Background:
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.
UN Women continues to strengthen its strategic planning and results-based management (RBM) approach to ensure that resources are effectively aligned with the Strategic Plan and that results for women and girls are systematically planned, monitored, reported, and communicated. A strong results and data culture is essential to demonstrate progress, inform decision-making, and communicate impact at global, regional, and country levels.
Following the roll-out of Quantum, the new enterprise resource planning (ERP) system replacing Atlas, UN Women has developed and rolled out a new corporate system โ PRISM (Performance and Results Integrated System for Management) โ to cover programmatic functions that complement Quantumโs financial modules. PRISMโs planning module was launched in October 2025, marking a significant step in enhancing the organizationโs ability to plan and manage results in a harmonized and data-driven way. The monitoring and reporting modules will be rolled out in 2026, which will further enable UN Women to systematically track progress and communicate results at all levels.
Building on the harmonized results structure set by the Planning, Monitoring and Reporting (PMR) Policy of UN Women, PRISM allows UN Women to plan, monitor, and report on results across the Strategic Plan, Strategic Notes, Workplans, and Projects. Together, results data from PRISM and financial data from Quantum form the foundation for data transparency and accountability through the UN Women Transparency Portal and International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) reporting.
The Strategic Planning Unit (SPU), within the Strategic Planning, Reporting, Effectiveness and Accountability Division (SPREAD), serves as the corporate custodian of RBM, strategic planning, and data transparency. SPU leads the development and implementation of corporate policy, procedures, and guidance related to planning, monitoring, and reporting, ensuring coherence between systems, processes, and organizational priorities.
In this capacity, SPU co-leads the design, roll-out, and ongoing management of PRISM in close collaboration with IST, PSMU, and other business owners and end-user representatives. In parallel, SPU drives organizational transparency efforts, including coordination of UN Womenโs engagement in the IATI and continuous enhancement of the UN Women Transparency Portal, ensuring that the organizationโs results and financial data are accurate, accessible, and timely.
Under the direct supervision of the Programme Specialist โ Strategic Planning and Data Analysis and Monitoring Specialist, and overall guidance of the Chief of the SPU, the Programme Analystย will play a key role in strengthening UN Womenโs corporate systems and data transparency initiatives. The incumbent will support the continued roll-out and user adoption of PRISM, provide technical and training support, contribute to data quality assurance and analytics, and assist in advancing the organizationโs transparency agenda through IATI and UN Womenโs Transparency Portal.
Key Functions and Accountabilities:Provide technical support to end-users to ensure effective use of PRISM for planning, monitoring, and reporting of Strategic Plan, Strategic Notes and Workplans and provide backend support for management of PRISMย
Provide technical guidance and support to UN Women personnel to ensure effective use of PRISM for planning, monitoring and reporting of Strategic Plans, Strategic Notes, and Work Plans at country, regional and corporate levels. Regularly update and manage PRISM Intranet pages and training site with updated resources, including user guides, FAQs, video tutorials, and training materials. Deliver Training of Trainers (TOT) and practical capacity development sessions to equip regional and HQ PRISM focal points to support Country Offices and HQ Divisions. Contribute to broader internal communication and change management efforts on the implementation of PRISM, including through intranet articles, newsletters, and email updates. Closely coordinate, communicate and collaborate with PRISM focal points from COs, ROs and HQ to support the roll-out of PRISM.ย Play the Global Admin Role in PRISM for backend management of processes and users Coordinate with end-users to report system issues to IST Contributeย toย strengthening transparency of UN Women at the corporate level by enhancing data publication to IATI and UN Womenโs Transparency Portal Coordinate IATI reporting processes, ensuring accurate preparation, review, and validation of planning and results data prior to publication. Maintain and update UN Womenโs IATI XML datasets and ensure timely, compliant submissions to the IATI registry. Support Transparency Portalโs enhancement and data quality improvements, ensuring consistency between PRISM and Portalโs data displays. Support strengthening capacity of UN Women personnel in Country Offices, Regional Offices and HQ Divisionsย to better understand and use UN Womenโs Transparency Portal, including through updating user-guides on Transparency Portal, regular internal communication and conducting dedicated training Support corporate efforts to enhance the visibility and usability of UN Womenโs Transparency Portal data among external stakeholders. Contribute to PRISM enhancements ensuring the integration with other corporate systems and its alignment with relevant corporate policies and procedures Provide technical and coordination support for preparations for future phases of PRISM enhancements. Collaborate among Business Owners and IST to ensure integration and alignment of PRISM with the PMR Policy and procedures and related corporate systems. Monitor system performance, user feedback, lessons learned and data quality, and compile findings to inform improvements. Assist in documenting business needs, system enhancements,ย functional requirements for enhancements.