UN Women: International Consultant, Information Management

About The Role

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.

Support information management, impact and reach analysis for UN Women humanitarian and early recovery programming through Track-IT, including interagency joint programming for early recovery in Gaza.
Provide technical and capacity building support to UN Women partners on humanitarian analysis, SADD, data collection (and M&E where requested).
Working closely with M&E colleagues, collate reach data from UN Women partners including through Kobo and TrackIT, and share aggregated results through the design of snapshots and reports.
Adapt and implement quantitative and qualitative data collection tools (e.g., KoboToolbox, ODK) to systematically capture SADD and intersectional indicators.
Support the preparation of technical reports, data snapshots and provide inputs for documentation ensuring accuracy, timeliness and relevancy of information and results.
Support the Development of data visualization, collection and quality assurance of primary data and information elements including the preapration of maps, dashboards, infographics and financial/resource analysis.
Adhere to data protection, data safeguarding, privacy, confidentiality, and compliance with relevant data management standards and protocols.

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

Support the production of gender/SADD data in Palestine, through primary and secondary data collection and analysis.
Support with 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 crisis and early recovery interventions.
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), and clusters.
Support efforts to mainstream gender in sectoral assessments including WASH, Education, SGBV, CP, Health, Nutrition, Shelter, Food Security and MSNAs
Build capacities for WLOs/WROs in data collection and gender analysis.
Train country office teams, local partners, and other stakeholders on gender indicators, data ethics, and secure data handling.

3- Improve accessibility of gender data for cluster leads and humanitarian and early recovery leadership.

Support the implementation and maintenance of 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 to produce gender analyses, reports, bulletins, and infographs where needed.
Prepare and update visualization and data dissemination strategies for GiHA WG (e.g. map, dashboards, infographics, etc)

4- Support the information management and technical coordination of the inter-agency Community Feedback Mechanism (WASIL).

Support the day-to-day maintainenance WASIL CFM information management system, ensuring data quality, accurate case processing, documentation and timely follow-up of open cases.
Analyze and consolidate CFM data and develop regular data briefs, visualizations, dashboards and presentations capturing key trends, needs, gaps and priorities emerging from community feedback, to inform the humanitarian response.
Coordinate routine technical follow-up with WASIL system supplier and relevant partners, including troubleshooting, system updates, technical reviews and maintenance of relevant system documentation, SOPs and inventories.
Support coordination and maintenance of referral pathways, including follow-up with relevant focal points and service providers to facilitate appropriate referrals and case resolution.
Provide practical training and support to hotline operators and relevant CFM focal points on data collection, case management (Registration, categorization, and assessment), referrals and data quality.
Support to present and disseminate CFM findings and key insights to relevant coordination mechanisms, including clusters, the AAP Working Group and other humanitarian coordination platforms.
Where requested, participate in inter-agency platforms as UN Women’s information management focal point (e.g., Inter-Cluster Coordination Groups, Assessment Working Groups, and Gender in Humanitarian Action platforms).
Ensure that CFM data and information products comply with applicable data protection, privacy, confidentiality and information-sharing standards.

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

Support the implementation and maintenance of a consolidated information management framework for UN Women’s contributions across Horizon Fund joint programmes, including projects led or co-led by UN Women and projects in which UN Women is a participating organization.
Maintain and update an internal Horizon portfolio tracker covering programme outcomes, outputs, activities, indicators, targets, budgets, implementation partners, geographic coverage, beneficiary groups, delivery status and reporting deadlines.
Support UN Women programme teams to translate approved joint programme results frameworks into practical data-collection plans, indicator reference sheets, partner-reporting templates and reporting schedules.
Map corresponding indicators across joint programmes and identify potential overlaps in beneficiaries, services, enterprises, cash-for-work placements, training, referrals and partnerships.
Support development of data-management protocols and unique or interoperable participant-tracking approaches, where feasible and appropriate, to prevent double counting across joint programmes while protecting personal and sensitive data.
Consolidate UN Women results for inclusion in joint programme reports, ensuring that UN Women-supported participants, enterprises and partners are correctly reported as subsets of consolidated programme results.
Produce regular portfolio-level dashboards and analytical updates showing progress against targets, implementation gaps, geographic and population coverage, referral completion, expenditure and results for gender equality and women’s empowerment.
Where applicable, maintain and update referral-tracking arrangements for Horizon joint programmes, including referrals between protection and enabling services, skills and certification pathways, and employment or enterprise opportunities

6- The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is a home-based consultancy, without travel.

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.

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