Within delegated authority, the Information Systems Assistant will be responsible for the following duties: ? Participates in the development, programming, testing, debugging and implementation of new business intelligence solutions, releases, modules and functionalities. ? Develops, tests and implements business intelligence solutions 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 business intelligence solutions; independently liaises with users to define and specify requirements. ? Prepares technical and user documentation for deployed business intelligence solutions, as well as training materials and conducts technical presentations. ? Maintains functional specifications for business intelligence solutions, programs and procedures developed and/or modified. ? Provides support for deployed business intelligence solutions including version management, data recovery and deployment to users’ offices; performs ongoing reviews with users and developers and responds to users’ requests. ? Contributes to the preparation data extracts and data transformation and assists to determine their suitability for use in data pipelines and assists in maintaining data catalogues. ? Contributes to the preparation of data infrastructure and its documentation. ? Drafts correspondence and communications, including work plan revisions and other related issues, as well as prepares unit contributions for a variety of periodic reports. ? Keeps abreast of developments in the field; performs benchmarking and proposes new acquisitions. ? Provides guidance to new/junior staff. ? Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements:

Education

High school diploma or equivalent is required.

Job – Specific Qualification

Not available.

Work Experience

? A minimum of seven (7) years of experience in information systems analysis and programming, systems administration and maintenance, software development, technical writing or related area is required. The minimum years of relevant experience is reduced to five (5) years for candidates who possess a first-level university degree or higher. ? A minimum of three (3) years of experience in in data science, data analytics, information management, software development, database systems or related area is required. ? Experience with designing and building data models and dashboard using data visualization tools such as Qlik or Power BI is required. ? Experience with building applications and data platforms using Microsoft SharePoint, PowerApps, PowerAutomate, Forms is desirable. ? Experience with building data pipelines and workflows using cloud services like Azure Cloud or amazon web services (AWS) is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For the position(s) advertised, fluency in English is required. Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable.