Junior Web Developer Intern

UniversalGiving™, an award-winning global social-entrepreneurship nonprofit organization, is seeking a Junior Web Developer with a passion for frontend programming to contribute to the implementation of major client-side development for UniversalGiving's website. Join our growing Product Development team, and work closely with developers, engineers, and senior management, to improve our web products and increase our product value to better serve our global communities in need.

UniversalGiving™ internships offer exciting opportunities to those wishing to make a significant impact and contribution to our global communities. Join UniversalGiving and work closely with a dedicated international team, while gaining valuable skills and insight in a social-entrepreneurship nonprofit organization.

Testimonial

"Working with UniversalGiving has given me the chance to participate in critical aspects of business management and partnership facilitation, which are opportunities that would definitely be off-limits to "the intern" at most corporations. The friendly and ultra-supportive executive team here wants their interns to contribute to the main goals and aspirations of UniversalGiving in important ways and helps them to do so, which is what makes working here so rewarding and fun - so fun, in fact, that I will continue to be a part of their team even after leaving the San Francisco office!" -- -Emily Stehr, UG Representative at Princeton University, Summer Intern

About UniversalGiving

UniversalGiving™ is an award-winning website allowing people to donate and volunteer with top performing projects all over the world. Our projects are vetted through a proprietary Quality Model™ to ensure the most effective, trustworthy philanthropy possible. Unique to UniversalGiving, we take no cut on donations. 100% of your donation goes directly to the cause.

Located in the heart of San Francisco, UniversalGiving has been profiled on CBS and in FOX Business Network, and has also been featured inBusinessWeek Fast Company, CSRWire, WomenEntrepreneur, Oprah.com, NBC News, The Christian Science Monitor, The New York Times, The Financial Times, MarketWatch, CNNMoney.com, Change.org and See Change Magazine. UniversalGiving™ is the 2010 winner of the Opportunity Knocks' Best Nonprofit to Work for Award.

CEO Pamela Hawley is a winner of the Jefferson Award (the Nobel Prize in Community Service) and was selected as one of 50 leaders to the White House's Next Generation Leadership and Social Innovation event. She is also a Finalist for Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award, and a Colburn S. Wilbur Leadership Fellow at the Global Ethics Institute. She has been chosen as a Fast Company Expert Blogger on CSR.

Duration: Minimum 15-20 hours per week required for the duration of the internship. Ideal candidates are available to work out of our San Francisco office with possibly some work completed remotely for the duration of the internship (4-6 months, 6 months preferred). We are looking for someone to start in early/mid March 2013, but are also considering applications on a rolling basis.

Responsibilities:

• Take a critical role in the deployment cycle and production release of new application components and existing interfaces experienced by hundreds of internet viewers around the world
• Collaborate with our product development team to deliver with quality and efficiency
• Develop, modify, and execute software test plans to ensure exemplary quality of UniversalGiving's website
• Coordinate with other team members to perform rigorous testing, collect detailed feedback, track bugs, and report findings
• Prepare maintenance documentation

Qualifications:

• Understanding of basic software engineering concepts and the software testing life cycle
• Knowledge of open source concepts, relational databases, and frontend technologies with experience in any of the following specific areas being a bonus: HTML, CSS, JavaScript, JSP, SQL, XML
• Familiarity with developer technologies and testing tools with experience in any of the following specific areas being a bonus: Apache JMeter, Trac management, Wiki software, CVS source control
• Meticulous attention to detail is required
• Strong communication and collaboration skills
• Proactive, team player able to work adeptly in a fast-paced environment
• Passion for quality assurance and testing of internet websites
• Interest in nonprofit work, international issues, philanthropy
• Full support of the mission and vision of UniversalGiving™

Benefits:

• Experience working at a global, social-entrepreneurship nonprofit
• Collaboration within a positive team environment
• Increased understanding of and alignment with global issues
• Networking with other nonprofit professionals
• Career mentoring with Pamela Hawley, Founder & CEO of UniversalGiving™
• With positive work experience, references provided
• For students, class credit can be arranged according to school requirements

To Apply:

Email your resume and cover letter to volunteers@universalgiving.org with "Jr. Web Developer Intern/Volunteer" in the subject line. Applications are reviewed on a rolling basis. No phone calls please.

UniversalGiving™ is committed to understanding and representing the diverse populations it serves worldwide. Members of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, races, ethnicities, nationalities, physical abilities or disabilities, religions or beliefs, and cultures are welcome as employees and volunteers in our organization. We believe that a diverse team will best serve our diverse populations.

UniversalGiving's vision is to "Create a World Where Giving and Volunteering Are a Natural Part of Everyday Life."™

For more information please visit:

• UniversalGiving's website
• UniversalGiving's Blog:PhilanthroPost
• CEO Pamela Hawley's Blog: Living and Giving
• Follow Us on Twitter: @UniversalGiving and @PamelaHawley
• Like us on Facebook