Team Analyst, Multiple positions

UNOPS will provide support to UNOG Library’s Digitization of the League of Nations Archives project, through the provision of services, which includes procurement and personnel support. This project addresses the League of Nations Archives collection managed by the United Nations Office at Geneva, consisting of the digitization for a subsequent provision of online access to the complete records of the League of Nations during its existence from 1919 to 1946, including approximately 3 linear kilometres or 15,000,000 pages of materials. While the inherent value of the original materials necessitates provisions for their long-term physical care, digitization can contribute to the overall preservation of the collections to ensure that people from around the globe can discover, use, and learn from these important records. 

Based in Geneva, the Europe and Central Asia Regional Office (ECR) supports UNOPS offices throughout the region through: management, financial and programmatic oversight of global and country-specific portfolios, clusters and operations centres, including hosting services; fund and management advisory services; project implementation; procuring goods and services; and managing human resources.

ECR ensures that projects are executed to the highest standards, providing a shared knowledge base and ensuring that best practices and lessons learned are disseminated between business units and projects across the entire region.

ECR operates global portfolios from offices in Geneva, Brussels and New York, and country-specific programmes from its operations and project centres located in Eastern Europe and Central Asian countries.

Under the direct supervision of the Project Team Leader:

Perform multiple and complex archives-related tasks, including but not limited to:

• Coordinate the creation and maintenance of a physical location and inventory of archives materials.
• Support the physical preservation assessments and perform basic treatments, such as replacing boxes and file covers and unfolding and flattening of documents.
• Support the physical preparation of archives materials for their digitization, including removal of fasteners and sorting of files and documents.
• Coordinate the archival processing activities by producing descriptive inventories; prepare mark-up of inventories for electronic dissemination; and monitor adherence to description, database and preservation standards.
• Perform quality control of digitized materials, including verification of image quality and accuracy and undertake corrections as necessary.
• Perform other related duties, as required.

A minimum of a Bachelor’s degree in archives or library science, information science, business administration, public administration or related area is required.

At least 3 years of progressively responsible professional experience in archives, libraries, project management or related field.

Experience with archives digitization projects will be an asset.

Fluency in oral and written English or French and working knowledge of the other is required.

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

UNOPS supports the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to serve people in need by expanding the ability of the United Nations, governments and other partners to manage projects, infrastructure and procurement in a sustainable and efficient manner.

Working in some of the world’s most challenging environments, our vision is to advance sustainable implementation practices, always satisfying or surpassing our partners’ expectations.

With over 7,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, wherever they need it.

A flexible structure and global reach means that we can quickly respond to our partners' needs, while offering the benefits of economies of scale.