Director of Technology

Nyaya Health is seeking a paid, full-time Director of Technology as the 3rd member of its growing U.S.-based team. Applications are being accepted on an immediate rolling basis for candidates that are open to start work in Nyaya Health’s NYC office.

The Director of Technology will be a key leader, architect and technical project manager to drive all of the organization’s web development and IT systems.

Are you the right fit? The ideal orientation.We are looking for a talented web developer and project manager hungry to use their skills for good that will build the back-end of the most innovative, exciting, and contagious global health brand of the 21st century.

Most importantly, your orientation toward the work should match well with our operating values, or what we call our “cultural DNA”. See those here.

In short, you’re entrepreneurial, have phenomenal coding skills, are excited by the challenge of being solely responsible for designing and managing the systems that serve as the backbone of our fundraising and reporting strategy, and crave a large, diverse set of responsibilities in the fast-moving environment of a young, growing organization. You can’t be in the market for a dry 9-5 ‘job’, but instead looking for an opportunity to use your time to transform a young organization and change hundreds of thousands of lives.

Must-haves:

• Web development experience: We need you to be more than a developer, but your development skills must be incredibly strong. You have at least a Bachelor’s in CS or equivalent and have 1-2 years of experience delivering significant web projects and a strong background in WordPress.
• Commitment to translating design: The Director of Technology will be 1 of 3 full-time employees, alongside an Executive Director and Creative Director. Thus, a close partnership will be required to work with the Creative Director to translate their designs. The Creative Director will have background in web design, but only basic abilities in CSS and HTML.
• Willingness to travel to Nepal: You will be in the U.S. about 80% of the time. But your ability to be successful depends on your ability to understand our data and reporting systems in an extremely different environment in Far-Western Nepal. Your systems design and code are the central connection between that corner of Nepal, our team, and a broad global audience.
• A commitment to innovative development: We intend for our fundraising and reporting systems to be regarded as a paragon within global health. We want you to thrive in the challenge of designing creative and inventive ways to connect people with our work while upholding the highest standards of transparency.
• Experience in or willingness to train in Salesforce CRM: Our back-end content and contact management system has been newly created in Salesforce CRM’s donated nonprofit package. You need to be the master of this system and possess an understanding of how to integrate and automate functions across our web presence with the database. Our experience suggests that developers can self-train in the system quickly.

Responsibilities:
The Director of Technology will be a member of a 3-person team alongside the Executive Director and Creative Director and will be challenged to go beyond being a developer to also taking a lead role in designing and building creative technology systems.

• Design technology strategy alongside the Executive Director, and execute the strategy efficiently.
• Maintain and expand Nyaya Health’s new WordPress-based website and blog. (new site will be released in mid-June).
• Integrate back-office systems (accounting, Salesforce CRM, development dashboards) to our donor-facing web applications for fundraising, reporting, and impact evaluation.
• Oversee migration from our current Wiki information platform to more a design-friendly, visual and intuitive micro-site housed within www.nyayahealth.org linked to our fundraising platforms.
• Oversee the development, maintenance, and use of the Salesforce CRM platform. Ensure the availability and security of all IT systems.
• Oversee the development, maintenance, and use of the Salesforce CRM platform. Ensure the availability and security of all IT systems.
• Build creative in-kind partnerships where organizational gaps exist – in areas like analytics and SEO.
• Be our technology evangelist, internally and externally, by demonstrating an incredible passion for how technology can connect our supporters and patients in meaningful ways and make our work more efficient.

Location:
Nyaya Health’s new office located at 17 W. 17th Street in NYC.

Application process:
Please send the materials below to humanresources@nyayahealth.orgwith “Director of Technology Application – Your Name” in the subject line of the email.

• Show, don’t tell. Send us a portfolio of your work (which includes your resume). We are being purposefully vague in our explanation here. Please send us whatever format (or combination of formats) best exemplifies your work that can be reviewed in less than 15 minutes.
• Tell us (or show us) your story, and why you’re committed to doing whatever it takes to bring health care to the rural poor in Nepal. Just make it fit on one page and break free from the confines of the traditional cover letter.

What happens after submission?
Your submission will be responded to within 4 days, and if the application is advanced, we will ask for two references and an in-person meeting (or substitute a video chat if we have to).

If selected for the position, we will offer a paid 1-month trial period to allow us to work together so you can decide if you want to sign a longer-term contract and commit yourself to our mission.