Tucker Foundation Looking for Student Webmaster

Title: Civic Intern Webmaster

Department: Tucker Foundation

Reports to: Director of Administration and Finance

Position:

Category: Temporary (4 terms, 8 hours a week)

Date: Available starting October, 2007

Position Purpose

The Tucker Foundation is searching for a student to maintain the Tucker website and a number of related web applications. This is a paid position through the civic intern program. Civic Interns are usually one term appointments with occasional opportunity for renewal based upon successful performance.

Assigned Task

The webmaster will be responsible for maintaining the current website (http://www.dartmouth.edu/~tucker) as well as creating new content as needed by Tucker. This will include the creation of dynamic pages and applications using MySQL and either PHP or Ruby on Rails, and the maintenance of pages on a content management system and PHP scripts.

The successful candidate will have a strong knowledge of HTML and CSS as well as at least one object-orient programming language (e.g. C++, Java/JSP, PHP, ASP, etc). Experience with a server side scripting language, such as PHP, is preferred. We are willing to consider candidates with knowledge of other programming languages who are willing to learn PHP. Knowledge of MySQL is beneficial but not required.

Requirement: Facility with technology and general software packages required. Some background in statistics or survey work (either academic and/or practical experience) highly preferred. Organizational and interpersonal skills required. Demonstrated ability to work well independently and in a team preferred.

Performs other duties as assigned

Position Requirements

The current webmaster will be available for training and support until the end of the 2007 fall term.

Skills & Knowledge

Strong organizational skills
Strong verbal and written communication skills.
Proficient with technology and computer applications.
Ability to work in a large complex organization.
Ability to work independently and in a collaborative team approach.
Commitment to diversity and to serving the needs of a diverse population
Demonstrated leadership and facilitation skills
Ability to maintain confidentiality
Highly self-motivated
Good networking skills
Able to set goals, create clear statements of purpose, and communicate those goals and purposes to others

Compensation:

$8.50 per hour

Contact

For more information and to apply for the position, please submit a letter describing your experience to both Dr. Nate Jones and Nathan Chung ’07 (current webmaster) via email (Nathaniel.Jones@dartmouth.edu and Nathan.H.Chung@dartmouth.edu)