ย Participate in User Acceptance Testing (UAT).ย Prepare talking points and presentationsย to support SPREAD Directorโs participation in ICT/ERP Board meetings. Serve as the secretariat for the PRISM System Working Group, ensuring coordination, communication and collaboration across the organization on the enhancement of PRISM. Promote more effective use of data generated from corporate systems to support planning, monitoring, reporting and communicationย Support data integrity and consistency across PRISM modules and ensure accurate data flow into the Transparency Portal. Support the alignment of PRISM functionalities with corporate policies and data governance standards. Ensure PRISM contributes effectively to UN Womenโs broader data and analytics ecosystem, linking results, planning, and financial data. Contribute to the corporate efforts to ensure coherence and consistency in data management and reporting standards among PRISM, Quantum, and other corporate reporting tools. Support data validation and analysis of performance and financial data from corporate systems, including PRISM and Quantum, to identify trends, patterns, and performance gaps and toย support corporate level monitoring and reporting against Strategic Plan, Strategic Notes and workplans. Contribute to analytical visual summaries and briefs that translate system data into actionable insights to support decision-making, reporting and broader communication with stakeholders. Assist in developing and maintaining dashboards and data visualizations to monitor organizational performance and results. Support corporate efforts for continuous improvement of analytical tools and processes to enhance accessibility and usability of performance data. The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organisation.Competencies :
Core Values:
Integrity; Professionalism; Respect for Diversity.Core Competencies:
Awareness and Sensitivity Regarding Gender Issues; Accountability; Creative Problem Solving; Effective Communication; Inclusive Collaboration; Stakeholder Engagement; Leading by Example.Please visitย this linkย for more information on UN Womenโs Values and Competencies Framework:ย
Functional Competencies:
Good Understanding of results management systems; Ability to link key business processes to data and system requirements; Good knowledge of and experience in the application of results-based management in strategic planning, monitoring and reporting; Good Understanding of database systems and statistical analysis software; Ability to extract, aggregate, analyze, summarize and visualize various data from corporate systemsย Ability to present and communicate technical content on corporate systems and its data in a simpler manner to a broader audience and end-users;ย Ability to support others by strengthen their understanding and capacity on how to use corporate systems for their workยRecruitment Qualifications:
Education and Certification:
Advanced university degree (masterโs degree or equivalent ) in development related disciplines, statistics, economics, information system, computer science, ICT, or public policy or other social science fields is required.ย 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 2 years of experience working with web-based results tracking systems, programme management platforms, or other online systems in the context of international development, humanitarian, and/or peace and security work at country, regional, and/or global level is required. At least 1 year of experience providing end-user support for corporate IT systems, including the preparation of user guides and training materials, and conducting training, is required. At least 1 year of experience in data management, transparency, and/or open-data reporting at the country, regional and/or global level is required. Familiarity with the International Aid Transparency Initiative (IATI) is required. Experience with using Microsoft Power BI is required.ย Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, Power Point, etc.) and spreadsheet or database tools is required. Experience working with a modern web-based ERP system, preferably Oracle Cloud, is desirable. Experience conducting user consultations and feedback sessions for the development and enhancement of IT systems is desirable. Experience in developing business and functional requirement specifications for IT or results-based management systems is desirable. Experience in analyzing and summarizing quantitative and/or qualitative results data to support decision-making is desirable. Experience working within or with UN agencies or other multilateral/bilateral development institutions is desirable.Languages:
Fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).Statements :
In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. The creation of UN Women came about as part of the UN reform agenda, bringing together resources and mandates for greater impact. It merges and builds on the important work of four previously distinct parts of the UN system (DAW, OSAGI, INSTRAW and UNIFEM), which focused exclusively on gender equality and women's empowerment.
Diversity and inclusion:
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