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Exciting Opportunity: Project Manager/Business Analyst Consultancy at UNICEF for 2025!
Exciting Opportunity: Project Manager/Business Analyst Consultancy at UNICEF for 2025!
- Job no: 581221
- Contract type: Consultant
- Duty Station: New York
- Level: Consultancy
- Location: United States
- Categories: Programme Management, Research, Planning, Monitoring and Evaluation
- Deadline: 21 May 2025 Eastern Daylight Time
Are you ready to make a real difference? UNICEF is seeking passionate individuals for a Project Manager/Business Analyst consultancy role in 2025, New York. Join us in supporting children around the world—apply today. The consultant will lead the end-to-end project management and technical implementation of MICS website enhancements and MICS Tabulator development and launch under the supervision of the Statistics & Monitoring Manager/DCU.
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Responsibilities
- Creating and maintaining the project management artifacts (e.g., project plans, progress reports)
- Supervising and overseeing respective vendors involved in the delivery of the projects
- Leading implementation of agile methodology by conducting the sprint ceremonies (daily standups, backlog refinements, sprint planning, sprint reviews, and sprint retrospectives)
- Managing the day-to-day interactions with the vendor(s), other consultants engaged on the project and the partner
- Liaising with the internal (ICTD, TAO, BRM, DCU, DAPM, Supply Division, and Branding) and external stakeholders (vendor, IPUMS, and World Bank)
- Presenting deliverables to business teams and collect feedback on MICS Tabulator modules
- Organizing and chair project meetings
- Overseeing and coordinating quality assurance and review processes
- Following up on risk/issues/dependencies
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Requirements
Education:
- Advanced University degree or similar in: Information Technologies, Statistics, Demography, or any other related technical field with expertise in complex data management and software development
Knowledge/Expertise/Skills required:
- This is a high-level position with a minimum of ten years’ working experience in managing the end-to-end software project implementation with the scale of MICS tabulator
- Experience with household surveys data, preferably with prior MICS or DHS data processing experience is required
- PMP/PRINCE2 Certification is required. Other technical certificates that will help with MICS Tabulator are of added value
- Expertise in Azure, Function Apps, React, SQL, Databricks, SPSS, C#, and Python/R will be preferred
- Experience of managing software engineers, business analysts and QA is must
- Demonstrate at least 2-3 projects previously led that contained millions of userbase transactions processed
- Excellent interpersonal skills
- Good communication skills in English
Requirements:
- Completed profile in UNICEF’s e-Recruitment system and
- Upload copy of academic credentials
