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Exciting Home-Based Consultancy: Join UN Women as an Information Management Specialist

Ednah Carrick May 22, 2025

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Closing Date: 29 May 2025

Exciting Home-Based Consultancy: Join UN Women as an Information Management Specialist

Background:

UN Women Palestine’s 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.

After the escalation of hostilities following 7 October 2023, the situation in OPT has changed dramatically. The Flash Appeal for the Occupied Palestinian Territory is targeting 2.7 million people in critical need of assistance across the OPT, where humanitarian needs have been driven by the protracted Israeli occupation of more than 56 years, 16 years of the Gaza blockade, and recurrent hostilities between Israeli security forces and Palestinian armed groups.

The Crisis Response Framework of UN Women Palestine is structured around three pillars: 1) Providing life-saving assistance to women and girls, including through supporting women’s organizations, 2) Strengthening accountability towards gender commitments in the coordination and implementation of the humanitarian response, and 3) Supporting Palestinian women to meaningfully influence political decision-making at all levels.

UN Women Palestine is an active member of HCT and coordinates efforts to integrate gender across the humanitarian programme cycle in close partnership with other humanitarian actors through the Gender in Humanitarian Action Working Group (GiHA WG) which UN Women co-chairs. Throughout the current crisis, UN Women and the GiHA WG have produced thematic Gender Alerts on the gendered impacts of the crisis. UN Women also leads the efforts to establish and operationalize an interagency community feedback mechanism in the Occupied Palestinian Territory (OPT).

Thus, the Country Office is seeking to hire an Information Management Specialist to highlight the gendered impact of the crisis, and to inform and enhance the humanitarian response and the coordination efforts of humanitarian actors. The requested support will benefit the CO’s efforts both in the West Bank and Gaza. The consultant will help highlight the various contributions of UN Women in the humanitarian sphere while supporting the humanitarian coordination mechanisms in Palestine as part of the country humanitarian response effort through the provision of timely and accessible gender data. This will also benefit the humanitarian actors overall in their interventions.

This home-based consultancy is urgently needed to maintain and expand the level of support to the humanitarian community at the time of unprecedented humanitarian crisis, to build an information base for response planning, and to expand advocacy efforts on multiple fronts using gender and social inclusion analysis.

The Information Management Specialist will be home-based and will report directly to the Head of Gaza sub-office and work closely with WPSHA colleagues, in particular the GiHA Specialist/GiHA WG co-chair.

Description of Responsibilities

Integrate gender focus in upcoming data collection and analysis for humanitarian action.

Lead the production of gender/SADD data in Palestine, through primary and secondary data collection and ensure the systematic application of the new UN Women data collection tools in emergencies, in close collaboration with the data and results team.
Advise on gender integration in inter-agency assessments, analysis and methodologies planning to ensure that data collection efforts are gender responsive and will capture gendered impacts of the war.
Support the information management of the new interagency community feedback mechanism and producing and disseminating accurate information and data on trends, needs, priorities of affected people.
Participate and contribute inputs to the humanitarian data and information management bodies (such as the Information Management Working Group, the Assessments and Analysis Working Group))
Coordinate specific efforts in mainstreaming gender in sectoral assessments including WASH, Education, SGBV, CP, Health, Nutrition, Shelter, Food Security and MSNAs
Work closely with the Regional Data and Results team and contribute to the development and promotion of a regional gender in emergencies dashboards, GenForm.
Build capacities for WLOs/WROs in data collection and gender analysis.

Improve accessibility of gender data for cluster leads and humanitarian leadership.

Develop data collection and analysis systems in coordination with the information management efforts at the inter-cluster level and develop strategies that optimize statistical efficiency and quality humanitarian affected area.
Conduct data collection and analysis, support UN Women and GiHA WG in producing Gender Alert infographics as needed.
Provide technical support to inter-agency coordination groups on to ensure gender mainstreaming on assessments and data presentation and utilization.
Provide key gender data to UN Women leadership and GiHA WG co-chairs to adequately brief the HCT, ICCG and other coordination mechanisms on the gender dynamics in the current crisis
Support the development of visualization and data dissemination strategies for GiHA WG (e.g. map, dashboards, infographics, etc)
Participate in and provide support to joint inter-agency UN planning processes and similar exercises.
Identify and disseminate lessons learned and good practices in collaboration with the Country and Regional offices and humanitarian team of UN Women.

Provide information management support to UN Women’s programmatic activities in Palestine

Working closely with M&E colleagues, collate reach data from UN Women partners, and share aggregated results through the design of snapshots and reports
Provide technical and capacity building support to UN Women partners on humanitarian analysis, SADD, data collection, and M&E.
Support the preparation of technical reports, data snapshots and provide inputs for documentation ensuring accuracy, timeliness and relevancy of information and results.
Develop visualization, collection and quality assurance of primary data and information elements (e.g., maps, dashboards, infographics and financial/resource analysis).

Required Qualifications

Education and Certification:

Master’s degree or equivalent in gender, international relations, international development, 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 5 years’ experience in humanitarian information management, including M&E, results-based management, and humanitarian action
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 strongly 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.

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