Data and Analysis Consultant: Climate, Conflict and Child Displacement

The consultant will analyze displacement data related to climate, conflict, and child displacement, producing analytical inputs for UNICEF's report on these intersections. The role involves data cleaning, GIS analysis, desk research, and drafting technical report sections.

Responsibilities

• Review available IDMC and other appropriate historical data on disaster- and conflict-related internal displacement, refugee/IDP populations, child demographics, climate hazards, urban growth and, where feasible, water and service pressures.
• Clean, harmonise and analyse historical displacement data; develop and validate an age- and sex-disaggregation approach, documenting assumptions, uncertainty and gaps.
• Distinguish new displacements from people living in displacement and avoid double counting across datasets.
• Analyse available future disaster displacement-risk model outputs, including relevant climate scenarios where robust and accessible.
• Use GIS and transparent spatial methods to identify locations where climate hazards, conflict/fragility, displacement, child populations, urban growth and available service vulnerability indicators converge.
• Produce publication-ready maps, charts, tables, data files and short captions for current trends, intersecting risks and future risk, with source attribution and accessible formats.
• Conduct focused desk research to interpret quantitative findings on the climate–conflict–displacement nexus and consequences for children, including water security/WASH, secondary cities, service continuity and selected country contexts.
• Draft the report's methodology and substantive analytical inputs, particularly the evidence chapter on child displacement and hotspots, relevant climate/conflict and urban analysis, and concise evidence inputs for water/WASH and solution sections.
• Revise these inputs following consolidated UNICEF and editorial comments.
• Provide a handover package with documented workflows, code or reproducible steps, metadata, references and limitations.

Requirements

• Advanced degree (Master’s degree) in geography, demography, statistics, data science, environmental science, development studies or related field; equivalent relevant experience may be considered.
• At least five years' relevant experience in displacement data analysis, geospatial analysis or risk modelling.
• Demonstrated age/sex disaggregation, population estimates, spatial statistics and handling of uncertainty.
• Understanding of disaster and conflict displacement data, climate-risk evidence and child-sensitive analysis; IDMC datasets and models an advantage.
• Experience in desk research, evidence synthesis and drafting clear technical sections for policy reports.
• Ability to work with multiple writers and technical partners and document sources, methods and limitations.
• Strong GIS and reproducible analysis skills (e.g., ArcGIS/QGIS and R/Python), plus clear data visualization.
• Excellent command of written and verbal English required.

Skills

• Internal Displacement Data Analysis
• Geospatial Analysis
• Risk Modelling
• Age/Sex Disaggregation
• Population Estimates
• Spatial Statistics
• Uncertainty Handling
• Disaster Displacement Data
• Conflict Displacement Data
• Climate-Risk Analysis
• Child-Sensitive Analysis
• Desk Research
• Evidence Synthesis
• Technical Report Preparation
• GIS Analysis
• ArcGIS
• QGIS
• R Programming
• Python Programming
• Data Visualization

Languages

English