Empowering Women: UN Women’s ICT Specialist Role in Business Analysis and Solutions (New York)

Empowering Women: UN Women’s ICT Specialist Role in Business Analysis and Solutions (New York)

• Job Identification: 24971
• Apply Before: 04/05/2025, 05:59 AM
• Job Schedule: Full time
• Locations: New York, United States
• Vacancy Type: Fixed Term
• Job Function: Operations
• Initial Contract Duration: 1 year
• Required Languages: English
• Vacancy Category: International opportunities

UN Women seeks an experienced ICT Specialist as a Business Analyst/Solution Architect at its New York office. This role focuses on leveraging technology to enhance gender equality and women’s empowerment globally. 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.
• Design and implement IT architectures.
• Define and implement IT Standards and Quality Assurance processes.
• The incumbent performs other duties within their functional profile as deemed necessary for the efficient functioning of the Office and the Organization.

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Requirements

Education and Certification:

• 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 may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

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.
• Experience in the usage of computers and office software packages (MS Word, Excel, etc.) and spreadsheet and database packages, experience in handling of web-based management systems is required.
• Experience with Cloud Computing is desirable.
• Experience in CRM platform such as Salesforce, Microsoft Dynamics is desirable.
• Experience with use of a modern web-based ERP System, preferably Oracle Cloud, and its integration with external systems is highly desirable.

Languages:

• Fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official UN language is desirable (French, Arabic, Chinese, Russian or Spanish).