Actualización metodológica y recalculo del Índice de Riesgo con Enfoque de Niñez en Colombia (2026), 4 meses, Seccion de PM&E, (Remoto, national)
Organizational Context
UNICEF works in over 190 countries and territories to save children's lives, defend their rights, and help them fulfill their potential. We are committed, passionate, and proud of what we do, for as long as it takes. Promoting the rights of every child is not just a job, it's a vocation.
Job Purpose
The consultancy aims to update the methodological and statistical approach for the Child-Focused Risk Index for Colombian municipalities. The consultant will review and enhance the current methodology, update information sources, recalculate index results, improve visualization tools, and prepare the necessary technical documentation for its future use and updates. This work will be conducted in coordination with ICBF and other national entities to strengthen evidence-based decision-making regarding risks affecting children and adolescents. The goal is to ensure the index remains relevant, accurate, and useful for policy and intervention planning.
Responsibilities
The consultant will be responsible for the methodological and statistical update of the Child-Focused Risk Index for all Colombian municipalities. This includes reviewing and validating the index's conceptual and methodological framework, updating, homologating, and harmonizing information sources, implementing necessary technical and methodological adjustments for relevance, quality, and currency, recalculating results for all municipalities, and improving instruments for visualization, interpretation, and use of results. This will be done in collaboration with technical teams from ICBF, National Unit for Disaster Risk Management, Victims' Unit, Ombudsman's Office, Ministry of National Education, and other entities of the National System for Family Welfare. The consultancy also involves designing and implementing quality assurance and control mechanisms to ensure statistical consistency, reproducibility, traceability, and transparency of results. The consultant must thoroughly document procedures, methodological decisions, outcomes, and limitations. To strengthen the index's sustainability, procedures for future updates will be updated and documented, including indicator technical sheets, data dictionaries, source updates, processing, quality control, and result generation. Visualization and communication of results will be enhanced with explanatory elements for easier interpretation of the index, its dimensions, components, and indicators.
Work Experience
Minimum six years of professional experience in constructing, implementing, and analyzing composite indices, indicator systems, and measurement methodologies related to risk, vulnerability, human development, or well-being, using statistical information for decision-making. Minimum six years of experience in statistical analysis, processing, and management of large databases, territorial analysis, and handling municipal/departmental data from Colombia. At least three years of experience (included or additional) using data analysis, processing, visualization, and modeling tools such as R, Python, Power BI, Excel, or similar software.
Skills
Methodological update, Statistical analysis, Index construction, Indicator systems, Data management, Large database processing, Territorial analysis, Data visualization, R, Python, Power BI, Excel