Market Research Data Analyst

Job no: 550896

Contract type: Consultancy

Duty Station: Copenhagen

Level: Consultancy

Location: Denmark

Categories: Operations, Administration

UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT:

As the largest single vaccine buyer in the world, UNICEF has a unique and longstanding expertise in procurement and logistics to help children in need. UNICEF procures more than 2 billion doses of vaccines annually for routine immunization and outbreak response on behalf of nearly 100 countries.

Through the COVAX Facility – led by Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, WHO and CEPI – UNICEF is working with manufacturers and partners on the procurement of COVID-19 vaccine doses, as well as freight, logistics and storage. In collaboration with the PAHO Revolving Fund, we are leading the procurement and delivery for 92 low- and lower middle-income countries while also supporting procurement for more than 97 upper-middle-income and high-income nations. In addition to UNICEF’s role within the COVAX Facility, UNICEF is a key cross-cutting partner in the other pillars of the official ACT-A commodity pillars (therapeutics and diagnostics) and supports the end-to-end supply chain for these commodities.

As part of its broader commitments to information transparency and recognizing that the free flow of information and correcting information asymmetry is critical to underpin an efficient COVID-19 vaccine market, UNICEF has published the COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the go-to public resource for the latest information on the world’s COVID-19 vaccine market and the COVAX Facility’s vaccine deliveries. The dashboard gives a global overview of COVID-19 vaccine development and progress towards vaccine approvals, reported global vaccine production capacity and production locations, vaccines secured and optioned through bilateral and multilateral supply agreements, and reported vaccine prices. It also provides daily updates on total COVAX vaccine deliveries, doses allocated, and doses ordered, as well as globally reported vaccine deliveries and vaccine donations outside of COVAX. In the future, UNICEF is planning to make available information of other strategic COVID-19 products/markets, such as, Therapeutics.

Under the supervision of the Market Research Officer (Markets and Supplier Financing Centre – MSFC), the incumbent will be expected to take active part in the development, design and maintenance of the COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard and future Market Dashboards under development, as well as ensuring reliable master data quality. The consultant will gather market intelligence, help organize it in the existing monitoring tools and further develop the implemented visibility tools for decision making, communication and to demonstrate results.

Main Duties/Responsibilities:

Development and administration of MS Power BI dashboards

- Development and administration of new Power BI dashboards, based on needs as it evolves

- Respond to business queries and communication requests as relevant

- Attend in the weekly MSFC meetings, as well as other recurrent meeting with data service providers

Timeline: June 2022 – June 2023

Generate relevant market intelligence

- Production of at least 6 specific/targeted data analyses pieces, as assigned and planned with the team. The pieces will be shared with colleagues for review, finalized and submitted

Timeline: June 2022 – June 2023

Reliable master data quality

- Ensure the daily operation of the COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard is running smoothly from a data and information perspective, including but not limited to data maintenance, underlying data is refreshed as planned, master data is reliable, and when required take preventive and/or corrective actions

Timeline: June 2022 – June 2023

Provide documentation and training

- Ensure relevant documentation is in place and maintained

- Ensure knowledge transfer and training of existing staff

- Provide a final report, with all relevant data/materials/outputs produced during the assignment

Timeline: June 2023

Travel International: 2 trips to Copenhagen may be required over the consultancy period

The consultant will interact with UNICEF staff to receive any clarifications and guidance that may be needed. The consultant may also engage with external service providers to request inputs needed to develop the required deliverables. On a weekly basis, the consultant’s work will be coordinated with the Market Research Officer. Each deliverable will be delivered in draft for comments and feedback before finalization.

The Consultant will duly inform UNICEF of any problems, issues or delays arising in the course of implementation of assignment and take necessary steps to address them.

All reports and results are to be submitted to the UNICEF in electronic form (*.pbix, *.docx, *.xlsx, *.pptx, and *.pdf or other formats accepted by UNICEF).

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

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Qualified candidates are requested to submit:

Applications must be submitted through the UNICEF electronic application system by 29 May 2022. Applications submitted by email or without a daily rate will not be considered.

UNICEF considers best value for money as a criteria for evaluating potential candidates. As a general principle, the fees payable to a consultant or individual contractor follow the “best value for money” principle, i.e. achieving the desired outcome at the lowest possible fee. Please note that consultants and individual contractors are responsible for assuming costs for obtaining visas and travel insurance.

Candidates will be evaluated by the following criteria:

Only candidates obtaining a minimum of 70% from the maximum available technical score (49 points) would be considered for the Financial Evaluation

The maximum number of points assigned to the financial proposal is allocated to the lowest price proposal and will equal to 30. All other price proposals will be evaluated and assigned points, as per below formula:

30 points [max points available for financial proposal] x [lowest of all evaluated offered prices among responsive offers] / [evaluated price].

The proposals obtaining the overall cumulatively highest scores after adding the score of the technical proposal and the financial proposal will be considered as the most compliant offers and will be invited for a written assignment and/or an interview.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. The candidate may also be subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid).

Advertised: 11 May 2022 Romance Daylight Time

Deadline: 29 May 2022 Romance Daylight Time