Strategic IT Transformation Consultant

United Nations; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Part time

Job summary

United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund – Office of Investment Management seeks a Technical Consultant for IT Strategy Implementation to mobilize and baseline strategic IT initiatives. The role focuses on translating objectives into a prioritized portfolio, establishing governance, and aligning architecture across the enterprise.

The successful candidate will drive design standards, deliver priority initiatives, and implement dashboards to monitor progress, costs, risks, and benefits within a

Responsibilities

• Refresh and validate the IT Strategy implementation roadmap, translating strategic objectives into a prioritized, sequenced portfolio of initiatives, milestones, dependencies, resourcing assumptions, risks, costs, benefits, and accountable owners.
• Establish a roadmap intake, assessment, and prioritization framework for new projects, enhancements, and technology requests with a full assessment of value, architecture fit, data implications, security, and lifecycle readiness.
• Create an enterprise technology landscape and target-state architecture view covering apps, data platforms, integrations, identity, automation, reporting, infrastructure, security, and resilience dependencies.
• Establish programme governance: steering arrangements, cadence, RAID log, escalation paths, change control, decision rights, status reporting, and benefits-tracking approach.
• Apply the intake framework to all proposed initiatives and align to the target architecture to avoid duplication or debt.
• Develop a cross-functional workflow automation framework across operations, investment operations, finance, HR, procurement, risk, IT service delivery, and business continuity.
• Define minimum design standards for automated workflows: ownership, user journeys, exception handling, approvals, duties, audit trails, APIs, master data, security, monitoring, and support.
• Produce delivery plans for priority IT Strategy initiatives with scope, milestones, risks, and procurement needs.
• Drive delivery of roadmap initiatives through dependency management and vendor coordination.
• Launch a set of workflow improvements or automation pilots using enterprise platforms and integration patterns.
• Establish architecture/design assurance gates and a portfolio performance dashboard tracking health, milestones, costs, risks, benefits, and adoption.
• Conduct year-end reviews and re-baseline the roadmap for the next 12–18 months, incorporating lessons and capacity.

Job description

United Nations Joint Staff Pension Fund – Office of Investment Management seeks a Technical Consultant for IT Strategy Implementation to mobilize and baseline strategic IT initiatives. The role focuses on translating objectives into a prioritized portfolio, establishing governance, and aligning architecture across the enterprise.

The successful candidate will drive design standards, deliver priority initiatives, and implement dashboards to monitor progress, costs, risks, and benefits within a