The United Nations Office for Project Services is an operational arm of the United Nations, dedicated to implementing projects for the United Nations System, international financial institutions, governments and other partners in the aid world.
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Implements and monitors projects involving feasibility studies, data and systems analysis improvement.
Provides assistance to clients, analyzing clients’ requirements and support in translating these into new data and analytics products; determines systems integration and linkage issues.
Analyzes and evaluates new technologies and makes suggestions to supervisors for their deployment.
Contribute to the development of detailed systems and other functional specifications and user documentation for major systems.
Development and Quality Assurance Support
Organizes and performs unit and integrated testing, designing and utilizing test bases; assists users in acceptance testing.
Develops data models/databases, data warehouses and tools to integrate and store data from several sources. Support in designing and implementing ETL processes.
Maintains, upgrades or enhances existing user systems; troubleshoots and provides continuing user support, to include resolving difficult problems, advising on the use of new techniques, monitoring transactions to measure performance and continued effectiveness of assigned systems, etc.
Ensures appropriate data security and access controls considering both local and wide area issues.
Creates visualizations and reports for requested projects using different Business Intelligence and reporting tools.
Documentation, Training, Maintenance and Support
Develops training materials, operating and user manuals; trains staff in assigned systems consolidates disaster recovery plans and ensures appropriate planning and training of those responsible.
Other tasks and responsibilities relevant to the scope of work as assigned
Required
A first level university degree (Bachelor's degree or equivalent) preferably in Computer Science, Engineering or in a field related to the post description with 4 years of relevant experience OR
An Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) preferably in Computer Science, Engineering or in a field related to the post description with 2 years of relevant experience is required experience is required.