ABSCH/BCH Web Development Consultant

United Nations; Montreal (administrative region); On-site; CAD 60,000 - 95,000; Part time

Job summary

United Nations Environment Programme in Montreal seeks a front-end developer for accessibility-focused web tools. The role involves building interfaces for ABSCH and BCH, integrating APIs, and supporting data-driven reporting to show national, regional, and global trends.

The consultant will implement forms, migrate to updated APIs, and enhance search, filters, and translations. Collaboration with national authorities is expected.

Responsibilities

• Front-end development for the Access and Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House (ABSCH) and the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH).
• Implement a registration form for Clearing-House API use for external users.
• Integrate the new KM API version (v2023) and remove the legacy v2013 version.
• Implement record maintenance functionality.
• Create a new legal framework overview record, pre-populated with relevant data from first national reports.
• Improve keywords and descriptions for authorities, ABS procedures, and related filters, indexing, API and translations.
• Enable dynamic interactive reporting of published records with filters and statistics by national, regional and global levels.

Job description

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Category and Level: Affiliate Personnel – Consultants/Individual Contractors , CON

Recruitment Type: Consultant

Duty Station: MONTREAL

Department/Office: United Nations Environment Programme

Date Posted: Oct 6, 2026

Deadline: Oct 19, 2026

Front-end development for the Access and Benefit-Sharing Clearing-House (ABSCH, https://absch.cbd.int) and the Biosafety Clearing-House (BCH, https://bch.cbd.int) including: 1. Implementation of a registration form for Clearing-House API use for external users. 2. Integration of the new version (v2023) of KM API and removal of the legacy v2013 version. 3. Implementation of the record maintenance functionality. 4. Implementation of a new legal framework overview common format which provides an accessible and updatable subset of key information from the first national report. A draft legal framework overview record will be made available for each Party and pre-populated with relevant information from their first national reports. 5. Improvement of keywords and description for competent national authorities, ABS procedures, ABS measures and checkpoints including related changes to the search filters, indexing, API, and translation. 6. Implementation of dynamic interactive and visual reporting of published records that can be filtered (much like the search) to highlight statistics and trends at the national, regional and global level related to the published records (and key related framework indicators) and provide statistics to national users privately in the submission dashboard on the website traffic to their national records and country profiles.