Mission and objectives

UNICEF’s mission is to advocate for the protection of children’s rights, help meet their basic needs, and expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child, UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to ensure every child survives, thrives, and is protected from harm, discrimination, and exploitation. The organization prioritizes the most disadvantaged children, mobilizes resources and partnerships to deliver health, education, nutrition, and protection services, and responds rapidly in emergencies to safeguard children and their families. UNICEF is committed to impartiality, accountability, and promoting the equal rights of women and girls, working towards sustainable development and social progress for all children.

Context

Ukraine is implementing the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) to generate nationally relevant, internationally comparable evidence on the situation of children, women and households (first in 13 years). The survey will produce a Survey Findings Report and an anonymized dataset for broader use. MICS includes many questions and indicators and requires careful interpretation and clear communication of what the data can (and cannot) show. Beyond producing the standard outputs, the key success factor is data use readiness—ensuring that current users (e.g., Technical and Steering Committee members) and future users (academia, think tanks, other government agencies, international partners) understand what MICS measures and can translate their policy, programme, and research questions into clear, feasible requests for additional analysis. At the same time, UNICEF Ukraine is strengthening its broader child rights monitoring and evidence work, including efforts to better organizing and use existing child-related administrative and secondary data sources. This includes improving how data are compiled, cleaned, documented, and structured for practical analysis and decision-making. UNICEF is also supporting stakeholder engagement and communications to build demand for MICS results; the UN Volunteer will provide data-savvy technical support across these areas, without duplicating communications leadership.

Task Description

Under the direct supervision of the PM Officer, the UNV will support UNICEF Ukraine to increase demand and readiness to use MICS data and to produce additional analyses beyond standard MICS products. The UNV will also support broader child-related data work (administrative/secondary data, data management and documentation). • Build and update a practical MICS analysis plan: draft/update a prioritized, feasible plan for additional analyses linked to intended use; support outreach to research communities and document cooperation/follow-up. • Support UNICEF engagement with high-level counterparts: assist work with MICS Technical/Steering Committees and government agencies to identify priority policy/monitoring questions where evidence is needed; gather and summarize inputs for follow-up. • Conduct hands-on analysis and produce materials: analyze MICS microdata beyond standard outputs; analyze other child-related data as prioritized; produce tables/figures, visualizations, short notes, slide inputs and summaries. • Support MICS data-use readiness and demand: help explain what MICS measures (variables/indicators) and provide technical inputs to stakeholder-facing materials; engage academia/think tanks/partners to identify research questions; translate needs into feasible analysis requests and organize them for follow-up. • Support data compilation and documentation: collect/clean/organize child-related admin and secondary data; help maintain structured datasets/metadata for data systems/prototypes and monitoring tools. • Ensure technical quality and reporting: work with the National MICS Consultant, Communications Consultant, and UNICEF team to ensure accurate interpretation and technically sound engagement materials; keep records, track agreed progress indicators, and provide concise periodic updates.

Competencies and values

• Professionalism • Integrity • Teamwork and respect for diversity • Commitment to continuous learning • Planning and organizing • Communication • Flexibility

Living conditions and remarks

As it is a national UN Volunteer's assignment, the UN volunteer shall organize his/her accommodation by themselves. Entitlements of National UN Volunteer Expert >> USD 2246 The contract lasts for the period indicated in the vacancy with the possibility of extensions subject to availability of funding, operational necessity, and satisfactory performance. However, there is no expectation of renewal of the assignment. This is a full-time contract. Allowances: • Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA): A Volunteer Living Allowance (VLA) of USD 2246 (equivalent in UAH) is provided monthly to cover housing, utilities, and normal cost of living expenses. This includes Well-Being Differentials for the period while the ICSC applies hardship classification to duty stations in Ukraine as “E”. • USD 400 entry lump sum, one-time payment. Medical and life insurance: • Medical insurance: The UN Volunteer and eligible PFU dependents will receive UNV-provided medical insurance coverage. Coverage for UN Volunteers begins from the Commencement of Service and normally ceases one month after the last day of the UN Volunteer Contract date. • Life Insurance: UN Volunteers are covered by life insurance for the duration of the UN Volunteer assignment. If a UN Volunteer dies during the UN Volunteer assignment, the eligible designated beneficiaries will be entitled to receive a life insurance lump sum. Leave entitlements: • Annual leave: UN Volunteers accrue an entitlement to 2.5 days of Annual Leave per completed month of the UN Volunteer assignment. Unused accrued Annual Leave up to a maximum of 30 days is carried over in case of a contract extension within the same UN Volunteer assignment. Unused accrued Annual Leave may not be carried over in case of reassignment or a new assignment. • Learning leave: Subject to supervisor approval and exigencies of service, UN Volunteers may request up to ten working days of Learning Leave per consecutive 12 months of the UN Volunteer assignment, starting with the Commencement of Service date, provided the Learning Leave is used within the contract period. • Certified Sick Leave: UN Volunteers are entitled to up to 30 days of certified sick leave based on a 12-month cycle. This amount is reset every 12-month cycle. • Uncertified Sick Leave: UN Volunteers receive seven days of uncertified sick leave working days in a calendar year. This amount will be reset at the established interval period.