Digital Solutions & CoE Specialist, Information Technology Solutions Office (ITSO), New York, P-3

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use only sections that have real content. The posting includes: Job Description (intro), The Position, How you can make a difference, Job Purpose, You would be responsible for (list of duties), Qualifications and Experience (education, knowledge and experience, languages, required competencies), Compensation and Benefits (mention of attractive remuneration package including competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits), UNFPA Work Environment (diversity etc), About UNFPA (mission). Also there is "Carry out any other duties as may be required". Also "Build and maintain a pipeline..." repeated. We need to extract sections: About the role (maybe from The Position and Job Purpose). Responsibilities (list of duties). Qualifications (education, experience, languages, competencies). Skills maybe part of competencies. Benefits (Compensation and Benefits). Pay? Not specific salary figure, just "competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits". That is benefits; we can include Pay only if specific salary given; not given, so we should not create Pay section. Schedule not given. So we will have sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Benefits. Possibly Skills separate? Could combine skills within Qualifications. But we can also have Skills section if we have explicit list of skills; we have competencies list. Could treat as Skills. However instruction: Prefer a few substantive sections over many thin ones. So maybe combine Qualifications and Skills into one Qualifications section. Benefits separate. We need to use

for each section heading. Use

• for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. Use

  for prose. We must preserve all substantive information, not invent or summarize away detail. Remove boilerplate: cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate, duplicated lines, and application instructions. Also remove "About UNFPA" maybe? It's substantive but not required? It's about organization mission; could be part of About the role? Might be separate but we can include as part of About the role? The instruction: include a section ONLY when the posting has real, specific content for it — never emit a heading followed by filler/placeholder text. So we can include About UNFPA as part of About the role or separate "About UNFPA". But we have limited set of allowed headings: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. No "About UNFPA". So we must fold that content into one of those headings, likely About the role. Similarly "How you can make a difference" and "Job Purpose" can go under About the role. We need to preserve all substantive information: So we need to include the mission statements, UNFPA strategic plan, outcomes, etc. That's substantive. We'll include them in About the role paragraph(s). Responsibilities: list of duties from "You would be responsible for:" and sub-bullets. Need to capture all bullet points. Qualifications and Experience: includes Education, Knowledge and Experience (with subpoints), Languages, Required Competencies (Values, Core Competencies, Functional Competencies). We'll need to list them as

  • . Might be long but okay. Benefits: from Compensation and Benefits: "This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable." Also maybe UNFPA Work Environment mentions gender equality etc. That's more about work environment, could be part of Benefits? But Benefits heading is for compensation and benefits; work environment maybe not benefits. Could be omitted? But we need to preserve all substantive information; we could include work environment under Benefits as a paragraph describing work environment. Or maybe we could add a separate section but not allowed headings. Could incorporate into Benefits as a paragraph. We must not include duplicated lines. There's a duplicated line: "Build and maintain a pipeline of scaling, piloting, and startup opportunities, tracking readiness, funding status, and partner interest." appears twice? Actually appears once in Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation section and again later? Let's check: In Partnerships and Resource Mobilisation: "Build and maintain a pipeline of external donors and partners to support digital transformation across UNFPA operations globally Build and maintain a pipeline of scaling, piloting, and startup opportunities, tracking readiness, funding status, and partner interest." There's a duplicate phrase maybe. We'll need to deduplicate. Also "Carry out any other duties as may be required by UNFPA leadership." appears at end of responsibilities. We need to output only HTML fragment, no markdown fences. Let's craft. Structure:

    About the role

    ... combine The Position, How you can make a difference, Job Purpose, About UNFPA mission ...

    Responsibilities

    • ... each duty ...

    Qualifications

    Education: ...

    • Knowledge and Experience: ... maybe we need sublists? Could flatten.
    But we need to preserve all detail; we can have nested lists? Not prohibited but we can just use
    • for each item, maybe with sub-items as separate
    • with dash? Better to keep flat but include all details. We'll list: - Advanced university degree in Information Technology, Business Administration or related discipline. A first-level university degree in combination with 2 additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. - Minimum of 5 years of increasingly responsible professional experience in software product management, innovation, digital transformation implementation, system architecture, or technology-driven development initiatives. - Proven track record in managing technology implementation lifecycles, technical vendor teams, and complex digital product deployments. - Demonstrated experience providing technical advisory support to decentralized or international field environments. - Knowledge and understanding of T4D, AI, and KM systems in cloud environments. - Experience preparing funding proposals or partnership agreements, and building donor or partner relationships in a development or technology context. - Experience working within an enterprise IT office, innovation hub, or digital centre of excellence is highly desirable. - Strong familiarity with data privacy standards, enterprise systems architecture, and modern cloud infrastructures. - Experience with UN system policies and operations or a similar environment. - Ability to communicate effectively within all levels of the organization, including briefing executive management and key client stakeholders. - Fluency in English; knowledge of other official UN languages, preferably French and/or Spanish, is desirable. - Values: Exemplifying integrity, Demonstrating commitment to UNFPA and the UN system, Embracing cultural diversity, Embracing change. - Core Competencies: Achieving results, Being accountable, Developing and applying professional expertise/business acumen, Thinking analytically and strategically, Working in teams/managing ourselves and our relationships, Communicating for impact. - Functional Competencies: Developing ICT standards and applications, Manage information and workflows, Planning, organizing and multitasking, Building partnerships. We need to ensure not to repeat. Benefits section:

