World Food Programme
WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race, colour, national origin, ethnic or social background, genetic information, gender, gender identity and/or expression, sexual orientation, religion or belief, HIV status or disability.
Are you interested in further developing your professional experience while contributing to ending global hunger? Are you passionate about helping those in need? Would you like to join a global organization investing in its people?
If so, an exciting & fulfilling career awaits you!!! Join our diverse and passionate team that works on varied and international projects directly contributing to saving & changing millions of lives around the globe.
About Wfp
The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP), a highly prestigious, reputable & world’s largest humanitarian organization, saving lives in emergencies and using food assistance to build a pathway to peace, stability and prosperity for people recovering from conflict, disasters and the impact of climate change.
At WFP, people are at the heart of everything we do and the vision of the future WFP workforce is one of diverse, committed, skilled, and high performing teams, selected on merit, operating in a healthy and inclusive work environment, living WFP’s values (Integrity, Collaboration, Commitment, Humanity, and Inclusion) and working with partners to save and change the lives of those WFP serves.
To learn more about WFP, visit our website: https://www.wfp.org and follow us on social media to keep up with our latest news: YouTube, LinkedIn, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter.
WHY JOIN WFP?
- WFP is a 2020 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate.
- WFP offers a highly inclusive, diverse, and multicultural working environment.
- WFP invests in the personal & professional development of its employees through a range of training, accreditation, coaching, mentorship, and other programs as well as through internal mobility opportunities.
- A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country, regional and global offices around the world, and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
- We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Position Title: Information Security Analyst
Grade: SSA6
Contract: Special Service Agreement
Duty Station: Baghdad, Iraq
Duration of contract: 6 months, with possibility of extension subject to funding availability and satisfactory performance
Salary: Minimum Annual Net Salary is USD 25,424.00
Medical Plan: International valid medical plan for the staff member, spouse, and dependent children
Job Purpose
Under the supervision of the Business Transformation Officer, the job holder is expected to demonstrate responsibility and initiative to respond independently to queries with only general guidance. The Information Security Analyst will be responsible for:
- Safeguard the organization’s networks and data.
- Help to maintain security standards of the organization.
- Be updated with the latest security trends and cyber-attack strategies and ensure mitigations are designed and implemented in time.
- Check for network vulnerabilities, update software, and inform the IT staff to enhance the security measures to handle crises.
- Documentation.
Key Accountabilities
- Document the security breaches and measure the damage caused.
- Install software like firewalls and essential data encryption programs to safeguard organization’s vital data.
- Be up to date about the latest security trends.
- Prepare and continuously update the documentation of the security policy to be followed in the organization and it’s partners.
- Suggest security enhancement methods to the organization management or the IT staff.
- Support in implementing both internal and external security audits.
- Analyse the security issues thoroughly to identify the root cause.
- To verify whether the third-party vendors meet security requirements.
- Providing guidance to amateur computer users when they want to know about security procedures.
- Research about the newest security technology that best suits to safeguard the organization.
- Implement penetration testing.
- Create a disaster recovery plan, which is an essential procedure to be followed by every employee during an emergency. This includes transferring data to other locations and restoring IT functionality immediately after a disaster.
- Any other required task.
Functional Capability
- Governance, Strategy and Architecture: Demonstrates awareness of overall IT governance structure and system architecture development to support the process and assist in design of interaction between systems.
- Change Implementation, Project management, Planning and Optimization: Has basic understanding of project management principles to provide basic estimates on timing, resource utilisation and costs to facilitate the project planning process.
- Technical Expertise: Continuously updates one’s own knowledge about new technologies and product modifications; Is sought out for advice/expertise and recognized internally as an important technical reference.
- Service Management: Monitors and supervises maintenance and installation work against the established standards and protocols for service excellence and takes proper actions to correct inconsistencies and improve overall quality and customer satisfaction. Ensures that operational problems are identified and resolved.
- Client Management: Exhibits a detailed understanding of customers’ IT requests in order to effectively address and manage internal customers ‘needs. Identifies recurrent issues to propose long-term solutions.
- Procurement and Contract Management: Able to conduct a cost-benefit analysis of alternative technologies and vendor service level agreements to consolidate options and assess suitability.
Standard Minimum Academic Qualifications
Education: Secondary Education with an additional diploma in computer science, engineering, mathematics, science, or any other relevant qualification is required. Bachelor’s degree in the same areas mentioned above is a strong advantage.
Experience: As minimum of Six (6) years of work experience in information security at the international, national level or in the private sector.
Languages: Fluency in both spoken and written English and Arabic is required. Knowledge of another official UN language (Chinese, French, Russian or Spanish) is an asset.
Desired Experiences For Entry Into The Role
- Experience in incident response: handles the negative impact of security breaches and cyber-attacks on future prevention. Also, fixes the breaches in a timely manner.
- Competency in computer forensics: avoid organizational crime through data collection, analysis, and reporting the data in case of a data breach.
- Possess proficiency in firewalls, network security, Linux, security engineering, security architecture, and security assurance.
- Experience in conducting code reviews ensuring quality of development and testing procedures and protocol.
- Certification in one or more of the below is a plus: CISSP, CEH, CISM, COBIT 5, CRISC, CGEIT, CompTIA Security+.
WFP LEADERSHIP FRAMEWORK
WFP Leadership Framework guides to the common standards of behavior that guide HOW we work together to accomplish our mission.
Click here to access WFP Leadership Framework
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATION
WFP is dedicated to fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our recruitment process is inclusively crafted to welcome candidates of all backgrounds, celebrating diversity and ensuring a respectful environment for all. We aim for an accessible and fair recruitment journey. Should you need any reasonable accommodations or have accessibility concerns, please reach out to us confidentially at [email protected]. Our DEI team is here to ensure your full participation in our recruitment process.
NO FEE DISCLAIMER
The United Nations does not charge any application, processing, training, interviewing, testing or other fee in connection with the application or recruitment process. Should you receive a solicitation for the payment of a fee, please disregard it. Furthermore, please note that emblems, logos, names and addresses are easily copied and reproduced. Therefore, you are advised to apply particular care when submitting personal information on the web.
REMINDERS BEFORE YOU SUBMIT YOUR APPLICATION
- We strongly recommend that your profile is accurate, complete, and includes your employment records, academic qualifications, language skills and UN Grade (if applicable).
- Once your profile is completed, please apply, and submit your application.
- Please make sure you upload your professional CV in the English language
- Kindly note the only documents you will need to submit at this time are your CV and Cover Letter
- Additional documents such as passport, recommendation letters, academic certificates, etc. may potentially be requested at a future time
- Please contact us at [email protected] in case you face any challenges with submitting your application
- Only shortlisted candidates will be notified
All employment decisions are made on the basis of organizational needs, job requirements, merit, and individual qualifications. WFP is committed to providing an inclusive work environment free of sexual exploitation and abuse, all forms of discrimination, any kind of harassment, sexual harassment, and abuse of authority. Therefore, all selected candidates will undergo rigorous reference and background checks.
No appointment under any kind of contract will be offered to members of the UN Advisory Committee on Administrative and Budgetary Questions (ACABQ), International Civil Service Commission (ICSC), FAO Finance Committee, WFP External Auditor, WFP Audit Committee, Joint Inspection Unit (JIU) and other similar bodies within the United Nations system with oversight responsibilities over WFP, both during their service and within three years of ceasing that service.
To apply for this job please visit wd3.myworkdaysite.com.