Information Systems Assistant - Individual Contractor

About the role

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) is recruiting an Information Systems Assistant as an individual contractor in Addis Ababa. The consultant develops, tests, deploys and maintains the IDEP Alumni Platform, migrating alumni data and setting up administrative, analytics, security and disaster recovery arrangements. The ECA Fellowship Alumni Platform also remains operational and technically maintained during the assignment. The expected duration is three months.

Key responsibilities

• Provide technical assistance for the planning, design, development, configuration and implementation of the IDEP Alumni Platform.
• Design and implement a secure, normalized and extensible database architecture supporting alumni profiles, programme information, networking and communities of practice.
• Develop platform features such as user and profile management, networking, collaboration, notifications, administration tools and analytics.
• Deploy the platform on Microsoft Azure Cloud with ECA technical teams, and migrate alumni data from the IDEP eLearning platform and other databases.
• Organize platform demonstrations, document feedback and implement agreed improvements.
• Collaborate with ECA DITMS on user acceptance testing, security and compliance assessments and vulnerability testing, and implement corrective actions and patches.
• Coordinate SMTP and notification services, and work with ECA translation services to prepare platform content for French.
• Prepare a disaster recovery approach and develop user and administrator documentation, including a how-to manual.
• Provide training to system administrators and moderators, and ongoing technical support, maintenance and enhancements.
• Support the ECA Fellowship Alumni Platform, including security clearance and Azure onboarding.

Required profile

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems, Web Development or a related field; a professional web development certification may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• At least five years of progressively responsible experience in web application development, database design and implementation, and digital platform development.
• Fluency in English is required; knowledge of French is desirable.