UN Information Management Officer Jobs in Kenya
Org. Setting and Reporting
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
Through the resolution “End plastic pollution: Towards an international legally binding instrument” (UNEP/EA5/L23/REV.1), the United Nations Environment Assembly requested to convene an Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC), commencing its work during second half of 2022, with the ambition of completing its work by the end of 2024. The resolution established that the INC should develop an international legally binding instrument on plastic pollution, including in the marine environment, which could include both binding and voluntary approaches, based on a comprehensive approach that addresses the full lifecycle of plastic, taking into account among other things, the principles of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, as well as national circumstances and capabilities, including provisions.
Responsibilities
Provides electronic record keeping support and advice to records-creating offices by advising on electronic record keeping system standards and compliance; oversees the digital records accessioning process; provides training in the use of metadata standards for the capture, maintenance and accessioning of digital archives; and manages system upgrades and migration for digital archives databases.
Manages projects involving feasibility studies, systems analysis, design, development and implementation of new, moderately complex systems, and/or, participates as a member of a development team with responsibility for major components of the more complex systems, in a Cloud Based Environment
Develops detailed system and other functional specifications and user documentation for major systems, involving Cloud Based and networked Servers.
Provides specialized advice to users, analysing users’ requirements and translating these into new applications; determines application systems integration and linkage issues.
Maintains, upgrades or enhances existing user systems; troubleshoots and provides continuing user support, to include resolving difficult problems, advising on the use of new techniques, monitoring transactions to measure performance and continued effectiveness of assigned systems.
Develops and maintains computer programs that require integration of many interrelated systems and program elements; ensures appropriate data security and access controls considering both local and wide area issues.
Supports public website development and system integration where needed;
Organizes and performs unit and integrated testing, designing and utilizing test bases; assists users in acceptance testing.
Develops training materials, operating and user manuals; trains staff in assigned systems.
Develops disaster recovery plans and ensures appropriate planning and training of those responsible.
Researches, analyses and evaluates new technologies and makes recommendations for their deployment.
Participates in writing reports and papers on systems-related topics, system requirements, information strategy.
Facilitates communications between IMSS/EOS and its clients for good client relations.
Serves as coordinator in the development of Service Level Agreements (SLAs) between the client and Enterprise Operations Section (EOS) of the Information Management Systems Service (IMSS), for either specific IT services or general technology support, including any charge back mechanisms.
Handles all aspects of contract administration including establishment of service level agreements with vendors and chargeback policy for users.
Collects and analyses data to identify trends or patterns and provide insights through graphs, charts, tables and reports using data visualization methods to enable data-driven planning, decision-making, presentation and reporting.
Provides guidance to, and may supervise, new/junior staff, consultants.
Performs other related duties, as required.
Competencies
Education
Advanced university degree (Master’s degree or equivalent) in computer science, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field.
A first level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying work experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Successful completion of both degree and non-degree programs in data analytics, business analytics or data science programs is an advantage.
Job – Specific Qualification
PRINCE2 Practitioner certification or equivalent is desirable.
AWS Associate Level Certification is desirable.
Work Experience
A minimum of five (5) years of progressively responsible experience in planning, design, development, implementation and maintenance of Servers, Server Operating Systems (Window, RHEL, Unix/Linux), Active-Directory, and VMW or other computer information systems is required.
At least two years of experience in managing Server systems and Services in a cloud-based environment, such as Microsoft Azure and/or Amazon Web Services, is required.
Experience managing IT Service Management Systems, like OTRS or ServiceNow is desirable.
Experience in planning, design, implementation and maintenance of document scanning and signature recognition systems, like Kofax, is desirable.
Prior experience in a Secretariat, intergovernmental environmental processes or UN external-facing division is desirable.
Two (2) years or more of experience in data analytics or related area is desirable.
Languages
English and French are the working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position, fluency in English is required.
Knowledge of another official United Nations language is desirable. Note: “Fluency” equals a rating of “fluent” in all four areas (read, write, speak, understand) and “Knowledge of” equals a rating of “confident” in two of the four areas.
How to Apply
For more information and job application details, see; UN Information Management Officer Jobs in Kenya
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