PeopleSoft Learning Management Systems Development Analyst

This vacancy announcement is issued pursuant to an agreement between UN Secretariat, Department of Management, Office of Information and Communications Technology (OICT) and UNOPS

EAC-BKK Global Resources Management (GRM)

In 2014 EAC-BKK was established to serve as Asia-Pacific hub to build enterprise applications for the United Nations Secretariat. EAC-BKK is in charge of several enterprise applications.

The mission of Global Resources Management is to provide shared resources for the projects by taking a full advantage of Bangkok’s local and international human capitals and communities.

Organizational Setting and Reporting Relationships: This position is located in, EAC-Bangkok. Under the overall supervision of UNOPS Senior Programme Manager, the incumbent reports to the Substantive Learning lead. Functional responsibility for this profile rests with the OICT.

Responsibilities: Within delegated authority, the incumbent is responsible for the following duties:

•           Carries out feasibility studies, systems analysis, design, development and implementation of new, moderately complex systems as a team manager of the substantive Learning team.

•           Assigns tasks to the team members and monitors the results.

•           Develop change requests for ILearn LMS.

•           Develop web service integrations between ILearn LMS and the portal

•           Design and develop data conversions for bringing in legacy systems into the LMS portal and the Oracle PeopleSoft learning solution

•           Organizes and performs unit and integrated testing, designing and utilizing test bases; assists users in acceptance testing.

•           Produces various documentations required as part of the implementation.

•           Develop custom reports for the various business requirements.

•           Supports the migration requests from the development to the Production environment.

•           Researches, analyzes and evaluates new technologies and makes recommendations for their deployment.

•           Provides guidance to, and supervise, team members.

•           Develops terms of reference documentation for team members.

•           Perform other works related duties as required.

• Professionalism: Shows pride in work and in achievements; demonstrates professional competence and mastery of subject matter; is conscientious and efficient in meeting commitments, observing deadlines and achieving results; is motivated by professional rather than personal concerns; shows persistence when faced with difficult problems or challenges; remains calm in stressful situations. Takes responsibility for incorporating gender perspectives and ensuring the equal participation of women and men in all areas of work.

• Teamwork: Demonstrated interpersonal skills; ability to work collaboratively with colleagues to achieve organizational goals; Solicits input by genuinely valuing others' ideas and expertise; is willing to learn from others; Places team agenda before personal agenda; supports and acts in accordance with final group decision, even when such decisions may not entirely reflect own position; Shares credit for team accomplishments and accepts joint responsibility for team shortcomings.

• Knowledge Management and Learning: Shares knowledge and experience and contributes to practice areas; Promotes learning environment in the office; actively works towards continuing personal learning and development in one or more practice areas, acts on learning plan and applies newly acquired skills.

Education:      
A university degree in computer science, information systems, mathematics, statistics or related field is required. An advanced degree in the related field is desirable.

Experience:   
At least four years of progressively responsible experience in information systems analysis and programming, systems administration and maintenance, software development, technical writing or other related area is required. With a relevant master’s degree, at least two years is required.

A minimum of two years of experience in implementation and upgrade of Oracle PeopleSoft system of version 9.0 and above is required.

A minimum of two years of hands-on technical experience in PeopleTool and PeopleCode is required.

A minimum of one year of hands on technical experience in PeopleSoft ELM is required.

A minimum of one year of hands on technical experience in Oracle SQL or any database version is highly desirable.

Strong knowledge of web service integration is highly desirable.

Language:      
Fluency in written and oral English is required. Knowledge of another United Nations official language is an advantage.

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns. Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

UNOPS mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS provides its partners with advisory, implementation and transactional services, with projects ranging from building schools and hospitals, to procuring goods and services and training local personnel. UNOPS works closely with governments and communities to ensure increased economic, social and environmental sustainability for the projects we support, with a focus on developing national capacity.

UNOPS vision is a world where people can live full lives supported by appropriate, sustainable and resilient infrastructure, and by the efficient and transparent use of public resources in procurement and project management.

With over 8,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, where they need it.  By implementing around 1,000 projects for our partners at any given time, UNOPS makes significant contributions to results on the ground, often in the most challenging environments.

Based in Geneva, the Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECR) supports UNOPS offices throughout the region through: management, financial and programmatic oversight of global and country-specific portfolios, clusters and operations centres, including hosting services; fund and management advisory services; project implementation; procuring goods and services; and managing human resources.

ECR ensures that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between business units and projects across the entire region.

 ECR strategy is to:

• Strengthen UNOPS role in operationalizing the Sustainable Development Goals with particular emphasis on health, environment and economic development.
• Position UNOPS in the Balkan sub-region, the Caucasus and Central Asia.
• Strengthen the implementation of ECR global and regional programmes, with revitalized partnerships in infrastructure, procurement and project management.

ECR operates global portfolios from offices in Geneva, Brussels and New York, and country-specific programmes from its operations and project centres located in Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries.

Based in the New York, the UNOPS Development Group Cluster supports diverse partners with their peacebuilding, humanitarian and development operations. For example, within the United Nations Development Programme, the Cluster works with the Bureau for Policy and Programme Support and the Office of South-South Cooperation.

The cluster also supports the United Nations Secretariat, as well as a broadening community of other New York-based United Nations organizations in the delivery of project management and implementation services