Closing Date: 9 April 2025
Exciting Remote Job Opportunity: Join UNDP as a Digital Analyst
Background
UNDP (United Nations Development Programme) is on a mission to end poverty, build democratic governance, rule of law, and inclusive institutions around the world. UNDP is the United Nations’ global sustainable development organization working across 170 countries with 17,000 staff.
Digital technology is one of the most fundamental drivers of change this century. Digital not only provides new opportunities and challenges for development, but it is also fundamentally changing the context in which development is taking place. Since the launch of its first Digital Strategy in 2019, UNDP has been on an ambitious transformation journey to harness the potential of digital technology for development.
The Chief Digital Office (CDO) at UNDP is leading this effort with the goal of embedding digital technology in the development projects that UNDP implement, supporting government partners to build inclusive digital eco-systems, and transforming the organization internally to enable these changes. CDO is looking for Digital Analysts to support to the digital programming initiatives within its portfolio through research, capacity building and monitoring and evaluation.
Duties and Responsibilities
Support CDO’s Digital Transformation and Ecosystem portfolio
- Conduct research on, and draft briefing notes and reports on rights-based and inclusive digital ecosystem best practices and standards and summarize findings for team leadership.
- Support knowledge management of CDO’s digital ecosystem portfolio to improve and accelerate the work, including developing approaches for data collection, documentation, and knowledge sharing.
- Support the coordination of digital/AI readiness assessments for governments and member states, including upkeep of surveys and data, analysing data and compiling reports within the template.
- Work closely with various programming teams across UNDP to support the implementation of digital programming.
- Maintain and update digital guides and knowledge-sharing resources for organizational use.
- Draft presentations, briefing notes, and reports to communicate project progress and insights to stakeholders, in collaboration with the Communications team.
- Contribute to documenting lessons learned and best practices to enhance future initiatives.
- Support in monitoring budget and reporting to donors.
Support digital capacity building efforts within the UN ecosystem and with government counterparts
- Conduct user research to identify learning needs, inform training design, and ensure alignment with stakeholders’ objectives.
- Facilitate digital and data training workshops for relevant stakeholders within UNDP, the UN ecosystem and governments.
- Collaborate with internal and external partners to promote knowledge-sharing, ensure the accessibility of learning resources, and enhance the effectiveness of digital transformation initiatives.
Support partnerships and engagement to build support for UNDP’s digital work
- Organise high-profile events including governments, development agencies, private sector partners, and civil society organisations.
- Support broader partnership, outreach and engagement efforts by CDO in areas such as resource mobilization, inter-agency and multilateral engagement, joint collaborations and stakeholder outreach
Support product development for digital tools
- Support the research, proposal, prototyping, testing, and conceptual development of new digital products.
- Collaborate with internal teams to design, test, and refine digital products, ensuring alignment with user needs and goals.\
- Perform user testing on digital tools and incorporate feedback to enhance functionality and user experience.
Institutional Arrangement
The Digital Analyst will be reporting to the relevant team lead within the Chief Digital Office.
Required Skills and Experience
Education:
- Advanced university degree (master’s degree or equivalent) in Public Policy, International Development, IT, Economics, Business, Communications or a related field is required. OR
- A first-level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in the areas stated above, in combination with an additional two years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
Experience:
- Applicants with a master’s degree (or equivalent) in a relevant field of study are not required to have professional work experience.
- Applicants with a bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) are required to have a minimum of two (2) years of relevant professional experience in a management consulting role or industry role, or in the non-profit sector with digital and/or innovation exposure.
Required skills:
- Experience in a management consulting role or industry role, or in the non-profit sector with digital and/or innovation exposure.
- Experience in advanced use of office applications (MS Word, Excel, Teams, etc.) is required.
Desired skills:
- Experience in coordinating multiple stakeholders is desirable.
- Experience working with the UN or other large scale development organizations is desirable.
- Experience in supporting digital products, such as websites or software tools, is desirable.
Required Language(s):
- Fluency in English is required.
- Knowledge of another official UN language (Arabic, Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) or a local language is an asset.
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