UN Knowledge Management Associate Job in Nairobi, Kenya

United

Nations Development Programme
 

UNDP

Kenya invites applications for the following position:
 

Post

Title: Knowledge

Management Associate
 

Contract

Type: Fixed

Term Appointment (FTA)
 

Direct

Supervisor: Regional

Coordination Advisor & Head of Secretariat (UNDG ESA)
 

Duration: One year, renewable subject to funding

and performance 

Duty

Station: Nairobi,

Kenya
 

Date

of Issue: 24

March 2016
 

Closing

Date: 5

April 2016
 

Background: The Regional United

Nations Development Group (R-UNDG) is composed of 19 UN funds, programmes and

specialized agencies working together to support UN Country Teams (UNCTs) in

Eastern and Southern Africa to ensure effective UN system contributions to the

realization of national development priorities, accelerate progress towards

attainment of internationally agreed goals including the SDGs.

Regional UNDG Team for Eastern and Southern Africa (UNDG ESA) mobilizes and

leverages resources in support of UN Country Teams’ support to countries, in

their efforts to achieve national priorities; and to work strategically with

key partners to identify and act upon agreed regional priorities.

Under the overall supervision of the Coordination Advisor and Head of the

Secretariat, Regional United Nations Development Group for Eastern and Southern

Africa (UNDG ESA), the Associate will be responsible for R-UNDG Knowledge

Management including Website Design, Development and Content Management, in

line with the UNDG ESA Work plan.

Education and Experience:

• University
  
  Degree in Computer Science, Information Science, Information Technology,
  
  Communications, or a related field.


• 7
  
  years relevant work experience in IT sector and/or web development.


• Knowledge
  
  and experience with the UN System and/or other international organization
  
  is an asset / added advantage.


• Extensive
  
  knowledge and demonstrated experience in designing, development,
  
  deployment and management of knowledge and content management systems,
  
  specifically Joomla and other web technologies ((PHP, MySQL, HTML/CSS and
  
  JavaScript);


• Working
  
  knowledge of Meteor JS.


• Experience
  
  with PHP Framework (Kohana) and clean code architecture.


• Extensive
  
  knowledge of and experience with cross browser web development for IE,
  
  Firefox, Opera, Safari and Chrome.


• Familiarity
  
  with version control (SVN) and working in a multi-developer environment.


• Familiarity
  
  with NetBeans or other IDE for development and connecting to source
  
  repository;


• Excellent
  
  writing skills. Data visualization skills an added asset.


• Strong
  
  work ethic, ability to be self-directed and self-motivated.


• Excellent
  
  verbal and written English language skills.

Notice: UNDP, as a matter of practice, does not

charge any application, processing or training fee at any stage of the

recruitment process.

“UNDP is an equal opportunity employer which strives to achieve overall balance

in its staffing patterns”.