Organization: GiveDirectly
Location: Remote Berlin
Grade: Level not specified – Level not specified
Occupational Groups:
About GiveDirectly
GiveDirectly (GD) seeks to improve international giving – and also countless lives – through money grants straight to the world’s poorest. The Brookings Institution estimates that 1dolar1 70B of money transfers will be expected to eradicate the poverty gap; the aid industry presently spends 1dolar1 135B each year, very much serotonin on evidence free interventions. GiveDirectly wishes to change that, creating cash transfers as a benchmark for international aid – as the index fund is a benchmark for the financial market – what about the process speeding up the conclusion of extreme poverty.
GD has raised more than 1dolar1 1B since launching in 2011, sent dollars to much more than 1.5 million individuals in fifteen various countries. We have also supported large scale, experimental research which indicates strong recipient effect of our programs. As an outcome, GD happens to be celebrated as probably the most revolutionary non profit companies by Fast Company, while the increasing cash transfer movement (and GD’s leading role within it) were showcased in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, moreover The Economist.
Our culture is candid, agile, analytical, and non hierarchical. Our global team of ~150, as well country operations teams of ~650, collectively originated from twenty one different countries speaking sixty nine various languages. Team members deliver happenings from the private sector, NGOs and government. From software engineers to experienced humanitarian employees, former management consultants to public servants, researchers to area operations — it is an amazing team of women.
Our values are central and deliberately opinionated. We truly center individuals we perform in our decision making, and attempt to create an ambitious, fast moving and high performing environment. We highly encourage you to go through our values carefully, in case they reflect the way you would like working and energize you, this may be an excellent match.
We strive to create a world where all our team members are able to thrive, be successful and grow. We intentionally seek to recruit people from the communities we serve, and are continuously trying to nurture a work environment which supports diversity, and is really inclusive in truth, not merely intent. We support flexibility, handle one another, have fun, and also build professional development opportunities.
We’re proud to be an equal opportunity employer, as well as we don’t discriminate on the foundation of race, veteran status, disability, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender, religion, color, or maybe some other condition protected by law.
Function Overview
Title: WordPress Developer
Are you prepared to truly transform people’s lives together with your job? We want you to interact with our designer, site manager and engineers to constantly improve www.givedirectly.org to help increase more cash for those in severe poverty.
Before today this role has been completed by a type volunteer in a number of hours per month. Though we’re now prepared to be driven and truly take our site on the next level and are all set to purchase you and an in house designer making that happen.
This will not be project work with synthetic client driven deadlines. Neither can it be work which makes very little difference to the entire planet. You are going to be continually enhancing similar website, dealing with great people you’ll become familiar with well, along with every 1dolar1 thousand or perhaps so we raise transforms a life.
The conclusion of the calendar year is busy for us: it’s when we improve most cash. Though we are aware that and also part of the objective of getting someone in house is that we are able to be much better prepared and ensure that nothing fails at this crucial time, that will make everybody’s life and levels of stress much easier.
Reports to: Fundraising engineering manager
Location:
An benefit of this particular function is it’s completely remote and possesses flexible working hours which may match you in case you’ve caring or maybe additional commitments that mean you can’t do 9 5 within an office.
We want you to overlap with an East Africa time zone by a minimum of four hours every day so we are able to see and talk to folks in the Usa (where we raise the majority of our money Africa and) (where we share the majority of our money).
We want you to go for between a single and 3 days each year to meet up with the majority of your broader team face-to-face.
We’re in addition ready to accept the job being eighty % part time if that’s much more appealing to you (see below).
Responsibilities:
· Maintain our WordPress infrastructure to make certain it’s usually protected and also available Plan, assessment as well as schedule updates on the core website, plugins along with other dependencies.
· Manage our hosting (we currently use wpengine, but are ready to accept various other remedies in case you like and there’s an in house application engineering group in case you want even more support).
· Improve www.givedirectly.org to raise 1dolar1. What this means is working closely with our in house designer, website manager and other staff to:
· Implement brand-new wordpress components so some other GD individuals are able to create and upgrade web pages and blog posts by themselves.
· Implement design as well as design switches across the website, which includes menus and footers etc.
· Completely implement and A/B test changes to our foremost pages.
· Clean up www.givedirectly.org to generate later changes cheaper
· Work with our site manager to identify pages which are no longer needed
· Work with the custom to try to tidy up our legacy types and themes Clean up and out old plugins and old code and old approaches.
Qualifications:
· You are concerned about our mission, to end extreme poverty.
· You go along with our values.
· You have: emotional intelligence and will foster inclusivity – our staff is drawn from numerous countries and cultures, life in numerous countries and cultures, raises money from many countries and cultures and also gives away cash to numerous countries and cultures. We don’t discriminate.
· a can do, problem solving attitude. We’re not really a huge established organisation with slick and sleek systems. We want you being ready to handle what’s there and also do your best.
