The Digital Projects Analyst is expected to closely collaborate with team leaders, project managers, and staff of UNDP programmes and projects to which he/she is rendering services and outputs. Outputs shall be jointly cleared by the Project Manager of the client-project and the Head of Pintig Lab. The Digital Projects Analyst is also expected to interface with external partners particularly counterpart digitalization and information technology officials in the government.
Responsibilities
Assist in needs assessment meetings and workshops with UNDP internal and external stakeholders to determine needs for digital solutions.
The Analyst will be one of the lead members of the team designing and conducting the needs assessment/discovery workshops. The workshop activity designs may need to be coordinated and reviewed by designated project teams at the UNDP Country Office.
During needs assessment, the Analyst must help ensure clear ownership and sustainability of proposed digital solutions.
Software projects would involve the development of digitalization products such as workflow automation, databases, management information systems, platforms, portals, web applications, dashboards, and data analytics applications.
The Analyst is expected to draft work plans for products that will be developed internally and terms of references for products that will be developed externally by consultants or firms. The Analyst is expected to participate as a member of bid evaluation panels for products that will be developed externally.The Analyst will be the designated project manager for in-house Pintig Lab projects. The Analyst will perform all project management tasks under the supervision of the Digitalization and Data Analytics Specialist and guidance of the Senior Digital Solutions Architect.
In collaboration with relevant stakeholders within Pintig Lab and the other programme teams, the Analyst will develop the Project Plan for in-house projects which must include goals, stakeholders, milestones and deliverables, release plan, schedule, staffing, work breakdown structure, monitoring plan, infrastructure plan, communication plan, quality plan, deployment plan, and risk management.
The Analyst will ensure implementation of the project following the project plan and coordinating with other stakeholders for this purpose.
The Analyst will ensure quality of the project outputs and ensure execution of the quality plan.
The Analyst will create project weekly monitoring reports. The reports should cover execution tracked against baselined schedule and budget, any needed recovery plans, weekly activity planning, risk management and issue management. The weekly report shall be submitted to the Digitalization and Data Analytics Specialist, the Senior Digital Solutions Architect and other internal and other stakeholders identified in the Project Plan.
The Analyst will be responsible for acceptance of software projects and interim releases, ensuring that release packages are complete, products are working as expected and fit for purpose. The Analyst may involve reviewers from within UNDP as identified in the quality plan.
Requirements:
Advanced university degree (master's degree) in Information Technology, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Software Management, Technology Management, Communications or related fields is required
First level university degree (bachelor’s degree) in fields mentioned above in combination with an additional two (2) years of qualifying experience will be given due consideration in lieu of the advanced university degree.
At least two (2) years experience in the design, implementation, quality assurance, and management of projects and interventions in the public and private sector.
At least two (2) years experience in coordinating or managing software development projects including those related to dashboards, platforms, portals, databases, and management information systems.
Fluency in spoken and written English and Filipino is required.
