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TITLE WordPress Developer

LOCATION OF ASSIGNMENT NYHQ (or remote)

LANGUAGE(S) REQUIRED Excellent knowledge of English (knowledge of other languages a plus)

TRAVEL Travel not required

DURATION OF CONTRACT 6 months

SECTION & UNIT Global Innovation Centre

CONSULTANT REPORTING TO Senior Advisers on Innovation

BACKGROUND & RATIONALE

Since 2007 UNICEF has been a global leader in leveraging technology to advance development goals. Innovation work at UNICEF currently exists as a highly distributed network of labs, designers, developers, program managers, academics and private-sector partners, at headquarters, regional and country office level. The team focuses on:Identifying program needs and linking them to innovative technologies and methodologies;Building the capacity of colleagues at the country, regional and global levels, enabling them to identify and assess opportunities for the use of innovations;Advising government counterparts;Creating and strengthening partnerships, and supporting capacity building with local and regional stakeholders;Managing the design and development of software and hardware products;Supporting the roll-out of innovative programs and initiatives.

PURPOSE OF ASSIGNMENT

Partnerships with the private sector are critical to our work – in one principal partnership UNICEF launched and orchestrated a successful global challenge around the topic of “Wearables for Good”. Participants of this challenge were solicited through a strategic communications plan and wearables community outreach and directed to a WordPress platform at www.wearablesforgood.com, where they could submit their application to the competition. The backend of the platform was accessible by UNICEF staff, and contributors via password protected mechanism. The frontend was geared towards general public and broader wearables community to share criteria of the challenge, application form, blog posts, and ultimately highlighted the top 10 applications and the final 2 winning applications. As part of the prize package, the 2 winning teams received mentorship in the form of a 4 month virtual business incubation programme (co-led by the partnership of UNICEF and other key experts) to help build a foundation for business growth for the winning submissions. This incubation program ends in May 2016, which will be followed by an extensive PR and communications plan as the teams take their ideas to market.To support these efforts, we are repurposing our existing platform (www.wearablesforgood.com) in order to create and harness an online community and create a place to catalog and showcase remaining viable ideas which stemmed from the challenge. The overarching goal is to create a ‘Wearables For Good Community’ around wearables and sensor technology that have a positive social impact in the spirit of

TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)being open source. UNICEF Innovation aims to connect the IOT community, private and public sectors to facilitate ‘best practice’ sharing among key players across the ecosystem. It will be a place for good ideas to gain exposure, such as the ones resulting from the Wearables For Good Challenge. In doing so, these ideas can be accelerated through the collective resources and knowledge of the community. Together, we want to work on taking more ideas from paper to prototype.

Key components and objectives of the revamped platform would be: To give the existing website a new purpose and new functionalities. To serve as a catalog, showcasing the best ideas/applications from the Wearables for Good

Challenge, including the 10 finalists and beyond. To serve as an open source resource library for tools and learnings for others who want to create

their own similar challenge and virtual incubator. To provide a peer-to-peer knowledge sharing environment and enable curated and collaborative

discussions. To highlight open source innovation for social impact. To provide a space for news articles and feature guest blog posts on the Wearables for Good

winners and finalists (ie “Where are they now”). Serve as link to social media components, such as twitter feed (ie #wearablesforgood, etc.) In the next phase, and as the community and engagement grows, we may provide a space for the

wider community to submit ideas/projects.

TIMING

The launch of this revamped website will coincide with the PR activities is estimated to commence July 5, 2016, following the wrap up of the incubation program. The site will need to be live and user-tested prior to that date. Our goal is to have the website redesign and any beta testing done by June 27, 2016. We assume the workload will be most intensive and likely in a full time capacity during this time frame. The PR campaign around the Incubation Programme will run for an estimated 1 month starting July 5, 2016. During this time, the consultant will be expected to assist with any user needs and other issues identified by the project manager. Additional and simultaneous promotional efforts will take place to bring the website to the OIT community and to promote engagement for approximately 4- 5 months. During this time, the consultant will continue to assist with any user needs identified by the project manager. We assume work will be much less intensive, and mainly in a part time support capacity, in this later time frame.

