TERMS OF REFERENCE – WEB DEVELOPER

DEADLINE: April 11, 2023
CLOSED JOB

Background

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a leading Africa-based, African-led, international research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, with a regional office in Dakar, Senegal. Our researchers are contributing to the body of evidence about the critical issues in population health and wellbeing impeding Africa’s development in order to provide strong direction and recommendations to policy- and decision-makers at all levels. Our priority research areas are Human Development, Health and Well-Being, Data Science and Evaluation, and Population Dynamics and Urbanization in Africa. In addition to the research component, APHRC has other programmatic areas in Research and Related Capacity Strengthening, Policy Engagement and Communications and International programs.

Purpose

APHRC seeks to contract an experienced Front-End Web Designer/Developer for the APHRC 2022 digital annual report. The consultant will work alongside an in-house web development team to design, develop and implement an interactive web based annual report.

Scope of Work

To achieve the objective of the assignment, the Front-End Designer/Developer will carry out the following tasks;

  • Provide creative and innovative ideas for UI-UX design, development and implementation of the digital annual report.
  • Design to development; generate concepts and create wireframes and prototypes for UI-UX design and general outlook of the digital annual report based on content provided; will include an easy to navigate design while utilizing easy to process scripts to minimize page load speeds.
  • Make use of HTML/CSS/JS to develop/code interactive visuals/interfaces and make a digital report that is visually and aesthetically pleasing to users while ensuring minimal load times for different pages and interfaces.
  • Design and edit artwork, photos, charts, and other graphical elements; in electronic format, adaptable for use on the digital annual report.
  • Create different illustrative materials such as animations, infographics, icons and illustrations etc. that will be used in design and development of the digital annual report.
  • Ensure consistency of branding and messaging across the digital report design and all the integrated visuals.
  • Receive, review and incorporate all feedback from the internal annual report development team.
  • Integrate Google analytics to track user behavior on the digital annual report

Desirable Skills

  • A Design-Developer, with extensive hands-on experience in using HTML5, CSS and JavaScript to create interactive animated user interfaces and experiences i.e. use of anime.js, animate.js, JQuerry.js etc.
  • Extensive experience in design disciplines and processes such as client server solution architecture, MVC Models, OOP or High performance solutions preferably using PHP, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Ajax and preprocessors like SASS and LESS.
  • Experience using collaborative software tools such as SVN, GIT, CVS and Mercurial for version control purposes.
  • Strong skills in wireframing and prototyping to bring out key functionalities before building the digital report design.
  • Understanding of UX writing will be an added advantage.

Key Competencies

  • Ability to analyze and critique requirements and make recommendations on possible solution designs.
  • Ability to complete work independently, incorporate client feedback, and deliver on time.
  • Initiative and sound judgment and ability to understand and process client feedback to improve assignments.
  • Ability to plan, prioritize and deliver quality deliverables while working with tight timelines.
  • They must have a good eye for detail, with excellent spelling, grammar and punctuation skills.
  • Must have good organizational skills to collate material from multiple sources and produce web content within tight deadlines.
  • Must have good interpersonal skills to work effectively with content developers and webmasters.
  • Creative, innovative thinker with excellent design skills.

Deliverables

  • A final version of the annual digital report hosted on the APHRC website and replicated on cloud or git.
  • A host of materials, vectors, illustrations, graphics that were used on the report should be saved on an APHRC-linked Google drive for reuse.

Duration

  • He/She will be engaged for 3 – 4 months.

How to Apply
Respond with a proposed approach, timelines, budget and links to samples of related design work (Interactive web design elements/interfaces), references from UI-UX design clients and a CV to consultancies@aphrc.org   and copy  procurement@aphrc.org  by 11th April 2023. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. Applications should be should be addressed to:

The Human Resources Officer

African Population and Health Research Center, Inc

APHRC Campus, Manga Close, off Kirawa Road, Kitisuru

P.O. Box 10787-GPO, Nairobi

Website: www.aphrc.org

For more information about APHRC visit www.aphrc.org/annualreport. 

APHRC is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to the protection of vulnerable persons.