Background:

UN Women, grounded in the vision of equality enshrined in the Charter of the United Nations, works for the elimination of discrimination against women and girls; the empowerment of women; and the achievement of equality between women and men as partners and beneficiaries of development, human rights, humanitarian action and peace and security. Placing women’s rights at the centre of all its efforts, the UN Women leads and coordinates the United Nations system efforts to ensure that commitments on gender equality and gender mainstreaming translate into action throughout the world. It provides strong and coherent leadership in support of Member States’ priorities and efforts, building effective partnerships with civil society and other relevant actors.

UN Women’s triple mandate, along with its global network and deep policy and programming expertise, continues to endow the Entity with a unique capacity to: (i) support Member States to strengthen global norms and standards for gender equality and women’s empowerment, and mainstream gender perspectives in other thematic areas; (ii) promote coordination and coherence across the UN system to enhance accountability and results for gender equality and women’s empowerment; and (iii) undertake operational activities to support Member States, upon their request, in translating global norms and standards into legislation, policies and strategies at country level.

UN Women plays an innovative and catalytic role in the State of Palestine since its inception in 1997 (as UNIFEM). In line with the national priorities, the work of UN Women for the period 2023-2025 is aligned with three of the Palestine United Nations Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework’s (UNSDCF) outcomes:

• Palestinians have greater access to economic opportunities that are inclusive, resilient, and sustainable, including decent employment and livelihoods opportunities in an empowered private sector.
• Palestinians, including the most vulnerable, have equal access to sustainable, inclusive, gender responsive and quality social services, social protection, and affordable utilities.
• Palestinian governance institutions, processes, and mechanisms at all levels are more democratic, rights-based, inclusive, and accountable.

Its three-year Strategic Note supports the efforts to achieve measurable results in country in terms of four UN Women global Strategic Plan impacts (2022-2025): (SP Impact 1). Governance and participation in public life; (SP Impact 2). Women’s Economic Empowerment; (SP Impact 3). Ending Violence Against Women and Girls; SP Impact 4. Women peace and security, Humanitarian & Disaster Risk Reduction.

One of the challenges to successful gender coordination is the lack of gender disaggregated and gender-specific data to generate meaningful structured analysis that will inform the decisions, advocacy, and programme design of the humanitarian community, including the Humanitarian Country Team and the HC/RC. There is also a need to enhance the interagency information management capacities to support accountability to the affected population in OPT.

The Country Office is seeking to hire an Information Management Analyst to highlight the gendered impact of the crisis, and to inform and enhance the humanitarian response and the coordination efforts of humanitarian actors. The IM Analyst will work closely with the humanitarian architecture and development partners, including the cluster system, to ensure the collection and use of sex, age and disability disaggregated data, in the humanitarian response and early recovery. The IM Analyst will also support early recovery joint programming in Gaza, through Women’s contributions into several joint programmes under the UN Palestine Recovery Trust Fund (Horizon Fund), supporting gender-responsive activities, providing technical assistance, and facilitating partnerships with women-led organizations. These joint programmes require coordinated information management systems to track beneficiaries, referrals, services, economic and protection results, partnerships and financial contributions across participating UN organizations, while preventing double counting and ensuring that gender equality results remain visible within consolidated programme reporting.

The Information Management Analyst will be home-based. They will report directly to the Deputy Special Representative and will work closely with colleagues on SADD data in the humanitarian response and early recovery, particularly the Programme Specialist, Gender Statistics, GiHA Specialist, AAP Specialist, and the Gaza Sub-Office team as well as the regional data team and the Regional Humanitarian Specialist.

Description of Responsibilities /Scope of Work

1. Provide information management support to UN Women’s programmatic activities in Palestine.
2. Integrate gender focus in upcoming data collection and analysis for humanitarian action.
3. Improve accessibility of gender data for cluster leads and humanitarian and early recovery leadership.
4. Support the information management and technical coordination of the inter-agency Community Feedback Mechanism (WASIL).
5. Provide information management support to UN Women’s programmatic activities in Palestine.

Competencies:

Core Values:

• Integrity;
• Professionalism;
• Respect for Diversity.

Core Competencies:

• Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues;
• Accountability;
• Creative Problem Solving;
• Effective Communication;
• Inclusive Collaboration;
• Stakeholder Engagement;
• Leading by Example.

Please visit this link for more information on UN Women’s Values and Competencies Framework.

Functional Competencies:

• Excellent information management, analytical and research skills.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze data and develop data collection tools and databases, as evidenced by previous work experience and/or outputs (e.g., dashboards, assessment tools, or database systems).
• Strong understanding of and commitment to gender equality and women's empowerment and its policy implications.
• Excellent writing skills.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Excellent knowledge and experience of gender-related humanitarian issues in the country.
• Strong knowledge and use of computer office tools and statistical software.
• Demonstrated ability to work in a team and in a cooperative and productive fashion both with internal and external colleagues.
• Excellent interpersonal and networking skills, and ability to work in multi-cultural and multi-disciplinary environments.
• Ability to work under pressure on multiple projects whilst maintaining high-quality and timeliness.
• Self-management.
• Continuous awareness of political and gender sensitivity.

Required Qualifications:

Education and Certification:

• Master’s degree or equivalent in gender, international relations, international development, data and statistics, information management or other social science fields is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
• A project/programme management certification would be an added advantage.

Experience:

• At least two years’ experience in humanitarian information management, including M&E, results-based management, and humanitarian action is required.
• Experience working on cross cutting issues including gender and/or protection and/or accountability to affected populations (AAP) is required.
• Experience working in humanitarian response and on humanitarian coordination, including experience with the cluster system is highly desirable.
• Experience using digital data, collection tools, such as Kobo, Toolbox, or ODK is desirable.
• Experience in data cleaning, validation, analysis and visualization is desirable.
• Experience working with diverse stakeholder groups or multi-stakeholder partnerships is highly desirable.
• Experience working with the UN and/or NGOs is desirable; and
• Experience working in the Arab region is desirable.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Working knowledge of Arabic is desirable.

Statements:

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.

Diversity and inclusion:

At UN Women, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. UN Women recruits, employs, trains, compensates, and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, ability, national origin, or any other basis covered by appropriate law. All employment is decided on the basis of qualifications, competence, integrity and organizational need.

If you need any reasonable accommodation to support your participation in the recruitment and selection process, please include this information in your application.

UN Women has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UN Women, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to UN Women’s policies and procedures and the standards of conduct expected of UN Women personnel and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. (Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.)

Note: Applicants must ensure that all sections of the application form, including the sections on education and employment history, are completed. If all sections are not completed the application may be disqualified from the recruitment and selection process.