Within the Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Progr...
Within the Office for the
Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the Programme Support Branch (PSB)
is responsible for helping OCHA country offices and humanitarian partners
implement the Humanitarian Programme Cycle (HPC). PSB, in partnership with OCHA’s
Information Services Branch (ISB) is currently redeveloping the suite of
information services which support the HPC. This includes online database
applications for the administration of databases such as those for the
Financial Tracking Service (FTS) and the Online Projects System (OPS), both of
which are being redesigned from the ground up; as well as new online systems to
facilitate the creation, management and monitoring of humanitarian response
plans (HRPs). These are being built on technologies including PostgreSQL,
Node.js and AngularJS.
OCHA is seeking a talented and
creative individual to help in the technical development process of these
online applications in conjunction with external partners, and subsequently to
ensure ongoing iterative development, maintenance and support. The individual will need to have access to a
Mac OSX or Linux environment.
The individual would join an
OCHA-wide team of developers with expertise in core technologies used by
several different projects throughout the organization, overseen by ISB, with
the aim to foster closer structured collaboration and interchange between them.
This includes an expectation to provide support and backup to other projects as
and when necessary, as well as opportunities for transfer or reassignment in
the medium to longer term.
* The position is home-based, and
ideally should be based in the same or similar time zone as Switzerland
as it requires close and continuous collaboration with the team in Geneva.
Travel to Geneva may be required on an as-needs basis every few months.