South East Asia Multi-Country Office (EAPMCO)
The South East Asia and Pacific Multi Country Office (EAPMCO) supports, develops and oversees the UNOPS portfolio of projects in South East Asia and the Pacific. EAPMCO was established in January 2023 following the merger of the Thailand Multi-Country Office, which covered 20 countries across North East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific, and the Cambodia Multi-Country Office, which covered 4 countries South East Asia - 3 countries in the Mekong Sub-region (Cambodia, Lao PDR and Vietnam) and the Philippines. EAPMCO currently covers 24 countries across North East Asia, South East Asia and the Pacific. With its head office in Bangkok, the Multi-Country Office comprises nine business units: SEMCO Thailand, EAPMCO Indonesia, EAPMCO Pacific Operations Cluster, EAPMCO Papua New Guinea, EAPMCO China, EAPMCO Vietnam, EAPMCO Lao PDR, EAPMCO Philippines and EAPMCO Cambodia.
In 2022, the UNOPS EAPMCO implemented projects worth more than USD 95.7 million, in the areas of Energy Transition, Digital Transformations, Sustainable Environmental Management, Climate Change, Waste Management, Rule of Law and Access to Justice, Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH), Post Conflict Reintegration, Emergency Relief, Post COVID19 Economic Transformations, and Health, through HR, procurement, construction, contract management, fund and program management services.
The Multi Country Office head office in Bangkok provides strategic direction, operational support, delivery oversight and assurance of the excellence of business processes and quality standards across all of the entire Multi Country Office locations. It is also responsible for developing, delivering and managing the portfolio of engagements in the country of the MCO location itself.
Background Information – Project
UN Global Pulse (UNGP) is an initiative of the Executive Office of Secretary-General (EOSG) founded in 2009. We work in support of the Secretary-General’s priorities, in advancement of the UN Charter. UNGP serves as a cross-pillar lead and hub for experimentation and digital innovation. We have a globally distributed team in the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia. The teams work with digital innovation, strategic foresight, real-time data and artificial intelligence to further sustainable development, humanitarian and peace outcomes. Our vision is ‘A world in which responsible and inclusive digital innovation serves to empower people and protect the planet’. Our mission is to work at the intersection of digital innovation and science to inform, inspire and support the entire UN and those it serves, to anticipate and respond to the challenges of today and tomorrow.
The goals of the UNGP Network are: i) to generate knowledge, capabilities and approaches that support the transformation of the United Nations into a more agile and resilient ‘next-generation’ institution; ii) to create and accelerate the development of globally accessible approaches that help communities and partners anticipate and address emerging global challenges; and iii) to advocate for the global transformation of policies, practices and culture required to maximize the impact of digital innovation, minimize its risk of harm, and ensure pathways to scale and sustainability.
UNOPS is seeking for the UN Global Pulse Disha team, a Technology Lead.
Global Pulse’s Disha is an initiative managed by UNOPS and the Executive Office of the Secretary General (EOSG) and across Pulse Labs that brings together UN agencies and private, public, and social sector partners for the development of data and AI products as digital public goods (DPGs). Disha aspires to catalyze the formation of a cohesive and responsibly open ecosystem of data and AI products and services that reduces inefficiencies in the development of digital solutions for sustainable development and humanitarian action—with an initial focus on natural disaster response and recovery—to accelerate attainment of the sustainable development goals.
The Technology Lead is a key role and instrumental for the success of Disha. With experience in the development of large-scale, data-driven solutions, the Technology Lead will lead the development of Disha’s data access and processing platform and the implementation of pilot use cases that leverage the Disha platform.
In response to strategy and product evolution, the Technology Lead will design and evolve the technical architecture of the data and AI solutions alongside a delivery roadmap to meet the needs of each use case with collaboration from the Disha team.
The Technology Lead will be accountable for the quality of data and AI products and co-create and own Disha’s best practice data and software development principles.
The Technology Lead will onboard, guide, and supervise the work of technical contributors including software engineers and data engineers (currently 4) from within Global Pulse.
The Technology Lead will foster collaboration across partner organizations to create team(s) that can work effectively together for better and faster outcomes. They will utilize their experience at facilitating cross-organisational, cross-functional teams to develop and support technologies within an ecosystem which meet user needs.
The Technology Lead may represent Global Pulse and Disha and participate in panels, working groups, and other relevant forums within and beyond the UN to articulate and propose solutions to overcome technical barriers towards data and AI as digital public goods.
This is an exciting opportunity to be part of this initiative in a pivotal moment to realize the opportunities of data and AI products as digital public goods for impact at scale. The incumbent of this position will be a personnel of UNOPS under its full responsibility.
This position will need to work across time zones from East Asia (Jakarta) to East US (New York) in a balanced working pattern across the week.