ICT Analyst, Short-Term, Chisinau, Moldova

## ICT Analyst, Short-Term, Chisinau, Moldova - Organization:UNDP - United Nations Development Programme Over the past three decades, corruption has remained one of the most persistent and structurally embedded challenges confronting the Republic of Moldova. The anti-corruption reforms initiated over the years have, for the most part, been normatively correct, yet lacking in real transformative impact in practice. At the same time, the phenomenon affected multiple sectors and manifested in increasingly sophisticated forms, ranging from petty administrative corruption to organised crime, large-scale fraud, and money laundering. The combination of perceived impunity, selective enforcement, and lengthy proceedings in corruption-related cases has contributed to a general belief that accountability mechanisms remain fragile. This environment has, in turn, affected citizens' trust in the state's ability to prevent, detect, investigate, and sanction corruption and related financial crimes in an effective and impartial manner. In this context, UNDP has been engaged in the implementation of the EU funded “Support in Combating and Preventing Corruption and Organized Crime in the Republic of Moldova” project. The project seeks to reduce corruption and financial crime, including money laundering, by strengthening effective, efficient, independent, and accountable justice, prosecution, and investigation systems. It responds to persistent weaknesses in Moldova's anti-corruption framework, including fragmented institutional interventions, limited inter-institutional coordination, uneven implementation of integrity mechanisms, gaps in specialized expertise, and insufficient use of analytical and risk-based approaches. These challenges have limited the ability of public institutions to translate policy and legislative reforms into sustainable and measurable results. The project is closely aligned with Moldova's European Union accession agenda, the National Programme for Accession to the European Union 2025-2029, and the National Integrity and Anti-Corruption Programme 2024-2028. The latter provides the principal national framework for mainstreaming integrity and anti-corruption measures across public institutions, while the National Anti-Corruption Centre is responsible for coordinating, monitoring, and evaluating its implementation. The project will support the application of EU standards and relevant OECD and GRECO recommendations, strengthen institutional ownership, and promote preventive, risk-based, and evidence-driven approaches to integrity management. Digital transformation will serve as an important enabling element of the UNDP-led component, supporting more effective monitoring, reporting, analysis and institutional coordination. The project will facilitate the development, adaptation and use of digital tools and platforms for cross-institutional data collection, visualization, analytical reporting, integrity monitoring, risk identification, learning and stakeholder engagement. This may include digital dashboards, improvements to existing governmental and civic platforms, online learning solutions, and interoperability between relevant information systems. The interventions will be developed in close cooperation with beneficiary institutions to ensure that the solutions are user-friendly, responsive to institutional needs, technically sustainable and capable of supporting evidence-based decision-making, policy adjustments and long-term institutional ownership. Through these interventions, the component is expected to establish a more coherent, preventive and data-informed integrity system, improve institutional accountability and interoperability, strengthen national ownership of digital solutions, and enable public authorities to identify and address corruption risks more systematically. The ICT Analyst will support the implementation of this digital portfolio by ensuring that the solutions developed or enhanced under the component are technically feasible, secure, interoperable, user-centred and sustainable within the national institutional environment. Duties and Responsibilities The ICT Analyst will support the end-to-end implementation of digital solutions under the UNDP-led component, ensuring structured planning, technical design, procurement support, implementation monitoring and quality assurance in line with UNDP standards and beneficiary requirements. The Analyst will translate institutional and analytical needs into functional and technical specifications, support the selection and coordination of external service providers, monitor technical deliverables, and help ensure that developed solutions meet agreed requirements and are fit for institutional use. The Analyst will also support testing, validation, deployment and handover of digital tools, including monitoring dashboards, analytical solutions, interoperability arrangements and enhancements to relevant government or civic platforms. Particular attention will be given to system usability, data quality, interoperability, sustainability, and effective knowledge transfer to beneficiary institutions. Through this support, the ICT Analyst will help ensure that digital interventions under Component 3 are coherent, practical, institutionally owned and capable of strengthening data-driven monitoring, integrity risk analysis, reporting and evidence-based decision-making across public institutions. In addition, the ICT Analyst will serve as the principal technical focal point between UNDP, the National Anti-Corruption Centre, other beneficiary institutions, government ICT entities, service providers and relevant stakeholders, ensuring that digital solutions under the UNDP-led component are appropriately designed, procured, implemented, integrated and handed over in line with institutional needs, applicable national requirements and UNDP quality standards The ICT Analyst applies and promotes the principles of results-based management (RBM), as well as a client-oriented approach consistent with UNDP rules and regulations. S/he is responsible and accountable to the Project Board for the project results within the limits of the assigned project. The incumbent is expected to exercise full compliance with UNDP programming, financial, procurement and administrative rules, regulations, policies and strategies, as well as implementation of the effective internal control systems. 1. ICT advisory and digital solution design: - Conduct ICT needs assessments covering existing systems, databases, reporting processes, institutional workflows and user capacities. - Translate institutional and operational requirements into functional and technical specifications for digital products and system improvements. - Provide technical advice on the design and configuration of digital monitoring dashboards for the National Integrity and Anti-Corruption Programme. - Support the development of digital tools for cross-institutional reporting, data collection, validation, analysis, visualization and preparation of data-driven reports. - Support the configuration of dashboards for monitoring integrity and work ethics guidelines, mitigation measures and sectoral corruption risks. - Advise on indicators, reporting templates, data fields, validation rules, visualization formats and access permissions. - Advise on the use or adaptation of existing governmental platforms, including MLearn, reLAWed, e-Expertise and Particip.gov.md, where relevant. - Assess interoperability requirements between project-supported solutions and existing government information systems. - Advise on data governance arrangements, including data ownership, access rights, institutional responsibilities and data-quality requirements. - Support the standardization of data structures, definitions and reporting formats across participating institutions. - Recommend appropriate technologies, hosting arrangements, licensing options and maintenance approaches. - En