**The Position**:
The Programme Analyst, Population and Data Management for Policy and Services is responsible for assisting in the development and implementation of the UNFPA country programme, focusing on population issues and their relationship to development, and data and evidence management.

You will report to the Assistant Representative.

**How you can make a difference**:
UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for achieving a world where every pregnancy is wanted, every birth is safe and every young person’s potential is realized. UNFPA’s strategic plan (2022-2025) reaffirms the relevance of UNFPA’s current strategic direction and focuses on three transformative results: ending preventable maternal deaths; ending unmet need for family planning; and ending gender-based violence and harmful practices. These results reflect our strategic commitments to accelerate progress towards the realization of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development, the Montevideo Consensus of the Regional Conference on Population and Development for Latin America and the Caribbean, the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals in the Decade of Action to 2030. Our strategic plan calls on UN Member States, organizations and individuals to “build back better,” while addressing the negative impacts of global warming and poverty alleviation of the Covid-19 pandemic on women's and girls' access to sexual and reproductive health and reproductive rights, recover lost gains and achieve our goals.

The UNFPA Country Programme in Peru 2022-2026 seeks to strengthen the capacities of the national statistical system to facilitate the incorporation of demographic dynamics and megatrends into public policies, including the production of disaggregated data that make visible the situation of the most disadvantaged population groups in humanitarian and development settings. UNFPA considers demographic intelligence and the use of data, with an emphasis on data analytics, as strategies for meeting the national and international development and population goals adopted by the country.

The UNFPA Peru Country Programme emphasizes the importance of generating evidence on the main demographic components, and considering their relationship with the other components of the programme, including sexual and reproductive health and rights, social and gender norms and gender-based violence, child marriages and early unions, with emphasis on the most vulnerable population groups. To achieve this objective, it establishes partnerships with governmental and non-governmental organizations (NGOs), academic institutions, media organizations and other agencies of the United Nations system.

**Job Purpose**:
The Programme Analyst, Population and Data Management for Policy and Services assists in the development and implementation of UNFPA's Country Programme, focusing on population issues and their relationship to development, and data and evidence management. Through this role, the country office strengthens its capacity to analyze relevant demographic, political, social and economic trends and provides inputs for the formulation, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of programs and projects, ensuring compliance with established procedures. This role also provides the country office with capacities to strengthen the generation, processing, analysis and use of data and evidence using new technologies, including data science and artificial intelligence, among others.

**You would be responsible for**:

- Support the effective management of UNFPA activities and coordination with other relevant actors in the areas of population and development and data that lead to the successful achievement of the Country Programme outputs and their interlinkages and their countribution to the three transformative results of the UNFPA Strategic Plan.
- Analyze and propose the use of SRH epidemiological, demographic and socioeconomic data including a gender lens; prepare documents and presentations that can serve as a basis for the formulation of public policies, ensuring at all times the contribution to all areas of the Country Programme from the provision of evidence.
- Provide innovative approaches including the use of data science in knowledge products produced by the Country Office and in technical assistance provided to strategic allies of the national statistical system, including, for example, the integration of data science (and artificial intelligence) in censuses, population-based surveys and administrative records including in SRH and gender based violence.
- **Manage UNFPA's population and development activities and data interconectivity with outputs related to SRH and GBV efficiently and effectively**:

- Participate in the formulation of the United Nations cooperation framework at all stages, the country programme and component projects, collecting and analysing information relevant to UNFPA's role in the country