Project Website Designer/Developer

UNOPS is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners’ peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world. Our mission is to help people build better lives and countries achieve sustainable development.

UNOPS areas of expertise cover infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial management and human resources.

Working with us

UNOPS offers short- and long-term work opportunities in diverse and challenging environments across the globe. We are looking for creative, results-focused professionals with skills in a range of disciplines.

Diversity

With over 4,000 UNOPS personnel and approximately 7,000 personnel recruited on behalf of UNOPS partners spread across 80 countries, our workforce represents a wide range of nationalities and cultures. We promote a balanced, diverse workforce — a strength that helps us better understand and address our partners’ needs, and continually strive to improve our gender balance through initiatives and policies that encourage recruitment of qualified female candidates.

Work life harmonization

UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands.

Grants Management Services

UNOPS executes the UNDP-implemented Small Grants Programme though the Grants Management Services Team. Funded by the Global Environment Facility, the Small Grants Programme efficiently channels direct grants to non-governmental and community-based organizations to help them cope with climate change; conserve biodiversity; protect international waters; reduce the impact of Persistent Organic Pollutants; and prevent land degradation. Helping communities with their initiatives for sustainable livelihoods while generating global environmental benefits is the core inspiration of the Small Grants Programme.

The Integrating Water, Land and Ecosystems Management in Caribbean Small Island Developing States (GEF-IWEco Project) is a five-year regional, multi-focal project that addresses water, land and biodiversity resource management as well as climate change.

Its objective is to contribute to the preservation of Caribbean ecosystems that are of global significance and the sustainability of livelihoods through the application of existing proven technologies and approaches that are appropriate for small island developing states through improved fresh and coastal water resources management, sustainable land management and sustainable forest management that also seek to enhance resilience of socio-ecological systems to the impacts of climate change.

IWEco is funded by the Global Environment Facility (GEF) and UN Environment (UNEP) is the lead Implementing Agency for national and regional sub-projects, with UNDP also implementing some activities under the Knowledge Management regional sub-project and community-based livelihoods support opportunities associated with the national sub-projects through the GEF-Small Grants Programme.  The Secretariat to the Cartagena Convention, UNEP CAR/RCU and the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) are the co-Executing Agencies.  Partnership is a central tenet of the project which is being implemented through a network of international, regional and national partners.

Ten countries are participating in IWEco:  Antigua & Barbuda, Barbados, Cuba, the Dominican Republic, Grenada, Jamaica, St. Kitts & Nevis, Saint Lucia, St. Vincent & the Grenadines, and Trinidad & Tobago.

IWEco works through six components:

 (1) Development and Implementation of Integrated Targeted Innovative, climate-change resilient approaches in sustainable land management (SLM), integrated water resources management (IWRM) and maintenance of ecosystem services;

(2) Strengthening of the SLM, IWRM and ecosystems Monitoring, and Indicators framework;

(3) Strengthening of the Policy, Legislative and Institutional reforms and capacity building for SLM, IWRM and ecosystem services management taking into consideration climate change resilience building;

(4) Enhancing knowledge exchange, best practices, replication and stakeholder involvement;

(5) Project Management; and

The objective of this consultancy is to design and develop the IWEco Project website which will serve as the primary portal/clearinghouse for archiving and dissemination of knowledge products generated.  The website is also to promote Project objectives and visibility amongst partners and the wider public.

In addition to being the central repository and archive of project information and outputs, the website is meant to support the needs of the Project Coordinating Unit and partners (among them National Focal Points, National Sub-Project Management Units, Project Executing Agencies, Partnerships etc.).  It must also support decision-making at every level, including the needs of the various committees, beginning with the Project Steering Committee and Technical Advisory Group and be able to display dynamic progress monitoring data and related visuals (which are created external to the website). 

This consultancy for development of the IWEco Project website falls under Regional Component 4.1: Improved engagement and information access for practitioners and other stakeholders through targeted knowledge sharing networks - Sub-component 4.1.5 which includes the development and management of the project website.

Scope of Work:

• Project management
• Website structure design
• Visual design
• Search engine optimization
• Testing and quality assurance
• Back-up
• Web hosting
• Software training to enable maintenance and updating

3. Monitoring and Progress Controls

(Clear description of measurable outputs, milestones, key performance indicators and/or reporting requirements which will enable performance monitoring)

Desired Functions of the IWEco Website:

• Allow easy monitoring of traffic and content development by the administrator (based at UNEP CAR RCU).
• Secure with regular back-up.
• Be built using a platform which is easily expandable.
• Website needs to have country pages, with restricted country access to upload material (authenticated country log-ins).
• User-friendly – for authorized persons/institutions publishing material as well as for browsers.
• Be a web-based, distributed system; i.e. consist of a set of content-relevant nodes and links.
• Google analytics (Ability to count number of visitors to website and generate statistics relating to use of the site).
• Able to accommodate a range of outputs including: reports in PDF, toolkits and templates, knowledge documents such as case studies and experience notes, maps, compilations, and public education and outreach materials including newsletters, bulletins and decision-makers briefing sheets.
• Able to accommodate externally created dynamic (progress) monitoring dashboards.
• Photo gallery.
• Databases.

Sample websites:

• web.unep.org/nowpap or web.unep.org/GEF

Technical Requirements:

• Website must use the Drupal Content Management System (CMS):-
  • APACHE 2.2 and above, supporting PHP 5.5.19
  • Databases must use MySQL 5 and above
  • Drupal 8
  • All pages should be compatible with HTML 5 standards and using UTF-8. They should also conform to standards set by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
  • All style sheets must conform to CSS3 as a minimum standard.
  • The website must be written to accommodate responsiveness using the “Mobile First” approach.
  • Web 2.0 API integration (eg. RSS feeds, Social Media, XML etc.).

Contractor will be required to put together a starting proposal including:

• Executive Summary containing a brief description of consultant’s project development approach and costs
• Qualifications including previous clients with contact information and relevant URLs
• A description of the proposed development process
• Project stages
• Quality control
• Testing
• The proposed team and their qualifications
• Proposed schedule/milestones
• Costs and payment details
• Other terms and conditions

• BSc in Computer Science or equivalent qualification.
• Certification in web development.
• 4 years’ progressive experience in website design/development, with Drupal Content Management System, Apache web server, MySQL database and PHP scripting; CSS scripting; Javascript; Proven Screen/Template Design Experience; Strong Website Design Experience; Multimedia and Social Media Design Experience;
• 2 years’ experience can be accepted with a relevant Masters degree.
• Fluency in the English Language is required.

Contract type: ICA
Contract level: ICA-1
Contract duration: 4 months