National Consultant: ICT Systems Security Expert at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
Specific Tasks to be performed by the consultant:
- The
consultant will work under the overall supervision of the Head of the
Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice Programme, UNODC ROEA, direct
supervision of the Programme Manager in coordination with the Programme
officers and work closely with the Judiciary in performing the following
substantive duties and responsibilities.
- In
this regard, the UNODC seeks to strengthen the Judiciary’s ICT systems
through enabling the development of a security by design capacity building
model with the following objectives:
- Build
capacity in secure system development and Security by Design
- Train
system administrators on server and infrastructure hardening
- Equip
network engineers with skills to protect the Judiciary’s network perimeter
- Confidence
building & empowerment of cybersecurity staff to carry out audits,
ethical hacking, and incident response.
The consultant shall perform the following tasks:
- Inception
Meeting and Report: Undertake an inception meeting with the relevant
stakeholders at the Judiciary to review the scope, timelines and
methodology of work. Draft and submit to UNODC the inception report.
- Capacity
building in Security-by-Design and Cybersecurity will be separately
undertaken for four different target beneficiaries as identified below:
Developers/ Database administrators on various components identified
below:
- Application
and Database Security by Design
Qualifications/special skills
- An
advanced university degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Computer
Engineering or a related field is required (Master’s or equivalent).
- A
first level university degree is required in Civil Engineering or similar
fields in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience
may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree.
- A
minimum of five years of progressively responsible professional experience
in ICT Security/cybersecurity is required.
- Experience
in penetration testing and vulnerability assessments, IDS/Firewalls/VPN
Administration, content filers, Security scan tools, Network and Systems,
servers etc is required c. Experience in enterprise security document
creation is required.
- Experience
in designing and delivering employee security awareness training is
desirable. e. Experience in developing Business Continuity Plans and
Disaster Recover is desirable.
Intern at United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC)
The intern shall undertake the following duties which may
include, but are not limited to:
- Contribute
to the preparation of background documents, presentations, summaries,
talking points and speeches.
- Assist
in the preparation of technical assistance workshops, meetings, high-level
events and conferences.
- Attend
and take notes at meetings.
- Assist
to translate documents and materials.
- Perform
other tasks as necessary.
Qualifications/special skills
- Completion
of Secondary School Education is required. To qualify for an internship
with the United Nations Internship Programme, the following conditions
must be met: Applicants must meet one of the following requirements:
- be
enrolled in, or have recently completed, a graduate school programme
(second university degree or equivalent, or higher);
- be
enrolled in, or have recently completed, the final academic year of a
first university degree programme (minimum bachelor’s degree or
equivalent).
- have
graduated with a university degree (as defined above)(OFFICIAL PROOF FROM
THE UNIVERSITY IN SUPPORT OF ONE OF THE ABOVE OPTIONS HAS TO BE ATTACHED
TO THE INSPIRA APPLICATION)
The intern should also:
- Be
computer literate in standard software applications;
- Have a
demonstrated keen interest in the work of the United Nations and have a
personal commitment to the ideals of the Charter; and Have a demonstrated
ability to successfully interact with individuals of different cultural
backgrounds and beliefs, which include willingness to try and understand
and be tolerant of differing opinions and views
- Applicants
to the UN Internship Programme are not required to have professional work.
- Applicants
should have good knowledge of standard software applications, especially
MS Word, MS PowerPoint, and MS Teams