Drupal Technical Specialist & Back End Developer

United Nations - UN United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction

Consultant Closes 21 May 2026 6 days left

Overview

Deliver measurable improvements to UNDRR's multi-domain Drupal web platform to enhance operational reliability, multilingual quality, editorial capability, and AI-readiness, supporting global disaster risk reduction communications.


Key Responsibilities
  • Play a pivotal role in shaping the future of UNDRR’s digital presence, helping the Drupal 10 website and Mangrove Component Library deliver unified and impactful communications.
  • Bridge the gap between creative concepts and functional implementation, collaborating with cross-functional teams to drive the evolution of a world-class digital platform.
  • Build and refine components.
  • Guide the sustainability of our front-end ecosystem by maintaining code dependencies, updating documentation, and supporting tooling for visual regression.
  • 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.
  • Enable the World Tsunami Awareness Day (WTAD) to be clear, performant and impactful.
  • Explore how to connect LLM’s with the Drupal content editing process.
  • Work remotely collaborating with colleagues in Geneva and Bangkok, using Teams and other remote communication tools.
Required Experience
  • 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.
Qualifications

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.

Other Details
Languages Required
Fluency in English is required.
Languages Preferred
Not specified
Contract Duration
6 months
Work Modality
Home based
Remuneration
Not specified
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