Apply for Re-advertisement: Information Comm. Technology Specialist, P-3, Fixed Term, Brasilia, Brazil #129166 Unicef Job Vacancy | Unicef Careers

UNICEF works in over 190 international locations and territories to save lots of youngsters’s lives, defend their rights, and assist them fulfill their potential, from early childhood by way of adolescence.

At UNICEF, we’re dedicated, passionate, and pleased with what we do. Promoting the rights of each child is not only a job – it’s a calling.

UNICEF is a spot the place careers are constructed: we provide our employees numerous alternatives for private {and professional} improvement that may assist them develop a satisfying profession whereas delivering on a rewarding mission. We satisfaction ourselves on a tradition that helps employees thrive, coupled with a lovely compensation and advantages package deal.

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For each child, dedication

Since 1950, UNICEF has supported an important transformation for youngsters and adolescents in Brazil. UNICEF Brazil with its predominant workplace in Brasília and 9 discipline places of work UNICEF works in shut partnership with nationwide and sub-national authorities, company companions, youth, and civil society organizations. For data of the work of our group in Brazil, please go to our web site: UNICEF Brazil

How are you able to make a difference? 

Under the supervision of the Deputy Representative Operations, you may be lead and assist the ICT useful accountability and internally handle ICT perform and externally improve collaboration and capability constructing; enhance the supply of outcomes and information administration; construct enterprise relationships and foster innovation. She/he accomplish this by:

• Manage the ICT perform and supply technical and operational assist: Manage ICT and supervise employees to allow the implementation of company ICT priorities, options and providers, together with crucial areas like PFP, Operations (Salesforce, PCI Compliance) and Technology for Development. Prepare ICT associated plans, finances, set priorities and efficiency indicators in addition to year-end assessments, opinions and reporting. Monitor dangers and threats to ICT setting (Cybersecurity) or infrastructure and take applicable mitigation actions and procedures. Manage ICT-related communication supplies internally, from NYHQ, GSSC or regional workplace. Liaise with regional workplace, GSSC and ICTD to maintain abreast of recent initiatives and alternatives to innovate and modernize workplace operations and to contribute to the collective ICT evolution.
• Enhance governance, collaboration, construct relationships and capability: Participate in workplace administration –CMT, operations and programme conferences to train the useful accountabilities of the ICT perform. Represent UNICEF ICT in inter-agency features. Engage with programme sections, counterparts and implementing companions to kind: technical and enterprise reference teams” to determine, analyze, analysis and promote revolutionary and viable options. Support Supply and programme employees to determine native LTAs for ICT-related programme contracts for providers and merchandise. Study and perceive the enterprise necessities, i.e., PPP, RBM, HACT, and many others… to enhance the supply of outcomes.
• Improve the supply of outcomes: Build and strengthen relationships with counterparts, i.e., authorities, sister United Nations companies, worldwide nonprofit organizations (INGOs) and Civil Society Organizations (CSOs). Promote using collaboration instruments for information administration, capability constructing and preserving institutional reminiscence. Work intently to facilitate HACT implementation with partnership managers, programme and operations employees. Liaise with HQs, RO and different CO to share information, expertise; focus on alternatives and dangers for the improved supply of outcomes. Manage and assist in cooperation with programme sections Technology for Development tasks for higher utilization of know-how to advance the supply of outcomes.
• Foster innovation: Promote creativity and revolutionary considering to re-engineer work processes and make the most effective use of know-how inside and outdoors UNICEF. Evaluate innovation initiatives potential alternatives and doable dangers to enhance productiveness, effectivity and effectiveness and share with senior administration, regional workplace, ICTD and Innovation Division. Implement authorised revolutionary tasks such because the purposes discovered on the UIevent Database and different purposes like eTools, RapidPro, Ureport, and many others. Facilitate TED-like occasions inviting native and worldwide students, CEOs and know-how gurus. Work intently with Communication to advertise to native philanthropists the advantages and rewards of innovation for their energetic participation, assist and funding.

