Overview

The Data and Foresight Analyst assists in generating real-time insights, trend analysis, and strategic foresight to inform humanitarian preparedness, peacebuilding strategies, and development programming, guiding UNFPA’s programmes.

Tasks Summary

• Compile and analyze information for country program formulation, drafting project documents, work plans, and statistical data.
• Design and manage data collection, cleaning, integration, and analysis pipelines.
• Conduct advanced statistical analysis, predictive modeling, and scenario simulations.
• Visualize data through dashboards, reports, and interactive tools.
• Ensure data quality, integrity, and alignment with organizational standards.
• Identify, collect, clean, and analyze diverse primary and secondary data sources.
• Lead the design and execution of analytics processes, detecting signals and trends.
• Explore opportunities for applied statistical and operations research and analysis.
• Elaborate requirements, test analytical tools and platforms, and contribute to developing an analytical and backend environment.
• Scan global, regional, and local environments for emerging trends, weak signals, disruptions, and game-changing developments.
• Facilitate the development of plausible future scenarios, horizon scanning, and systems mapping.
• Support anticipatory action and long-term planning by synthesizing foresight outputs into strategic recommendations.
• Provide technical advice and lead experimentation in planning and coordinating foresight experiments.
• Translate complex data and foresight outputs into accessible insights.
• Build the foresight literacy and data capability of staff through training, tools, and participatory exercises.
• Document best practices, case studies, and foresight methodologies.
• Support and guide the development of skills, technological capacities, and services for using data analytics and strategic foresight.
• Advise on developing accessible data interfaces and processes, and guide data visualization, communication design, and data use.
• Write and revise technical documentation, proactively record and share lessons learned.
• Work closely with program, policy, and innovation teams to embed foresight and analytics.
• Liaise with external partners, UN agencies, think tanks, academia, and innovation labs.
• Provide technical inputs to strategy development processes, evaluations, and research initiatives.
• Coordinate and guide work with thematic specialists, consultants, and partners.

Experience Requirements

• A minimum of 2 years progressively responsible experience in the field of development and population activities, preferably in programme/ project management.
• Experience should include development of policies, ability to negotiate and coordinate with all relevant sectors of government, the private sector, international agencies and civil society groups.
• Experience in conflict sensitivity approach and programming is an asset.

Qualification Requirements

Advanced degree in public health, population, demography, gender studies, development studies, and/or other related social science fields; and ICT/Computing/applied sciences studies.