EXPECTED DELIVERABLES (MEASURABLE RESULTS)

Under the supervision of the Senior Adviser, Innovation and in close collaboration with the innovation partnerships team based in San Francisco, the consultant will be responsible of fulfilling the following deliverables:

We have estimated but expect the consultant candidates to make a quote based on the maximum number of days to complete the work in this timeframe:

Deliverables Due date

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TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)Deliverable 1Work with project manager and UNICEF’s internal branding team to spec and expand this phase 2 of the website for the “Wearables for Good Community”, with the following functionalities:

Revision to frontend / homepage to land on Wearables for Good Community portal, for which new content / messaging will be provided.

Easy navigability and interface for visitors, and clear login process and interface to backend for administrators.

Archive the code for the current website in an open source manner so that it can be used as a resource tool for others that want to create a similar initiative and platform.

The code for this next Phase 2 of the website must also be made open source so that it can also be used as a learning and sharing tool.

Comment forums linked to individual project pages. Create a catalog of “Ideas For Good”, which may consist of up to 50 projects,

displayed in a similar way to the current “Finalists” showcase. Projects/ideas in the catalog should be tagged for easy searchability; by location,

focus areas, etc and a search function needs to be added in the catalog section of the website.

Additional content and reorganization of the “Resources” section of website to host information about the Wearables For Good Challenge, Incubation Program and all reports stemming from them, and all associated learnings and tools.

Translation ability, i.e. via Google translate/Chrome extension Implement a private content management interface to support changes in the

UNICEF content. Explore building interface for public access to upload and edit projects to catalog

(likely to be built out for Phase 3), but should be considered at this stage.

Estimated time, 5 weeks (June 6-June 27), full time, Site live: June 27

June 27, 2016

Deliverable 2Support to the website for the duration of the Communications Plan after the Incubation Program ends. Needs to be identified by the project manager.Estimated time, part time, 4 weeks (June 27-July 31)

July 31, 2016

Deliverable 3Support to the website for the duration of the website promotion as needed; support design and community engagement period to build and support the community around it. Needs to be identified by the project manager. Estimated time, part time, 5 months (June 27-November 30)

November 20, 2016

KEY COMPETENCES, TECHNICAL BACKGROUND, AND EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

Experience working with WordPress at a PHP code level

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TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR) Extensive knowledge and experience of building WordPress CMS websites using the best

practice & de-facto standard plugins. Knowledge of existing inbuilt WordPress functions Creation of custom post types Creation of plugins/widgets written to conform with the WordPress coding standards Creation of clean, logical, well-documented and re-usable code Theme/Template integration Knowledge of WordPress Network (Multisite) beneficial Experience creating multi-lingual websites advantageous Ability to integrate Google Analytics and present reports Knowledge and experience of web accessibility Good understanding of cross-platform and cross-browser issues Demonstrated ability to work with design teams to release product designs. Visual design sensibility that is clean, simple, and sharp, with ability to edit as needed Documented experience in delivering websites using WordPress, understanding its strengths

and weaknesses Understand issues surrounding analysis, tuning, scalability, high availability and concurrency of

the WordPress platform and hosting infrastructure and work alongside the wider operations team towards these goals

Minimum 2 years experience of PHP programming, MySQL, XHTML, CSS and JavaScript Experience of PHP 5 and OOP beneficial

Be able to demonstrate a systematic, disciplined and analytical approach to problem solving – paying close attention to detail

Be able to absorb, rapidly, new technical information as required. Be able to competently plan, schedule and monitor their own work. Be familiar with, and be able to use as directed, all applicable tools, methods, procedures and

standards.

COMPETENCIES

Core Competencies:- Communication- Drive for results

Functional Competencies:- Applying technical expertise- Formulating strategies and concepts

DUTY STATION

New York HQ, NY, USA Candidate can work remotely from anywhere within the USA.

HOW TO APPLY

Interested and suitable candidates are requested to send their applications with Subject “WordPress Developer” to: jobsugic@gmail.com on or before 23 May2016.Applications must include the following:

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TERMS OF REFERENCE (TOR)Qualified candidates are requested to send

1. Brief cover letter that includes the time estimate based on the schedule and requirements outlined above2. Samples of relevant work2. P11 (http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/files/P11.doc)3. CV4. Expected daily rate

Incomplete applications will be disqualified. Applicants must clearly indicate the position applied for and use this order to name file attachments: Firstname_Lastname followed by document e.g. Gold_Mukasa_CV or Gold_Mukasa_CoverLetter. Only short listed candidates will be contacted.

Visit us at www.unicefstories.org and www.unicef.org/innovation

UNICEF 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.

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