To qualify as an advocate for each child you should have…

Minimum necessities:

Education: An superior college diploma is required in laptop science, software program engineering, data know-how administration, enterprise administration or one other related technical discipline. Two years of further related work expertise that was gained after acquiring a bachelor’s diploma could also be accepted in lieu of superior diploma.

Experience:

Required:

• A minimal of 5 years {of professional} expertise in data know-how administration and enterprise operations in a big worldwide group and/or company
• Experience in Digital transition course of
• Certification and/or confirmed expertise in Business Analytics
• Certification and/or confirmed expertise in Cybersecurity
• Certification and/or confirmed expertise in Information Security, ICT Audit and Risk Management
• Certification and/or confirmed expertise in Networks Management
• Certification and/or confirmed expertise in ICT service administration
• Proven management and expertise in managing a crew.

Desirables:

• Certification and/or confirmed expertise in PCI compliance
• Experience in a UN group
• For nation places of work with a big personal sector fundraising operation, prior expertise working with or within the personal sector, and supporting personal sector fundraising, is fascinating.

Language: Fluency in English is required. Proficient in Spanish and/or Portuguese because the submit would require a dedication to realize fluency in Portuguese (if not already acquired).

Desirables:

• Developing nation work expertise and/or familiarity with emergency.
• Experience in a UN group is an asset. 

For each Child, you display…

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin all the things we do and the way we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: UNICEF Values

The UNICEF competencies required for this submit are…

• Builds and maintains partnerships (2)
• Demonstrates self-awareness and moral consciousness (2)
• Drive to realize outcomes for impression (2)
• Innovates and embraces change (2)
• Manages ambiguity and complexity (2)
• Thinks and acts strategically (2)
• Works collaboratively with others (2)
• Nurtures, leads and manages folks (1) 

Familiarize your self with our competency framework and its totally different ranges.

UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most deprived youngsters and our world workforce should mirror the range of these youngsters. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, no matter their race/ethnicity, age, incapacity, gender identification, sexual orientation, faith, nationality, socio-economic background, or some other private attribute.

We supply a wide range of measures to include a more diverse workforce, resembling paid parental depart, time without work for breastfeeding functions, and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages using versatile working preparations.

UNICEF doesn’t rent candidates who’re married to youngsters (individuals beneath 18). UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority, and discrimination. UNICEF is dedicated to selling the safety and safeguarding of all youngsters. All chosen candidates will bear rigorous reference and background checks and shall be anticipated to stick to those requirements and ideas. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Selected candidates could also be required to supply further data to conduct a background check.

UNICEF appointments are topic to medical clearance.  Issuance of a visa by the host nation of the obligation station is required for IP positions and shall be facilitated by UNICEF. Appointments may be topic to inoculation (vaccination) necessities, together with in opposition to SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Should you be chosen for a place with UNICEF, you both should be inoculated as required or obtain a medical exemption from the related division of the UN. Otherwise, the choice shall be canceled.

Remarks:

As per Article 101, paragraph 3, of the Charter of the United Nations, the paramount consideration within the employment of the employees is the need of securing the very best requirements of effectivity, competence, and integrity.

UNICEF’s energetic dedication to variety and inclusion is crucial to ship the most effective outcomes for youngsters. For this place, eligible and appropriate afro-descendants, indigenous, LGBTQIA+ and different minorities are inspired to apply.

Government workers who’re thought-about for employment with UNICEF are usually required to resign from their authorities positions earlier than taking on an project with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the fitting to withdraw a proposal of appointment, with out compensation, if a visa or medical clearance shouldn’t be obtained, or obligatory inoculation necessities should not met, inside an affordable interval for any purpose. 

UNICEF doesn’t cost a processing charge at any stage of its recruitment, choice, and hiring processes (i.e., application stage, interview stage, validation stage, or appointment and coaching). UNICEF won’t ask for candidates’ checking account data.

Mobility is a situation of worldwide skilled employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the worldwide civil service.

All UNICEF positions are marketed, and solely shortlisted candidates shall be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of. An inside candidate performing on the stage of the submit within the related useful space, or an inside/exterior candidate within the corresponding Talent Group, could also be chosen, if appropriate for the submit, with out evaluation of different candidates.

Additional details about working for UNICEF could be discovered here.