Munyiva Mbithi Ngea

Why did you decide on a career at the UN?

I joined the UN as an intern in 2015, after completing my Master's degree and relocating back home to Kenya, as a way to re-enter the job market. Primarily, I wanted to experience different technologies and work with people from around the world, while also growing my skills.

What has been your favorite technology project or initiative at the United Nations and why? What was your contribution?

There have been numerous projects which I can say were my favorite, namely;

1. In WFP, developing reports in Tableau and performing extensive Excel analysis of beneficiary data to implement the Somalia country office DeDuplication strategy in collaboration with Programmes, resulting in over 30% decrease in the beneficiary duplicates in SCOPE (Beneficiary management system).
2. In UNSOS, I am working with the Property Management Unit. I developed monthly and daily equipment assignment notifications using Power Automate flows that send out emails to staff members based Power BI report populated with Umoja data. This has greatly helped staff and the Property Management Unit to identify and resolve issues. discrepancies.
3. Acting as project manager and participating in the roll-out of Umoja Analytics in the mission by developing custom reports and training users.

This has provided me with an opportunity to grow my skills in SAP Cloud Analytics as well as in training users.

What advice would you give women interested in pursuing a field in technology?

They need to identify what area of IT they are passionate about, as this career requires passion, a need and drive to learn and innovate. Once identified, they need to take any opportunity to learn on the job as the practical aspects are usually quite different from the theoretical. Programming and scripting for me have always felt like an artistic expression.