International Technical Developer – Drupal

CONTRACT: 6-month contract. Full time
SALARY: £32,292pa
LOCATION: Central London
CLOSING DATE: 21st February 2013
INTERVIEW DATE: 5th March 2013

As a Drupal Developer if you have what it takes to take a lead role in the technical development of actionaid.org, our global multi-lingual website, as well as connected systems come and help us build a fair and just world where everyone can claim their rights.

ActionAid works with local people in more than 45 countries to fight hunger and disease, seek justice and education for women, hold companies and governments to account and help communities cope with emergencies. Join us and use your Drupal skills to focus on the ongoing technical development of actionaid.org which serves over 40 countries. You’ll be involved in scoping, drawing up technical documentation and implementation. You will also be involved in transactions systems development including integration of Salesforce CRM and payment gateways as well as take on responsibility for overseeing configuration and optimisation of ActionAid International’s web systems.

To succeed you must have an excellent knowledge of:

•    Drupal 6 development on a complex custom website with full multi-lingual support
•    Enterprise level server set up including SVN and Git deployment frameworks, cache layers – NginX, Varnish – server configuration and optimisation

Coupled with substantial experience of coding using a variety of languages, including: 
-    HTML5
-    CSS 2/3
-    Javascript
-    ASP.NET/ ASP.NET MVC
-    PHP
-    MySQL
-    Front-end libraries

You must also have proven experience of technical project and stakeholder management including:
-    Agile and waterfall project management methodologies
-    Scoping, scheduling and costing technical solutions
-    Testing
-    Deployment 
-    Maintenance and server configuration

If you are interested and are ready to play a key role in taking ActionAid into the future please apply online via the link.


Closing date for applications: 21st February 2013

Are you the right person for the job? Please read this carefully before you apply

Please address the person specification in your application in detail as it enables us to identify the skills, knowledge and experience you have to be able to do the job effectively.

Please check your application and make sure you meet all the essential criteria listed in the person specification, in addition your application will be stronger if you meet at least some of the desirable criteria. If you do not meet at least all the essential criteria, please don’t apply as we only invite candidates for an interview if they meet the essential criteria listed on the job description.

Thank-you for your understanding.

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To apply  

Please email your CV, covering letter and equal opportunities monitoring form to jobs@actionaid.org

About your application:

Due to the high volume of applications we receive, we regret we will not be able to respond personally to applicants who are not short-listed. If you have not heard from us within two weeks from the closing date, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion. Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

ActionAid is an equal opportunities employer. We warmly welcome applications from all sections of the community and aim to promote diversity.

Recruitment consultancies / agencies should not approach ActionAid with regards to open vacancies. We regret that agency candidates will not be considered.

All interested applicants must be able to provide proof of eligibility to work in the UK.


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