Local Consultant – ZDHS Young People and Access to SRHR Services

The consultant will analyse the 2023/24 Zimbabwe DHS to explain young people’s access to sexual and reproductive health services, model inequities and barriers, and translate findings into a publication-quality thematic report for national planning and youth-responsive programming.

• Analyse access, utilisation and unmet need for SRHR services among adolescents and young people
• Disaggregate service barriers by age, sex, residence, province, education and wealth
• Model associations between SRHR access and adolescent pregnancy, child marriage and HIV risk
• Conduct relevant cross-module analyses across the 2023/24 Zimbabwe DHS
• Apply survey weights, clustering and stratification throughout the analysis
• Produce a publication-quality thematic report with policy-relevant findings
• Translate statistical results into concise evidence for planners and lawmakers
• Collaborate with ZIMSTAT, health authorities and other national stakeholders

• Master’s degree or PhD in Demography, Social Statistics, Public Health, Sociology, Epidemiology or a related field
• At least seven years of documented experience in complex secondary data analysis and statistical modelling
• Demonstrated experience with DHS or MICS datasets
• Expert programming capability in Stata or R
• Experience in adolescent and youth SRHR, family planning, adolescent pregnancy, HIV prevention or related research and programming
• Excellent communication and analytical writing skills
• Excellent English communication skills

• The consultant works under the guidance of the UNFPA Zimbabwe Representative and supervision of the Strategic Information and Policy Specialist
• The assignment involves close collaboration with ZIMSTAT and the Ministry of Health and Child Care