Seven years into the Syria crisis, Lebanon remains the country hosting the largest number of refugees per capita, with over one million Syrian refugees, and around 20,000 refugees of Iraqi, Sudanese, Ethiopian and other origins, in addition to the Palestine refugees under UNRWA’s mandate. There are no formal camps for Syrian refugees in the country, and refugees are living in hundreds of communities and locations across the country.
The refugee response is led by the Government and local actors, supported by the international community. As the designated lead agency in the refugee response, UNHCR has established a sector-based structure in Beirut and in the field. The structure brings together over 100 UN agencies, national and international NGO partners in identifying and agreeing on the strategic priorities to address the needs of Syrian refugees and other affected populations. The Lebanon national response falls under the Regional Refugee and Resilience Plan (3RP), whereby UNHCR guides the refugee response and UNDP facilitates the resilience and stabilization component.
The UNHCR operational response in Lebanon is one of the largest for the organization. Media attention and the frequency of influential high-profile visitors is high. Aside from the country office in the capital city of Beirut, UNHCR has offices in Mt Lebanon, Qobayat, Tripoli, Tyre and Zahle.
The PSP Back End Developer Associate is responsible for the functionality and efficiency of the web infrastructure of the PSP Digital Hub. This role entails the creation, maintenance and active testing of all public and private facing web and e-commerce sites as well as producing meaningful marketing KPI dashboards and delivering monthly, cross-channel performance reports with actionable insight.
Private Sector Partnership Service (PSP) needs to hire an experienced and passionate Senior WordPress Back-End Developer to join our team! As a WordPress Developer at UNHCR PSP office, you will be responsible for back-end development, including creating WordPress themes and plugins.
He/she are expected to have a strong understanding of latest industry trends and content management systems.
Accountability (key results that will be achieved)
- Website performance
- Integration performance
- Bug tracking and fixing
Responsibility (process and functions undertaken to achieve results)
Under the overall supervision of the Senior Digital Engagement Associate, the Back End Developer Associate will be responsible to:
1.Technology:
- Designing and implementing custom WordPress theme, new features and functionality
- Ensuring high-performance and availability, and managing all technical aspects of the CMS
- Ensuring all work adheres to current industry best practice.
- Architecting and developing broadly compatible products, features, and bug fixes, while monitoring accessibility, performance, and multilingual installations
- Helping formulate an effective, responsive design and turning it into a working theme and plugin.
- Leveraging innovative technologies such as PHP, MySQL, Git, etc... To develop mobile responsive websites and applications.
2. Coding:
- Developing and maintain complex WordPress based applications
- Write high quality code with readability, efficiency, and maintainability in mind while following best practices and proper documentation
- Establishing and guiding the website’s architecture
- Implementation of any API restful services (Payment gateways, CRM Salesforce, SMS broadcast systems, etc...)
- Developing WordPress widgets, plugins, custom post types, and page templates
- Improving internal tools, standards, and integration processes
- Experience in working with APIs and 3rd party system integration
3. Maintaining existing websites:
- Maintaining & implementing features/services to the existing websites.
- Providing timely resolution to reported problems with existing websites.
- Troubleshoots and provides continual maintenance and upgrades of the exiting websites
- Coding review the work of other developers or “of any third party”.
Authority (decisions made in executing responsibilities and to achieve results)
- Delivery performance
Intervention Sectors
Refugees
Location
- Lebanon
- Beirut
- Beirut
Application Deadline
Organisation
Salary Range
> 3000 (USD)
Contract Type
Full Time
Application Submission Guidelines
Interested qualified external persons meeting the requirements of the attached Job Description can apply online through the following website: https://lb.unhcrjobs.org/ no later than COB 18/02/2019.
Please note that only applications received through the above website will be accepted and no applications will be accepted through email.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. UNHCR does not charge a fee at any stage of the recruitment process (application, interview meeting, processing, training or any other fees). UNHCR strongly encourage qualified female applicants for this position, applications form individuals with special needs are encouraged. Shortlisted candidates may be required to sit for the written test and/or oral interview.
UNHCR seeks to ensure that male and female employees are given equal career opportunities. UNHCR is committed to achieving workforce diversity in terms of gender, nationality and culture. All applications will be treated with the strictest confidentiality.
