Technology Lead (Senior Business Analyst), UN Fleet – Temporary Appointment

Temporary Appointment
Technology Lead, UN FLEET– P4
Global Mobility and Infrastructure Service/ DFAM

UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, is offering a Temporary full-time position within the Global Mobility and Infrastructure Service, the position will be home-based (ideally in Europe).
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is a global United Nations organization which mandate is to protect and assist refugees and other persons of its concern world-wide and to seek durable solutions to their plight; UNHCR is present in 134 countries with offices in 546 locations.

Title: Technology Lead (Senior Business Analyst), UN Fleet
Duty Station: Home-based (Ideally in Europe)
Duration: 1 year
Contract Type: Temporary Appointment
Closing date: 8 May 2022
Start date: 1 June 2022

Organizational context

UN FLEET is a joint-venture between UNHCR and WFP to provide safe, efficient and sustainable leased vehicles and associated services to all UN organizations while achieving significant and sustainable cost savings. UN FLEET will combine the technical knowledge and experience of both UNHCR and WFP in a service offering to the wider UN System.
The concept for joint UN FLEET management derives from the UN Reform process and the impetus to deliver efficiencies through the provision of services between agencies. UN FLEET is an initiative as part of the UN Reform process aimed at achieving ~$22M per year in recurring savings and more than $30M in one-off gains through centralised fleet management. At the same time, the general awareness within the UN System of the importance of effective fleet management, from a cost, operational effectiveness, safety and security and environmental impact is emerging and driving interest in this area.
UN FLEET will also increase the joint UN FLEET Diagnostics based on data collection and vehicle utilisation data based on average mileage per year and fuel & maintenance costs. The UN FLEET data collection will contribute to making UN FLEETs more efficient and contribute to reducing the carbon emissions of UN vehicles. While both UNHCR and WFP aim to reduce CO2 emissions by improving the management of vehicles does not lie within UNFLEET, but UN FLEET will be encouraging country office operations to share vehicles where possible, limiting vehicle use to necessary occasions and lowering idling times.

The position

The Technology Lead position is located within the Global Mobility and Infrastructure Service (GMIS), in the Division of Financial and Administrative Management (DFAM).
Under the overall supervision of the GMIS Chief, the Technology Lead assists the Head of UN FLEET in implementing the UN FLEET strategy. Specifically, the incumbent will lead the technology component for UN FLEET – assess available systems, develop a system landscape, analyse, and recommend interfaces between systems including the new UNHCR ERP Cloud project modules, develop a project plan to design, development and integration of systems.

Duties and responsibilities

Under the direct supervision of the Head of UN FLEET, the position will be responsible for
the following key functions:
• Participate in the development of milestones, indicators, and timeline for the UN FLEET technology platform and ensure implementation and achievement;
• Develop a project plan to design, development and integration of systems;
• Design service delivery mechanisms and processes, including technology platforms;
• Engage with stakeholders to design and implement the adequate platform to ensure optimal delivery of services;
• Design a strategy for an efficient and high-quality data collection process;
• Support establishing systems for real-time, high quality and systematic data collection to enforce mandatory accounting and reporting of UN FLEET;
• Assess available systems, develop a system landscape, analyse, and recommend interfaces between systems;
• Recommend interfaces between systems for the new UNHCR ERP Cloud project modules;
• Develop and ensure quality and timely communications to Senior Management, client agencies, and partners;
• Support various procurement activities linked to the projects and manage contractual relationships in compliance with UN/UNHCR rules and regulations.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Essential minimum qualifications and professional experience required

Years of Experience / Degree Level
For P4 – 9 years relevant experience with Undergraduate degree; or 8 years relevant experience with Graduate degree; or 7 years relevant experience with Doctorate degree
Field(s) of Education
Data Management, Information Science, Statistics, Computer science, Finance; or other closely relevant field.

Relevant Job Experience

Essential
At least 9 years relevant experience in data management, integration, modelling, optimisation, and other relevant areas. Experience supporting cross-functional teams and collaborating with stakeholders on analytics initiatives.
Experience with database programming languages (SQL, etc) and in programming languages such as C#, JavaScript.
Desirable
Experience working in humanitarian settings, and/or for the UN or other humanitarian/development agencies preferred.
Experience in delivering big data use cases is desirable, including projects using technology such as Microsoft SQL, Server, Azure SQL Data warehouse or others.
Experience working with self-service analytics applications like Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Qlik and others for data discovery is desirable.

Location

The successful candidate will be home-based (Ideally in Europe).

Conditions

The Temporary Appointment is for one year and expected start date 1 June 2022. It is a full-time role.

Closing Date

Please note that the closing date for this TA advertisement is Sunday 8 May 2022 (midnight Geneva time).