United Nations Environment Programme Marine and Coastal Environmental Management Consultant Jobs in Kenya

United Nations Environment Programme Marine and Coastal Environmental Management Consultant Jobs in Kenya

1. Functional and Migrated Nairobi Convention Secretariat website and Community of Practice from WordPress to Drupal to ensure that the Microsoft Azure hosting requirements are met

2. Functional and Upgraded Nairobi Convention Clearinghouse Mechanism Platform and dashboard that interlinks search capability to the other system platforms and interactive forum pages developed.

3. ⁠⁠Documentation evidenced by online resources for the updated clearinghouse mechanism platform structure.

4. ⁠Data, maps, and web content developed by Nairobi Convention Secretariat projects (ACP MEA, Partnership) uploaded on the CHM platform.

5. ⁠Collate all reports, information and data developed by the SAPPHIRE project and upload on the CHM platform.

6. ⁠Develop visualization storymaps, utilizing ArcGIS visualization tools to effectively communicate project activities, achievements, and impacts from demo projects and the key outputs of the SAPPHIRE


Duties and Responsibilities

Under the overall supervision of the Head of the Nairobi Convention Secretariat and in close coordination with the project managers of the SAPPHIRE and the NC-SWIOFC PP projects, the consultant will be responsible for the following:

● Migrate the different web platforms (website, CHM, Community of Practice) to the Microsoft Azure web server and perform system upgrades to enable the platforms to be up to date with the latest technological standards to increase their performance and reliability.

● Upgrade and structure the CHM with a dashboard of data visualizations such as the ArcGIS Online and the data categorization by country (under the major themes of ocean governance as addressed by the SAPPHIRE project and the Partnership Project demo activities) and ensure that the visualizations are interlinked and easily accessible from the Clearinghouse Mechanism platform.

● Develop secure forum pages based on topical issues such as Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and Regional Ocean Governance, where the users of the platform can interact with the content by giving their comments or feedback to enhance the Science to Policy within the Western Indian Ocean Region.

● Liaise with implementing partners to migrate data and information from SAPPHIRE demonstration projects to the CHM and upgrade the country pages with all the relevant data categorized. Structure the visualization relevant to each of the countries to include an online atlas and ensure that the information is easily accessible.

● Standardize and optimize the search capability of the CHM so that all the linked platforms are searchable.

● Integrate the partner-developed platforms (Climate hub, CORDIO) and create APIs to increase the visibility and searchability of the CHM.

● Develop a story map for SAPPHIRE demo projects and activities. Similarly, for the SAPPHIRE demo projects, where the data and maps are available, create a dashboard of the demo project outputs.
Qualifications/special skills

● Academic qualifications:

* A University degree is required in computer science, information technology, website design and programming or related field is required.

* Minimum of 4 years of professional experience in implementing interactive web-based database applications supporting dynamic online updating of content is required.

*Experience in relevant programming, image manipulation tools and web tools such as HTML/XML/ASP/ASP. NET/CSS coding, Drupal, Adobe Designer, Adobe Photoshop, Microsoft Azure Portal and ArcGIS is required

*Experience in enabling metadata interoperability standards on both spatial and non-spatial data is desirable.

Languages

English and French are the official working languages of the United Nations. For this consultancy, fluency in English is required.

How to Apply

For more information and job application details, see; United Nations Environment Programme Marine and Coastal Environmental Management Consultant Jobs in Kenya

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