Senior Web Developer

African Development Choices (ADC) is a UK-based Social Enterprise on a mission to reduce poverty in Africa by empowering local communities and their leaders to make more informed choices in the management of public resources so that they can independently meet their own needs for essential services. Improving public resources management is key to establishing a sustainable society. And increasing access to essential services, such as clean water and sanitation, is key to fighting poverty because lack of access to essential services is a root cause of poverty.

We achieve this using our unique approach to reduce poverty as follows

• Set better precedent
• Raise expectations
• Increase public participation
• Improve management of public resources
• Increase access to essential services

By delivering access to essential services through our donor-funded community projects, we set better precedents in the management of public resources and the delivery of essential services. Then we raise expectations through education and support and mobilise communities to play an active and informed role in the management of public resources so that they can enact change for themselves. We achieve this by sharing information from our projects that provides a new perspective. It's not the information that empowers communities to participate; it's raised expectations from a new perspective.

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African Development Choices (ADC)
is a UK-based Social Enterprise on a mission to reduce poverty by empowering communities to make more informed choices in the management of public resources.

ADC's purpose is to enable communities to independently meet their needs for essential services, such as clean water and safe sanitation and improve lives in Africa.

At ADC we encourage a working culture of seeking and giving input, showing and taking initiative, and commitment to the organisation and its purpose.

We now have an exciting opportunity for a volunteer Senior Web Developer to join ADC.

Main purpose of job
Develop and maintain the ADC website

Division
Operations

Department
Marketing & Communications

Position reports to
Head of Marketing & Communications

Who reports to this position
N/A

Main Duties And Responsibilities

• Develop responsive and adaptive website, ensuring optimization for mobile devices and cross-browser compatibility
• Work closely with web designers to match visual design intent and to perfect site aesthetics
• Ensure website meets usability and accessibility web standards
• Test and improve website functionality and performance over time
• Put in place a robust backup and recovery procedure

Essential
Knowledge, Skills and Experience

• 3+ years experience as a Senior Web Developer
• Excellent knowledge of WordPress, HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• A keen eye for design and detail, and passion for building modern and elegant websites powered by WordPress
• A strong understanding of optimisation for mobile devices, cross-browser compatibility, responsive web design, and general web functions and standards
• Good experience building website pages from scratch in WordPress
• Ability to work both with autonomy and as part of a team
• Available to volunteer at least 7-10 hours a week
• Ability to actively take initiative and help set things up in a start-up environment
• Ability to actively seek and give input in a collaborative team environment
• A committed team player with good communication skills.

Desirable

• Experience working in an early stage star-tup and gone through a scaling phase
• Passion for the start-up life and comfortable in a role with a little ambiguity

What ADC Offers You

• Free training and learning opportunities
• An opportunity to build your work experience within the field of web development
• An opportunity to be part of a team that is changing lives in Africa
• We provide work references

This job description is a written statement of the essential characteristics of the job, with its principal accountabilities, incorporating a note of the skills, knowledge and experience required for a satisfactory level of performance. This is not intended to be a complete, detailed account of all aspects of the duties involved.
Here at African Development Choices, we celebrate diversity, equity, and inclusion. Our teams are made up of people from all over the world and we welcome all applications. If you are disabled or have a long-term health condition, and you require any reasonable adjustments for your application with us, please let us know by contacting