Country: Serbia
Closing date: 17 Feb 2017
Background:
More effective use of digital communications represents a valuable opportunity for UNICEF in terms of both brand engagement and income generation, offering new and cost-efficient ways to reach supporters and engage them. Digital engagement covers a broad range of activities intended to lead people to become more aware, interested, and engaged with UNICEF, and thereby increase their desire to support UNICEF through financial or non-financial actions.
The main areas of engagement in digital area are:
- Increasing engagement reach – make more people aware of UNICEF and the work done to achieve change for children
- Increasing engagement depth – growing understanding of UNICEF's work and positive feelings towards it, thereby growing consideration to support.
UNICEF in Serbia has a local websites in Serbian language - www.unicef.rs , with a donation microsite incorporated, as well as two additional, thematic, websites - the Club of Friends of UNICEF www.klubprijateljaunicefa.rs dedicated to pledge fundraising; and www.dop.rs dedicated to Corporate Social Responsibility focused on children.
In order for these websites to be functional and work properly, regular technical updates and maintenance is required. In addition, there is a need for occasional customisation of solutions for the donation microsite and website.
Purpose of the assignment:
The purpose of the consultancy is the provision of support to UNICEF in Serbia to maintain and update the UNICEF in Serbia WordPress websites, to customise solutions for the donation sites, to periodically update dedicated hosting server and to perform monthly backups of all hosted websites on dedicated and shared hosting servers.
Estimated start Date:
27 February 2017
Estimated end Date:
10 February 2018
Number of days/months:
32 hours per month over 11.5 months period
Work Assignment Overview
Tasks
Deliverables
Timeframe
Regularly maintain and backup of all websites hosted on both dedicated and shared hosting servers, including monthly update of the WordPress and WordPress's plugins
Websites updated and functional
Monthly
Periodically update the dedicated hosting server in order to provide better functionality, including the update of services and the software to the latest versions of:
- cPanel and WHM
- PHP and Apache server
Servers updated
Periodically (minimum 5 times a year)
Secure search engine friendly for the website and CMS
Search engine marketing tools
Monthly reports
Integrate bank's payment processor into the donation microsite and perform additional testing, ensuring that the process is easy to use.
Liaise with banks e-commerce sector when necessary.
Selected bank payment processor integrated into the website
As per request
Make basic visual changes on the fixed layout themes of the websites and microsite themes.
Liaise with front end developer for any major changes needed.
Changes made as per request
As per request
Travel Required: No
Estimated number of days of travel: N/A
Location of travel:
Workplace of Consultant: Home-based
Will the consultant need IT access, email?– No
Qualifications required, specialised knowledge, specialised skills and work experience required for this assignment:
· A minimum of 3 years of demonstrable experience in web programming and web maintenance
· Advanced knowledge of web development technologies - HTML5, PHP, MySQL, JavaScript
· Advanced knowledge of CSS
· Experience and advanced knowledge in open source CMS (Content Management System, WordPress) installation, customisation and management
· Fluency in Serbian and English languages
The application must include the following:
Important note: Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration.
Only short-listed candidates will be contacted. UNICEF is a non-smoking environment. UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities to apply.
How to apply:
UNICEF is committed to diversity and inclusion within its workforce, and encourages qualified female and male candidates from all national, religious and ethnic backgrounds, including persons living with disabilities, to apply to become a part of our organization. To apply, click on the following link http://www.unicef.org/about/employ/?job=502774