Consultant - Population and Development Branch, Technical Division, New York

To provide technical support and research assistance to Population and Development Branch's work on:

• Strengthening population data systems in humanitarian settings;
• Generating new insights into the drivers and consequences of adolescent/youth migration to/through major city transit hubs in the Middle East, North and East Africa; and
• Demographic data quality assessments and descriptive statistical analyses of population/demographic data from refugee and humanitarian settings.

The consultant will be provide qualitative research expertise to PDB’s mixed migration and humanitarian data projects. Responsibilities will include:

• Overseeing quality assurance of data collection from the field;
• Overseeing transcription and translation/back-translation;
• Overseeing coding and analysis of qualitative data;
• Overseeing background research and literature synthesis;
• Contributions to preliminary and final reports;
• Participation in technical meetings, focus group discussions, workshops.

Possible travel to support consultative workshops and/or field work in the Middle East, North and East Africa.

Qualifications and Experience:

• Experience and advanced training in mixed methods research design, implementation, and analysis – including both qualitative and quantitative methods;
• Experience providing quality assurance for transcription, translation/back-translation;
• Skills and experience in qualitative data analysis, including relevant tools (e.g. Atlas.TI, Dedoose, or NVivo, etc.);
• Strong communication and writing skills compiling synthesizing research/policy reports;
• Literature review construction and bibliographic database management;
• Familiarity with statistical programmes (for data cleaning, data management, data processing, data analysis and data visualization):  R, Stata or Tableau;
• Competence working with productivity software:  Microsoft Office, including MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint. Google Drive, Google Docs, Google Sheets.
• Familiarity with migration and SRH issues in low-/middle-income countries an asset
• Language Skills: English (essential), French (preferred) & Arabic (preferred)

Applicants are requested to send a CV with "Migration and Humanitarian Data project" in the subject line to Romesh Silva, rosilva@unfpa.org, with copy to Madeline Sacco, sacco@unfpa.org, by 22 June 2017