The United Nations Human Settlements Programme, UN-Habitat, is the UN agency for human settlements. It is mandated by the UN General Assembly to promote socially and environmentally sustainable towns and cities with the goal of providing adequate shelter for all

RESPONSIBILITIES

Under the overall leadership of the Section Chief of the Land, Shelter and Housing (LHS) Section, the consultant will have a double reporting line. Technically, the consultant will report to the LHS Officer leading the work on STDM. The consultant will also collaborate with other GLTN colleagues, GLTN partners and STDM technical team.

The consultants will perform the following tasks:

Provide Technical Support in Migrating and Post-Migration of STDM 1.8 (1 month)

• Work with partners (all) to migrate to STDM 1.8 and provide a timeline of end-of-support for STDM 1.7
• Work with partners on issues that might arise in regards to STDM 1.8 migration
• Organize awareness workshops with partners to share feedback on the new STDM upgrade

Fix Defects and Regressions Identified in STDM Release 1.8 (1 month)

• Fix the core view generator that fails to generate key entities fields (for both party and spatial unit) for the default profile views.
• Fix a work-around implemented in the mobile import module for STDM 1.8.1 to allow importing of supporting documents correctly.
• Fix regressions/issues identified during the release of STDM 1.8

STDM Feature Development (1 month)

• Improve UI/UX in the configuration wizard – extend the work done in STDM 1.8 of exposing properties of different data types in the configuration wizard
• Enhance UX in the Entity Browser window by adding a shortcut to export data as CSV

Improve Mobile Integration with STDM Profile Customization (1 month)

• Provide a way of customizing the generated mobile ODK form from the configuration wizard
• Build a comprehensive logging framework for mobile module data operations

Develop a Build and Release Process Automation Framework and Version 1.9 Release (1 month)

• Design the full automation process
• Setup the automation process locally
• Setup the automation process online
• Use Devops framework to release STDM version 1.9

Work on Capacity Development and Knowledge Management Initiatives (1 month)

• Technical support for implementing partners
• User training and awareness workshops
• Upgrade existing training and user manuals/materials

Work implies frequent interaction with the following:

• UN-Habitat HQ
• GLTN Secretariat and STDM technical team
• Country implementing partners

Requirements

Qualifications/special skills

• A first level university degree in Geography, Computer Science, Geomatics, GIS Programming and Design, or Database Programming is required
• Six years’ experience of Python, SQL or C++ development for desktop or web applications.t.
• Two years’ experience customizing and using mobile data collection tools such as (Geo) ODK, KoBo, QField or Trimble Penmap is required
• Two years’ experience using QGIS for spatial analysis and data management

Languages

• Fluency in English (both oral and written) is required. Knowledge of the other UN languages especially French and Arabic is desirable.