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Front End Developer

Salary:£32,292 - £34,570
Contract:Permanent
Location:London
Closing date:March 2nd 2014
An experienced Front End Developer, you are now looking for a career enhancing experience that will make the most of your talents and develop your skills.
At ActionAid we’re embarking on a digital transformation. We’re making digital channels the focus of workstreams across our organisation, and have adopted an agency model to bring this about.

Organised as a hub with spokes, the hub team are responsible for platforms, infrastructure, development, design and user experience; the spoke teams for content and marketing.
This new approach will create exciting opportunities for digital professionals to have global impact by dramatically improving our online income and engagement and enabling us to bring noticeable, sustained improvements to the lives of the poorest people in the world.

As a Front End Developer you will report to our Senior Web Developer and play an important role in transforming our digital approach.
This will involve working with internal customers to develop work that is engaging, innovative, delivers a great user experience and ensures our online content is consistently of the highest standard.

You will maintain our content management system, build visually attractive and engaging pages, emails and microsites using custom scripts and CMS templates, and ensure integration with databases and online trading processes as necessary.

Working from concept, through to wireframes and implementation you will deliver high levels of usability, accessibility and functionality supported by rigorous testing.
Comfortable working with stakeholders at all levels your excellent CSS, HTML and JavaScript/jQuery skills will be complemented by good UX and visual design skills.

Experienced working with Drupal CMS including administration and development and implementing Drupal Theme changes you will be proficient at integrating and maintaining secure payment gateways and ecommerce platforms within websites.
How to apply
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The HR Team
ActionAid UK Head office
33-39 Bowling Green Lane,
London
EC1R 0BJ
United Kingdom

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