This position is located in the Office for Coordination and Shared Services (OCSS) serving the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) and Peace Operations (DPO). The Senior Data Officer reports to the Head of the Digital Transformation for Peacekeeping Team. The Department of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs (DPPA) focuses primarily on five action areas in international peace and security, ensuring sound analysis and early warning, preventing conflict and engaging in peacemaking, managing political crises and violent conflicts, sustaining peace, and enhancing partnerships. The Department's mandate is to prevent and resolve conflict through inclusive political solutions. The Department of Peace Operations (DPO) provides political and executive direction to UN peacekeeping operations around the world and maintains contact with the Security Council, troop and financial contributors, and parties to the conflict in the implementation of Security Council mandates. The Department works to integrate the efforts of UN, governmental and nongovernmental entities in the context of peacekeeping operations. DPO also provides guidance and support on military, police, rule of law, mine action and other relevant issues to other UN political and peacebuilding missions. The Senior Data Officer is responsible for establishing an effective data ecosystem in peacekeeping in accordance with the UN 2.0 Quintet of Change as well as leading actions to build a data community and a culture of data enabled decision making. This includes overseeing the building, management and optimization of data architectures and services to support the production of a data ecosystem, in compliance with data governance, protection, privacy, and security requirements. As a change agent, the Senior Data Officer is responsible for driving large-scale data-related change processes, promoting data sharing and the usage of data as a mean to support decision making processes across the organization, Additionally, the Senior Data Officer closely supports the work of the DPPA-DPO Information Management Unit.