Gender Statistics Specialist
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UN Women
- Career category: Advocacy/ Policy, Programme/ Project design & management
- Job type: Job
- Experience level: 5-10 years
- Organisation type: Inter-governmental
- Remote option: Not Specified
- Right to work requirements: Nationals-only contract
- Remuneration: Remuneration not disclosed
- Work schedule: Full-time
- Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
- Deadline: 13/07/2026
- Location: Palestine
In Palestine, the Women Count Project, will support interventions aligned with national priorities to improve the government's capacity to generate and use gender statistics to inform policies and programmes aimed at gender equality and women's empowerment, as well as for SDGs programming and monitoring. To this end, the key objective is to ensure that gender statistics are available, accessible and analyzed to inform timely policy formulation, advocacy and accountability for gender equality and women's empowerment, with three proposed outcomes: enabling environment, data production and data accessibility and use.
In the Women Count Project, UN Women Palestine will work together with the PCBS as the governing entity of the national statistical system, with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs as the national mechanism for the advancement of women, the Ministry of Finance and Planning as the governing entity of national planning, and other relevant national stakeholders. The project will also work closely with the humanitarian architecture, including the cluster system, to ensure the collection and use of sex, age and disability disaggregated data, in the humanitarian response and early recovery.
In the Women Count Project, UN Women Palestine will work together with the PCBS as the governing entity of the national statistical system, with the Ministry of Women’s Affairs as the national mechanism for the advancement of women, the Ministry of Finance and Planning as the governing entity of national planning, and other relevant national stakeholders. The project will also work closely with the humanitarian architecture, including the cluster system, to ensure the collection and use of sex, age and disability disaggregated data, in the humanitarian response and early recovery.
Under the supervision of the Deputy Special Representative as the primary supervisor and of the Regional Gender Statistics Specialist at ROAS as the matrix supervisor and in liaison with normative and humanitarian teams including the Gender in Humanitarian Action Specialist, the Programme Specialist, Gender Statistics, is responsible for providing technical advice to the Head of Office and Deputy and strategic programmatic and operational management of the project, contributing to ensure the effective implementation of the Women Count Project in Palestine. She/he will also provide technical assistance and capacity development to partners (including government partners and humanitarian actors) as well as lead resource mobilization, knowledge management and communication efforts.
The Programme Specialist, Gender Statistics works in close collaboration with the programme and operations team, UN Women RO and HQ staff, Government officials, multi and bilateral donors and civil society ensuring successful UN Women programme implementation under portfolio.
Education and Certification:
- Master’s degree or equivalent in Statistics, Economics, Demography, social sciences, or a related field 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 of progressively responsible work experience at the national or international level in design, planning, implementation, monitoring and evaluation of development projects is required.
- Experience in statistics is required.
- Experience in Gender Statistics is desirable.
- Experience in leading and coaching staff is desirable.
- Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
Languages:
- Fluency in English is required.
- Fluency in Arabic is required.
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