Information Systems Assistant

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Description

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This position is in the Enterprise Solutions Service, Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT/ESS), hosted by UNICTF and located in Valencia, Spain. The incumbent reports to a Senior Information Systems Officer.  OICT is committed to achieving a 50/50 gender balance and geographical diversity in its staff, and female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for this position. OICT supports the principles of work-life balance and flexible work arrangements.

Responsibilities

• Participates in the development, programming, testing, debugging and implementation of new application systems releases, modules and functionalities. 
• Develops, tests and implements simple computer application systems and programs using UN established standards for IT technologies, programming languages and tools.
• Serves as team member in the planning, specification, design, development, implementation and support of computer application systems; independently liaises with users to define and specify requirements.
• Installs computer application systems software and hardware according to specifications; monitors computer applications systems using appropriate monitoring tools and produces monitoring reports.
• Prepares technical and user documentation for deployed computer application systems, as well as training materials and conducts technical presentations.
• Maintains functional specifications for computer application systems, programs and procedures developed and/or modified.
• Provides support for deployed computer application systems including version management, data recovery and deployment to users’ offices; performs ongoing reviews with users and developers and responds to users requests.
• Drafts correspondence and communications, including work plan revisions and other related issues, as well as prepares unit contributions for a variety of periodic reports.
• Serves as focal point for coordination, monitoring and expedition of computer application systems development projects, involving extensive liaison with diverse organizational units to initiate requests; prepares standard terms of reference; processes and follows-up on administrative actions and resolves issues related to project implementation, e.g. organization of and participation in training, procurement of equipment and services, etc.
• Keeps abreast of developments in the field; performs benchmarking and proposes new acquisitions.
• Provides guidance to new/junior staff.
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

Education:

High school diploma or equivalent is required. A first-level university degree may be accepted in lieu of two years of required experience.

Work Experience:

• A minimum of seven years (or five years if graduated with a first-level university degree) of progressively responsible experience in information systems analysis and programming, software development, systems administration and maintenance is required.   
• Seven years of experience in developing web applications using C#, .NET and .NET Core frameworks is required.   
• Seven years of experience of development of  single-pages application and complex web interfaces development using Javascript, both vanilla and Ext JS/Sencha framework, are required.   
• Three  years of experience with DevOps processes and tools (AzureDevOps, PowerShell, git,Telerik Suite) is required.
• A minimum of one year of experience working with React is required. 
• A minimum three years of experience with ArcGIS/ESRI suite are desirable. 
• Experience of information security (Authentication, Identity management, compliance) is desirable.

Languages:

• English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat.
• For the post advertised, fluency in English is required.
• Knowledge of another official United Nations language, particularly Spanish, is an advantage.

Source: https://careers.un.org/jobSearchDescription/257670?language=en

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