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Drupal Developer
Location:
New York, NY or remote
Type:
Contract
Full Time
Description:
The Drupal Developer is responsible for site specifications, feature development, and technical build-out of client web sites and web tools. This position's secondary responsibilities include assisting with client support issues.
- Design and develop new functionality for client sites, including database, PHP code, and Drupal module design
- Evaluate and profile Drupal deployments to locate performance bottlenecks and fix them
- Provide technical advice to the Advomatic team and our clients
- Provide time estimates for potential projects and tasks
- Manage tasks within budget and schedule constraints
- Maintain a good relationship with the open-source communities that Advomatic interacts with
- Assist with maintenance and new feature development of Advomatic websites
- Perform other job-related duties and responsibilities as may be assigned
Qualifications:
- 4 years experience in web programming, including PHP and MySQL
- 2+ years experience developing websites with Drupal
- Experience with collaborative development tools such as CVS, Subversion, or Git
- Experience with large scale website migrations from legacy platforms to Drupal
- Comfortable on a Linux command line and working with common web technologies (Apache, MySQL)
- Self-starter with strong self-management skills: goal & results oriented
- Experienced and comfortable working with virtual teams
- Ability to organize and manage multiple priorities
- Solid communication skills and strong customer service orientation
- Attention to detail. When applying please start your cover letter/pitch with “Dear Advoteam,”
- A sense of humor
- Preference for candidates who have Drupal theming and CSS expertise
- Preference for candidates who have previously worked on web sites for progressive advocacy organizations or community websites
- Preference for candidates who have provided valuable contributions to and play an active role in the Drupal community
Overseas independent contractors are welcomed to apply, however if you are a development firm DO NOT APPLY.
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We Left GoDaddy. So Should You! or Why Every Nonprofit Should Care About SOPA
This month the Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill that could end the internet as we know it. If the so-called “Stop Online Piracy Act” (SOPA), currently making its way through the House, or the “Protect Intellectual Property Act” (PIPA), awaiting a vote in the Senate, become law, corporations... more
GLAAD
GLAAD Homepage
The Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD) is dedicated to holding the media accountable for the words and images they present, ensuring that the concerns of the LGBT community are communicated.
Challenges & Needs
GLAAD came to Advomatic seeking to update their web properties. The limitations of their non-Drupal Content Management System had compelled GLAAD to develop multiple external sites to meet their needs. This hurt their Search Engine Optimization ranking, created organizational inefficiencies, and made it difficult for visitors to understand the full range of the organization's resources and content. GLAAD needed to combine several of their external sites into one architecturally sound and usable site built in Drupal.
The new site needed to address the needs of GLAAD's three key audiences: journalists, LGBT Community and Advocates and Allies.
Results
Advomatic developed a new site for GLAAD.org applying best practices in usability and architectural design. We installed the Drupal Content Management System to enable staff to easily update site content and provide scalability for future development and created a mobile version of the site.
We combined GLAAD's various web properties into one site. Key functionality from external sites was integrated into the main website and legacy content was migrated into Drupal.
Advomatic built a news aggregator based on GLAAD's daily newsletter listing important stories of the day from various sources, with a private version for trusted users to publish and share stories. We developed new tools for user-reported media bias incidents and take actions. We installed Apache Solr for high-performance search.
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Innovations for Poverty Action
Innovations for Poverty Action uses quantitative research methods to test the effectiveness of development solutions in several countries including Ghana, Kenya, Mexico and the Phillipines.
Challenges & Needs
When IPA approached Advomatic, their website was running an improperly configured installation of Drupal 5. After a thorough code review, Advomatic recommended an upgrade to Drupal 6 to increase performance and stability. Advomatic rebuilt and debugged the existing site, upgraded to Drupal 6 and applied a new theme and site architecture delivered by Biro Creative. IPA's existing website was outdated and very text heavy. Content was difficult to find and there were few visual elements to engage users and encourage them to learn more about IPA's work.
Results
Advomatic's development team created several new content types and modified existing content types and then installed various modules to support the new features designed by Biro Creative. The new IPA website features more powerful search and simpler architecture so that researchers learning about IPA can have quick access to documentation. Strong visual imagery and improved copywriting are designed to attract donors and public support.
Power Shift 2011
Conference Home Page
The Energy Action Coalition (EAC) includes over 50 organizations dedicated to growing youth involvement in the climate and clean energy movement. In April 2011, over 10,000 college students and activists attended EAC's biannual Power Shift conference in Washington, DC and keynote sessions were streamed to thousands more.
Challenges & Needs
Energy Action reached out to Advomatic in late Fall 2010 hoping for an early 2011 launch of the new powershift2011.org site. With limited staff resources, the Power Shift website needed to handle many administrative processes with ease. In the past, Power Shift's website had been a powerful tool for gathering conference registrations, but did not offer features to the growing community of attendees. Success at Power Shift also required high level logistical coordination and planning that the website needed to support, including volunteer recruitment and capacity planning for session space.
Many Power Shift Attendees were college students whose registration fees were covered by college clubs or administrations. Advomatic designed and built a custom registration process to allow a college club or group to sign up in advance and generate invoices to be delivered to college staff for payment.
Results
Advomatic worked with the Energy Action team to plan phases of development that included launching registration features first, then recruitment tools, volunteer management and subsequently scheduling. The back-end of powershift2011.org was based on the Drupal Conference Organizing Distribution (COD), a Drupal installation designed for conferences that offered several of the required features. Advomatic customized COD to meet Power Shift's unusual registration and scheduling requirements. Using the COD as a base saved development time and allowed this project to meet its aggressive timeline.
In the final phase of the project, Advomatic designed and built a custom mobile theme so that attendees could get conference updates, session times and locations from a variety of mobile devices including iPhone/iOS, Blackberry and Android platforms.
Shortly after the Power Shift 2011 conference, Energy Action Coalition re-branded the existing conference website as We Are Power Shift for conference attendees to engage in the movement and continue their activism.
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