Web Developer Consultancy at African Population And Health Research Center (APHRC)

Scope of work

APHRC is looking for an experienced firm/company/organization who will develop a website for DSWB project. The consultant will:

• Design a modern, simple, clean and polished new website with high-resolution images/videos.
• Design a visually appealing landing page that displays more dynamic content, such as new blogs, catchy project updates, latest publications, recent achievements, and social media activities more intuitively.
• 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.
• Integration of QR-coded staff profiles in the website back end to allow printing of scannable business cards with links to project team profiles in the front end.
• Improve the security of the website and ensure protection from malware attacks.
• Update the website to the latest CMS and ensure all third-party plugins, custom templates and add-ons are compatible.
• Develop additional WordPress plugins and custom pages to meet the website's requirements.
• Examine the website XML sitemaps and update them on all search engines.
• Assess the website’s crawlability by all search engines and ensure better ranking.
• Find and fix duplicate content, and broken links and update the new links on all sitemaps.
• Check if the website is using the right redirects, canonical tags, and robots.txt.
• Review and update all breadcrumbs and ensure correct usage and alignment.

Qualifications, Skills, 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.