Web Developer

The United Nations Office for Project Services (UNOPS) is an operational arm of the United Nations, supporting the successful implementation of its partners' peacebuilding, humanitarian and development projects around the world.  Mandated as a central resource of the United Nations, UNOPS provides sustainable project management, procurement and infrastructure services to a wide range of governments, donors and United Nations organizations.  With over 6,000 personnel spread across 80 countries, UNOPS offers its partners the logistical, technical and management knowledge they need, where they need it.  By implementing around 1,000 projects for our partners at any given time, UNOPS makes significant contributions to results on the ground, often in the most challenging environments.

Established in 2009, UNOPS Ethiopia Office has been providing services to various partners, including the government of Ethiopia, UN agencies such as WHO, UNHCR and WFP, and other international organizations. Since 2014, the UNOPS Ethiopia multi-country office manages and coordinates the UNOPS activities in Ethiopia, as well as Sudan and Djibouti. The UNOPS Ethiopia multi-country office team is composed of approximately 100 national and international women and men, and offers a broad range of services such as infrastructure, procurement, project management, financial and human resources management. 

Position Background

UNOPS and the ECA have partnered together to deliver on a project that will put in place the critical business systems and services to enable the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) to go beyond its current regular operations and effectively deliver on its Business Plan mandate of becoming Africa’s premier think tank. Five specific outcomes are foreseen, which are the results of the implementation plans of four corporate strategies introduced for communications, publications, knowledge management and ICT for Development. When attained, the outcomes will result in a sustainable increase in the visibility and impact of the organization’s work in the areas of policy research and knowledge delivery. This recruitment initiative is carried out by UNOPS in support of ECA’s Information Ans Communication Technology Support Section (ICTSS) strategic intent.  It is with this objective that UNOPS advertises these opportunities in partnership with ECA.

The Web developer will be reporting to the ITCSS/SAU Chief of the unit and will be responsible for the following duties.

• Responsible for the overall development process of web-based applications and assures that all code contributed is in line with OICT and UNECA/ICTSS functional specifications.

• Design client-side and server-side architecture components as required to meet the needs of the Communications Section of ECA.

• Designing user interactions and building the front-end of the UNECA public site and intranet as a thematic portal through appealing visual and responsive technical design.

• Ensuring the entire stack supporting the UNECA public site and other applications are designed and built for speed and scalability i.e. develop and manage well-functioning databases, web servers, applications, and other IT elements required for the effective functioning of the developed and maintained websites.

• Write effective Application Program Interfaces (APIs) to interact with ECA’s intranet and its features/functions as required.

• Test software to ensure responsiveness and efficiency.

• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade software as required.

• Create security and data protection settings in line with the UN IT Security Standards and Guidelines including the coordination of IT Security Assessments of the Regional Knowledge Management Hub as required.

• Write technical documentation as required.

• Provide enhancement, upgrade, maintenance, operation of applications and user support to end users, following ITIL best practices and industry standards, resulting in smooth operation of deployed applications and services.

• Provide production, dev, and test server (Linux, Apache, MySQL…) configuration, administration, and monitoring to ensure optimal and smooth operation of deployed applications and services.

• Follow DevOps practices to shorten the system development life cycle and provide continuous delivery with high software quality for existing and new applications in Azure Cloud.

• Any other relevant activities as assigned by the supervisor.

A Masters degree, preferably in computer science or engineering or information systems or other related is required OR
A Bachelor degree in the above mentioned subjects with two (2) additional years of required experience can be accepted in lieu of a Masters degree.

Work Experience 

At least five (5) years for Masters degree holders OR seven (7) years for Bachelors Degree holders of relevant work experience in building responsive data-driven websites using Drupal CMS, PHP, HTML/HTML5, CSS/CSS3, ASP.NET, MySQL and Postgresql, NodeJS, React, and JavaScript/jQuery/AJAX/JSON to support advanced features and have consistent style across platforms and browsers is required.

Skills

•  A combination experience with layout and design applications and responsive and adaptive  design - 2 years
• A combination of  experience of design custom tailored Drupal solutions including data, display and information architecture, creating Drupal  custom modules, knowledge of PHP and Drupal theme functions/theme layer-3 years
•  A combination of experience in Apache web server configuration and administration -2 years

• Fluency in spoken and written English and the local language (Amharic) is required.

1. Contract type: Local Individual Contractual Agreement
2. Contract level: LICA-10
3. Contract duration: 1 year

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.

• 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.
• UNOPS seeks to reasonably accommodate candidates with special needs, upon request.
• 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
• For retainer contracts, you must complete a few Mandatory Courses (around 4 hours) in your own time, before providing services to UNOPS.
• 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.