Pathfinder Overview: Pathfinder International is dedicated to creating access to and improving the quality of family planning, reproductive health, abortion, and community- and facility-based HIV and AIDS care and services. In partnership with host country governments and nongovernmental organizations, we train facility-based health care providers to improve both the quality and range of their technical and counseling skills. Facility-based services are further improved through provision of equipment and facility renovations. We mobilize communities to advocate for quality services and improve access through trained community-based volunteers. Pathfinder improves youth’s access to health care by creating youth-friendly services and training peer educators to promote them. In each project, Pathfinder works with our partners to improve both their management and program implementation capacity. Through all that we do, Pathfinder strives to empower women, men, adolescents, and communities to make choices and create environments conducive to healthy reproductive behaviors.
Program Overview: The Information Systems Unit is tasked with shaping and supporting the use of technology throughout Pathfinder to enable and further our mission. The technologies supported range from standard infrastructure systems, such as communications, networks, user systems, servers, and storage to complex business systems that handle Pathfinder’s financial and programmatic data.
Position Purpose: The Developer provides broad-ranged software programming to enhance and extend Pathfinder’s technology solutions. The current or planned systems affected are:
- SharePoint Intranet
- Finance systems
- ETL (data moving) processes
- Data and indicator systems
- ISU infrastructure (monitoring, inventory) systems
Key Responsibilities: The Developer provides software development and support for a variety of projects using a mix of languages and technologies (primarily Microsoft .NET). S/he assists in developing and using Pathfinder’s revision control, software architecture and coding systems and practices. The Developer additionally provides technology expertise and insight to Pathfinder departments, groups and units who are considering system design decisions that could involve software development.
The key tasks include:
- Design, develop, deploy & modify database-driven SharePoint applications, sites and web parts.
- Design, develop, deploy & modify database-driven web applications and services using .NET or PHP.
- Design, develop, deploy & modify ETL systems.
- Provide general programming support for smaller projects.
Basic Requirements:
Technology
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.
- Experience with full life cycle of development; analysis, design, development, testing and implementation of a proposed solution.
- Minimum 3 years of software development experience developing web based applications (including Ajax / JavaScript)
- Minimum 2 years of experience in the development of applications using the Microsoft .NET platform.
- Minimum 1 year of experience with Microsoft SharePoint.
- SQL experience including basic data selection, storage, data management, stored procedures and relational database design.
- Experience with UI design and data visualization concepts.
- Experience with web services.
- Understanding of performance considerations and design for web applications.
General
- Ability to find creative solutions to unusual problems.
- Ability to work well in a team environment and collaborate with a variety of business and technology colleagues on ideas, work flow, technologies, and processes.
- Strong written and oral communication skills to describe the benefits and outcomes of technology solutions to varied audiences.
- Ability to manage and communicate multiple project demands.
- Enthusiasm to learn new technologies and grow professionally.
- Ability to communicate with non-technology business colleagues to elicit needs, specifications and feedback.
- Strong personal initiative and ability to work without constant management oversight.
Preferred Qualifications
Technology
- PHP / Java / Python / Ruby development.
- ETL process design and development.
- XML data files creation and manipulation.
- GIS & spatial data analysis.
- Work in group development and code-control systems.
- Experience with the QA testing cycle & tools.
- Creation and implementation of programming specifications.
- Mobile device development on .NET or Java (Android).
- Microsoft Silverlight development.
General
- International experience in Africa, South America or Asia.
- Experience working with colleagues whose primary language is not English.
- Experience working in low-resource (bandwidth) environments.
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