READVERTISEMENT: Business Analyst (Cash Transfers) P3, ECAR Kyiv, Ukraine

Overview

Provide beneficiary data management services to Ukraine Social Policy programmes.

You have:

• An advanced university degree in one of the fields: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, or Political Science is required.
• A first-level university degree in combination with 7 years of experience will be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree.
• A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience is required with continually increasing levels of responsibility.
• Proven experience with e-Government architectures and Service Oriented Architectures within large-scale implementations.
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams towards assessing issues from a technical and business perspective while considering the regulatory and political landscape.
• Experience in implementing humanitarian cash transfer programmes would be considered a strong asset.
• Proven track record in organising, conducting and documenting the outputs of requirements elicitation workshops using a human-centred design approach.
• Use case/User Story writing: Experience of using formal requirements analysis techniques and methodologies.
• Experience of requirements gathering techniques, analysing business requirements and translating to functional requirements.
• Fully proficient in business analysis for agile software development projects.
• Working knowledge of logical database modelling.
• Ability to focus on delivering results in a dynamic environment with aggressive deadlines and multiple priorities.
• Familiarity with using JIRA and performing database queries.
• Understanding of the complexity of the institutional landscape of central, regional and local governments would be considered a plus.
• Fluency in English as a working language. Knowledge of Ukrainian or Russian would be considered an asset.

Contract

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.

Salary

The salary for this job should be between 95,625 USD and 125,214 USD.

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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, hope!

The Level 3 Scale-up for Ukraine was activated effective 5 March 2022, for an initial period of six months. With the activation of the procedure, UNICEF has adopted a no-regrets approach in view of the complex situation and increasing humanitarian needs, to ensure that UNICEF continues to provide life-saving responses for the children and women in Ukraine in line with the CCCs.

The intense escalation of armed violence following the hostilities started on 24 February 2022 in Ukraine has resulted in a dire humanitarian crisis. Characterized by the mass movement of populations throughout the country and to the neighbouring countries and a growing number of causalities, the conflict is impacting all dimensions of life: impeding access to basic services, disrupting economic activities and livelihoods, and destroying essential public infrastructure – including schools, hospitals, bridges, water and sanitation facilities, and residential buildings. The conflict is a crisis for children, with risks to their lives and well-being growing daily.

This conflict, on top of the devastating socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic and the military escalation in 2014, is leading to widespread poverty and further increasing humanitarian needs across the country. Displacement has torn apart families, with children and women displaced from their homes as they flee the violence. Even before the latest escalation of violence, 2.9 million people required humanitarian support in the conflict-affected oblasts. According to OCHA, roughly 18 million people have been affected by the current conflict, of whom over 3.2 million are children (UNICEF HAC). With livelihoods cut short and needs piling up, 67 per cent of the total affected population need urgent humanitarian assistance.

In response, UNICEF has already mobilized organization-wide support. However, the deteriorating situation and complex operating environment requires strengthened capacity and sustained efforts to further expand our presence and work in those parts of the country that can be safely accessed, to strengthen our cluster and overall humanitarian leadership, and to continue scaling-up our humanitarian action, with priority focus on child protection, health, WASH, nutrition, learning, cash interventions and social protection efforts. UNICEF is also coordinating with refugee hosting countries to prepare and respond to the humanitarian needs emerging from population movements.

How can you make a difference?

PURPOSE

The Business Analyst (Cash Transfers) will be responsible to uphold UNICEF Data Protection Policy while delivering timely beneficiary data management services to Ukraine Social Policy programmes.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the direct supervision of the HCT lead/chief of social policy the beneficiary data specialist will:

