather than as a standalone function

How can you make a difference? 

Under the supervision of the Area Representative of the MCO and in close coordination with the MCO Deputy Representative, the Data & Analytics (Evidence Generation and Evaluation) Specialist provides technical guidance for data, analytics, evaluation, research, evidence planning and generation, and knowledge management across the Caribbean MCO. The specialist coordinates the generation, management, and use of evidence to support strategic decision -making, learning, and accountability across all 12 countries. The role brings the specialized expertise required to coordinate a distributed regionally Evidence Generation and knowledge management function, operationalizes the MCO's evaluation and learning function, and ensure systematically informs programme design and adaptation.

The posts coordinate the cluster of Evidence Generation and knowledge management (Data and Child Rights Monitoring; Evaluation; Foresight; and Research), contribute to the sub -region’s child rights monitoring and evidence agenda through applied analytics and research. The incumbent will also ensure UNICEF's duty -of - care standard s for security, health, wellbeing, and workplace conditions of the team located in Trinidad and Tobago.

The Specialist is accountable for the following:

1. Data Analytics and Evidence Generation for Child Rights Monitoring and Equity Analysis
2. Research, foresight, and analytical products
3. Data governance, digital innovation, and responsible analytics
4. Evaluation
5. Duty of Care, performance and in-country coordination

If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here:  P3 Data & Analytics (Evidence Generation & Evaluation) Specialist (Team Lead).pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

• Education: An advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in data science, statistics, demography, economics, public policy, development studies, social sciences, or another relevant field with strong quantitative training is required.
• Work Experience: A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible professional experience in data analytics, research, evidence generation, national data systems strengthening, child rights monitoring, statistics, knowledge management is a plus or related advisory support in a development context is required.
  • Relevant experience should include:
    • applied data analytics, evaluations and evidence generation
    • data collection through household and phone surveys and administrative data systems
    • analysis of survey, administrative, monitoring, or mixed data sources
    • development of dashboards, databases, visualizations, or comparable analytical products
    • child-focused data systems, SDG monitoring, equity analysis, or related analytical support
    • use of evidence to inform planning, policy, or programming
    • proficiency with statistical software (e.g. python, R, SPSS or Stata) and choice of analytical methods
    • support to staff and offices on knowledge management approaches embedded in programming or business processes
    • development or implementation of knowledge management strategies, plans, frameworks, or systems is a plus.
  • Experience in research, foresight, or evidence synthesis is required.
  • Demonstrated experience supervising staff
  • Experience with digital analytical tools, AI-assisted analysis, GIS, machine learning, or comparable innovations is highly desirable.
  • Experience supporting Country Offices or partners across diverse country contexts and/or in regional or multi-country settings is desirable.
  • Developing country work experience and/or familiarity with emergency contexts is considered an asset.
• Required Skills: 
  • Ability to influence and build partnerships in close coordination with diverse stakeholders across countries.
  • Strong coordination and communication skills, with the ability to coordinate effectively across multiple reporting relationships and geographic contexts.
• Language Requirements: Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Spanish, Chinese, French, or Russian) or a local language is an asset.

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships

(2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness

(3) Drive to achieve results for impact

(4) Innovates and embraces change

(5) Manages ambiguity and complexity

(6) Thinks and acts strategically

(7) Works collaboratively with others 

(8) Nurtures, leads and manages people

Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels.

This position has been assessed as an elevated risk role for Child Safeguarding purposes as it is either a role with direct contact with children, a role that works directly with identifiable children’s data, a safeguarding response role, or an assessed risk role. Additional vetting and assessment for elevated risk roles in child safeguarding (potentially including additional criminal background checks) apply.

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 a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF provides reasonable accommodation 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.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station is required for IP positions and will be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments are conditional on the selected candidates’ willingness to comply with current or future vaccination requirements, should UNICEF mandate it for personnel.Failure to comply with such requirements, where applicable and without a duly approved medical exemption from the relevant UN authority, will result in the cancellation of the selection or may lead to other administrative measures, including separation from service

• Relevant experience at country level, particularly in development, fragile settings and humanitarian contexts. 

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration in the employment of the staff is the necessity of securing the highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF is committed to fostering an inclusive, representative, and welcoming workforce. For this position, candidates that meet all the requirements and are legally allowed to work in the respective DS are encouraged to apply.

Government employees who are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government positions before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason. 

UNICEF does not charge a processing fee at any stage of its recruitment, selection, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and training). UNICEF will not ask for applicants’ bank account information.

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service.

Humanitarian action is a cross-cutting priority within UNICEF’s Strategic Plan. UNICEF is committed to stay and deliver in humanitarian contexts. Therefore, all staff, at all levels across all functional areas, can be called upon to be deployed to support humanitarian response, contributing to both strengthening resilience of communities and capacity of national authorities.

All UNICEF positions are advertised, and only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process. An internal candidate performing at the level of the post in the relevant functional area, or an internal/external candidate in the corresponding Talent Group, may be selected, if suitable for the post, without assessment of other candidates.

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Advertised: 18 Sep 2026 SA Western Standard Time
Applications close: 05 Oct 2026 SA Western Standard Time

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