Duration: April 15 2009 – December 31, 2009. Renewable upon performance.

The selected candidate will be offered a consultancy contract known as SSA in UNICEF New York.  S/he will be required to work on a full-time basis in the Knowledge Management Section at UNICEF’s ITSS Division in its New York headquarters.

Main functions, duties and responsibilities:
Reporting to the Business Information Programmer Analyst, the consultant will be responsible for Business Information “front room” tasks included below:
1. Develop new cubes and reports using Cognos 8 contributing towards the delivery of the 2009 workplan set by the Business Information Governance Board.
2. Develop test and maintain COGNOS models, reports, and cubes for the aforementioned assignments.
3. Develop technical documentation for COGNOS models, reports and cubes related to the assignments listed in task 1.
4. Program the corresponding screens, reports, interfaces as assigned by the project manager.

Interim/Final Output Required:
• Reports/cubes/queries as per the project plan
• Model changes as required
• Technical documentation describing the above

Qualifications or specialized knowledge/experience required:
• Proven ability to break large technical or business problems down into smaller units, to discuss and analyse solutions with end users, and to communicate the problem/solution to the various analysts in the business or technical sections.
• Strong oral and written communications
• Proven experience in SQL programming
• Proven experience in Cognos 8 programming
• Experience developing technical documentation

To Apply
Interested candidates are invited to submit their application to isspost@unicef.org. Applications will be considered only if accompanied by an updated CV and P11 Personal History Form (which can be obtained in MS Word format from www.unicef.org/about/employ/index_apply.html) as well as the two most recent performance evaluations or references. Only candidates who are under serious consideration will be contacted.  Applications should be received not later than Friday, 10 April 2009.

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