1. Personal Data Services Management
   1. Provide guidance and oversight for the adequate use of HOPE for UNICEF and partners
   2. Escalate to management risks related to personal data management
   3. Ensure quality of data analysis, reporting, third-party monitoring, grievance redressal and observance of data protection standards
   4. Provide oversight of personal data management for efficient and effective delivery of individual payments / cash transfers
   5. Coordinate with interagency counterparts’ data interoperability initiatives
2. Data Management representation function
   1. Coordinate with HQ HOPE team on prioritized support
   2. Represent data management function with external stakeholders, including the Government of Ukraine
   3. Where relevant, expedient and feasible, offer the Data Team’s services to relevant government ministries, eliciting requirements and managing project delivery
   4. Represent Personal Data Management function within UCO
   5. Represent Data Management function in donor briefings
3. Reporting and Third-Party Monitoring
   1. Provide technical oversight on the ToRs of the Third-Party Monitoring, assessment of technical proposal based on agreed criteria, and selection of the third party for verification of existing payees’ lists
   2. Draft Process and output monitoring report based on data available in HOPE and TPM sources
   3. Support UCO section in drafting programme monitoring report when required
4. Data Protection Standards
   1. Ensure that Personal Data management workstream is aligned with UNICEF Data Protection Policy
   2. Coordinate with HQ technical counterparts to ensure:
   3. Data Protection Impact Assessments (DPIA) are carried out with appropriate frequency on supported programmes
   4. UNICEF partners are trained on Data Protection and Responsible Data for Children principles
   5. UNICEF CSO and private sector partners comply with relevant data protection legal tools such as Non-Disclosure Agreements
   6. Timely implementation of DPIA recommendations
   7. Ensure timely arrangement and signature of Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs) with UNICEF’s implementing partners, financial service providers and other entities who will require access to personally identifiable information on UNICEF beneficiaries
5. Data Processing and Analysis
   1. Ensure appropriate data cleansing and consolidation routines are in place and continually monitor their implementation to ensure beneficiary data is of the highest possible quality before importing it into corporate beneficiary data management systems, e.g., HOPE
   2. Analyse relevant data sources for all stages of the cash transfer implementation process from registration to reconciliation for their potential to be related to each other and synthesised, ensuring that available data is utilised in the fullest possible way to optimise programme implementation and monitoring and enable adaptive programming
   3. Draw up and maintain business requirements and roadmaps for corporate solutions and document locally developed routines and SOPs linking corporate systems
6. Data Team supervision
   1. Supervise a national officer data analyst, and potentially a team of data and digital solution specialists within the Social Policy section
   2. Create a positive team environment with the national officers and partners working on the HCT data workstream
   3. Support a positive development of colleagues under the position of supervision

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS

• An advanced university degree in one of the following fields is required: Economics, Public Policy, Social Sciences, International Relations, Political Science, or another relevant technical field*;
• A first-level university degree in combination with 7 years of experience will be accepted in lieu of an advanced university degree*;
• A minimum of five years of relevant professional work experience is required with continually increasing levels of responsibility;
• Proven experience with e-Government architectures and Service Oriented Architectures within large-scale implementations;
• Experience working in multidisciplinary teams towards assessing issues from a technical and business perspective while considering the regulatory and political landscape;
• Experience in implementing humanitarian cash transfer programmes would be considered a strong asset;
• Proven track record in organising, conducting and documenting the outputs of requirements elicitation workshops using a human-centred design approach;
• Use case/User Story writing: Experience of using formal requirements analysis techniques and methodologies;
• Experience of requirements gathering techniques, analysing business requirements and translating to functional requirements;
• Fully proficient in business analysis for agile software development projects;
• Working knowledge of logical database modelling;
• Ability to focus on delivering results in a dynamic environment with aggressive deadlines and multiple priorities;
• Familiarity with using JIRA and performing database queries;
• Understanding of the complexity of the institutional landscape of central, regional and local governments would be considered a plus;
• Fluency in English as a working language. Knowledge of Ukrainian or Russian would be considered an asset.

For every Child, you demonstrate…

CORE VALUES

UNICEF's values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Trust, and Accountability (CRITA).

CORE COMPETENCIES

• Building and maintaining partnerships [I]
• Formulating Strategies and Concepts [I]
• Analyzing [II]
• Relating and Networking [I]
• Deciding and Initiating Action [II]
• Applying Technical Expertise [II]
• Communicating [I]

To view our competency framework, please visit here.

UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages all candidates, irrespective of gender, nationality, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of the organization.

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 also adheres to strict child safeguarding principles. All selected candidates will be expected to adhere to these standards and principles and will therefore undergo rigorous reference and background checks. 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.

Remarks:

Mobility is a condition of international professional employment with UNICEF and an underlying premise of the international civil service. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted and advance to the next stage of the selection process.

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 IP positions. Appointments may also be 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.

This position is based in Kyiv and the incumbent will be expected to work on-site. However, depending on the security conditions and advisory, s/he will be required to relocate within Ukraine.

* Due to an error in the original vacancy announcement minimum requirements, this position has been readvertised.

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