Purpose of Activity/Assignment:
The fundamental mission of UNICEF is to promote the rights of every child, everywhere, in everything the organization does — in programs, in advocacy and in operations. The past two decades have seen important progress on child rights, yet while much has been achieved, sharp disparities remain. In most countries, inequality is higher today than a generation ago, including in middle income countries where a majority of the world’s poor children now live. These challenges are compounded by the scale and complexity of crises triggered by conflict, natural disasters or epidemics. The global community faces these challenges when the political and economic environments pose challenges of their own, testing the world’s commitment to protecting the most vulnerable. In this environment, strong and consistent leadership of UNICEF is critical to enable the achievement of results for children.
UNICEF in the State of Palestine works to uphold the rights of children to access services and protection, from early childhood through to adolescence. Our objective is to ensure that every child in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank, including East Jerusalem, irrespective of background or circumstance, has an equal chance to fulfill their potential. We are working for every child and young person in the State of Palestine.

Since this current round of the escalation in the State of Palestine began on 7 October, the humanitarian situation for over 2.2 million people, including over 1 million children in the Gaza Strip is catastrophic. The occupied West Bank, including East Jerusalem, continues to face increased violence, including with military operations.
The organization wide L3 emergency was declared on 21 of October 2023 for the period of six months and later was extended to additional six month respond to the unprecedented crisis in the State of Palestine with focus on Gaza strip.

Despite the extreme security situation, UNICEF is in the Gaza Strip, on the ground and working with partners to save children’s lives. Within 6 days of the conflict escalation, UNICEF started delivering cash assistance to the affected population. In ten months, UNICEF has reached almost 800,000 people with multi-purpose cash assistance and sector top ups and plans to further scale up and provide continuous support for vulnerable families. Simultaneously, UNICEF is rapidly expanding its incentive payment for frontline workers in the areas of WASH, Education, H&N, Social and Child Protection.

UNICEF is working in partnership with the Ministry of Social Development and other national actors to ensure that national systems continue to be supported to enable a smooth transition back to them once the situation allows.

In parallel, the situation in the West Bank continues to deteriorate due to increased violence and economic stagnation. UNICEF is planning to support the local authorities and affected families both during crisis and post-crisis early recovery including prioritizing public finance for children, humanitarian cash transfers, and sub-national planning and response.

In the context of a rapid scale up of its cash operations in the Gaza strip and West Bank, UNICEF State of Palestine (SoP CO) is looking for a Business Analyst (International Consultant) to support Cash transfer programme on a wide range of topics.

Scope of Work:
Technical assistance to UNICEF Palestine’s cash unit is provided on beneficiary data management
A. 40 datasets from various sources are created, checked, and verified for payment processing.
– Datasets are cleaned, deduplicated and consolidated into a master dataset for the cash transfer programme. At least 10 datasets are cleaned, deduplicated, and consolidated per quarter into a master dataset for the cash transfer programme.
– Beneficiary personal data are stored and maintained up to date to ensure timely delivery of cash assistance to recipients. At least 10 sets of beneficiary personal data are stored and maintained per quarter to ensure the timely delivery of cash assistance to recipients.
B. At least 8 analytical reports are produced for decision making, reporting and fundraising.
– Regular data analysis is conducted to support reporting, fundraising and programmatic decisions. At least 2 data analyses are conducted per quarter to support reporting, fundraising, and programmatic decisions.
1st delivery by end of Dec-2024
2nd delivery by end of Mar 2025
3rd delivery by end of Jun 2025
4th delivery by end of Sep 2025

Targeted support to UNICEF Palestine’s Social Policy team is provided to ensure the effective application of the GRM for cash programming:
At least 4800 cases (all levels of complexity) comprehensive are developed (at least 800 cases are managed and followed up bi-monthly, to address requests and complaints received from various channels (500 simple cases, 250 simi-complex, 50 complex).
1st delivery Nov 2024
2nd delivery Jan 2023
3rd delivery Mar 2025
4th delivery May 2025
5th delivery by July 2025
6th delivery by Sep 2025

