Research Associate, DMU-Web developer

Research Associate, DMU- Web developer

Department

Provost Office Coe

Entity

Aga Khan University

Location

Pakistan

Introduction

The Centre of Excellence in Women and Child Health aims to support the introduction, scale-up and further piloting of high quality and high impact interventions to improve Maternal, Newborn, Child and Adolescent Health (MNCAH) in Pakistan by harnessing the potential of both public and private sectors, coupled with introduction of women and girls empowerment intervention. UeN has two major components; one is to introduce proven effective MNCAH interventions at scale in 14 districts and the second is to  generate evidence through innovative approaches to improve MNCAH while included in the public health programme in Pakistan. Of the five innovation projects, one aims to measure the Men Engagement in Women Empowerment (MEWE) through Life Skills Building (LSB) and cash transfer to improve maternal mental health in Pakistan.

As an equal opportunity employer, AKU believes in promoting a diverse and inclusive culture and is committed to adopt appropriate standards for safeguarding and promoting a respectful relationship with and between diverse workforce of its faculty, staff, trainees, volunteers, beneficiaries, wider communities, and other stakeholders with whom it works, including children and vulnerable adults and expects all employees/trainees and partners to share this commitment.

This is a grant-funded contractual position.
 

Responsibilities

Your will be responsible be responsible for the supervision of overall quality control and assurance of data for all field sites and will be the contact person for all the data related queries. Specific responsibilities include:

• Working collaboratively with web designers and programmers to develop the website and dashboards;
• producing websites/a website utilizing standard HTML/CSS practices;
• identify and resolve software defects and issues by debugging, testing, and troubleshooting the PHP code;
• making sure that timelines are met within the discussed timetable accordingly;
• examining various software applications and ensuring software documentation;
• Upkeep, expansion, and improvement of the website after it is created;
• implement safety procedures to protect user data;
• engage in continuous learning by exploring new PHP frameworks, libraries, and tools;
• stay updated with the latest security best practices in PHP applications.

Requirements

You Should Have:

• Graduation in Software Engineering;
• 1 or more years preferably in the field of IT;
• Experience with server-side frameworks like Python, PHP, etc;
• understanding of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, which are fundamental web technologies;
• familiarity with database concepts;
• experience of database systems like MySQL and MS SQL Server;
• proficiency in Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) concepts;
• comfortable working in a cross-functional team;
• strong interpersonal and communication skills;
• strong time management skills;
• knowledge of software development lifecycle.

Comprehensive employment reference checks will be conducted.