IT Associate

**Job Identification**
- 16957

**Locations**
- Bhubaneswar, India**Posting Date**
- 03/13/2024, 12:47 AM
- 03/27/2024, 10:59 AM

**Job Schedule**
- Full time

**Agency**
- UNDP

**Vacancy Type**
- National Personnel Service Agreement

**Practice Area**
- SDG Integration

**Bureau**
- Regional Bureau for Asia and the Pacific

**Contract Duration**
- 1 Year with Possibility for extension

**Education & Work Experience**
- Bachelor's Degree - 3 year(s) experience OR High School certificate
- 6 year(s) experience

**Required Languages**
- Fluency in written and spoken English and Hindi

**Desired Languages**
- Fluency in Odia language

**Vacancy Timeline**
- 2 Weeks

**Background**

**Diversity, Equity and Inclusion are core principles at UNDP: we value diversity as an expression of the multiplicity of nations and cultures where we operate, we foster inclusion as a way of ensuring all personnel are empowered to contribute to our mission, and we ensure equity and fairness in all our actions. Taking a ‘leave no one behind’ approach to our diversity efforts means increasing representation of underserved populations. People who identify as belonging to marginalized or excluded populations are strongly encouraged to apply. Learn more about working at UNDP including our values and **inspiring stories.**

**Office/Unit/Project Description**

SC & ST Department, Government of Odisha is the nodal department for overall policy, planning and coordination of programmes for development of Scheduled Tribes (STs). The department has accorded high priority and adopted multifaceted development strategies to promote socio-economic growth of the STs. Specific interventions are being implemented including implementation of protective legislations such as the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act. The programmes and schemes for tribal people are intended to support and supplement the efforts, primarily of other state departments to fill critical gaps within institutions and programmes, considering the situation of STs. These schemes comprising of economic, educational, and social development through institutional building, are administered by the line departments. Notwithstanding numerous developmental interventions, the STs continue to face developmental deficits with respect to health, education, livelihood, development infrastructure as well as other socio-economic indices, many of which are well below the national average.

The SC & ST Department, Government of Odisha is committed to providing equitable access to opportunity for the tribal communities, through participatory approach and adoption of innovative methods including e-governance and increasing use of technology to provide strategic inputs into the development process. To accelerate the implementation of the development agenda for the tribal communities and strengthen the institutional delivery systems at the State and district level, it is important to strengthen the capacity and effectiveness of the officials and stakeholders to deliver on the issues related to tribal empowerment and create robust systems for monitoring and implementation of the SC & ST schemes of the Central and State government.

The Department is working in collaboration with UNDP to fast-track development in difficult geographies inhabited by tribal populations, enhancing capacities of government functionaries and expanding opportunities for better livelihoods, health and education to vulnerable tribal communities.

**Main Purpose**

The IT Associate will be part of the Project Management Unit and will work under the overall supervision of the PMU State Coordinator and in close collaboration with Programme Lead, Tribal Development, UNDP with functional support from State head of Office, UNDP Odisha. S/He will ensure engagement of all direct stakeholders, smooth functioning of all digital tools & IT interventions and delivery of project objectives, in coordination with the Government of Odisha when needed.

**Duties and Responsibilities**:

- Assess the system requirements and suggest potential IT solutions based on both technical and implementation suitability.
- Provide technical assistance to translate Ministry’s and Odisha SC & ST Development Department’s requirement by designing techniques for the most efficient and cost-effective and sustainable IT solutions.
- Provide support in regularly examining the existing IT systems, track flow of data and recommend changes/upgradation etc. to make the system more effective for its optimum utilization and in line with emerging technologies.
- Support in extraction of data and other reports to help in monitoring and decision making. Monitor key performance indicators and provide regular updates on user activity, technical issues, and enhancements made to the portal.
- Ensure e