Front End Web Developer

Job Overview / Summary (What and Why):
IRC’s Digital Fundraising Platforms department is responsible for the global delivery of the International Rescue Committee’s fundraising platforms and plays an essential strategic role in IRC’s plans to expand its global Revenue footprint in the coming years significantly.

The team’s focus is to improve and scale the effectiveness of IRC supporter acquisition programs worldwide. The Digital Platforms team comprises colleagues and teams delivering Marketing Technology, Analytics, CRM, product, and project management. Colleagues

are located across the globe.

The Front-end Developer works with the Enterprise CRM/Donation Platform team to develop the overall look, design, and functionality of donation platforms across IRC’s Global Mass Markets.

The right candidate has an in-depth knowledge of web application development and can build projects from Photoshop and Sketch files using HTML5, CSS3, and various JS libraries and frameworks.

Major Responsibilities:

·Works in close collaboration with cross-functional teams (Marketers, Design/Content, Developers) to ensure development projects are delivered on time, within budget, and with high quality.

·Ensures that the design and functionality of supporter-facing platforms supports fundraising strategy goals and is consistent with organizational brand guidelines.

·Monitors website KPIs in Google Analytics, Data Studio and Salesforce

·Leads in Quality Assurance Testing, Cross browser testing, and User Assurance Testing

·Partners with CRM team on CRM integration, QA, and end-to-end testing

·Partners with CRM/Fundraising Platforms in documenting projects and processes

·Works closely with Marketing and Brand/Creative teams to creates tools and features that enhance the User’s Experience on IRC websites

·Ensures websites are accessible across many platforms, browsers and devices

·Routinely test marketing and donation platforms for ease of use, speed and other quality factors

·Fixes website issues or bugs that arise

·Lead in Donation Pattern Library Creation and Management including building out form and other donor engagement platform components in the Pattern Library

·Lead Developer advocate/liaison for Accessibility Development

·Lead developer liaison for Conversion Rate Optimization on landing pages

·Front-end development of new engagement and donation features across IRC domain

·Front-end development of website templates (Springboard, iRaiser, Rescue Gifts) and other supporter-facing digital marketing points

·Other tasks

Key Working Relationships:

Position Reports to:Associate Director, Gobal Fundraising Platforms & Marketing Analytics

Other Internal and/or external contacts:

Internal: Works closely with colleagues in the Marketing and Brand teams; coordinates digital development projects with Marketing and CRM;

External: Works as part of web development team that includes frontend development, marketing analytics, and collaboration with external consultants (including vendors, developers, designers). Works with global marketing teams in the USA and Europe on platforms and developement. Collaborates with external consultants (including software developers and designers).

Job Qualifications:

Education:

Minimum:Associates Degree or related course work

Preferred: Coursework in Computer/Information Science or equivalent work experience

Work Experience:

eCommerce Web development; Web UIs; CMS

Programming Languages

HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JQuery, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL

Required:

·Advanced HTML5, CSS3, SASS, JQuery, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL

·Advanced in evaluating visual design for web development (Photoshop)

·Expert in web analytics and tracking web KPIs using Google Analytics, GTM, or similar

·Passionate about coding accessible websites: expert in mobile first and responsive design, User Experience (UX), and Web Usability (ADA & WCAG).

·Experience collaborating with UX design and content teams

·Experienced with multilingual display of right-to-left languages and non-English character sets

·Experience auditing front-end architecture

·Experience configuring and coding A/B tests for Google Optimize and Optimizely etc.

·Agile development methology

·Version Control – Git

·Front end design systems – Patternlab

·Excellent interpersonal and communications skills.

Licenses or Certifications:None required

Language Skills:NA

Working Environment: Fast-paced and fluid work environment