VISIBILIZE4CLIMATEACTION WEBSITE | WEB DEVELOPER CONSULTANCY

Background

The African Population and Health Research Center (APHRC) is a leading Africa-based, African-led, international research institution headquartered in Nairobi, Kenya, and engaged in Multidisciplinary, evidence-based policy research. Our researchers address important issues and challenges facing Africa in areas such as education, health, population, ageing, urbanization and Well-being. We engage with policymakers in the region to disseminate our research findings to Influence policy decisions and improve the quality of life in Africa.

With funding from the Wellcome Trust Foundation and in collaboration with several partners, including —the Center for International Forest Research and World Agroforestry (CIFOR-ICRAF), the University of Nairobi (UoN), PELUM Kenya, the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM), Oxford University, and Loughborough University— along with the county governments of Laikipia, Samburu, and Turkana and national government line ministries of health and climate change, among others, will undertake a three-year transformative project: “Visibilizing Climate Change Impacts on Nutrition and Mental Health among Vulnerable Populations in East African Drylands”.

Required

We seek a creative and technically skilled team to design and develop a dedicated website for the #Visibilize4ClimateAction project. This website will be the cornerstone of the project, helping to establish the consortium’s credibility and serving as the primary platform to share outputs, resources, and updates.

Target Audiences

CSO’s, media, policy-makers (county, national & regional level), INGOs & NGOs, and research / academia.

Tagline

Making Visible the Impacts of Climate Change.

Scope of work

Design and Development:

• Design a user-friendly interface with intuitive navigation.
• Ensure the website is fully responsive and optimized for mobile devices.
• Create a modern, simple, clean, polished and visually appealing design with high- resolution images/videos consistent with the project’s branding and tagline: Making Visible the Impacts of Climate Change.
• The website should provide our internal and external stakeholders with the right information and support tools, such as AI-enhanced chat functionality for real-time support.
• The design should be compatible with devices and browsers.
• Ensure protection from malware attacks.
• Implement an easy-to-use CMS for content updates and management and ensure all third-party plugins, custom templates and add-ons are compatible.
• Incorporate search engine optimization best practices to enhance visibility.

Content:

• Homepage: An engaging overview of the project, with dynamic visuals and clear calls to action.
• About: Detailed information about the project, partners, and funders.
• Climate Change Explained: A section dedicated to explaining climate change, the interlinkages, climate change causes, and global impact.
• Information on climate change mitigation strategies and best practices.
• Resources: A library of downloadable resources, reports, publications, and media assets.
• Blogs
• In the media
• Events
• A contact page with email addresses, and social media links.
• Newsletter (at the bottom of every page, we can have it together with the contacts).

Deliverables:

• Initial website layout and design concepts for review and feedback.
• A fully functional and approved design.
• Website development with iterative testing and quality assurance checks.
• Training sessions for APHRC staff on managing and updating website content.
• A fully functional website, ready for public access.
• Ongoing technical support and maintenance for an agreed-upon period after the website goes live.

Qualifications and Experience

• The applicant must be a firm/company/organization with years of experience in the web design and development and a good portfolio of similar tasks.
• A degree or diploma in related disciplines e.g. software engineering, computer science, computer engineering or any relevant field.
• Vast experience in developing websites using content management systems such as WordPress, Joomla, Drupal etc.
• Experience using tools such as Google Search Console, GTMetrix, Google Page Speed Insights and Alexa to conduct website analysis, measure website traffic and performance, and identify and fix issues.
• Understanding of Linux web hosting environments.
• Excellent skills in the use of web developer tools to inspect HTML, PHP, and CSS- supported pages and make necessary edits to the web pages as recommended.
• 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. Excellent troubleshooting and communication skills.