Closing date: Saturday, 28 February 2015

Vacancy code VA/2015/B5801/6781

Position title: Sharepoint Developer

Department/office: CSPG ICT, Revenue Centre

Duty station: Copenhagen, Denmark

Contract type: Local ICA Support

Contract level: LICA-6

Duration: One year, renewable

Application period: 09-Feb-2015 to 01-Mar-2015

United Nations Core Values: Integrity, Professionalism, Respect for Diversity

Background Information - UNOPS

UNOPS mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.

Within these three core areas of expertise, UNOPS provides its partners with advisory, implementation and transactional services, with projects ranging from building schools and hospitals, to procuring goods and services and training local personnel. UNOPS works closely with governments and communities to ensure increased economic, social and environmental sustainability for the projects we support, with a focus on developing national capacity.

Working in some of the world's most challenging environments, our vision is to advance sustainable implementation practices in development, humanitarian and peacebuilding contexts, always satisfying or surpassing partner expectations.

We employ more than 6,000 personnel and on behalf of our partners create thousands more work opportunities in local communities. Through our headquarters in Copenhagen, Denmark and a network of offices, we oversee activities in more than 80 countries.

The UNOPS development team is to provide the organization with tools and resources to compliment and support the corporate Intranet, corporate Website and UNOPS' ERP system in alignment with the UNOPS technology platform and ICT strategy. System development domains include eProcurement, finance, knowledge management, HR tools, and project management. Scrum is used as the project framework.

Functional Responsibilities

Reporting to the ICT Development team lead, the SharePoint developer will work to deliver innovative tools for UNOPS' Sharepoint-2013 based corporate solutions in a SCRUM-based development framework.

Functional Responsibilities include

• Develop Sharepoint based solutions that support corporate business systems infrastructure;
• Build integration tools between Sharepoint document libraries/lists with ERP system and Asp.net based tools
• Develop systems that adhere to the product and service needs of internal clients.
• Implement solutions compliant with UNOPS solution approach
• Proactively solicit and discuss user feedback and support and extend applications as needed.
• Perform other related duties as required

Education/Experience/Language requirements

• Secondary Education Required. University Degree, preferably in Computer Science, Information Technology and Information Systems or Management Sciences desirable.
• A minimum of 6 years progressive experience building data-driven web applications. Higher level of education may be accepted in lieu of years of work expereince.
• Proven sound knowledge in the following: ASP.NET, MS SQL.
• Experience with Scrum/ Agile development an asset
• At least 2 years experience with development on SharePoint products.

Competencies

• Structured approach to problem solving.
• Ability to train staff and to develop and maintain effective working relationships with people of different national and cultural backgrounds.
• Initiative and ability to work independently.
• Good organizational skills and sound judgment
• Ability to work efficiently within a multi-cultural team environment and under pressure.

Contract type, level and duration

Contract type: Local ICA

Contract level: LICA6

Contract duration: one year, renewable

For more details about the ICA contractual modality, please follow this link:www.unops.org/english/Opportunities/job-opportunities/what-we-offer/Pages/Individual-Contractor-Agreements.aspx

Additional Considerations

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time (CET)
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• For staff positions UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.

Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

Application information: https://gprs.unops.org/Pages/ViewVacancy/VADetails.aspx?id=6781