Senior Web Developer

The Senior Web Developer will be part of the team developing and operating The Mustard Seed’s individual website, including but not limited to program information, donation pages and volunteer opportunities. They will be responsible for ensuring optimal site performance, enforcing brand standards, staying current on and maintaining technological advances.

Employment Type:

Full-time, Permanent

Schedule:

Monday to Friday 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Reporting to:  Chief Marketing Officer

Location:

Calgary, AB
RFR#:  2283

MAJOR DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Collaborate with Website Manager and other departments to ensure the front and back end of the websites work together

Pull monthly web stats and present to the Website Manager

Recommend and integrate new technologies or frameworks

Set coding standards and best practices

Work closely with the Marketing, Communications and Development teams to ensure that websites deliver on campaign priorities

Design and layout website pages and edit images and graphics with image editing software

Test code and templates

Maintain integrations between the website and the Donor Customer Relationship Management (CRM) system (Salesforce)

Make recommendations on ways to improve systems to optimize campaign performance

Advises on budget, priorities and strategic decisions regarding the website

Manage and maintain designated sections of The Mustard Seed internal website Seed Share

Required to abide by all Core IT Training and Health & Safety protocols including completing a report for all incidents that occur, including near misses, in a timely manner

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS AND SKILLS

Post-secondary education in marketing, web design/development, computer programming, or equivalent work experience

Experience working as part of a project team

Familiarity with web marketing practices

Experience in designer web graphic applications

Strong communication and time management skills

Proven experience with web development is a core requirement as well as

Experience working with integrated multi-channel marketing campaigns would be a definite asset

Proven experience in Word Press Content Management System (CMS) and SharePoint CMS

Experience with Craft CMS is an asset

WORKING CONDITIONS

The working environment can be a remote working location or office.

Some weekend and evening work may be required.

Moderate physical effort is required to successfully accomplish the essential job functions, such as keyboarding to word process documents and entering data. Talking on the telephone – both landline and cell – will be necessary.

Moderate to Advanced mental effort is required to successfully accomplish the essential job functions such as meeting deadlines, providing information and resolving data discrepancies in a quick and efficient manner.

Employees are to be aware that many of our clients may experience difficulties or impairment at times, which could result in them uttering threats, discriminatory statements, and other insults at your person. This may be in a raised voice, or in seeing unpredictable behaviour up to and including the possibility of them becoming aggressive.

Training on how to respond is provided, but this is to be considered typical working conditions. Many of our clients are unaware of the impact of these comments.
Familiarity with web marketing practices

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS

An Employment Background Check is required for all positions at The Mustard Seed

As The Mustard Seed is a Christian ministry, we require our employees to agree to respect and not detract from The Mustard Seed’s Employment Values during their employment at The Mustard Seed.

Must have legal authorization to work in Canada on a full-time basis for anyone other than current employer

This position requires the use of a company…