Overview
The consultant will improve and expand the web portal displaying initiatives on marine plastic litter and microplastics and plastic waste inventories.
Key Responsibilities
- Improve the design, usability, and navigation of the interactive project map on the web portal.
- Update the graphic design of the web portal to better align with the new graphic design implemented on the website in September 2024, optimizing it for improved responsiveness and usability on mobile and other portable devices.
- Improve the design of both the project list and the project overview page to ensure a more refined layout and a clearer, more structured presentation of project information.
- Update and enhance the visualization tools for national plastic waste inventories, including diagrams and related data displays.
- Revise the data model and visualizations components to conform to the October 2025 update of the Plastic Waste Inventory Toolkit.
- Improve the design, streamline the graphs and expand platform functionalities to facilitate navigation and to enable clearer, more efficient comparison, interpretation, and analysis of the data.
- Incorporate background information and key definitions for each inventory, improving the layout and structure of the detailed inventory pages, enhancing the Sankey diagram to provide clearer visualization of material flows, and reformatting other graphs to present the data in a more effective and accessible way.
- Expand the inventory map by integrating up to ten new inventories submitted to the BRS Secretariat through the Plastic Waste Inventory Toolkit.
- Verify that all data - including the country name and inventory year - is accurately displayed on the portal for each integrated inventory.
- Update the automatic integration mechanism as needed and develop clear guidelines for future automatic integration of inventories.
Required Experience
A minimum of 7 years of progressively responsible working experience in the field of computer programming, database design and data analysis from complex databases is required. Proven experience in system's analysis and design, computer programming, including advanced programming skills in MS VB or C# for .NET platform, using MS SQL Server databases, latest web technologies such as HTML 5 and CSS.3, and OData restful web services is required. Experience in the development and configuration of web applications using JQuery, Kendo UI, websites content management systems such as DotNetNuke is desirable. Experience in working with international organizations dealing with environmental issues is desirable.
Qualifications
An advanced university degree (Master's degree or equivalent) in information technology or 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.