      Benefits

      This position offers an attractive remuneration package including a competitive net salary plus health insurance and other benefits as applicable.

      UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance. The organization is committed to ensuring gender parity and encourages applications from women, LGBTQIA+ community, minority ethnic groups, indigenous populations, persons with disabilities, and other underrepresented groups. Reasonable accommodation may be provided to applicants with disabilities upon request.

      We should not include EEO boilerplate like "UNFPA promotes equal opportunities..." but that's part of work environment; maybe we keep it as it's substantive. The instruction: remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-opportunity/scam-warning boilerplate. The EEO statement might be considered boilerplate; but it's also substantive about diversity encouragement. Might be considered boilerplate; safer to remove? The instruction says remove EEO/equal-opportunity boilerplate. So we should remove lines that are generic EEO statements. However the paragraph about encouraging women, LGBTQIA+, etc is specific encouragement; might be considered part of EEO. I'd rather keep it as it's substantive about diversity encouragement. But to be safe, maybe keep a short sentence about work environment reflecting values, gender equality, diversity, integrity, healthy work-life balance. That's not boilerplate. The rest about encouraging specific groups could be considered EEO; maybe remove. Let's keep only: "UNFPA provides a work environment that reflects the values of gender equality, diversity, integrity and healthy work-life balance." That's enough. Now ensure we didn't miss any substantive info: The "How you can make a difference" includes UNFPA Strategic Plan for 2026-2029, four outcomes, need for principled staff, etc. We need to include that in About the role. Also "Job Purpose" includes delivering technical execution, translating strategy, co-leading partnerships, resource mobilisation. Already covered in responsibilities but we can include in About the role. Let's craft About the role paragraph(s). Could be multiple

      under same heading? Allowed: use

      for prose. We can have multiple

      elements. We'll produce:

      About the role

      The Digital Solutions & CoE Specialist is located in the Digital Centre of Excellence (DCoE) within the Information Technology Solutions Office (ITSO) at UNFPA Headquarters in New York, reporting directly to the Chief, Digital Centre of Excellence. The role manages and integrates ICT solutions into UNFPA's programmatic work, identifying, evaluating, and implementing cutting‑edge technologies and best practices to enhance the organization's ICT capabilities and support its mission.

      UNFPA is the lead United Nations agency for delivering a world where every pregnancy is intended, every childbirth is safe, and every young person's potential is fulfilled. The UNFPA Strategic Plan for 2026‑2029 provides a roadmap for resilience and renewal, accelerating implementation of the Programme of Action of the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) and achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 through four interconnected outcomes: ending the unmet need for family planning; ending preventable maternal deaths; ending gender‑based violence and harmful practices; and adapting to demographic change through evidence‑ and rights‑based policies. The organization seeks principled, ethical staff who embody these international norms and will defend them courageously, and who can transform, inspire, and deliver high‑impact sustained results in external relations, communications, partnership‑building and resource mobilisation.

      As part of the DCoE, the Digital Solutions & CoE Specialist delivers and manages the technical execution of assigned core digital products, supports their rollout and scaling across Headquarters, Regional and Country Offices, translates the Centre's digital strategy into enterprise‑compliant products, combines hands‑on technical product management with quality assurance, and co‑leads partnerships and resource mobilisation efforts to finance scaling, idea piloting and startup support.

      Now Responsibilities: need to capture all bullet points from "You would be responsible for:" sections. Let's extract: Digital Product Management & CoE Solution Scaling - Manage the technical lifecycle, rollout, and scaling of assigned core digital products developed or adopted by the DCoE. - Draft product roadmaps, technical requirements, and user stories for software developers, technical vendors, and system integrators. - Conduct technical feasibility assessments and digital maturity evaluations for Country Offices seeking to deploy localized digital solutions. - Ensure assigned DCoE solutions comply with organizational cybersecurity standards, enterprise architecture, data privacy regulations, and human rights frameworks. - Track product performance, log issues and risks, and apply mitigation measures across the product lifecycle. Technical Advisory & Field Support - Provide Technical Assistance to Regional and Country Offices on implementing complex ICT and digital solutions. - Provide direct support and quality assurance on developer deliverables, technical integration, and system infrastructure. - Establish standard operating procedures,