UNICEF is supporting health, nutrition, HIV prevention, education, access to safe drinking water, sanitation and protection for children and families caught in the conflict.

Ukraine is implementing the Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey (MICS) to generate nationally relevant, internationally comparable evidence on the situation of children, women and households (first in 13 years). The survey will produce a Survey Findings Report and an anonymized dataset for broader use. MICS includes many questions and indicators and requires careful interpretation and clear communication of what the data can (and cannot) show. Beyond producing the standard outputs, the key success factor is data use readiness—ensuring that current users (e.g., Technical and Steering Committee members) and future users (academia, think tanks, other government agencies, international partners) understand what MICS measures and can translate their policy, programme, and research questions into clear, feasible requests for additional analysis. At the same time, UNICEF Ukraine is strengthening its broader child rights monitoring and evidence work, including efforts to better organizing and use existing child-related administrative and secondary data sources. This includes improving how data are compiled, cleaned, documented, and structured for practical analysis and decision-making. UNICEF is also supporting stakeholder engagement and communications to build demand for MICS results; the UN Volunteer will provide data-savvy technical support across these areas, without duplicating communications leadership.

Under the direct supervision of the PM Officer, the UNV will support UNICEF Ukraine to increase demand and readiness to use MICS data and to produce additional analyses beyond standard MICS products. The UNV will also support broader child-related data work (administrative/secondary data, data management and documentation).

• Build and update a practical MICS analysis plan: draft/update a prioritized, feasible plan for additional analyses linked to intended use; support outreach to research communities and document cooperation/follow-up.
• Support UNICEF engagement with high-level counterparts: assist work with MICS Technical/Steering Committees and government agencies to identify priority policy/monitoring questions where evidence is needed; gather and summarize inputs for follow-up.
• Conduct hands-on analysis and produce materials: analyze MICS microdata beyond standard outputs; analyze other child-related data as prioritized; produce tables/figures, visualizations, short notes, slide inputs and summaries.
• Support MICS data-use readiness and demand: help explain what MICS measures (variables/indicators) and provide technical inputs to stakeholder-facing materials; engage academia/think tanks/partners to identify research questions; translate needs into feasible analysis requests and organize them for follow-up.
• Support data compilation and documentation: collect/clean/organize child-related admin and secondary data; help maintain structured datasets/metadata for data systems/prototypes and monitoring tools.
• Ensure technical quality and reporting: work with the National MICS Consultant, Communications Consultant, and UNICEF team to ensure accurate interpretation and technically sound engagement materials; keep records, track agreed progress indicators, and provide concise periodic updates.