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ICT Specialist

Freetown

  • Organization: UNV - United Nations Volunteers
  • Location: Freetown
  • Grade: Level not specified - Level not specified
  • Occupational Groups:
    • Information Technology and Computer Science
  • Closing Date: Closed

Details

Mission and objectives

The UNDP Sierra Leone Country Office was established in 1978 and has over the years grown to a total staff strength of over 140 and with an average annual delivery of USD 25 million. UNDP has established a Planning and Support Unit (PSU) to provide effective and efficient management advisory support services to senior management and to programme and operations Units. It specifically leads on programme quality assurance, results-based management, resource mobilization, and donor relations and reporting. Under the overall guidance of the Resident Representative and direct supervision of the Team Leader of the PSU, the Donor Relations and Reporting Specialist leads on partnership building and ensuring donor compliance and high-quality donor reporting. He/she will: (i) identify and explore potentials for strategic partnership and programme synergies, (ii) coordinate donor relations and development assistant (iii) ensure donor reporting compliance and consistency with UNDAF/CPD and other corporate documents (iv) develop and enhance partnerships and (v) mobilize resources. He/she will also support knowledge management and information dissemination in a coordinated, systematic, client-oriented and timely manner for all programmes. The Donor Relations and Reporting Specialist works in close collaboration with Senior Management, Team Leaders in the Programme and Operations Units. He or she is expected to coordinate with relevant colleagues in other UN Agencies.

Context

UNDP SL developed the project “Promote the creation of an enabling environment for the conduct of peaceful elections and the strengthening of social cohesion in Sierra Leone”. As part of this project, UNDP will work with key stakeholders such as the media, civil society organizations (CSOs) and the government to monitor, analyse and prevent or mitigate disinformation and hate speech before, during and after the elections. Within the project, the 2nd outcome “An inclusive civic space is fostered and peaceful, accurate and timely communications for participatory and well-informed discourse are promoted” includes an activity designed to support implementation of social and online media monitoring mechanism through the deployment of a digital platform, training of journalist and agreements with social media platforms to enable them to analyse information with regard to their level of accuracy and respond adequately to questions. At a global level, UNDP has developed an IT solution called iVerify to the promotion of information integrity. Following the assessment carried out in September 2022, the project and UNDP Country Office decided to implement the iVerify System in support of the media sector in Sierra Leone for the upcoming 2023 elections.

Task description

Within the delegated authority and under the supervision of the Deputy Resident Representative or his/her designated mandated representative(s), the UN Volunteer will ensure: 1. Ensures implementation of ICT strategies and introduction/implementation of new technologies focusing on achievement of the following results: -Compliance with corporate information management and technology standards, guidelines and procedures for the CO technology environment. -Provision of inputs to elaboration of internal policies and procedures on the use of ICT. Elaboration of the content of internal Standard Operating Procedures in ICT in consultation with office management. -Development and update of the ICT annual plan. -Provision of support to the use of Atlas (UNDP’s implementation of PeopleSoft ERP) functionality for improved business results and improved client services. 2. Ensures effective functioning of the CO hardware and software packages focusing on the achievement of the following results: -Provision of advice on maintenance of equipment and acquisition of hardware supplies, making routine repairs and change of hardware electronic components. -Supervision of the implementation of corporate UNDP systems. -Development of new software packages for high impact results (e.g. office management system, electronic registry, etc) as required. -Provision of training in corporate systems and tools and ensuring staff’s proficiency in these. -Use Online Volunteering service whenever technically possible. 3. Ensures efficient networks administration focusing on achievement of the following results: -Operation of network utility procedures defining network users and security attributes establishing directories, menus and drive-mappings, configuring network printers and providing user access. Ensure that the UNDP desktop and network resources are protected from malicious virus attacks and deploy countermeasures in the event of the attacks -Troubleshooting and monitoring of network problems. -Response to user needs and questions regarding network access. -Maintenance of up-to-date parameters of information for the network clients and electronic mail. -Implementation of backup and restoration procedures for local drives. Maintenance of backup logs. Organization of off-site storage of backups. -Maintenance of measures in place for business continuity and disaster recover processes and procedures including backup and restoration of both server and local storage facilities. -Timely LAN Infrastructure and Internet connectivity upgrade to meet UNDP requirements. 4. Provides web management services focusing on achievement of the following results -Identification of the opportunities and ways of converting business processes into web-based systems to address the issues of efficiency (office management system, donor profile software, knowledge management systems). -Creation and maintenance of the CO web site and intranet ensuring that the content is updated and meets the requirements of UNDP 5. Provides administrative support focusing on achievement of the following results: -Provision of advice on and assistance in procurement of new equipment for the CO and projects, provision of technical specifications and information on best options in both local and international markets, review of quotations and bids. -Maintenance of an up-to-date inventory of the software and hardware. -Maintenance of the library of reference materials. -Maintenance of the inventory and stock of supplies and spare parts in cooperation with the Procurement Unit. 6. Ensures facilitation of knowledge building and knowledge sharing in the CO focusing on achievement of the following results: -Identification and promotion of different systems and applications for optimal content management, knowledge management and sharing, information provision. -Organization of trainings for the operations/ projects staff on ICT issues. -Maintenance of staff training profiles. -Synthesis of lessons learned and best practices in ICT. -Sound contributions to knowledge networks and communities of practice.

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