ICC encourage Short-Term Developmental Assignments (STDAs) to give Staff opportunities to enhance their skills and gain diverse experiences by broadening exposure to different work environments.

Description of the work:

As part of the delivery of ICC team in Rome for WFP, the staff member on STDA will perform IT systems administration of all servers which are part of WFP infrastructure under OPES’ responsibility, located either in ICC Datacentre in Geneva and in WFP Rome.

The scope of the work consists in supporting the installation, maintenance and on-going operations of multiple IT landscapes, hosted both in Rome and Geneva, for WFP. The selected candidate will also be involved in the following tasks:

• Work together with the OS and infrastructure administrators to ensure that the environment is adequately tuned for each system.
• Conduct timely troubleshooting, incident management and resolution
• Create and maintain rigorous documentation of all the managed servers. Create and update Standard Operating Procedures documenting the function, in coordination with the rest of the team
• Document any new or changes to the environment
• Perform other tasks as required by OPES
• The resource shall also closely work with WFP focal points to coordinate daily work needed to meet the target SLAs.

The required services shall be provided on-site at ICC offices in Rome, and the selected candidate will be part of OPES team, reporting to OPES Unit He.

Duration is initially for three months with possible extension up to six months maximum depending on project and service requirements, as well as on service’s performance.

Skills and experience required:

• Experience in installing, configuring and managing HW devices and Datacentres. Working experience in Datacentre operations.
• 5 or more years of experience with Windows and UNIX/Linux Operating Systems. Strong proficiency in the installation, configuration, and management of Windows systems.
• Experience on Active Directory administration and join OPES AD team for managing WFP AD composed by 40+ DCs and about 300 RODCs.
• Storage Area Network (SAN) management specifically with EMC Systems
• Work experience with vSphere systems administration and support including VMotion, HA, DRS, VDS, Affinity rules, VCenter, storage migrations, and P2V migrations
• Experience with vSphere problem determination, capacity planning and root cause analysis
• Mandatory working experience (6+ years) with VMware. 3 or more years of experience with VMware ESXi and vCenter
• Team working skill
• Able to understand and operate within complex technical environments
• Solid troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Ability to exercise sound judgment, tact, and maintain a clear purpose while working under pressure
• Ability to work cross-functionally and across multiple time zones with others to support databases and their applications
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Fluent in English

Benefits for the staff: 

• Job enhancement and enrichment;
• Facilitation of a change of mindset in viewing geographical and functional mobility as an opportunity for growth and development;
• Learning and skills enhancement;
• Opening of potential future professional and career development opportunities.

Eligibility:

In order to be eligible, staff members should:

• Be already working at the G5 or G6 level
• Have served in their current fixed-term position for at least two years,
• Hold a continuing or fixed-term appointment which is expected to continue for at least six months after completion of the short-term developmental assignment,
• Have received an overall rating of at least “satisfactory performance” in their last PMDS
• Obtain their Supervisor’s approval.

Entitlements: 

 If the staff take a position of an higher grade:

If the staff member assumes the responsibilities of an established post of a higher grade than that which s/he occupies, s/he shall be granted non-pensionable extra pay as from the beginning of the fourth consecutive month, in accordance with Staff Rule 320.4. The calculation of the extra pay will be based on the official duty station where the staff member is normally based.

If the staff is deployed to another duty station:

• Given the time limited nature of STDAs, staff members will be assigned without their families. They will retain their existing remuneration package (for example, IPs would maintain salary, post adjustment, education grant, rental subsidy, as applicable) of their official duty station. Travel will be in economy class.
• From the first month of a STDA, staff members will receive the hotel component of the first 60 days DSA rate of the duty station where they will be temporarily based throughout the entire assignment. This hotel component percentage is calculated by the ICSC.

Selection process:

• The HR focal point of the receiving office will carry out an initial review of the applications for eligibility.
• The applications will then be reviewed by the supervisor/manager of the receiving office who will make a final selection. In reviewing applications, due consideration will be given to staff’s proven commitment to learning and development, their performance record, as well as to the relevance of the staff exchange for the staff member’s personal and professional development.

Closing date for applications:

Applications will be accepted until midnight (Geneva Time) on 13 September 2020.

For any further detail, please refer to the “Short-term developmental assignments policy and procedures”.