INFORMATION SYSTEMS OFFICER (PENSION AND BENEFITS)

Org. Setting and Reporting

The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund (UNJSPF) was established in 1949 by the United Nations General Assembly to provide retirement, death, disability, and related benefits for staff of the United Nations and other member organizations of the Fund. UNJSPF administers benefits of more than 80,000 beneficiaries residing in more than 190 countries, paid in 18 currencies, and services more than 150,000 participants who work in the 25 member organizations of UNJSPF. The Fund has offices in New York (United States) and Geneva (Switzerland) and two liaison offices in Nairobi (Kenya) and Bangkok (Thailand), respectively. The United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund-Pension Administration (UNJSPF-PA) comprises about 278 staff from diverse countries and cultures, based across four prominent duty stations (New York, Geneva, Bangkok, and Nairobi). We are a career employer offering unique opportunities for growth within the United Nations system. We offer staff competitive benefits, including up to six weeks of annual leave per year, a defined benefit pension plan (not subject to variation of capital markets), parental leave, a comprehensive insurance plan, and flexible working arrangements subject to operational requirements. Our office is located in the heart of Manhattan, within walking distance from the Grand Central Station hub, in a state-of-the-art facility (the One Dag Hammarskjöld building). Visit www.unjspf.org for more details. This position is located in the Information Management Systems Service, Enterprise Applications Section (IMSS/EAS) of the United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund-Pension Administration (UNJSPF-PA). The Information Systems Officer will report to the Team Lead of Team 3 in UNJSPF-PA/IMSS/EAS.

Responsibilities

Within limits of delegated authority and depending on location, the Information Systems Officer may be responsible for the following duties:

• Manage projects involving feasibility studies, systems analysis, design, development and implementation of new, moderately complex systems, and/or participate as a member of a development team with responsibility for major components of the more complex systems.
• Deliver implementation and operationalization of enterprise platforms supporting pension administration and enabling services (e.g., ITSM and cloud-based platforms), including configuration, integration, testing, deployment, and post-go-live stabilization.
• Deliver end-to-end integration delivery between pension administration systems and enterprise platforms (e.g., ERP/finance, document management, workflow/BPM, ITSM), including API design, data mapping, security, and monitoring.
• Partner with service management teams to ensure systems are supported through ITIL-aligned processes (incident, problem, change, release, request fulfillment), to support application operations.
• Support cloud adoption and migration activities,...