Drupal Technical Specialist & Back End Developer

Deliver measurable improvements to the operational reliability, multilingual quality, editorial capability, and AI-readiness of UNDRR's multi-domain Drupal web platform, ensuring the platform continues to support UNDRR's global disaster risk reduction communications mission across all web properties.

Home based

6 months

Created in December 1999, the United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) is the designated focal point in the United Nations system for the coordination of efforts to reduce disasters and to ensure synergies among the disaster reduction activities of the United Nations and regional organizations and activities in both developed and less developed countries. Led by the United Nations Special Representative of the Secretary- General for Disaster Risk Reduction (SRSG), UNDRR has over 150 staff located in its headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland, and in regional offices. Specifically, UNDRR guides, monitors, analyses and reports on progress in the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction 2015-2030, supports regional and national implementation of the Framework and catalyses action and increases global awareness to reduce disaster risk working with U.N. Member States and a broad range of partners and stakeholders, including civil society, the private sector, parliamentarians and the science and technology community. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in shaping the future of UNDRR’s digital presence, helping our Drupal 10 website and Mangrove Component Library deliver unified and impactful communications. Your work will bridge the gap between creative concepts and functional implementation, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams to drive the evolution of a world-class digital platform. In addition to building and refining components, you will guide the sustainability of our front-end ecosystem by maintaining code dependencies, updating documentation, and supporting tooling for visual regression. Your work will help maximize the impact of UNDRR’s web presences by ensuring UNDRR’s Mangrove component is updated with rich components and integrate with the UNDRR Gutenberg web editor experience. Specifically your work will enabled the World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) to be clear, performant and impactful. Further you will help us explore how we can connect LLM’s with the Drupal content editing process. Must be able to work remotely collaborating with colleagues in Geneva and Bangkok, using Teams and other remote communication tools. Stable Internet connection required. Individual contractor is to be home based. Contractor will report to the UNDRR Website Officer

An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field is required. A first-level university degree in combination with two additional years of qualifying experience may be accepted in lieu of the advanced university degree. • A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible experience in back-end web development is required. • Extensive experience with Drupal 10 or 11 (module development, architecture, configuration management, multi-domain) is required. • Experience with PHP, Composer, and Drupal's API-first / headless patterns is required. • Experience with Azure cloud hosting (App Services, Azure Files, Redis, Elastic) is required. • Experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, GitHub Actions) and automated testing (Playwright, PHPUnit) is required • Experience with multilingual Drupal platforms (translation workflows, content moderation, ECA/Rules) is desirable. • Experience integrating LLM or AI services (Azure AI Foundry, OpenAI API) with CMS platforms is desirable. • Experience working within United Nations or international organisation digital teams is desirable.

English and French are the two working languages of the United Nations Secretariat. For this position, fluency in English is required.

Due to the high volume of applications received, only successful candidates will be contacted

THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CHARGE A FEE AT ANY STAGE OF THE RECRUITMENT PROCESS (APPLICATION, INTERVIEW MEETING, PROCESSING, OR TRAINING). THE UNITED NATIONS DOES NOT CONCERN ITSELF WITH INFORMATION ON APPLICANTS’ BANK ACCOUNTS.