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Children affected by migration and displacement are among the world’s most vulnerable populations. While high-quality data on migration is necessary for evidence-based migration policies, there are currently substantial gaps in the production of data on migrant and displaced children globally, in terms of quality of data, but also standards of data management.

Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration (SCRM) is the key migration and displacement Government actor with the mandate for policy development, management of reception facilities, facilitation of return and integration, but also plays a central role in managing migration data.

In Serbia, in partnership with the SCRM, UNICEF has (jointly with the IOM, UNHCR, and UNDP) initiated the 2-year project Promoting Evidence-based Migration Governance for Maximizing Development Potential of Migration, with the overall goal of promoting data-driven migration policy and planning in the Republic of Serbia and to ensure migration management structures and mechanisms (including those for data management and capacity building) take into account the needs and rights of children affected by migration.

Furthermore, the project aims to support the systematic collection of migration-relevant data in local communities, enabling evidence-based design and implementation of local migration action plans, as well as to further strengthen the data processing and analysis function at SCRM to become a migration data hub and to provide regular quality and reliable data enabling better monitoring of ongoing and creation of new policies at local level.

Work Assignment Overview:

The Assistant will directly support the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration in their responsibilities related to the migration data collection, analysis and reporting, and more concretely in ensuring migration data management practices, structures and products are sensitive to the needs of children and include gender, and age-disaggregated information. The primary objective is to support enhancing the quality and accuracy of migration data with a specific focus on the well-being and circumstances of children.

The contractor will provide support to designing and performing consultative assessments and gap-analysis related to migration data management architecture and procedures, formulating proposals for and promoting enhancements of the data-related procedures and tools for the SCRM and other stakeholders through organization of events, development of guidelines, and proposals of revised procedures.

The contractor will be placed in the Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration and will be obliged to strictly adhere to confidentiality principles in accordance with the SCRM regulations and procedures.

Duration of the assignment: February – August 2025 (full-time, office-based)

Seconded to: Serbian Commissariat for Refugees and Migration

Benefits: Private medical insurance, paid annual leave, paid sick leave; exemption from tax on salary

Task description:

The Child Sensitive Data Management Assistant will support the SCRM data management team in:

1. Continuous analyses of the current migration data management systems and procedures to contribute to better reflection of needs of children,
2. Improving migration data management procedures (including data collection and reporting practices),
3. Data Analysis, Reporting and Quality Assurance,
4. Promotion of child and gender-sensitive data practices among stakeholders generating or using data on children in migration.

Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:

• Bachelor degree in data management, statistics, social sciences, or other relevant field.
• A high school diploma could be accepted if coupled with min 5 years of relevant experience in refugee and migrant response.
• At least one year of experience with working in two or more of these fields: data management, migration, social protection, child protection, emergency.
• Experience in collecting, managing, and/or analysing data, with a specific emphasis on child-sensitive data.
• Familiarity with international standards and protocols for child-sensitive data management will be considered an asset.
• Excellent digital literacy: facility with MS Word, Excel, Power Point and e-mail/internet.
• Fluent written and spoken Serbian and advanced-level English language is required.

How to apply:

The application must include a financial proposal in RSD as a separate document, providing the following information:

• Monthly fee (all costs included, e.g. pension contribution, usage of mobile phone).

Important notes:

• Please do not forget to specify your name in the financial proposal file while saving (to be uploaded online under the “Financial Proposal” tab).
• Please do not indicate financials anywhere else in the online application form, please mark “n/a” or “00” under the fee-related questions in the online application form.
• Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration.
• Only shortlisted candidates will be notified and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

For every child, you must demonstrate UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability and Sustainability.

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, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles.

Level of Education: Bachelor Degree

Work Hours: 8

Experience in Months: No requirements