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Front-end Developer
Informatics Programme
Salary Band £20,307-£37,321
The United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC) aims to put the best available biodiversity information in front of national, regional and global decision makers. The Centre is the result of a collaborative agreement between UNEP and WCMC, a UK Charity.
The role:
We are looking for a front-end web developer to join our team to work on high profile projects that make the natural world better.
The candidate:
We are looking for someone who:
* Writes html, JavaScript (including jQuery) and CSS really well.
* Is passionate about clean and elegant UI and code.
* Likes contributing to and working with open source technologies. We use Ruby on Rails. If you have experience of Rails, that would be good.
* Creates maps using JavaScript. We make a lot of maps on our websites.
* Thinks it is good to document their code.
* Likes to work as part of an agile team
* Has a healthy and creative interest in trying new technologies. We like to be innovative.
* Cares about what they work on.
The team:
We are a team of developers/IT people that work together with scientists, geospatial specialists and policy experts to create web applications that support the improvement of our natural world. Here are some of the recent examples of our work:
http://protectedplanet.net/
http://coraldisease.org
http://data.unep-wcmc.org
http://csntool.wingsoverwetlands.org/csn/default.html
The organisation:
WCMC is a UK charity that supports the United Nations Environment Programme. Our mission is to evaluate and highlight the many values of biodiversity and put authoritative biodiversity knowledge at the centre of decision-making. Since its establishment in the 1970s, the Centre has been at the forefront of the compilation, management, analysis and dissemination of global biodiversity information, and has an outstanding record of achievement.
Further information:
For more information, please visit www.unep-wcmc.org. To apply, please complete the application form and submit this and a covering letter with details of current or last salary to recruitment@unep-wcmc.org by 30 May 2011. If possible, include a portfolio of your work and links to your code repository on github/google code, blog, technology site.
Candidates should note this is not a UN post and that only those eligible to work in the UK should apply.
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