Purpose
Accountabilities & functional responsibilities
- Designs, develops, and maintains the new Protection digital ecosystem frontend and PWA application using the Frappe Framework;
- Customizes Frappe Desk for advanced users data managers, analysts, administrators;
- Performs acceptance by users of varying digital skills is an explicit design goal - interaction patterns, training-light flows, in-app guidance, and low-friction error handling;
- Provides guidance on design system extension and field-workflow UX patterns;
- Troubleshoots bugs, performance issues, and production incidents;
- Monitors frontend application performance, uptime, logs;
- Performs code reviews and maintains technical documentation;
- Collaborates with product owner, business experts, ICRC architects, UX team, external consultants, other member of the agile delivery team, and opensource communities;
- Anticipates UI and end-users’ needs, identifies and solves problems;
- Resolves assigned incidents and requests while ensuring resolution time commitments are met according to the service and operational level agreements.
What we will look for in your profile
- Bachelor’s degree in IT engineering degree or equivalent. ITIL & DevOps certification is an asset;
- Minimum 5 years frontend UI dev skills, of which 2+ on Frappe UI Vue in production;
- Ability to understand and collaborate in the refinement of Functional Requirements, and design fit for purpose solution designs;
- Deep PWA / Service Workers / Background Sync experience; client-side persistence patterns; conflict UI; offline UX;
- Knowledge of Docker/Podman, Linux;
- Familiarity with Git version control;
- Frontend testing discipline;
- Right-To-Left RTL layouts, i18n;
- Excellent command spoken and written of English. Fluency in French is an advantage;
- Contribution to the Frappe UI ecosystem a strong plus;
- Experience working with Azure DevOps is a plus.
What we offer
- Diverse and humanitarian-minded workforce;
- An opportunity to contribute to institutional efforts to protect and assist conflict victims worldwide;
- Training opportunities;
- Flexible work schedule.
Additional information
- Location: Nairobi, kenya
- Type of Contract: 1-year Fixed term contract renewable subject to Budget discussion and performance
- Type of position: Applicants must have an existing legal right to live and work in Kenya at the time of application. The ICRC will not sponsor or obtain work permits for this position.
- Application deadline: 21/07/2026
