Empower Change: UN Women Seeks ICT Specialist for Gender Equality Initiatives
- Locations: New York, United States
- Grade: P3
- Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
- Job Function: Operations
- Initial Contract Duration: 1 year
- Deadline: Apr 5, 2025
UN Women is hiring an ICT Specialist to enhance technology-driven solutions that promote gender equality. This role focuses on leveraging information and communication technology to empower women and advance their rights globally.
This position falls under Enterprise Applications Unit of IST office and the incumbent will work in collaboration with stakeholders, management, subject matter experts, solution architects, and technical teams to understand the business problems and opportunities in the context of customer relationship management (CRM) and build solutions that enable the business clients to achieve the goals.
Under the overall guidance of Chief, Information Systems & Telecommunications Office and direct supervision of Manager Enterprise Applications, the incumbent’s is responsible for developing solution architecture, performing business analysis and adoption of IT solutions and defining and implementing IT Standards and Quality Assurance processes.
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Responsibilities
- Perform business analysis and adoption of IT solutions: Actively work across groups of internal and external resources, touching all phases of solution documentation including planning, requirements, development, and implementation to drive customer-facing and productivity enhancing capabilities
- Design and implement IT architectures: Develop scalable, resilient, and secure IT frameworks that align with business objectives.
- Define and implement IT Standards and Quality Assurance processes:Develop, implement and monitor information system standards and guidelines
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Requirements
- Master’s degree or equivalent in information technology, computer science, business administration or a related field is required.
- A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience
- At least 5 years of progressively responsible work experience in, a mix of solution design, and business requirements analysis.
- Experience working across business and IT teams to define business requirements, drive digital transformation, and implement scalable solutions.
- Experience supporting Enterprise level systems, writing documentation within the software development lifecycle and technical environment and Business Intelligence platforms, reporting tools, database, and third-party solutions is required.
- Experience leading and coaching staff in international settings is required.