Regular analysis of the GRM trends is conducted to further increase the effectiveness and timeliness of the response.
At least 2 analyses of GRM (Grievance Redress Mechanism) trends are conducted bi-monthly to enhance the effectiveness and timeliness of the response.
1st delivery Nov 2024
2nd delivery Jan 2023
3rd delivery Mar 2025
4th delivery May 2025
5th deliver by July 2025
6th delivery by Sep 2025

The protocol for grievance and feedback mechanisms is periodically revised (2 times) to capture any new information related to cash transfers.
1st delivery by end of Mar 2025
2nd delivery by end of Sep 2025

Evidence is generated to support the preparation, analysis and dissemination of monitoring and thematic reports on cash transfers.
Evidence generation and analysis is provided to at least:
– 4 Post distribution monitoring reports (planning, launching and analysis of RapidPro based surveys),
– 4 messaging campaigns (planning, launching and analysis of RapidPro campaigns)
– 4 result reports (on market functionality and other related areas).
1st delivery by end of Dec-2024
2nd delivery by end of Mar 2025
3rd delivery by end of Jun 2025
4th delivery by end of Sep 2025

The data management and management information system capacity of the Ministry of Social Development (MoSD Palestine) is strengthened.
6 on the job training (4 days per training including preparation, full training day and reporting) on data analysis and data cross-checking is conducted for the relevant staff of the MoSD.
1st delivery Nov 2024
2nd delivery Jan 2023
3rd delivery Mar 2025
4th delivery May 2025
5th delivery by July 2025
6th delivery by Sep 2025

A common knowledge management an coordination with key interlocutors such as Cash Working Group and National Social Protection Group is strengthened.
Six thematic reports are prepared (e.g. data sharing, e-wallet adoption, market analysis, etc) to enhance the coordination and knowledge management of multi-stakeholder cash programme and emergency response.
1st delivery Nov 2024
2nd delivery Jan 2023
3rd delivery Mar 2025
4th delivery May 2025
5th delivery by July 2025
6th delivery by Sep 2025

Timeframe: 1 October 2024 to 1 October 2025

Minimum Qualifications required:
– Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Public Policy, International Relations or related.
– At least 3 years of experience in Cash transfer programmes.
– Experience in Beneficiary Data Management for assistance programmes including humanitarian cash transfers at field level.
– Strong knowledge of the Grievance and Redress mechanism for cash programmes is a strong asset.
– Relevant experience in Emergency contexts is required.
– Experience in working with UN agencies (UNICEF experience preferred) at the interagency level.
– Detailed knowledge of the Project Lifecycle and fluency in project management methodologies.
– High level of proficiency in Microsoft Office.
– Fluency in Arabic and English is required.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

UNICEF’s values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS).

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UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

UNICEF offers reasonable accommodation for consultants/individual contractors with disabilities. This may include, for example, accessible software, travel assistance for missions or personal attendants. We encourage you to disclose your disability during your application in case you need reasonable accommodation during the selection process and afterwards in your assignment.

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

Remarks: 

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

Individuals engaged under a consultancy or individual contract will not be considered “staff members” under the Staff Regulations and Rules of the United Nations and UNICEF’s policies and procedures, and will not be entitled to benefits provided therein (such as leave entitlements and medical insurance coverage). Their conditions of service will be governed by their contract and the General Conditions of Contracts for the Services of Consultants and Individual Contractors. Consultants and individual contractors are responsible for determining their tax liabilities and for the payment of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with local or other applicable laws.

The selected candidate is solely responsible to ensure that the visa (applicable) and health insurance required to perform the duties of the contract are valid for the entire period of the contract. Selected candidates are subject to confirmation of fully-vaccinated status against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Health Organization (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which must be met prior to taking up the assignment. It does not apply to consultants who will work remotely and are not expected to work on or visit UNICEF premises, programme delivery locations or directly interact with communities UNICEF works with, nor to travel to perform functions for UNICEF for the duration of their consultancy contracts.