DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Under the overall supervision of the Team Lead on Finance and Economy, the consultant will be responsible for the following duties: Supporting the development of the Fiscal Space Performance and Monitoring Dashboard, a digital tool designed to track and visualize key fiscal health indicators—such as liquidity, solvency, and revenue collection efficiency—across cities in Africa.
• Collaborating with the Finance and Economy team to translate conceptual and technical requirements into functional dashboard components, ensuring usability and relevance for policy and planning purposes.
• Leading on the design, development, and iterative improvement of web-based applications or tools related to local public finance, including internal tools under development by the section.
• Conducting scoping, coding, testing, and documentation activities for digital solutions in support of UN-Habitat’s work on municipal finance, revenue performance, and fiscal space analysis.
• Supporting quality assurance processes through technical reviews, bug resolution, and optimization of dashboard features, ensuring functionality, responsiveness, and ease of use.
• Preparing technical and user documentation, including system notes, handover materials, and user guidance for both internal use and external partners.
• Participating in regular coordination meetings with project stakeholders, providing technical advice on dashboard design, and supporting live demonstrations or presentations when required.

Qualifications/special skills

• Academic Qualification; A university degree (Bachelor’s or higher) in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Systems or a related field is required.
• Working Experience; Minimum 4 years of experience in full-stack software development is required, with proven ability to build and maintain scalable web applications, strong front-end skills using frameworks like React, Vue, or Angular forinteractive dashboards and experience with back-end technologies (e.g., Node.js, .NET Core, or Python/Django), API design, data visualization tools (e.g., D3.js, Chart.js, Plotly), and database management (e.g., PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB) is required.