Epidemiologist - Maternal Nutrition, Child Nutrition and Development Practice, UNICEF Centre of Excellence, Bangkok, Job No #595906

UN Children's Fund - UNICEF

Consultant Closes 01 Oct 2026 1 days left

Overview

Provide quantitative data analysis and technical writing services for a UNICEF report on Maternal Nutrition in Asia. The role involves secondary data analysis, report drafting, and preparing data tables.


Key Responsibilities
  • Review, validate and update the global maternal nutrition database.
  • Conduct secondary analysis of publicly available diet-quality microdata.
  • Run analysis to spotlight maternal nutrition determinants with conflict and climate risk factors, income and ethnic inequities.
  • Prepare and write quantitative sections of the report, including methods, findings, interpretation, tables, figures and policy-relevant messages.
  • Respond to comments on analytical outputs and finalize the report.
  • Submit the diet diversity analysis separately to a peer review journal.
Required Experience

Proven experience on secondary data analysis for maternal nutrition, analysis of maternal dietary diversity data. Proven track record of producing high quality quantitative research reports and peer review journal papers particularly on maternal diet diversity in Asia. Previous experience working with UNICEF and experience with datasets and programming on maternal nutrition and anaemia in Asia-Pacific.

Qualifications

Masters in Nutrition Epidemiology, Field Epidemiology, Population Sciences, Data Science, Statistics

Other Details
Languages Required
Not specified
Languages Preferred
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Contract Duration
1 November 2026 – 30 March 2027
Work Modality
Remote/ home-based modality, not office-based
Remuneration
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