Requires a Cover Letter?
Yes
Experience Requirements
5 to 10 years
Education Degree
Bachelor Degree
Education Degree Details
ESSENTIAL MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE REQUIRED.
Define the educational background, the relevant job experience and the language(s) that are essential to perform the work of the position.
Completion of Secondary education with certificate/training preferably with a degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field.
Minimum 6 years professional experience of PHP programming, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and 3+ years with WordPress sites.
Good understanding of bank-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
Experience building UI/UX for websites and/or web applications
Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
Comfortable working with debugging tools
Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
Knowledge of how to interact and build RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML, etc...)
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (GIT)
Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level using the best practice:
1.Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.
2.Creation of custom post types.
3.Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform to WordPress coding standards.
4.Creation of clean, logical, well documented and reusable code.
5.Theme/template integration.
6.Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) beneficial.
7.Extensive background in implementing complex WordPress multisite
Experience creating multilingual websites.
Good understanding of cross platform and cross browser issues.
Testing skills including designing and writing testing plans, doing manual tests, and contributing to product quality.
Experience in Android & IOS development is a plus.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES.
Describe any experience or knowledge that would be an asset, such as: UNHCR Learning Programmes, other training, additional languages, Field/HQs experience, etc.
Motivate, mentor, and teach other members in the team
Actively work with team to diagnose and resolve bugs and/or support requests
Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery.
Collaborating with team to articulate the best technological business solutions
Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure technical feasibility and point out potential issues
Work with the team to deliver on time and in-scope
Ability to work in a team environment & under pressure.
Understand of how to write secure and performant code
Self-motivated, Goal & detail oriented, Committed, Enthusiastic, Sincere, Trustworthy, and Conscientious.
Works with full integrity, responsibility and care.
Ability to handle multiple, sometimes conflicting, priorities
Works with a team, collective brainstorming, and incorporating feedback and creative direction into a final product
Good verbal and written communication in English is a plus.
Define the educational background, the relevant job experience and the language(s) that are essential to perform the work of the position.
Completion of Secondary education with certificate/training preferably with a degree in Computer Science, engineering, or related field.
Minimum 6 years professional experience of PHP programming, MySQL, XHTML, CSS, JavaScript, and 3+ years with WordPress sites.
Good understanding of bank-end technologies, including HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, jQuery
Experience building UI/UX for websites and/or web applications
Experience designing and developing responsive design websites
Comfortable working with debugging tools
Ability to understand CSS changes and their ramifications to ensure consistent style across platforms and browsers
Knowledge of how to interact and build RESTful APIs and formats (JSON, XML, etc...)
Proficient understanding of code versioning tools (GIT)
Strong understanding of PHP back-end development
Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level using the best practice:
1.Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions.
2.Creation of custom post types.
3.Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform to WordPress coding standards.
4.Creation of clean, logical, well documented and reusable code.
5.Theme/template integration.
6.Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) beneficial.
7.Extensive background in implementing complex WordPress multisite
Experience creating multilingual websites.
Good understanding of cross platform and cross browser issues.
Testing skills including designing and writing testing plans, doing manual tests, and contributing to product quality.
Experience in Android & IOS development is a plus.
DESIRABLE QUALIFICATIONS & COMPETENCIES.
Describe any experience or knowledge that would be an asset, such as: UNHCR Learning Programmes, other training, additional languages, Field/HQs experience, etc.
Motivate, mentor, and teach other members in the team
Actively work with team to diagnose and resolve bugs and/or support requests
Working closely with both the design and project resources to achieve the best possible results in web projects from conception right through to delivery.
Collaborating with team to articulate the best technological business solutions
Analyze user story acceptance criteria to ensure technical feasibility and point out potential issues
Work with the team to deliver on time and in-scope
Ability to work in a team environment & under pressure.
Understand of how to write secure and performant code
Self-motivated, Goal & detail oriented, Committed, Enthusiastic, Sincere, Trustworthy, and Conscientious.
Works with full integrity, responsibility and care.
Ability to handle multiple, sometimes conflicting, priorities
Works with a team, collective brainstorming, and incorporating feedback and creative direction into a final product
Good verbal and written communication in English is a plus.
Arabic
Fluent
English
Fluent
French
None
Hide guidelines for wrong answers
No