ICT Technical Project Manager

ABOUT THE STRUCTURE…

Solidarités International (S.I.) is an International NGO working with vulnerable populations, mainly victims of armed conflicts and natural disasters. Specialized for nearly 40 years in the coverage of vital needs, S.I. takes charge of emergency and reconstruction programs.

With respect for cultures and close to the people, Solidarités International implements its programs by combining its skills with those of its employees and local managers.

Solidarités International's teams, made up of around 270 expatriates and nearly 2200 local employees, are today present in 18 countries in Asia, Middle East, Africa and the Caribbean where they are particularly committed to fighting diseases related to unsafe water but also in the essential area of food security and livelihoods.

ABOUT THE JOB

General objective:

S.I. is currently improving its information management capacities through a software called SOLIS. Following an innovation development process, the SOLIS project opens new ways of data management in the digital emergent market of Humanitarian organizations.

Internal and external data flows are being optimized at each project cycle step and an information system was developed locally in order to follow the existing workflow and manage data from all activities, easing up the collaboration between different departments.

It is one of the first time that humanitarian sector is being investing in structuring and optimizing its data flows with the scope of injecting private sectors practices. Its objective is to position the system as leading product allowing increased operational programs design capacity and cost efficiency.

The project is the internally developed SI Lebanon’s Information Management System. Currently, it is developed within the Laravel/Eloquent PHP framework and relies on the following libraries: Bootstrap for CSS, Blade for HTML, and jQuery JavaScript/Ajax. Further decisions might implicate a recoding in newer tech as vue.js, react, angular,…

The main challenges:

Under the supervision of the IM Coordinator, the SOLIS technical project manager supports the system full development with the technical strategic orientation of the application.

(S)He manages installed system, supports system deployments and new components integration, suggests improvements, and produces documentation when needed. He/she in charge of process design and follow up of the continuous system operation, maintenance, integrity, and security.

Responsibilities and main activities:

• In collaboration with the IM Coordinator, (s)he contributes to the technical and data model IM strategy definition of the mission.

• In collaboration with the IM Coordinator, (s)he contributes to the definition, resources estimation, and prioritization of specific evolutive maintenance tasks

• Manages the developers consultants pool to ensure the necessary workload and level of competencies available

• Supervise developers’ tasks deliveries quality to respect due scope, time, and budget.

• Manage system performance to increase system efficiency and lower the human intervention time

• Design system integrity and security monitoring and supervise process implementation.

• Propose revised core technical technologies and technical processes for future version of the product.

Documentation

• Produces reports and documentation on technical changes made to the system

• Provides monthly technical analytics on SOLIS service availability and issues

• Provides scenarios and technical options for major evolutions for next versions of the system

YOUR PROFILE

Master/Bachelor in Information Systems Engineering

Experience: minimum 3 to 5 years in a similar position

Must master System environment or equivalent:

• • Laravel/Eloquent
  • PostgreSQL
  • jQuery JavaScript/Ajax.

Complementary knowledge in one of this field is a plus:

• • Python language
  • Mobile development environments
  • Infra management

SI WILL OFFER YOU

• A salaried post: 2100 USD gross / Month
• Vacation & Social and medical cover

APPLICATION PROCESS

Does this description fit you?

Please send us your CV and Cover letter in English on beirut.job@solidarites-liban.org. CV only will not be considered. 

NB:  The vacancy may close before the deadline. Thank you for your comprehension 

For further information about Solidarités International, please consult our website:  http://www.solidarites.org/en/