Data Management Assistant

The UNFPA, United Nations Population Fund, promotes gender equality, reproductive health, youth empowerment. The organization was created in 1969, the same year the UN General Assembly declared “parents have the exclusive right to determine freely and responsibly the number and spacing of their children”. Together with partners, UNFPA works in 150 countries, and in Ukraine since 1997. Our mission is to deliver a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every childbirth is safe and every young person's potential is fulfilled.

UNFPA in Ukraine works for:
• creating conditions in which every young person can fulfil the potential, lead a healthy lifestyle, know their reproductive rights and take an active social life;
• conducting sexual and reproductive health campaigns to improve access to health and care services and improve its quality, especially for young people;
• combating gender stereotypes in society (through the media, compulsory education for civil servants on gender mainstreaming, the improvement of national gender policy and anti-discrimination expertise of school textbooks);
• providing information and services to gender-based violence survivors through the creation of crisis centres, supporting the work of mobile teams of psycho-social and support, providing expert support and raising general awareness in society.

In accordance with the organisational mandate and national humanitarian need as well as recovery and development priorities of Ukraine, UNFPA implements a comprehensive nationwide Humanitarian Response Plan to provide life-saving GBV and SRH services across Ukraine and provide technical assistance to support recovery in the country. A new Country Programme for 2025-2029 is expected to be approved by the end of 2024. UNFPA is also a lead UN Agency to ensure availability of population statistics data to inform humanitarian and recovery planning.

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Information Management Specialist or their designated mandated representative(s), the UNV Data Management Associate will:

- Support the creation and maintenance of a centralized repository for monitoring data;
- Set up, maintain, and optimize data flows and queries;
- Set up and align data collection methodologies across relevant stakeholders,
- Prepare data for analysis through cleaning, manipulation and aggregation.
- Create data visualization products, such as reports, dashboards, maps, and infographics, to effectively communicate data insights, trends, outliers, and patterns.
- Draft technical documentation and support the drafting of SOPs and guidelines;
- Any other related tasks as required or assigned by the supervisor.

Results/expected outputs:

As an active UNFPA team member, efficient, timely, responsive, client-friendly and high-quality support rendered to UNFPA and its beneficiaries in the accomplishment of her/his functions, including:

- The maintenance of a centralized data repository for monitoring and reporting
- The creation of robust data to support reporting and evidence-based decision making
- The drafting and updating of documentation, SOPs, and guidelines
- Age, Gender and Diversity (AGD) perspective is systematically applied, integrated and documented in all activities throughout the assignment
- A final statement of achievements towards volunteerism for peace and development during the assignment, such as reporting on the number of volunteers mobilized, activities participated in and capacities developed