UNICEF works in a few of the world’s hardest locations, to achieve the world’s most deprived kids. To save lots of their lives. To defend their rights. To assist them fulfill their potential.
Throughout 190 international locations and territories, we work for each youngster, in every single place, every single day, to construct a greater world for everybody.
And we by no means hand over.
For each youngster, a champion.
Function of Exercise/Project
The house-based half time software program growth guide will present technical help and path to UNICEF regional workplace for the Europe and Central Asia Area in direction of growing and strengthening sturdy and scalable digital options. This contains offering suggestions on appropriate expertise stacks, framework, structure, conducting codebase/repository opinions, designing wireframes, providing ideas, and helping in technical documentation and managing data associated to the supported digital options, all with the purpose of delivering finish merchandise that align with UNICEF’s necessities and trade requirements.
Background
Underneath the direct supervision of the Expertise for Growth (T4D) Enterprise Analyst and collaborating with numerous the regional workplace and nation places of work groups, the guide will likely be answerable for providing steering, evaluating designs, reviewing structure and code, crafting normal working procedures (SOPs) and expertise growth and upkeep associated duties. The guide may even be answerable for documenting programs and processes to make sure that digital options developed inside the T4D perform within the area are steady, scalable, and cling to high-quality requirements. The guide will play a pivotal position in recommending appropriate expertise stacks, frameworks, and system structure tailor-made to the precise deployment contexts. Moreover, the guide will actively take part in software program high quality assurance actions, testing, deployment, system integrations, localization efforts, and troubleshooting for numerous digital options within the area.
The guide will primarily present the next technical and help providers within the area (ECAR):
- Evaluation and Contribution to Answer Designs: Consider and supply enter on resolution designs and codebase evaluate for regional and nation net and cellular purposes. This will likely additionally embrace some low-tech purposes supported via SMS or social messengers reminiscent of WhatsApp.
- Technical Help for Repository Administration: Help in organising, organizing, and managing repositories for developed digital options on DevOps and/or GitHub. As well as, additionally present help in managing the DPG from the area.
- Cell App Publishing and Administration: Help processes for publishing, migrating, and managing UNICEF cellular apps on Google Play and Apple app shops.
- Testing and High quality Assurance: Conduct testing of digital options, evaluating performance, efficiency, usability, safety, scalability, compatibility, and alignment with technical specs.
- Evaluation of Current Options: Assess current digital options in ECA for suitability and potential scale-up and replication in different international locations in ECAR. Present help to Nation Places of work (COs) with localization and deployments of those options.
- IT Safety and Knowledge Privateness: Help groups on safety assessments and audits to determine vulnerabilities and guarantee compliance with safety greatest practices and information safety rules.
- Documentation Administration: Keep and replace complete documentation for digital options, together with consumer guides, technical documentation, and launch notes.
- Basic Help: Supply some other providers required to help the event, testing, and deployment of digital options in ECAR.
Be aware: The position would primarily contain coordination and evaluate components and no expertise product growth is anticipated to be achieved by the guide.
Work Project Overview
The person guide’s duties will embrace the actions in alignment with the scope of labor talked about above.
Among the key ones embrace:
| Duties / Milestone | Deliverables / Outputs | Timeline / Deadline |
| A. Technical evaluation of digital options (designs, structure, codebase high quality, options) and documentation of findings and suggestions. | 1. Technical evaluation and enchancment suggestion report(s) on the design, structure, codebases and options for not less than 5 digital options. |
5 working days |
| 2. Evaluation, set-up, group of code repositories for two digital options on DevOps and/or GitHub according to greatest practices | 4 working days | |
| 3. Analysis studies for not less than 2 current digital resolution within the area, for suitability and potential scale-up and replication with enchancment suggestions | 5 working days | |
| 4. Deployment and scaleup help for digital resolution to regional workplace/nation places of work | 8 working days | |
| B. Provision of suggestions on expertise stack, system structure and designs for digital options to be developed. | 1. Participation in requirement gathering discussions and doc technical necessities | 5 working days |
| 2. Necessities specification and evaluation and documented suggestions for applicable applied sciences, structure and resolution designs for digital options | 5 working days | |
| C. Testing of options and documentation of findings and help to the supply of chatbots, polls, and surveys on RapidPro and/or different platforms | 1. Check studies for not less than 5 digital options throughout dimensions of performance, efficiency, usability, safety, scalability, compatibility, and total alignment to technical specs | 10 working days |
| D. Help provisioning of digital options to cloud internet hosting providers and cellular purposes to Google Play/Apple App shops. | 1. Steering and help for cloud internet hosting actions (service procurement, dimensioning, provisioning, troubleshooting, vendor coordination/liaison on technical issues) for 3 digital options | 5 working days |
| 2. Help processes for publishing and migration of not less than 3 cellular purposes, and the administration of the regional developer accounts on Google Play/ Apple app shops | 3 working days |
Estimated Length of the Contract
50 working days (between December 2023 and July 2024)
Advisor’s Work Place and Official Journey
The task will likely be distant/home-based, no journey is foreseen.
