Deadline: 24 January, 2021
Location: Senegal
United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF) is seeking applications from eligible applicants for the post of ICT Specialist (Technology for Development).
UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, reaching the most disadvantaged children and saving their lives.
Responsibilities
- Provide support to the digital development and technology innovation strategy for the country offices, including assessment of Technology for Development (T4D) gaps, opportunities and scale-up strategy in support of the regional priorities
- Support the integration of digital development and technology innovation into the programme planning lifecycle
- Oversee development and quality assurance during planning and deployment of T4D initiatives
- Participate in establishing and maintaining standards, documentation and support mechanisms for T4D
- Convene T4D governance committee and ensure compliance of T4D initiatives with the principles for digital development and UNICEF T4D best practices
- Manage business and programme relationship services to define high-level requirements
- Document and match requirements and guide the design, development and deployment of appropriate T4D solutions
- Lead deployment of enterprise technologies prioritised for UNICEF programming
- Provide support and technical assistance to the country office in the identification, selection, concept design, deployment and sustainability of T4D interventions to address bottlenecks towards the achievement of programme results
- Assist programme sections to identify and assess new T4D initiatives, or new phases of ongoing initiatives, with immediate potential to improve UNICEF programming in service delivery and/or monitoring evaluation
- Build capacity of programme staff in analysing the large amounts of data generated through T4D initiatives including the use of data visualisation techniques and analytics tools
- Work directly with countries and section chiefs to co-create strategies on how technology and innovation can support the country programmes
- Participate as resource person in capacity building initiatives to enhance the competence, capacity and knowledge within the programmes on digital development
- Train UNICEF staff, partners, government counterparts and other end users in digital development and technology innovation
- Develop capabilities within country offices on appropriate use of frontier technology and innovations such as UAVs, wearables, IoTs, mobile money, blockchain
Requirements
- Advanced university degree in Information Technology Management, Business Administration, International Relations, Community Development, or other related field
- First university degree in a relevant field with seven years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree
- Five years, minimum, of professional experience in designing and implementing solutions for large-scale technical projects – including supervising engineers and software developers
- Experience in supporting and coordinating social development analysis and programming activities across large organisations and with other international partner organisations
- Experience with ICT hardware, mobile phones and web-based technologies, particularly designing or deploying tools appropriate to low-bandwidth environments
- Experience with RapidPro, OpenSRP, DHIS2, ODK and other global public good technologies, and deploying, maintaining and rolling out these technologies (highly desirable)
- Experience in a UN organisation is an asset
- Fluency in French and English
- Nationality of Senegal
To apply and for more information, click here.
Photo source: UNICEF Ethiopia