UNDP Jobs - 61697- Consultant - Web Developer

Consultant - Web Developer - (English)

Location :

International Consultancy, Home-Based

Type of Contract :

Individual Contract

Starting Date :

Application Deadline :

26-Nov-15 (Midnight New York, USA)

Post Level :

International Consultant

Duration of Initial Contract :

4 months plus possibility of extension

Languages Required :

English

Expected Duration of Assignment :

UNDP is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. Individuals from minority groups, indigenous groups and persons with disabilities are equally encouraged to apply. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidence. UNDP does not tolerate sexual exploitation and abuse, any kind of harassment, including sexual harassment, and discrimination. All selected candidates will, therefore, undergo rigorous reference and background checks.

Background

Organizational Context

The UNDP Bureau of External Relations and Advocacy (BERA) leads and supports the organization in cultivating, building and nurturing strategic relationships and alliances that are essential for advancing and successfully achieving the mission of UNDP. The UN System Affairs Group (UNSAG) within BERA leads and manages UNDP’s engagement with intergovernmental and multistakeholder bodies.

Together with UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support (BPPS), and the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), UNSAG provides support to the Global Partnership for Effective Development Cooperation (GPEDC). The GPEDC brings governments, private companies, civil society and others together to ensure funding, time and expertise produce maximum impact for development. The Global Partnership provides a space for political dialogue around the implementation of commitments on effective development cooperation and deepening broader engagement of wider development cooperation actors in their efforts to maximize their impact.

The First High Level Meeting (HLM) of the Global Partnership for Effective Development (GPEDC) took place in April 2014 in Mexico City to ensure that accountability, transparency, results and inclusion remained the core characteristics of aid effectiveness at the international level. The Second High Level Meeting (HLM2) of the GPEDC will take place in Kenya in late 2016. In addition, the GPEDC hosts/co-hosts regional and country-level workshops, and side-events alongside major international convenings focused on lessons-learned, sharing experiences and how best to implement development effectiveness principles into national policy and programmes. More detail about the GPEDC can be found here.

Duties and Responsibilities

Digital Context and Web Development Priorities

The current website of the GPEDC is located at http://www.effectivecooperation.org, and the GPEDC blog is hosted at http://www.devcooperation.org. The website was initially built using Wordpress on a very simple template that was never customized to our needs, which now include but are not limited to:

Taking a more multimedia (photo- and video-rich) approach to content and design;
Better organizing our publications, reports and materials into a searchable database;
Better showcasing our country-level stories of impact and progress;
Spotlighting our steering committee, GPEDC leadership, donors and partners;
Folding in (and upgrading) our blog platform to the main website so we’re not managing two distinct properties;
Simplifying and standardizing our event pages and other templates to be clean, visually exciting and easily updatable with summaries, agendas, multimedia and other materials;
This includes building/integrating a micro event site for the next High Level Meeting taking place in November/December 2016

We’re looking for someone who is not only a web developer and designer, but also a digital strategist who understands how audiences engage with content, how best to implement search-engine optimization and backend analytics, and someone who can advise us in consolidating and better organizing our content and materials so that the new design is clean, modern, accessible to different key audiences. The new design must also be fairly easily updated if a new article or announcement was posted, a new blog was ready to go live, a new event page needed to be created, a new research report needed to be published, and so on. We would like core content pages of the GPEDC website to be available in multiple languages—not immediately, but early 2016—and we need the advice of this consultant on how best to lay the foundation for such an extension once we pursue that effort.

We also have a presence on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and YouTube, and would like to update the look and feel of these platforms to reflect the new design of the website. We use MailChimp to send out announcements, event happenings and newsletters to our audiences and would like this person to also design/update various templates to that end.

The consultant will be working very closely throughout the duration of the project with the GPEDC communications officer on all-things design and development.

Expected deliverables and estimated timeline (tentative):

By December 7 – Put forth a proposed work plan in terms of process, inputs, timing and approvals;
By January 4 – 3 sample website designs (including front page, article/blog page, event page, and resources page) are proposed to the GPEDC;
By January 11 – Final design agreed upon;
By February 22 – Core website design and development are completed;
By March 14 – New digital presence launched across all platforms;
By April 1 – Updates, revisions, and transition-training completed.

Competencies

Excellent knowledge of designing and developing within Wordpress and coding custom features, templates and other tools;
Excellent knowledge of design products including Adobe Photoshop;
Excellent knowledge of Google Analytics and Search Engine Optimization;
Demonstrates integrity by modeling the UN’s values and ethical standards;
Displays cultural, gender, religion, race, nationality and age sensitivity and adaptability.

Required Skills and Experience

Education:

Undergraduate Degree in Liberal Arts, Humanities, Design, Computer Science or related areas.

Experience:

5 years of experience designing and developing sophisticated digital platforms for both citizen-audiences and high-level audiences (government officials, policymakers, foundation executives, business leaders);
In-depth understanding and experience in content production, processes, design and management tools;
In-depth understanding of collecting, analyzing and consolidating digital metrics and data, and direct experience working with Google Analytics;
In-depth understanding of search engine optimization and best-in-class strategies for tagging and organizing different content types;
Strong familiarity of development issues through experience at a top-tier foundation, non-profit or development agency is desirable

Language:

Fluency in spoken and written English;
Knowledge of any other UN official language is considered an asset.