Web Developer, USAID/PPL Social Impact

Background:

Social Impact (SI) is a Washington, DC-area international development management consulting firm. We provide a full range of innovative program evaluation, management consulting, technical assistance, and training services to strengthen international development programs, organizations and policies. Our global services are in the areas of democracy and governance, health and education, agriculture, the environment, and economic growth.

Objective:

Social Impact is crafting a proposal in response to a task order issued by USAID requesting services for the Bureau for Policy, Planning and Learning (PPL) to leverage the existing ProgramNet web platform to build the capacity of USAID staff to implement the ‘program cycle.’ The goals are to directly determine strategic priorities, opportunities and tradeoffs for better planning, design and implement results-based projects, to monitor and evaluate what is working and what is not, and to collaboratively learn and feed knowledge back into strategic planning, programming and future policy development for better development results. SI is seeking a mid-level Web Developer to evaluate the ProgramNet architecture and assisting in its improvement.

Responsibilities and Tasks:

The Web Developer will be responsible for:

• Making basic design changes;
• Continually evaluating the ProgramNet Architecture;
• Making recommendations to the COR on ways to improve user experience;
• Directly performing platform upgrades or coordinating with subs or outside developers to implement upgrades.

Qualifications:

Candidates must meet the following requirements to be considered:

• Degree or equivalent experience in information technology;
• At least 5 years of experience design/developing websites, preferably for government agencies or contractors;
• Familiarity with Drupal platform is required;
• Experience with HTML, JAVA, C# is highly preferred;
• Excellent teamwork skills.

To learn more about Social Impact, please visit our website: http://www.socialimpact.com

We will contact only eligible candidates to further discuss their availability. Please no phone calls. Social Impact is an equal opportunity employer.