The mission of the Healthy City Project is to improve the ability of low-income, underserved children, youth, and their families to access services and to facilitate smarter resource planning throughout California. To this end, Healthy City (HC) has created a user friendly GIS mapping website that provides access to the largest database of community resources and localized demographic, health, and economic data for all of L.A. County and is expanding to cover the entire state over the next few months.
Healthy City is seeking a Full-Time Web Developer/PHP Programmer with high level technical expertise and experience to support the development and maintenance of our successful online systems. This is a temporary full-time position with possibility for permanent employment. This position will work directly with Healthy Citys Technology Manager and Technology Consultants on our various technical projects including website design, development, maintenance and administration. Healthy City offers a high-paced, highly creative, highly meaningful work experience with opportunities for continued learning and growth.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
o Participate in development, coding, testing, and debugging of new applications or enhancements to existing Web-based applications.
o Participate in systems analysis and design efforts regarding user interfaces, definition of process specifications and design of application structures.
o Conform to in-house software development processes, and defined software design methodologies for the development and implementation of Internet based applications.
o Support database management and maintenance for healthycity.org as well as other projects; support data preparation, formatting and clean-up.
o Perform quality assurance testing and usability testing for various project applications.
o Gather monthly logs, archive and maintain files, and generate reports.
o Participate in regular team project design and update meetings.
o Perform any other job duties as assigned by either Technology Manager or Healthy City Director.
Additional Qualifications:
o 3+ years of relevant programming and application development experience
o High-level programming/scripting experience (PHP5 tree, JavaScript, XML, CSS).
o High-level SQL programming.
o Strong debugging experience with code written by other developers.
o Experience with the development and support of web enabled database applications.
o Experience migrating databases and/or changes between environments.
o Strong background in open-source environments, software, and tools (Linux, Apache, PHP, PostgreSQL, MySQL, etc).
o Computer Science trained graduate or with equivalent work experience.
o Strong web application documentation, design, coding and testing experience.
o Proven analytical ability to create/modify application code to support new functionality.
o Proven ability to execute project deliverables within effort and elapsed time estimates
o Proven experience in meeting workload estimates as defined in project work plan.
o Understanding of Web 2.0 concepts and capabilities.
o Interest working with GIS mapping.
o Excellent interpersonal skills and the proven ability to work with diverse communities.
o Flexibility to adjust and contribute to continually evolving work situation and changing priorities.
Location: Los Angeles, CA
Telecommute: No (onsite position)
Compensation:
Salary: DOE between $20-25/hour
How to Apply:
Please send cover letters, resumes and sample code to:
ATTN: Lori Thompson, TECHNOLOGY MANAGER (HEALTHY CITY)
1541 Wilshire Blvd. Ste 508, Los Angeles CA 90017
Or e-mail to: lthompson@advanceproj.org or fax to: 213.989.1309
Application Deadline: Open Until Filled
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Tags: Web Developer/PHP Programmer (Downtown LA)
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