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Front-end Developer 🔥


We are seeking an experienced and creative Front-End Developer with an interest in building technology, websites and potentially apps to support activists and advocacy campaigns to join a newly formed creative team at Cuttlefish.
The position would support a team of marketing, campaigns, creative, and mobilisation specialists, by helping to plan, develop, build, and maintain websites and other digital tools to support clients campaigning on climate change.
This is a new role, working as part of the Design and Creative team, and reports to the Senior Creative Producer.
PREFERRED EXPERIENCE 3-5 years of experience in responsive and adaptive web design or web development.
A creative and strategic thinker, with an understanding of how advocacy campaigns contribute to social change.
Good understanding of digital project management, including scoping new work and completing projects to agreed timelines.
Comfortable working with a remote-first team, using tools like Slack, Monday.com, Trello, Zoom, and Google Suite.

JOB DESCRIPTION

  • Position title: Front-End Developer.
  • Position type: full time, fixed term contract for 12 months. Part time would be considered for the right candidate
  • Location: flexible/home-based between GMT +5 to +11.
  • Application closing date: 15 November 2021.

ABOUT THE ROLE

  • We are seeking an experienced and creative Front-End Developer with an interest in building technology, websites and potentially apps to support activists and advocacy campaigns to join a newly formed creative team at Cuttlefish. The position would support a team of marketing, campaigns, creative, and mobilisation specialists, by helping to plan, develop, build, and maintain websites and other digital tools to support clients campaigning on climate change.

In this role, you will:

Lead on technical support and direction, and creation of websites, landing pages, and other online engagement platforms. 

Use programming languages like HTML, CSS, JavaScript to create, maintain, and improve user-friendly responsive and adaptive websites and landing pages, working with digital strategists and project leads.

Plan and write procedural documents and guidelines relating to web design and development.

Consult with clients and colleagues to understand their needs during project planning to help them write a creative brief. 

Integrate website properties with third-party applications such as CRMs, social media platforms, analytics tools, testing tools and digital marketing platforms. 

Advise on and build dynamic and interactive features for websites. 

Stay up to date with new technologies, and look out for opportunities to use this in new projects. 

Advise colleagues on best-practice usability for websites and landing pages to increase conversions and actions.

Lead on bug testing and QA processes for new projects. 

Manage subscriptions and accounts for domain registrations, website hosting, and website security.

Define the choice of technologies and tools that best suits the needs of the team, including tools for website stability, security, and analytics.

Manage external freelancers and expertise when required, including but not limited to external back-end developers, UI/UX designers and creative agencies.

  • This is a new role, working as part of the Design and Creative team, and reports to the Senior Creative Producer. 

OUR CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES

We’d prefer candidates with experience using these or similar tools:

WordPress, Action Network, Mailchimp, GoDaddy, Cloudflare, Adobe Creative Suite, Cloudways, Google Suite, Supermetrics, Facebook Business Manager, Google Ads, Twitter Ads, Google Marketing Suite (Analytics, Optimize etc), Zapier, Crazy Egg.. 

PREFERRED EXPERIENCE

3-5 years of experience in responsive and adaptive web design or web development.

Expertise in programming languages including HTML, CSS, JavaScript, SQL, Python

Ability to solve technical challenges with a user-centric approach. An understanding of usability and UI and/or UX principles would be an asset.

Experience with cross-browser and cross-devices compatibility and adaptability.

A creative and strategic thinker, with an understanding of how advocacy campaigns contribute to social change. 

Good knowledge of SEO principles, and able to ensure websites adhere to those standards. 

Good understanding of digital project management, including scoping new work and completing projects to agreed timelines. 

Comfortable working with a remote-first team, using tools like Slack, Monday.com, Trello, Zoom, and Google Suite.

Experience with back-end technology and engineering, and mobile application design, would be a plus.

An understanding of how technology can be used for activism and social change, and some of the challenges of this, especially in the Asia Pacific region.

A customer-oriented mindset, motivated to help colleagues find solutions to problems. 

An interest in using your skills to help stop the climate crisis. 

Fluency in English is essential as our main language of working day-to-day. Knowledge of one or more in Bengali, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Mandarin, Thai, or Vietnamese would be an advantage but not essential for this role. 

Please note this is a home-based and remote position. We are not able to offer sponsorship for a business visa or work permit at this time, but can offer access to a shared office space if you’re based in Bangkok, Thailand.

DATES OF CONSULTANCY

We can offer you a 12-month, fixed term contract (including a 3 month probationary period) with a possibility of extending contingent on funding.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for this role, please submit a brief CV with a link to your portfolio and a cover letter outlining your motivation by 15 November 2021. Using the link below

If you have questions about the role, please contact our team at jobs@cuttlefishdigital.co [1].


  1. mailto:jobs@cuttlefishdigital.co

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