Regional Emergency Gender Data Analyst - Retainer - International Consultant - Home Based

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.

In line with UN Women’s triple mandate and its leadership role within the humanitarian system, ROAS advances gender-transformative humanitarian action across the Arab States by ensuring that gender data informs coordination, programming, resource mobilization, and accountability throughout the humanitarian programming cycle. This includes closing persistent gaps in real-time gender data, strengthening analytical capacity in crisis contexts, and ensuring that the specific needs, risks, and priorities of women and girls are systematically captured and acted upon.

To operationalize this strategic priority, UN Women ROAS is establishing a Regional Network of Gender Data Analysts and Emergency Statisticians as a dedicated technical surge mechanism to support rapid, high-quality production and analysis of sex-disaggregated and gender-responsive data in emergencies. The Network will serve as a core pillar of UN Women’s regional approach to advancing gender data in humanitarian settings, ensuring methodological rigor, comparability across crises, and timely analytical products to inform decision-making.

The Regional Network constitutes the primary technical mechanism for the implementation of UN Women’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) on gender data in emergencies, and will be mobilized during sudden-onset crises as well as critical phases of protracted emergencies. Members may be deployed remotely or in-country, subject to access and security conditions, and will reporting to the Regional Office Data and Results Management function and operate under the authority of the relevant Country Office 

Responsibilities:

• Providing specialized statistical and analytical support for sex-disaggregated and gender data in emergency contexts;
• Supporting rapid data generation and analysis during emergency onset and escalation phases;
• Strengthening data quality, analytical rigor, documentation, and cross-country comparability;

Supporting Country Offices in producing periodic gender data analytical updates, including quarterly syntheses of:

• Sex-disaggregated and gender data produced under the SOP framework;
•  Gender analysis emerging from UN Women programme implementation, monitoring, and humanitarian coordination mechanisms

Through this Network, UN Women across the Arab states Region will enhance evidence-based humanitarian action, strengthen gender accountability across the response architecture, and ensure that women’s and girls’ realities are visible, measurable, and prioritized in crisis decision-making and in line with the Strategic Note 2026–2029.

Consultant’s Workplace and Official Travel

This is primarily a home-based consultancy. However, members of the Regional Network may be required to undertake short-term missions to emergency or crisis-affected contexts, subject to security conditions, operational needs, and available funding. All official travel will be coordinated by UN Women and conducted in accordance with UN Women travel policies.

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.

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Functional Competencies:

• Advanced expertise in gender data analysis, sex-disaggregated data systems, and statistical methods in emergency and fragile contexts;
• Demonstrated experience producing rapid analytical products to inform humanitarian programming and coordination;
• Strong ability to translate complex emergency data into clear, actionable gender insights for diverse audiences (humanitarian leadership, clusters, donors, national partners);
• Experience applying standardized indicators, rapid assessment methodologies, and gender analysis frameworks in crisis settings;
• Capacity to work independently u