Protection Information Management and Analysis Consultant

About the role

UNRWA's Protection and Neutrality Programme is seeking a consultant for a 3-month assignment (1 December 2026 to 28 February 2027) at its headquarters in Amman. The consultant supports the development, testing and improvement of an agency-wide protection information management system, strengthens the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods in protection monitoring, and produces analytical products and guidance for field rollout.

Key responsibilities

• Support the development, testing and improvement of an agency-wide protection information management system, including monitoring methodologies, classifications, indicators, coding structures, vulnerability profiling tools and data quality protocols across UNRWA's five fields.
• Strengthen the integration of quantitative and qualitative methods, using sex-, age- and disability-disaggregated data, key informant interviews, focus groups, legal and policy analysis and community-based data, while respecting confidentiality, informed consent and do-no-harm principles.
• Maintain and troubleshoot agency-wide information systems, databases and data collection tools, and liaise with users.
• Develop operational products such as dashboards, visualizations, infographics, reporting templates and risk assessments.
• Provide technical guidance to field offices, coordinate with Information Management Officers and thematic specialists, and support the integration of protection monitoring into information systems and data collection tools.
• Carry out data quality assurance, validation and routine analysis for internal and external reporting.
• Support the preparation of guidance materials, reports, briefing materials and advocacy products, and coordinate with DITID and other departments on system improvements.

Required profile

• Advanced university degree (Master's or equivalent) in international relations, human rights, international law, humanitarian affairs, public policy, social sciences, information management or a related field.
• At least 7 years of progressively responsible experience in protection monitoring and analysis, protection information management, humanitarian research, human rights, refugee protection or a related field.
• Minimum of 2 years of international-level experience outside the candidate's home country, country of residence and country of permanent residence.
• Demonstrated experience managing and analysing quantitative and qualitative protection data, including incident monitoring, trend analysis, vulnerability profiling and risk assessments.
• Experience developing analytical methodologies, indicators, classifications, reporting standards and information management tools, and producing analytical reports, vulnerability analyses, protection assessments, briefing materials and advocacy products.
• Excellent command of spoken and written English.

What we offer

• Remuneration of USD 27,330.99, paid in three instalments upon satisfactory delivery of the agreed outputs.
• No fee charged by the United Nations at any stage of the recruitment process.