Background

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

UNDP is the leading United Nations organization fighting to end the injustice of poverty, inequality, and climate change. Working with our broad network of experts and partners in 170 countries, we help nations to build integrated, lasting solutions for people and planet. Learn more at undp.org or follow at @UNDP.

 

Within a rapidly changing environment, UNDPs Strategic Plan 2018-2021 sets an ambitious course to catalyze and facilitate positive change for countries in their efforts to achieve the SDGs. It does so by aiming to (i) strengthen its relevance as a trusted partner, (ii) being more nimble, innovative and enterprising and (iii) being more effective and efficient. UNDP’s digital strategy supports these goals by (i) bridging the gap and fostering new collaboration models, (ii) introducing governance structures and mechanisms that fuel the innovative capacity and (iii) offering technological solutions that will enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of our work.

At UNDP, we developed our Digital Strategy that sets out the vision for the evolution of the organisation over the next three years, responding to a changing digital development landscape and the evolving needs
of our partners. Hence, it is necessary to adjust existing applications and improve algorithms to be more flexible and follow UNDP's digital strategy.

The incumbent will be held accountable for the technical assistance of alignment of ICT Strategy with the local digital application development to support CO Indonesia. The work will need close coordination with ICT Unit, Operations Managers, and other unit services.

Duties and Responsibilities

1. Provide support to cloud Azure server environment

• Create staging for cloud deployment and migration

• Deploy, maintain, and manage cloud system

• Migrate applications to the Azure cloud server

• Create technical documentation includes of build, release, and configuration management

 

2. Create application or Upgrade existing applications to prepare for future adoption, include the following results:

• Design and implement new systems and features 

• Modify and maintain existing systems for adaptation to business and/or technology changes. 

• Change request design, 

• database design, 

• development, 

• bug fix,

• and testing procedure

 

3. The Digital application is expected to upgrade framework system, include the following results:

• Improve its algorithms and report, 

• Using front-end framework and codes (HTML, CSS, Laravel,  PHP)

• Improve of search speeds function

• Revamp applications appreance (responsive design desktop, Tabs, Mobile phone)

 

4. The Digital application  is expected to upgrade and tune up the database, include the following results:

• Boost the framework system

• Improve its algorithms and increase data search speeds, send data to the server (submit) and improve the UI/UX.

 

 

5. The incumbent of the position should avoid any kind of discriminatory behavior including gender discrimination and ensure that:

• Human rights and gender equality is prioritized as an ethical principle within all actions;

• Activities are designed and implemented in accordance with “Social and Environmental Standards of UNDP”;

• Any kind of diversities based on ethnicity, age, sexual orientation, disability, religion, class, gender is respected within all implementations including data production;

• Differentiated needs of women and men are considered;

• Inclusive approach is reflected within all actions and implementations, in that sense an enabling and accessible setup in various senses such as disability gender language barrier is created;

• Necessary arrangements to provide gender parity within all committees, meetings, trainings etc. introduced.

Competencies

Core

Achieve Results:

LEVEL 2: Scale up solutions and simplifies processes, balances speed and accuracy in doing work

Think Innovatively:

LEVEL 2: Offer new ideas/open to new approaches, demonstrate systemic/integrated thinking

Learn Continuously:

LEVEL 2: Go outside comfort zone, learn from others and support their learning

Adapt with Agility:

LEVEL 2: Adapt processes/approaches to new situations, involve others in change process

Act with Determination:

LEVEL 2: Able to persevere and deal with multiple sources of pressure simultaneously

Engage and Partner:

LEVEL 2: Is facilitator/integrator, bring people together, build/maintain coalitions/partnerships

Enable Diversity and Inclusion:

LEVEL 2: Facilitate conversations to bridge differences, considers in decision making

 

Cross-Functional & Technical competencies)

Thematic Area

Name

Definition

Business management

Digital Awareness and Literacy

Ability and inclination to rapidly adopt new technologies, either through skilfully grasping their usage or through understanding their impact and empowering others to use them as needed

Business management

Working with Evidence and Data

Ability to inspect, cleanse, transform and model data with the goal of discovering useful information, informing conclusions and supporting decision-making

Business Management

Communication

Ability to communicate in a clear, concise and unambiguous manner both through written and verbal communication; to tailor messages and choose communication methods depending on the audience. Ability to manage communications internally and externally, through media, social media and other appropriate

Channels

2030 agenda-people

Gender

Gender mainstreaming

Business Management

Budget management

Ability to support budgetary aspects of work planning process, drawing and management of team budgets

Admin and operation

Events management (including retreats, trainings and meetings)

Ability to manage events, including venue identification, accommodation, logistics, catering, transportation, and cash disbursements, etc.

Business Management

Customer Satisfaction/Client Management

Ability to respond timely and appropriately with a sense of urgency, provide consistent solutions, and deliver timely and quality results and/or solutions to fulfil and understand the real customers' needs. Provide inputs to the development of customer service strategy. Look for ways to add value beyond clients’ immediate requests. Ability to anticipate client’s upcoming needs and concerns.

 

 

Required Skills and Experience

Min. Academic Education

 

  • Bachelor’s degree in in Computer Science, Information Management, Information Technology, or related fields would be preferable OR
  • High school degree with   6  years of relevant experience will be given due consideration in lieu of Bachelor degree

 

Min. years of relevant Work experience

  • Minimum 6 years of relevant administrative experience for High School degreesecondary education or 3 years for a bachelor’s degree of relevant as a system analyst,working experience as an application developer and related subjects, preferably in the field of open source.
  • Experience as senior application engineer/Senior Web and Mobile developer
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Required skills and competencies

Required Skills

  • Familiarity with PHP, Laravel, MySQL, JavaScript, Power Apps, Power Automate
  • Up-to-date computer skills, knowledge of Cloud server and database packages.

Desired additional skills and competencies

  • Preference will be given to candidates have knowledge about Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, Dataverse, PowerBI and SharePoint
  • Familiarity working with International Organizations/NGOS is an advantage
  • Familiar with Government and UN/UNDP procedures would be desirable
  • Strong knowledge and experience in managing web portal and mobile Apps
  • Experience working  with MySQL/ JavaScript/ Laravel / Json/  Power Apps/  Power Automate would be desirable

 

Required Language(s) (at working level)

  • Fluency in written and spoken English is an absolute necessity

 

APPLICANTS MUST COMPLETE THE P11 FORM AND SUBMIT IT AS PART OF THEIR APPLICATION. Click here to download the form: https://bit.ly/3R8T1mv

UN is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality, and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups, and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. Female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence.

UN Indonesia reserves the right to select one or more candidates from this vacancy announcement.  We may also retain applications and consider candidates applying to this post for other similar positions with UN Indonesia at the same grade level and with similar job descriptions, experience, and education requirements.