ICT Specialist (Learning Passport Systems Engineer), P-3, Post no. 123800, ICTD Digital Core, Valencia, Spain

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This is a P-3 contract. This kind of contract is known as Professional and Director staff. It is normally internationally recruited only. It's a staff contract. It usually requires 5 years of experience, depending on education.

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UNICEF works in some of the world’s toughest places, to reach the world’s most disadvantaged children. To save their lives. To defend their rights. To help them fulfill their potential.

Across 190 countries and territories, we work for every child, everywhere, every day, to build a better world for everyone.

And we never give up.

For every child, a connected world.

The overall strategic goal of UNICEF’s Information and Communication Technology Division (ICTD) is to transform and build partnerships with our stakeholders to successfully implement UNICEF programs globally through innovative technology-enabled solutions.

The ICT Specialist (Learning Passport Systems Engineer) reports to the ICT Manager (Solutions Engineer), P-4, in the Solutions Centre and Support Section of ICTD’s Digital Core in Valencia, Spain.

A key perspective of the Centre’s goals is to provide adequate, user-friendly, and modern business solutions to UNICEF’s different departments and stakeholders as well as providing guidance, governance, and procedures to several enterprise processes such as data management, integration, program monitoring, digital tools and platforms, and business process optimization throughout the organization. These goals are aligned with the organizational strategy, enterprise architecture, ICT security and information management requirements of UNICEF’s different stakeholders.

This Temporary Appointment is for a duration of 364 days and is based in Valencia, Spain.

How can you make a difference?

Under the guidance of the ICT Manager and in close collaboration with Programme Group’s Education - Learning Passport team, ICTD platform services delivery teams, and external partners, the ICT Specialist (Learning Passport Systems Engineer) is responsible for the planning, technical architecture, designing, implementing, and operational support of the Learning Passport digital learning solution as identified per UNICEF business needs.

The ICT Specialist will play a key role in designing, developing, and maintaining efficient, scalable, reusable, secure digital solution for Learning Passport aligned with UNICEF ICT technical standards, data security frameworks, classifications, policies, and guidelines. This position is also expected to create and maintain detailed technical documentation of the solutions for reference to various stakeholders.

Key responsibilities:

• Perform and coordinate the evaluation and analysis of business and technical requirements in close collaboration with Microsoft to develop Learning Passport product for offline and online implementations. • Provide technical inputs in collaboration with the Microsoft Engineering team on continuous improvement in the Microsoft Community Training platform used by UNICEF Learning Passport. • Research, design, architect and validate the offline edge implementation for Learning Passport. • Design and develop data integration solutions using Microsoft Azure Integration Services to facilitate the data transfer process between Learning Passport Online Instance and Data Hub. This includes enabling impact measurement of Learning Passport implementations in various countries via custom dashboards. • Work with external hardware vendors and internal UNICEF Teams in establishing and validating the hardware ecosystem for Learning Passport offline deployments. • Implement and enable features to maintain security for edge computing solutions per the industry best standards and UNICEF guidelines and frameworks. • Engage with the Learning Passport product team to understand technical requirements, product performance and challenges. Coordinate with the Microsoft Engineering team on feature prioritization, gap analysis and resolutions as identified. • Develop detailed and thorough technical documentation. Provide technical support to Programme Group’s Education – Learning Passport team on the rollout and operationalization of the Learning Passport platform. • Provide second-level technical support for Learning Passport solutions as per the defined Service Level Agreements (SLAs). • Keep abreast with best practices for Microsoft Azure Edge Computing and new emerging technologies related to online and offline education platforms.

To qualify as a champion for every child you will have…

Academic Degrees: •An advanced university degree (Master’s or higher) in in Computer Science, Engineering, Telecommunications or other related fields is required. A first university degree in a relevant field combined with 2 additional years of professional experience may be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.

Required Experience and Skills: • A minimum of 5 years of professional work experience in designing and building complex systems, with a focus on microservices, Kubernetes, edge computing, cloud, and on-prem infrastructure is required. • Sound knowledge in architectural realization and implementation of scalable edge computing solutions with hybrid and extended offline capabilities is required. • Experience with Linux platforms (Debian, RPM, Yocto) and in building embedded Linux environments using toolsets such as Yocto is required. • Solid experience with serverless, low-code Azure data integration service Azure Data Factory is required. • Good understanding of network (OSI, TLS, HTTP) is required. • Strong experience of CI/CD process leveraging ARM Templates and Azure DevOps, including git, DevOps pipelines and migrations from development to production environment is required. • Solid understanding of Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) using Agile Methodologies is required. • Good understanding of Embedded experience – from OS to apps and services is required. • Knowledge of Azure IoT Edge, IoT Hub and IoT Device Provisioning Service is required.

Desirable Experience: • Experience in Python, bash shell scripts, automated deployment and associated technologies (YAML/HELM/DOCKER) is desirable.

Language Requirements: • Fluency in English is required. • Working knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate...

UNICEF’s Core Values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust and Accountability and Sustainability (CRITAS) underpin everything we do and how we do it. Get acquainted with Our Values Charter: https://uni.cf/UNICEFValues

UNICEF competencies required for this post are…

(1) Builds and maintains partnerships (2) Demonstrates self-awareness and ethical awareness (3) Drive to achieve results for impact (4) Innovates and embraces change (5) Manages ambiguity and complexity (6) Thinks and acts strategically (7) Works collaboratively with others.

During the recruitment process, we test candidates following the competency framework. Familiarize yourself with our competency framework and its different levels: competency framework here.

UNICEF is here to serve the world’s most disadvantaged children and our global workforce must reflect the diversity of those children. The UNICEF family is committed to include everyone, irrespective of their race/ethnicity, age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion, nationality, socio-economic background, or any other personal characteristic.

We offer a wide range of benefits to our staff, including paid parental leave, breastfeeding breaks and reasonable accommodation for persons with disabilities. UNICEF strongly encourages the use of flexible working arrangements.

Remarks:

UNICEF has a zero-tolerance policy on conduct that is incompatible with the aims and objectives of the United Nations and UNICEF, including sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF is committed to promote the protection and safeguarding of all children. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks, and will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles. Background checks will include the verification of academic credential(s) and employment history. Selected candidates may be required to provide additional information to conduct a background check.

UNICEF’s active commitment towards diversity and inclusion is critical to deliver the best results for children. For this position, eligible females are strongly encouraged to apply.

UNICEF appointments are subject to medical clearance. Issuance of a visa by the host country of the duty station, which will be facilitated by UNICEF, is required for International Professional positions. Appointments are also subject to inoculation (vaccination) requirements, including against SARS-CoV-2 (Covid). Government employees that are considered for employment with UNICEF are normally required to resign from their government before taking up an assignment with UNICEF. UNICEF reserves the right to withdraw an offer of appointment, without compensation, if a visa or medical clearance is not obtained, or necessary inoculation requirements are not met, within a reasonable period for any reason.

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