ICT Specialist (UI/UX Designer) - Retainer Job at UNOPS Peace and Security Clust

ICT Specialist (UI/UX Designer) - Retainer

Job categories: IT

Vacancy code: VA/2025/B5011/29524

Level: ICS-10

Duty station: Home based

Contract type: International ICA

Duration: 12 Months - Renewable subject to good performance, availability of funds and organizational requirements - Retainer

Application period: 07-Jan-2025 to 09-Feb-2025

Applications to vacancies must be received before midnight Copenhagen time (CET) on the closing date of the announcement.

Please note that UNOPS will at no stage of the recruitment process request candidates to make payments of any kind.

Purpose and Scope of Assignment

The Development Coordination Office (DCO) is committed to providing the Resident Coordinator System and the UN Sustainable Development Group with cutting-edge software platforms that facilitate efficient and effective development operations. Building upon an established foundation, DCO is now focused on enhancing, expanding, and evolving these platforms in-house. This approach allows for greater agility in responding to evolving policy and programming needs, ensuring alignment with the latest UN development reform mandates, including those related to the UN Sustainable Development Cooperation Framework (UNSDCF).

Within a team of front-end and back-end Developers and a lead Developer, the contractor is expected to provide design and UI expertise to enhance UNINFO's unified look and feel, user-friendliness and experience, capture user stories and feedback, create ready-to-go analytics and reports, support the design of information products and online visualizations for a diverse set of clients and end-users. The contractor will also support the communication aspects of the project.

The incumbent of this position will be personnel of UNOPS under its full responsibility.

Minimum Requirements:

The ICT Specialist (UI/UX Designer) will be a key member of the development team.

Education: Advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) preferred.

UNOPS – an operational arm of the United Nations – supports the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by successfully implementing its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world.

Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve peace and sustainable development.

We are proud of our people. The UNOPS family brings together approximately 160 nationalities, represented by over 5,000 UNOPS personnel as well as some 7,800 personnel recruited on behalf of our partners. Spread across 80 countries, our workforce is rich in diversity and culture – with inclusion at its core.

We understand the importance of balancing professional and personal demands and offer several flexible working options.