Developer
Organizational Context
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority, setting the environmental agenda and promoting sustainable development. UNEP's corporate website is its primary digital presence, supported by numerous child, campaign, and project websites. This role supports UNEP's Digital Portfolio Overhaul to modernize its web ecosystem, focusing on website migrations and enhancements.
Job Purpose
This role supports the implementation, enhancement, and maintenance of UNEP's digital web portfolio, with a specific focus on website migrations, the rollout of the UNEP Starter Kit, Drupal development, and improving AI-supported search and content discovery. The Developer will work with the Web Platforms team and external partners to ensure UNEP's web platforms are stable, secure, and maintainable, adhering to common technical standards. The position contributes to modernizing UNEP's online presence and enhancing user experience through improved search functionality and reliable integrations.
Responsibilities
Develop, maintain, and enhance UNEP Drupal websites, including modules, content models, configurations, and custom functionality. Implement and maintain reusable templates and components for the corporate website and other UNEP platforms. Execute technical requirements for migrating child, campaign, and project websites to common UNEP standards. Develop and maintain APIs and integrations for content and data exchange. Optimize search and content-discovery functionality, including OpenSearch and AI-supported capabilities. Maintain Drupal core, modules, and themes, applying Git-based development, code review, and CI/CD workflows. Test and troubleshoot website functionality, integrations, and performance. Ensure adherence to web development standards for security, accessibility, performance, and maintainability. Provide technical input to vendors and other developers.
Work Experience
At least two years of professional web development experience, including substantial experience with PHP and Drupal. Experience with Drupal architecture, migrations, modernization of enterprise web platforms, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, modern JavaScript frameworks (React, Next.js), relational databases, and RESTful APIs is required. Experience with enterprise search technologies (Elasticsearch, OpenSearch) and AI-supported search is required.
Skills
Drupal development, PHP, HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, React, Next.js, RESTful APIs, Elasticsearch, OpenSearch, Git, CI/CD, AI-supported search, website migration, technical documentation, code review.