Web Developer

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Description

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The Information Technology Division (CSI) is responsible for all IT activities within the Organization. CSI performs on behalf of the Organization the following critical roles: defining FAO IT policies and providing strategic advice on IT architecture and standards, governance, policy and operational matters while monitoring organizational compliance; defining the mechanisms for managing FAO’s information and data; protecting FAO’s information assets and ensuring confidentiality, integrity and availability; ensuring provision of IT services that are core for the Organization’s global operations and supporting the information and business processes; coordinating organization-wide IT activities in order to reduce duplication and fragmentation and to increase integration of information data, systems and platforms, mobilizing IT resources from across the Organization; provide IT solutions to HQ and field offices as requested by the business units.

Reporting Lines:

Under the direct supervision of the Information Technology Officer, the consultant will act as Web developer performing the following functions.

Tasks and responsibilities:

• Develop, test and debug FAO Websites with the corporate Web Content Management System (SiteFinity).
• Develop WCMS components as per best practices and corporate business needs.
• Participate in the customization of templates and extensions for the implementation of corporate and thematic Web sites, based on best practices for the design and development of the WCMS modules.
• Participate in the configuration and customization of corporate pages, in particular for compliancy with mobile devices.
• Create new digital templates and web interfaces for FAO publications, ensuring they are in line with FAO corporate branding guidelines and editorial policy, rules and procedures.
• Populate digital templates with multiple language versions of publications in the six languages of the Organization (English, French, Spanish, Chinese, Russian, Arabic).
• Change, adapt and maintain digital templates for FAO publications, as per corporate publishing guidelines.
• Perform other related duties as required.

Candidates Will Be Assessed Against The Following:

Minimum Requirements:

• For Consultants:  University degree in Computer Science, IT Engineering, Professional Software Engineer or closely related discipline
• Working knowledge (level C) of English, French or Spanish and limited knowledge (level B) of one of the other two or Arabic, Chinese, Russian.
• For PSA: University Degree or equivalent technical experience in the subject. Working knowledge (level C) of English, French or Spanish
• At least 1 year of relevant experience for category C, 5 years for category B, 12 years for COF category A and 15 years for PSA category A.

Source: https://jobs.fao.org/careersection/fao_external/jobdetail.ftl?job=2301262

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