Apply for Vacancy for ICT Officer at United Nations Office for Project Services(UNOPS). The deadline for this job is 18th May 2021.

About:

UNOPS supports partners to build a better future by providing services that increase the efficiency, effectiveness and sustainability of peace building, humanitarian and development projects. Also, mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors and United Nations organizations.

Duties:

• Support producing regular as well as ad hoc reports around key infodemic trends;
• Also, develop, document, test, deploy and debug applications, software and front-end interfaces that will be used by Global Pulse and UN partners;
• Work with the team to research, use and develop tools and libraries to create solutions implemented by Global Pulse and UN partners which can support the response to COVID-19 and other crises; Support the identification of gaps and opportunities for improvement of existing solutions;
• Additionally, assist with the development and work with APIs for integration with various data services;
• Support the operational research team in the planning, design, development and utilization of data processing systems for development and humanitarian response;
• Assist the team to determine system requirements to meet user needs; analyze system capabilities to resolve problems on program intent, output requirements, input data acquisition, programming techniques and controls; prepare operating instructions;
• Similarly, support data security standards implementation;
• Likewise, provide support to the coordination of testing of solutions and processes by development and humanitarian partners to strengthen. Also, adapt and improve the project’s efficiency and effectiveness.

Education:

• Advanced university degree preferably in Computer Science, Math, Engineering, Design, Data Science, International Development, Business Administration. Likewise, economics or other relevant disciplines.
• Also, a first-level university degree in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.

Experience required:

• A minimum of two years of work experience in big data techniques, internet technology, design or software development;
• Additionally, experience working in Linux type operating systems;
• Experience with AWS (EC2, S3, VPC, Route 53, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, IAM, etc.);

Desirable experience

• Knowledge and skill in developing with opensource software, libraries and frameworks is desirable;
• Also, experience coding in Python and JavaScript/NodeJS is desirable.

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