[citation needed] Ghunaimat started her career in 1996 in Al-Rai Newspaper in the advertising department, and then she took over the poverty pockets file.

In 2006, she was offered a job in the Jordanian newspaper "Al-Sijel", in addition to her work in "Al-Rai", with professors Mustafa Al-Hamarneh and George Hawatmeh.

On June 14, 2018, she was appointed as Minister of State for Media Affairs in the government of Dr. Omar Razzaz, taking the constitutional oath before the Jordanian monarch at Al Husseiniya Palace in Amman.

Amman Public Prosecutor, Judge Rami Al-Tarawneh, decided on Wednesday, October 29, 2014, to prevent the trial of Al-Ghad newspaper and its editor-in-chief (who was Jumana Ghunaimat).

[9] The Israeli Foreign Ministry raised a "strongly worded" protest to Jordan over the image, which angered Tel Aviv officials,[10] and the Jordanian ambassador, Ghassan Al-Majali, was summoned to protest in front of him on Sunday, at the ministry's headquarters, and the media published in the Israeli Broadcasting Corporation, Shimon Aran, in his account on Twitter, A picture of Jumana, trampling on the Israeli flag, adding in a tweet: “A new crisis between Israel and Jordan due to Minister Jumana Ghunaimat stepping on the Israeli flag drawn on the floor of the Professional Syndicate Complex in the capital, Amman.” In a statement issued by the Jordanian Foreign Ministry spokesman Majid al-Qatarneh, he said that Jordan had informed Israel of its respect for the peace treaty between the two parties, following diplomatic tension resulting from the Jordanian media minister's trampling of the Israeli flag while she was attending an official meeting.

Others described the minister's movement as spontaneous, and were surprised by Tel Aviv's reaction to the photo, saying that it revealed the superficial thinking of its officials.