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16 April 202523:59GMT02:00 South Africa Standard Time (Johannesburg)WFP celebrates and embraces diversity. It is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all its employees and encourages qualified candidates to apply irrespective of race colour national origin ethnic or social background genetic information gender gender identity and/or expression sexual orientation religion or belief HIV status or disability.
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WFP offers a highly inclusive diverse and multicultural working environment.
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A career path in WFP provides an exciting opportunity to work across the various country regional and global offices around the world and with passionate colleagues who work tirelessly to ensure that effective humanitarian assistance reaches millions of people across the globe.
We offer an attractive compensation package (please refer to the Terms and Conditions section of this vacancy announcement).
Senior Software Developer ARV
Title: Senior Software Developer
Org. Unit: ARC
Duty Station: Remote
Contract Type: WAE Consultancy
Duration: Maximum 50 days until 30/06/2025 with possibility of extension
Hiring manager: Mr. Biniam Taddese Bekele Research & Development Director a.i.
Background:
African Risk Capacity (ARC) is a Specialised Agency of the African Union. The ARC Agency leads the ARC Group a development finance institution that provides financial tools and infrastructure to help countries manage natural disaster risk and adapt to climate change. It counts 34 African Union Member States and is supervised by a ministerial level governing board elected by its Conference of the Parties. The ARC design and establishment phase was managed by WFP under an MoU with the African Union and WFP continues to provide administrative services support to the ARC Agency through an Administrative Services Agreement.
In 2014 ARC launched its initial risk insurance product for Member States through its financial affiliate ARC Limited (ARC Ltd). ARC Ltd is a specialist hybrid mutual insurance company and Africas first ever disaster insurance pool aggregating risk by issuing insurance policies to participating governments and transferring it to the international market. ARC uses the satellite weather surveillance software Africa RiskView to estimate the impact of drought on vulnerable populations and the response costs required to assist them before a season begins and as it progresses so that indexbased insurance payouts based on Africa RiskView are triggered at or before harvest time if the rains are poor. ARC Ltd issued drought insurance policies totalling USD 129 million for a total premium cost of USD 17 million to a first group of African governments Kenya Mauritania Niger and Senegal in May 2014 marking the launch of the inaugural ARC pool with the support of a USD 100 million initial capital commitment provided by the governments of Germany (through KfW on behalf of BMZ) and the United Kingdom (DFID). The pool has continued to grow and ARC aims to reach more Member States by expanding the insurance products offered by ARC Ltd to include flood tropical cyclone and outbreak & epidemic risk.
Accountabilities/Responsibilities:
Africa RiskView (ARV) is the core technical engine of the ARC programme used to underpin ARC Ltd insurance contracts and is the basis for expansion of the ARC insurance programme to more country clients and more perils in particular flood and cyclone risk. An experienced quantitative developer and software engineer Mr. Rosman has been providing critical technical support to the development of ARV since 2012 when he joined the expanded software development team. As the ARC initiative has now entered its operational phase with ARV becoming the goto natural disaster financial risk management tool for many African countries and partners underwriting significant volumes of risk ensuring the tool and its related applications can continue to grow and meet user demands smoothly is a critical operating issue for both ARC Agency and ARC Ltd. Within this context Mr. Rosman has a senior software developer role within the ARC Secretariat Technical Team responsible for the development of ARV Online and the ARV Calculation Engine the tool which underpins ARC Ltds insurance contracts and therefore helping to ensure ARV meets the needs of ARC Agency and its clients across different operating platforms (ARV Desktop Calculation Engine Web version).
Working in close coordination with the other members of the ARV Development Team and the ARC Technical and R&D Teams in Johannesburg and reporting to ARC Director of Research & Development the consultant will have the following responsibilities:
Leading the timely production of the annual ARV Drought Calculation Engine and input data for ARC Ltd to underpin each new insurance pool.
Support integration of tropical cyclones and flood components into ARV platform and the development of additional analysis tools required to support the implementation of these new risk modules.
Testing and crosschecking new releases to ensure accuracy and consistency of calculations across all ARV products particularly for the development of the annual ARV Drought Calculation Engine for ARC Ltd and ensuring improvements are coordinated and aligned with ARV Desktop.
Contributing to the further design and development of ARV Desktop including its user interface and functionalities.
Contributing to development of serverbased functionality data storage and distribution as emphasis will shift to web based applications with an emphasis on accuracy replicability and speed optimization for an enhanced userexperience.
Ensuring all products are robust secure and work efficiently in a range of downloading operating and data failure environments and can accommodate future modifications updates and improvements with ease suggesting and making modifications where required. He will endeavour to resolve any critical issues regarding the code in a reasonable time.
Organizing and implementing localization of the software and its products.
Providing support input and guidance to collaborations with technical partners on ARV and participating in team meetings conferences and missions as required.
Performing other tasks as directed by the Director of Research & Development senior ARC staff and working closely with the ARC Secretariat Technical Team and ARV users as required.
Deliverables at the End of the Contract:
In addition to timely seasoned technical assistance to the ARC Development Team and RD Department the output of this work will be fully documented code satisfying the requirements outlined in Responsibilities above to ensure that all code can be fully supported and modified by ARC independently moving forward.
Qualifications & Experience Required:
Education: Advanced university degree in Computer Science Mathematics Engineering Natural Sciences or other relevant quantitative discipline.
Experience: Minimum of 12 years of experience working on software development and the design and development of systems and applications needed to fulfill business requirements. Experience in Africa working with African governments a strong asset.
Knowledge & Skills: Programming skills in Delphi Visual Studio ASP MySQL HTML CSS JavaScript and C#. Demonstrable experience in building Apps for phones and tablets is a strong asset. Strong problem solving capabilities. Experience in identifying problems and reviewing related information to develop evaluate and implement software and App options. Demonstrated ability to take a strategic view across a large complex programme with the ability to follow develop and lead a given scope of work.
Languages: International Professional: Fluency (level C) in English. Another ARC working language (French or Portuguese) a strong asset.
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