Digital Transformation Support for UN Women ROAS

Host entity: UNWomen

Application deadline: 12/10/2026

Mission and objectives

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.

Assignment context

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.

The UN Women Regional Office for Arab States (ROAS) exercises UN Women functions at a regional level and in support of UN Women’s engagement in 17 countries across the region. Drawing on UN Women’s triple mandate, ROAS promotes the realization of gender equality and the empowerment of women. The ROAS Strategic Note 2026-2028 includes a comprehensive and innovative monitoring and reporting framework to measure and report on transformational results at the regional level, including in those countries where UN Women is a regionally based entity.

UN Women leads the UN System-Wide Gender Equality Acceleration Plan by coordinating strategy development, strengthening accountability through UN‑SWAP upgrades, supporting UN country teams, mobilizing resources, and countering backlash on women’s rights. It drives system-wide coherence, gender-responsive leadership, financing, normative advocacy, and partnership across the UN to accelerate SDG 5.

Task description

Under the overall supervision of the Regional Coordination Specialist, the Online Volunteer will:
• Create an online dashboard that can be accessed by UN Women personnel in multiple offices in the Arab States region
• Populate the dashboard with up to date country-level data tracking progress of UN Country Teams in implementing the UNSW-GEAP deliverables, including detailed implementation of the UNCT-SWAP GES standards
• Recommend and action options for data visualization and analysis to support UN Women teams to present country and regional updates and trends
• Make recommendations on efficient data capture, reporting and visualization to support UN Women’s coordination portfolio in the Arab States
• Train UN Women personnel on how to use the dashboard, including updating of data and creation of tables etc.

Skills and experience

• Experience in data science
• Experience in creating online dashboards
• Some familiarity with UN Women’s mandate and areas of work.

Full eligibility requirements, conditions of service and application instructions are available on the official UNV platform.