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Personal CV or P11, indicating all past positions held and their main underlying functions, their durations (month/year), the qualifications, as well as the contact details (email and telephone number) of the Candidate, and at least three (3) the most recent professional references of previous supervisors. References may also include peers.
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Office/Unit/Project Description
UNDP, the global development network for the United Nations system, is on the ground in 177 countries and is uniquely equipped to help developing countries build the requisite policies, capacity, and supportive environment that are needed to accelerate and sustain human development. UNDP is an operational backbone to the UN system: providing human resources, payroll, financial transactions, common premises, treasury investments, procurement, legal services to UN agencies. UNDP provides IT support for 13 UN entities with 40,000 United Nations and external users of the UNDP’s ERP system, as well as information and communication technology (ICT) and application solutions for the United Nations field presence. To support the UNDP Digital Strategy 2020-2023 and enable the digital transformation of the organization, the Information and Technology Management (ITM) Office is tasked with developing and operating the enabling corporate technology platforms and providing related services that power the digital transformation including: (1) advice, administration and acceleration services to promote delivery of maximum business value of each platform; (2) a global service desk operation; (3) and outreach services to promote knowledge sharing and effective, agile planning and governance of technology development and utilization.
Within the Information and Technology Management (ITM) Office is the Global Support and Capacity Building that has the basic mandate of providing a single point of contact to manage client support, service requests and incidents related to the organization’s corporate applications including Enterprise Resource Planning systems, Content Management systems, Microsoft collaboration tools among others. The unit is currently operating on a follow-the-sun method providing support to UNDP country offices in the Asia Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America time zones. In addition, it provides extended support to various units within the Information and Technology Management (ITM) Office; and, to various offices and work streams within the Bureau of Management Services (BMS) and UNDP partners across the globe.
To meet increasing end-user requirements, the Global Support and Capacity Building team is seeking to retain the services of a Global Service Desk Agent with a focus on supporting end-users in HQ NY location as well as Global Customer support, for an initial period of one year. The successful candidate will join the unit in supporting the global user community as well as identifying evolving user support needs for the corporate applications and tools identified above. The incumbents will also work closely with UNDP Business streams and various units in support of the applications/tools and functions, as well as user education and adaption.
The Global Service Desk Agent is expected to make informed decisions on specific-trouble-shooting details following careful analysis of cases using our official ticketing system and ensure timely coordination with other members of the team, as well as with partners should a business decision is required. As member of the Global Support and Capacity Support team, the incumbent is responsible for providing logical recommendations based on standard operating procedures (SOP), UNDP guidelines and corporate applications that have direct impact on the operational effectiveness of the service desk in carrying out client/user support and other corporate functions.
Institutional Arrangement
The Global Service Desk Agent will report to the Customer Management Center Lead in Panama
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