Full stack developer

The office of Quartet (OQ) is seeking to recruit a Full Stack developer to work with the Economic Mapping Team and contribute to the development of web applications to be leveraged by the Palestinian Authority (PA) in performing data analysis.

The Palestinian Authority’s Prime Ministers office aims to develop 2 web applications for users in the West Bank and Gaza:
 1) an Aid Management System to collect data about donor contributions. The database will rely on an interactive data collection and visualization tool and be developed by December 2019.

2) the farmers registry application, which will be housed at Ministry of Agriculture and will also be developed in 2019 and further iterations (driven by user feedback) in 2020, to support the work of the PMO and OQ. 

The Full Stack developer will translate the designer mock-ups and wireframes into front-end code.

Accurate data about Palestinian farms is critical for an evidence-based development program. A government-updated list of farmers is a critical tool for the MoA to provided protections and services to farmers. By directly collecting data from farmers and agricultural communities themselves, the farmers’ registry initiative will increase the capacity of the MoA to best serve the Palestinian agricultural sector.

Summary of key assumptions:

1. Project will follow a model of continuous improvements
2. Client will be responsible for testing thoroughly and communicating uncaught bugs through project management tool (TBD)
3. All data and general system settings will be dynamic and managed through the system; MOA will be responsible for uploading and editing data after functionality is available
4. Each phase may have an interim period to allow MOA to collect feedback, test results and revisions from internal team, stakeholders and alpha/beta users; this buffer time should not exceed one month, but may differ based on circumstances
5. All content will be provided by MOA - including for marketing, help and system labels; OQ team may create draft content and provide general support/recommendations for content. All content will be editable via “God” account by client
6. Majority of development work will be completed remotely; in-person meetings will be primarily limited to strategy/review sessions
7. Market Ready version will be validated by a 3rd party technical team for best practices, security and general review
8. Any subcontracting of work and services by the developer to third parties shall require the prior written approval of the OQ.
9. The developer warrants that the work results are free from any copyright or other third party rights that would prejudice the use of the work results to the extent described above.
10.  Any and all data relating to the contract as well as any other information of which the contractor becomes aware in the course of performing the contract must be treated as confidential during and beyond the term of the contract. The developer shall not be permitted to make use of any such data and information for the contractor’s own purposes.
11. System will use some open source technologies, licensing will allow full commercial usage without requiring royalties or affecting customizability
12. The developer must notify OQ in writing without delay of all events and results which delay performance of the contract or make it impossible, or necessitate modification of the contract, the agreed obligations or the conditions.
13.  A penalty fee will be incurred by the developer if agreed upon deadlines are not met
14. OQ shall be entitled to review the progress and results of the performance at any time, including the project accounts and any special accounts connected to the project. The developer must keep the necessary records available and provide the necessary information for this purpose.
15. The working hours of the developer and assigned expert shall be determined by the requirements of the measure and the conditions in the country of assignment
16. The payment schedule will be decided through discussions with the developer
17.  The contractor should provide an implementation and handover plan

The Developer will deliver his/her contributions to the following areas:

-          End to end development of the Aid Management System application

-          Transition plan to PMO Front End Developer

The Developer will deliver his/her contributions to the following areas:

-          Assessment of existing applications at Ministry of Agriculture: Work together with IT team to understand information gap and potential for interoperability

-          Design and prototype: develop a blueprint design of the farmers’ registry tool and interface, including recommendations on user process flows. Test, trial and refine prototype.

-          Build and refine: create a full business product version of the farmers registry tool, refining based on feedback from stakeholders

-          Systems development: provide and implement recommendations on database design, hardware infrastructure, systems management and updates, maintenance, data security, levels of access and login options, and data quality management.

Barebones Deliverables

-          User, Role & Team Management             

-          Company Management (“God” account)

-          Authentication - regular sign in/registration + One social (ex: Google)

-          Data entry, storage, and search; trash recovery

-          User interface theme

-          Email notifications

-          Marketing page

-          Multilingual capability

-          iPad and mobile-responsive

-          Development Server Environment - design and deployment with GitHub sync for code version tracking

Market-Ready Deliverable

-          Enhanced security

-          Code optimization and documentation

-          Business features (TBD) - services provided through MOA

-          Scalable Cloud Infrastructure (service provider TBD) – auto-deployed servers based on demand, nightly data backup

-          Containerization (optional) - host on any server infrastructure (see Docker)

-          Help & training section

-          API integrations with 3rd party mapping tools (optional, price increase, recommended post Market Ready launch) - pull data from user owned accounts in other MOA databases.

-          Admin Content Management Tools

-          Admin Global Settings

We follow an agile methodology in Project Management and the milestones for both deliverables (Barebones and Market-Ready) will be discussed and agreed with the successful vendor.

• 5 years of relevant experience in:
• Agile development (SCRUM, Kanban, JIRA, etc.);
• Working closely with designers, product managers, and data analysts;
• Strong attention to detail and "pixel perfect" execution of design.

• Third party APIs;
• BI tools and Data visualization libraries (D3js);
• Android Studio;
• JavaScript front-end frameworks (React / Redux, Angular, et cetera);
• Languages: node.js, ruby, python, bash;
• Cloud services: Azure, AWS, et cetera;
• Geospatial DBs, libraries and data structures;
• SQL and NoSQL database systems;
• Git, pull requests, and continuous integration and deployment;
• Data structures, algorithms, and run time optimization;
• Jenkins;
• Hadoop based technologies e.g. Spark a plus.

• Excellent command of written and spoken English.
• Knowledge of written and spoken Arabic is an asset.

Contract type: International ICA

• Please note that the closing date is midnight Copenhagen time
• Applications received after the closing date will not be considered.
• Only those candidates that are short-listed for interviews will be notified.
• Qualified female candidates are strongly encouraged to apply.
• Work life harmonization - UNOPS values its people and recognizes the importance of balancing professional and personal demands. We have a progressive policy on work-life harmonization and offer several flexible working options. This policy applies to UNOPS personnel on all contract types
• For staff positions only, UNOPS reserves the right to appoint a candidate at a lower level than the advertised level of the post
• The incumbent is responsible to abide by security policies, administrative instructions, plans and procedures of the UN Security Management System and that of UNOPS.  

It is the policy of UNOPS to conduct background checks on all potential recruits/interns.
Recruitment/internship in UNOPS is contingent on the results of such checks.

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Work life harmonization

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