Only nationals and/or permanent residents of the country of the duty station are eligible to apply. Female candidates are particularly encouraged to apply.

VACANCY  ANNOUNCEMENT TEMPORARY APPOINTMENT OF PROJECT PERSONNEL

Organizational Context

UNIDO is the specialized agency of the United Nations that promotes industrial development for poverty reduction, inclusive globalization and environmental sustainability. Its mission is to promote and accelerate inclusive and sustainable industrial development (ISID) in developing countries and economies in transition. The relevance of ISID as an integrated approach to all three pillars of sustainable development is recognized by the recently adopted 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which will frame United Nations and country efforts towards sustainable development in the next fifteen years. UNIDO’s mandate in SDG-9, calls for the need to “Build resilient infrastructure, promote inclusive and sustainable industrialization and foster innovation”. Accordingly, the Organization’s programmatic focus is structured in three thematic priorities: * Creating shared prosperity * Advancing economic competitiveness * Safeguarding the environment. UNIDO delivers its services through the following four complementary and mutually supportive core functions: (a) technical cooperation activities; (b) analytical and policy advisory services; (c ) standard-setting and compliance and (d) convening and partnership role. Such core functions are carried out in Departments/Offices in its Headquarters, Regional Offices and Hubs and Country Offices.

The Information Technology Services Division (CMO/OSS/ITS) provides secure, reliable, effective and efficient information technology (IT) services to UNIDO, supporting the achievement of strategic objectives and ISID mandate. IT services include the underlying data center and network infrastructure, managed endpoint solutions (including but not limited to desktop computers and laptops) as well as systems for technical cooperation, administration, knowledge management, reporting and analytics, and external relations with Member States, partners and civil society. The Division is the main actor in the implementation of IT strategies, for setting and enforcing common IT standards and best practices throughout UNIDO and for managing corporate IT services.

The Division will ensure from an operational and technical perspective that systems are implemented in an integrated, sustainable and secure manner following industrial best practices and frameworks, and providing value for the Organization in close cooperation with stakeholders focusing on cost-benefit considerations (tradeoffs) between priorities, cost, consumption, capacity, performance, and risk in pursuit of better business outcomes and overall continuous improvement of the Organization. Furthermore, the Division coordinates a Service Desk, which is the single point of contact for IT-related requests for UNIDO workforce. Duty Station: UNIDO HQ, Vienna

Main Functions

Under the supervision of the Infrastructure and Operations Lead and the overall guidance of the Chief of CMO/OSS/ITS, the Database Administrator will be primarily responsible for the Relational Database Management Systems (RDBMS) underlying the SAP ERP as well as the RDMBS underlying the Knowledge Management and Collaboration (KMC) system. Specifically, the incumbent will perform day-to-day interventions in MaxDB as well as Microsoft SQL and perform, as required, fault analysis, backup, recovery, monitoring, tuning, version upgrades and new installations. Specifically, the Database Administrator will provide: - Day-to-day RDBMS support to the ITS team. - Perform analysis and tuning. - Issues analysis, roll back and production upgrades. - Post-fault recovery and/or expert and preventative intervention (best practices, backup, recovery, health checks, monitoring, integrity testing, recovery testing, security, authorizations). - RDBMS assistance to the ITS team in the 2018 upgrade of the SAP to EHP 8 and the interim upgrade of the KMC based on OpenText. - Documentation and knowledge transfer to the ITS team. - Provide support for ICT projects and initiatives as domain expert in the area of databases, especially in the migration of legacy databases such as Sybase to MS SQL. - Perform other related duties as required.

Core Competencies

INTEGRITY: To work honestly, openly, impartially and in accordance with the values of the United Nations. PROFESSIONALISM: To work in a competent, committed and calm manner. ESPECT FOR DIVERSITY: To work effectively, respectfully and inclusively with people from different backgrounds and with different perspectives. RESULTS ORIENTATION AND ACCOUNTABILITY: To be accountable and responsible for achieving results and meeting. PLANNING AND ORGANIZING: To plan, organize and manage work effectively and efficiently. COMMUNICATION AND TRUST: To communicate effectively and build trust. TEAM ORIENTATION: To cooperate at various levels. CLIENT ORIENTATION: To be responsive towards those to whom services are provided internally and externally. ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AND INNOVATION: To realize continuous improvement, support innovation, share knowledge and skills and learn from others

Minimum Requirements

Education

Completed secondary education. Technical high school in computing-related area or equivalent desirable. University studies in the field relevant to the post may be counted towards experience credit (not exceeding a maximum of four years of the actual period of studies whichever is smaller).

Languages

Fluency in written and spoken English is required. Fluency and/or working knowledge of another official UN language is desirable.

Computer Skills

Field of Expertise

· Minimum of eight (8) years of increasingly responsible, practical, relevant and hands on working experience in RDBMS Administration mandatory; · Practical experience in RDBMS Administration of SAP MaxDB and/or Microsoft SQL mandatory; · Experience with virtualized infrastructure an advantage; · Experience in EMC² storage systems an advantage; · Experience in MySQL/MariaDB, MongoDB, PostgreSQL and Sybase an advantage; · Experience in Red Hat Linux an advantage; · Related certifications an asset

<strong>This appointment is limited to the specified project(s) only and does not carry any expectation of renewal. </strong>