Dashboard App scripts Analyst (100 days short term Homebased Retainer) At UNOPS

Background Information – Job-specific

RBM Partnership to End Malaria

The past fifteen years have seen tremendous gains in reducing the burden of disease and progressing towards malaria elimination. Since 2000, global malaria deaths have been cut by more than half, saving 7 million lives, primarily among children less than five years of age. Expansions in financing, strong political commitments, novel diagnostic and preventative measures, and multi-sectoral coordination have facilitated this progress. Since 1998, RBM Partnership to End Malaria has been central to the global fight against malaria. It has been essential to mobilizing resources and scaling up innovative interventions, putting the world onto a path towards eliminating malaria. The Partnership comprises more than 500 partners committed to end malaria, including malaria endemic countries, their bilateral and multilateral development partners, the private sector, nongovernmental and community-based organizations, foundations, and research and academic institutions.

The RBM Partnership’s Vision is of a world free from the burden of malaria.

The RBM Partnership is based in Geneva and hosted by UNOPS.

The incumbent will work under the guidance and supervision of the Advocacy and Communications Manager, and in close collaboration with the Strategic Communications Partner Committee (SCPC) Manager and the Advocacy Officer, to achieve the core objectives and strategic priorities of the Partnership and the Strategic Communications Partner Committee (SCPC):

The purpose of the SCPC is to develop and implement, in collaboration with the Partnership Management Team, communications to achieve the objectives of the Partnership. The objective of the SCPC is to translate the overarching objectives of the Partnership into specific, aligned and inspirational messages that catalyse action.

Functional Responsibilities

The App scripts/Google Sheets developer shall work with the RBM Data Team to integrate, triangulate and clean existing data sources within the Google sheets environment.

The specific tasks include (but are not limited to) the following:

• Collaborate with multiple internal and external stakeholders to discuss the specifics of the data sources and understand the design, and functionality of the dashboard website to support its data interface
• Contribute to the development of AppScripts workflow for data standardization, cleaning and triangulation. Develop and maintain RESTful JSON apis (FastAPI) and consume RESTful APIs
• Maintain up-to-date knowledge of Google sheets trends and advancements
• Develop standard code that can serve as the foundation of future projects
• Perform tasks accurately to meet our brand guidelines and quality standards
• Optimise systems to improve performance and efficiency
• Author technical documentation
• Participate in the selection and design of the visualizations and basic interactions in the platform (drill in, hover, click, etc)
• Connect the different data sources (spreadsheets, API, etc) to the visualizations
• Contribute to the development of AppScripts workflow for data standardization, cleaning and triangulation. Develop and maintain RESTful JSON apis (FastAPI) and consume RESTful APIs
• Lead in Investigating and/or support in developing and recommending appropriate tools and libraries for the different visuals integrated in the Dashboard.
• Document created workflows and code and prepare the overall report of the best practices, challenges and recommendations.

Key deliverables

• Links between data sources and visuals developed
• Data cleaning/triangulations workflows developed

Report that includes best practices, challenges and recommendations prepared.

Impact of Results

The effective and successful achievement of results by data analysts directly impacts the activities of the Secretariat and the respective Partner Committees, and more broadly the mission of the RBM Partnership.

Education/Experience/Language requirements

Education

• A Bachelor degree, preferably in Software Engineering and/ or Computer Science is required.
• A relevant Master’s degree is an advantage and may be considered in lieu of some or all required years of experience.

Experience
Required

• A minimum of two years experience in developing Appscripts within the Google suite environment
• Advance knowledge of Google spreadsheets
• Strong understanding of Google Apps SCRIPTs and ability to troubleshoot and create new SCRIPTS as required
• Strong attention to detail, accuracy and communication skills
• Good knowledge of the Google suite, such as Google Docs, Google Sheets and Google Slides (and their non-cloud equivalents)

Desirable:

• Demonstrated experience working on data cleaning/triangulation

Experience with writing clean, efficient, and maintainable code

Language

• Full working knowledge of English is essential.
• Working knowledge of French, Spanish or another official UNOPS language is an asset.