Information Management Specialist - Home-Based, Full-time basis

Background:

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.

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. Today, the Palestinians in Gaza are seeking to survive under an ongoing siege and heavy Israeli military operations. Between 7 October 2023 and 14 May 2025, the humanitarian crisis in Gaza has reached catastrophic levels, with more than 52,862 Palestinians have been killed (8,304 women) and more than 119,648 injured in the Gaza Strip. 90% the population of Gaza has been forcibly internally displaced, many of them multiple times. The loss of life and severe humanitarian needs are at unprecedented levels. According to IPC analysis, 470,000 people face catastrophic (Phase 5) levels of acute food insecurity. No humanitarian aid has entered Gaza since March 2, 2025, due to Israel's blockade, exacerbating the food and medical crises.

Violence has continued to spread beyond Gaza, with unprecedented number of 970 Palestinians killed (21 women) and 8,578 injured by Israeli forces or settlers, in the West Bank. Demolitions of public infrastructure and housing continue, and the revocation of Israeli work permits, and other movement restrictions have also significantly impacted the livelihoods of Palestinians in the West Bank. Beyond the severity of everyday needs, the immense psychological toll of the crisis on the population in the OPT is devastating.

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). 

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. Lastly, GiHA WG in OPT works closely with OCHA and through this request, GiHA WG will support OCHA and other stakeholders to ensure gender data is streamlined in the HNO/HRP, the MSNA as well as cluster response plans where relevant.

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