Knowledge Management Officer (Evaluation and Data), NOA, FT, #138594, Port of Spain, T&T, Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean

Organisation: UNICEF
Location: T&T, Multi-Country Office for the Caribbean
Deadline: 11 November 2026

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Job no: 596089

Contract type: Fixed Term Appointment

Duty Station: Port of Spain

Level: NO-1

Location: Trinidad and Tobago

Categories: Knowledge Management, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation

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For every child, the right to a vision

UNICEF’s Caribbean Multi-Country Office (MCO) serves twelve English- and Dutch-speaking Caribbean countries: Antigua and Barbuda, Barbados, Belize, Dominica, Grenada, Guyana, Jamaica, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Suriname, and Trinidad and Tobago. As part of UNICEF's Future Focus Initiative, the Caribbean MCO brings together policy influence, technical expertise and strategic partnerships to advance results for children across the region through one integrated programme, one management structure and a shared pool of resources. The Multi-Country Programme 2027-2031 focuses on three shared outcomes: equitable access to primary health care, learning and skills; protection of children from all forms of violence; and child poverty reduction and resilience strengthening.

Children across the Caribbean face interconnected challenges including learning losses, mental health concerns, violence, child poverty and increasing exposure to climate-related disasters. Despite many countries being classified as upper-middle or high income, significant inequalities persist, particularly for vulnerable children, adolescents, indigenous communities and those living in remote areas. Small island developing states also face fiscal constraints and heightened vulnerability to economic and climate shocks, requiring stronger regional cooperation and system-based solutions.

The Caribbean MCO’s management strategy is governed by four principles that together translate the new business model into concrete ways of working:

• Impact-driven : technical expertise is organized in shared multi-country working groups rather than replicated in each country, with enabling functions aligned around UNICEF’s strongest comparative advantages.

• Effective and agile : parallel country ecosystems are replaced by harmonized systems and flexible cross-country staffing, keeping management lean and decisions close to implementation.

• Grounded : regional scale is balanced with national depth through country-specific workplans, Heads of Office in each duty station, and matrix management that anchors authority and accountability at country level.

• People-centered : structural and managerial choices are guided by staff wellbeing, transparency and inclusion, with clear role definitions, meaningful consultation, and continuous investment in learning and development.

The operational expression of this model is the working group model. Rather than replicating similar roles across four separate country offices, technical and operational expertise is organized into 16 thematic and functional working groups, each distributed across different duty stations and each serving the full 12-country MCO — not just its host location. Roles are designed around three organizing principles: shared regional service , meaning every specialist contributes to the wider MCO; complementary expertise , meaning team capabilities reinforce each other rather than repeating the same profile in multiple places; and agile presence , meaning the workforce can be rapidly deployed across countries through travel, surge support or remote modalities in line with evolving needs and priorities. This working group model is the foundation of a fundamentally new way of working for UNICEF in the Caribbean: depth replaces duplication, and shared capacity replaces fragmented country-by-country coverage.

Under the Area Representative with a dotted line to the Deputy Representative (Programme Coordinator), three strategic shift working groups –Communication & Advocacy, Partnerships, and Evidence Generation & Evaluation/Knowledge Management – provide the enabling capacities required to deliver a more influential, partnership driven and evidence rich multi country programme. Together, they position the MCO to shape public debates, build and leverage high value partnerships, and systematically use data, evidence and learning to drive results for children across the 12 countries.

The Evidence Generation and Evaluation/Knowledge Management working group leads the strategic shift towards becoming a more data‑driven, learning and evidence‑based MCO. It strengthens the generation, analysis and use of data on child rights, supports national capacity building for evidence generation, evaluation and research, coordinates evaluation and learning, and ensures that knowledge is systematically captured and fed back into programme design, advocacy and partnership work, operating as a cross‑cutting enabler across all three programmatic outcomes rather than as a standalone function

The team is led by Data & Analytics (Evidence Generation and Evaluation) Specialist (Team Lead), based in Trinidad and Tobago, supported by a NOC Knowledge Management Specialist (Evaluation and Data), located in Jamaica, a NOA Knowledge Management Officer (Evaluation and Data), in Trinidad and Tobago, and a UNV Expert – Knowledge Management Officer (Evaluation and Data) for the OECS (Saint Lucia).

Locating part of the team in Trinidad and Tobago – a major connectivity and data hub – and anchoring additional posts in Jamaica and Saint Lucia allows the MCO to combine MCO‑wide analytics with sub‑regional support to OECS countries, where data gaps are particularly acute; working in close coordination with the MCO Planning and Monitoring team, this group provides an integrated analytics and knowledge service that directly drives programme results, and underpins advocacy and partnerships across the entire Caribbean platform.

How can you make a difference ?

This position reports to Data & Analytics (Evidence Generation and Evaluation) Specialist (Team Lead), based in Trinidad and Tobago, in close day-today coordination with the Deputy Representative (Programme Coordinator) in Jamaica.

The Knowledge Management Officer (Evaluation and Data) supports systematic generation, analysis, synthesis, management, dissemination, and use of evidence to strengthen organizational learning, evaluation, child-rights analytics, knowledge management, and evidence-informed decision-making across the Caribbean MCO. This position focuses on knowledge management, evaluation, evidence generation, data analytics, and organizational learning functions, providing technical support to ensure that knowledge and evidence are systematically captured, analyzed, synthesized, retained, and utilized to strengthen programme quality, organizational learning, advocacy, and accountability.

The position contributes to the generation of child-rights evidence through analytical review of administrative data, research findings, evaluations and other evidence sources, supporting UNICEF's role as a trusted knowledge and evidence partner to support evidence-based decision-making, country situation monitoring, and impact tracking across all 12 countries. In this way, the incumbent facilitates the generation, management and use of knowledge and evidence as strategic assets for advocacy, learning, and accountability.

The incumbent works closely with programme sections, external counterparts, implementing partners, and technical specialists to ensure that data, evidence, and knowledge products are accessible, well-managed, analytically sound, and effectively utilized to support organizational learning, evaluation, advocacy, and evidence-informed decision-making.

Summary of Key functions and accountabilities:

• Knowledge Management and Organizational Learning

• Evaluation and Evidence Use

• Data Analytics and Evidence Generation

• Knowledge Products and Evidence Dissemination

• Capacity Development and Learning Partnerships

• Data Governance and Responsible Evidence Management

This position belongs to the Evidence Generation & Evaluation/Knowledge Management working group. If you would like to know more about this position, please review the complete Job Description here: NOA Knowledge Management Officer (Evaluation and Data) T&T.pdf

To qualify as an advocate for every child you will have…

Minimum requirements:

Education: A University Degree in data science, statistics, demography, economics, public policy, development studies, social sciences, or another relevant field with strong quantitative training is required.

Work Experience: A minimum of one (1) year of relevant professional experience in one or more of the following in data analytics, research, national data systems strengthening, data analytics, research, evaluation, evidence generation, statistics, knowledge management, organizational learning or related advisory support in a development context is required. Exposure to similar functions, working with teams across geographically dispersed duty stations will be a distinct advantage.

Technical Knowledge :

• Knowledge management principles, systems, and tools.

• Evaluation methodologies.

• Data visualization and reporting.