Estimated Price of the Consultancy & Cost Schedule
Cost will likely be made on submission of an bill and passable completion of the above-mentioned deliverables. UNICEF reserves the precise to withhold all or a portion of cost if efficiency is unsatisfactory, if work/outputs are incomplete, not delivered or for failure to fulfill deadlines. All supplies developed will stay the copyright of UNICEF and UNICEF will likely be free to adapt and modify them sooner or later.
Please submit a monetary proposal (in USD) in your utility based mostly on 50 working days to undertake this task. Please don’t embrace journey charges as this will likely be reimbursed as and after they happen.
To qualify as an advocate for each youngster you’ll have…
Required:
- Bachelor’s diploma in a related subject reminiscent of Software program Engineering, Laptop Science, or Laptop Engineering or one other associated subject.
- A minimum of seven (7) years of expertise in designing, growing, and deploying software program purposes.
- Fingers-on growth expertise within the following applied sciences/processes is required:
- Internet and cellular utility (native or cross platform) programming languages
- Open-source content material administration programs e.g. Drupal, WordPress or others
- Database growth: SQL, MongoDB or different NoSQL
- Expertise with git, CI/CD pipelines, pull requests, code evaluate and steady integration and deployment
- Fluency in English is required.
Desired:
- Information of one other official UN language (Arabic, Chinese language, French, Russian or Spanish) is taken into account an asset.
- Working expertise in:
- Agile software program growth atmosphere
- React/Redux, Angular, Vue.js, node.js and so on.
- Python, Django net framework, and Kotlin programming language and so on.
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB databases
For each Youngster, you exhibit…
UNICEF’s core values of Care, Respect, Integrity, Belief, Accountability, and Sustainability (CRITAS), and core competencies in Communication, Working with Individuals and Drive for Outcomes.
To view our competency framework, please go to here.
UNICEF is right here to serve the world’s most marginalized kids and our world workforce should replicate the range of these kids. The UNICEF household is dedicated to range and inclusion inside its workforce, and encourages all candidates, no matter gender, nationality, non secular and ethnic backgrounds, together with individuals residing with disabilities, to use to turn out to be part of the group.
UNICEF has a zero-tolerance coverage on conduct that’s incompatible with the goals and goals of the United Nations and UNICEF, together with sexual exploitation and abuse, sexual harassment, abuse of authority and discrimination. UNICEF additionally adheres to strict youngster safeguarding rules. All chosen candidates will likely be anticipated to stick to those requirements and rules and can subsequently bear rigorous reference and background checks. Background checks will embrace the verification of educational credential(s) and employment historical past. Chosen candidates could also be required to supply further info to conduct a background examine.
Remarks:
Please embrace a full CV in your utility. Moreover, point out your availability {and professional} payment (in USD) to undertake the phrases of reference above. Purposes submitted with out a skilled payment won’t be thought-about. Solely shortlisted candidates will likely be contacted and advance to the subsequent stage of the choice course of.
People engaged underneath a consultancy or particular person contract won’t be thought-about “workers members” underneath the Workers Rules and Guidelines of the United Nations and UNICEF’s insurance policies and procedures and won’t be entitled to advantages offered therein (reminiscent of go away entitlements and medical insurance coverage protection). Their circumstances of service will likely be ruled by their contract and the Basic Circumstances of Contracts for the Companies of Consultants and Particular person Contractors. Consultants and particular person contractors are answerable for figuring out their tax liabilities and for the cost of any taxes and/or duties, in accordance with native or different relevant legal guidelines.
The chosen candidate is solely accountable to make sure that the visa (relevant) and medical health insurance required to carry out the duties of the contract are legitimate for your complete interval of the contract. Chosen candidates are topic to affirmation of fully-vaccinated standing towards SARS-CoV-2 (Covid-19) with a World Well being Group (WHO)-endorsed vaccine, which should be met previous to taking on the task. It doesn’t apply to consultants who will work remotely and aren’t anticipated to work on or go to UNICEF premises, programme supply areas or straight work together with communities UNICEF works with, nor to journey to carry out capabilities for UNICEF throughout their consultancy contracts.
UNICEF presents reasonable accommodation for consultants with disabilities. This will likely embrace, for instance, accessible software program, journey help for missions or private attendants. We encourage you to reveal your incapacity throughout your utility in case you want cheap lodging throughout the choice course of and afterwards in your task.
Marketed: 02 Nov 2023 W. Europe Normal Time
Deadline: 12 Nov 2023 W. Europe Normal Time
Apply now
To assist us monitor our recruitment effort, please specify on the appliance type/point out in your cowl letter the place (embasssyjobs.internet) you noticed this job posting.
