The American Institute of Biological Sciences has an immediate
opening for an IT Operations / Web Manager in its Washington DC
Office. See
http://www.aibs.org/classifieds/aibs_positions_available.html for
details. Interested applicants should send a text-only cover-letter
and resume to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
The position reports to the AIBS Director of Information Technology,
works directly with the AIBS Executive Director, and interacts
frequently with senior members of academic and science
communities. Superior oral and written communication skills, solid
project, vendor, and office management skills, and a wide degree of
creativity and latitude are required. Successful candidate will have
a passion for technology and for hands-on creation and management of
high-quality Internet publishing efforts.
The position is responsible for:
- Maintaining and extending several Movable Type and PHP-based Web
sites featuring science and biology-oriented content, including
www.aibs.org, www.actionbioscience.org, and www.copusproject.org
- Managing a junior staff member who's primary foci are end-user
support for a staff of 15-30 and Web site maintenance
- Serving as IT Department liaison to AIBS Department Managers (3-5)
in the headquarters office, working to understand needs, propose
effective solutions, arrive at consensus, and implement
- Managing (and assist with management of) relationships/contracts
with vendors supporting technology infrastructure for the
headquarters office, and vendors assisting with technology project
implementation
- Assuming responsibility for technology infrastructure maintenance
and growth for non-IT staff
Demonstrated full cycle experience in the following areas are key:
- Minimum of five years demonstrated experience and growth supporting
technology needs for small to mid-sized organizations (non-profit
experience preferred)
- Demonstrated experience with full cycle publishing of large content
management system-driven Websites required. Expertise with the
Movable Type platform highly preferred, or related (WordPress,
Drupal, etc.) experience and willingness/ability to develop
high-level Movable Type skills required: MT3 -> MT4 -> MTCS
- PHP
- Well developed, mature information architecture, database design,
Web-site and graphic design skills
- HTML, CSS, Javascript
- Light Unix system admin skills
- Apache
- Mac OS X, Windows
Posted by Richard O'Grady, AIBS Executive Director
