Background Information - UNOPS
UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.
UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources. Working with us UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.
Diversity
With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.
Work life Harmonization
UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.
Background Information – Sustainable Development Cluster
Based in New York, the Sustainable Development Cluster (SDC) supports diverse partners with their peacebuilding, humanitarian and development operations.
The SDC’s services include grants management, development and special initiatives support, and technology support to the UN and UN agencies.
The SDC is part of the New York Service Cluster that supports the United Nations Secretariat, as well as a broadening community of other New York-based United Nations organizations, bilateral and multilateral partners in the delivery of UNOPS mandate in project management, infrastructure management, and procurement management.
Background Information - Job-specific
The ICT Integration Services Technician will carry out his/her tasks within the Operations Support Division (OSD) of the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) in New York.
The Operations Support Division (OSD) of the Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) in the United Nations is responsible for the delivery of applications that satisfy the requirements of the Departments of Operations Support (DOS) entities.OICT/OSD has implemented a range of systems to address the principal requirements of peacekeeping operations and to support and enhance the processes DFS undertakes.
UNOPS has been requested to assist in the implementation of this activity. UNOPS is seeking to expand the Situational Awareness team to include resources that will focus on enhancing the existing situational awareness programme capacity. In particular, to focus on the design and development of components related to open source development. Whilst the resources will be based with the UNOPS Situational Awareness Team in United Nations ICT Facility in Valencia Spain, these services will be provided to UN – field Missions.
This is a position in UNOPS for supporting projects carried out for or in the United Nations Secretariat. The incumbent of this position will be a staff member of UNOPS under its full responsibility.
Functional Responsibilities
Under the overall supervision of UNOPS Senior Programme Manager and Senior Manager – Business Systems or designated officer in NY and within delegated authority of Solutions Architect in Valencia, the incumbent will be required to perform the following duties at the United Nations Information and Communication Technology Facility (UNICTF) in Valencia.
Performs other related duties as required.
Impact of Result
The result of work of the ICT Integration Services Technician impacts directly on delivery of services that satisfy the requirements of the Situational Awareness Programm as well as the performance of the solutions implemented in the field missions and headquarters. It will also ensure proper processes and methodologies are followed and implemented according to the latest of the industry standards.
VI. Recruitment Qualifications
Education:
· Secondary education is required;
· A university degree in information technology, computer science, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field is highly desirable;
Experience:
Required:
Desriable:
· Experience working with web sockets;
· Experience on Jboss;
· Experience in PHP and JavaScript code writing;
· Experience in multinational working environment;
· Knowledge on Atlassian products (Jira, Confluence);
Language Requirements:
· English and French are the working languages of the UN. For this job opening, fluency in English (both oral and written) is required; knowledge of another UN official language is desirable;
UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.
UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.
Working with us
UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.
Diversity
With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.
Work life harmonization
UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.