· the capability to prepare and also organise your own personal multi month projects – you are able to calculate what’ll be possible by when.
· the capability to follow through on plan – you do not forget, even when the next phase cannot be considered for months.
· an ability to reason about messy systems – our systems and also tactics aren’t well put together and tidy, something different at some point may have unforeseen effects elsewhere. We want you to hold the sort of mind which is okay with and can deal with the complexity..
· You know: The best way to manage a WordPress website.
· The best way to develop and upgrade WordPress themes.
· The best way to develop and upgrade WordPress blocks.
· The best way to continue WordPress secure.
· How you can look under the hood at the WordPress database whenever you need.
· How you can debug layout problems across browsers.
· How to hand craft CSS, HTML practical javascript, where necessary.
· How you can work within along with clean up messy legacy wordpress sites.
· The best way to make modifications to some wordpress without making downtime.
· You’ve experience working in a group with one or maybe more designers and website managers.
· managing your very own time and work with no immediate supervision or deadlines.
· proactively keeping everybody who must learn educated about what’s going on, what is going to happen, and what must be accomplished when and by who.
This’s not a great job for you if:
· You’re a perfectionist. We would like to increase more 1dolar1 for recipients, not create the right.
· You crave the range of various projects. You’ll be working hard on www.givedirectly.org.
· You crave a range of individuals. You’ll be working with amazing people, but the same incredible people each week.
· You want an office environment. When there are some other GD people in which you live, they might cluster in a co working space some days. But mainly you are going to be on ones own.
· You want the adrenaline of tight deadlines and close supervision to do your best work.
Nice to haves:
· We welcome & really encourage applications from applicants with professional or personal expertise in the low income and/or historically marginalized communities that we work.
· If you’ve a watch for design, or perhaps copy writing, plus substantial software engineering, then there’ll be opportunities to develop in that course.
· If you’ve working experience with consumer tests & developing according to consumer feedback, subsequently that to help us raise more 1dolar1 more reliably & rapidly.
Priority Application Deadline: TBD
Flexible work options:
· This role can be obtained as either full time or 80 % part time.
· For the 80 % part time, you are able to choose to work:
· Monday to Friday: 6.4 hours per day
· Monday to Thursday: eight hours each day If you choose eighty % part time, you’ll be paid eighty % of the income. In both instances, no less than four hours of overlap with the NYC timezone is needed every day.
Compensation:
At GiveDirectly, we attempt to spend our workers equitably and generously. We utilize an approved 3rd party salary aggregator to guarantee that staff ‘s full compensation package (base compensation bonus) falls within the 75th percentile of the same roles, at similar organizations. We likewise have a no negotiation policy to make sure we’re paying staff equitably across roles.
We are going to share an estimated salary benchmark for the particular country you’re grounded in during the employment process.
About the employment process
Format: The hiring procedure uses the exact same basic outline for those open roles:
· First interview (twenty mins)
· Take home skills assignment (~90 min)
· Panel interview (one hour)*
· Final interview (thirty min)
· Reference checks (twenty mins each)
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Read more about our ongoing diversity, equity, as well inclusion initiatives here along with about our choice to go our main support teams to remote first with these.
GiveDirectly is an Equal Opportunity Employer that appreciates the strength diversity comes to your office. Most qualified candidates are considered for work with no regard to the person’s race, disability, veteran status, marital status, age, sexual orientation, sex, national origin, religion, color, and some other characteristic shielded by appropriate law.
US applicants only: We allow you to “Know Your Rights” as being an applicant.
Commitment to Safeguarding
As a worldwide business serving several of the world’s most vulnerable communities, GiveDirectly requires the safeguarding of its partners, staff, and recipients seriously. To that end, GiveDirectly is a fellow member of the Misconduct Disclosure Scheme, and also will systematically talk with previous employers about any sexual exploitation, abuse, as well harassment problems associated with possible new hires. We might also use different robust pre hire screens, including in depth reference checks, criminal background checks, along with sanctions screens.
GD is dedicated to observing all regional, international and national laws which protect kids, vulnerable adults, along with fundamental human rights in the world. GD is dedicated to a policy of “zero tolerance for sexual exploitation, abuse, and harassment (SEAH)” and expects any person that is effective for GD to uphold the protection and also protecting of our recipients as being a priority.
These initiatives enable us continue building and keep trust together with the communities we serve, preventing destruction of our recipients.
Interview Accessibility and Venue
We carry out interviews over Google See camera on (unless communicated otherwise).
Closed captioning can be obtained during almost all Google Meet interviews, and interviewers will even post interview questions in the chat box throughout the call. If you require assistance accessing either of these functions, please let your interviewer know at the beginning of your interview!
We are dedicated to managing an accessible and inclusive application process for many of our open roles. If you have questions or concerns you’ve around the accessibility of our hiring process, we warmly invite you to meet careersgivedirectly.org. Remember to include the term “Accessibility” in the email title.