Organization Description:
As the nations leading nonprofit infrastructure organization, Tides offers an array of services that amplifies the efforts of forward-thinking philanthropists, foundations, activists, and organizations. Tides actively promotes change toward a healthy and just society, one founded on the principles of social justice, broadly shared economic opportunity, a robust democratic process, and a sustainable environment. Founded in 1976, Tides has offices in San Francisco and New York City, provides fiscal sponsorship for over 200 groups across the country, operates and supports green nonprofit centers, and has granted more than $650 million since 2000 alone. For more information, please visit www.tides.org.
Position Summary:
Reporting to the Director of IT, the Business Applications Programmer/Analyst will provide scoping, analysis, development, support and maintenance for internal clients and production systems. The ideal candidate will have a broad base of technical skills, display a talent for bridging people and technology, carry high standards of customer service, and have a passion for supporting organizations with a social purpose.
The Business Applications Programmer/Analyst is an exempt position. Exempt employees are expected to work the appropriate and necessary time in order to complete key assignments and related tasks on schedule. This position is temporary and expected to last one year.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:
Business Applications Analysis
Gather and document requirements pertaining to business application implementations
Work with the Technical Project Manager and internal clients to identify, scope and design business application enhancements
Document application processes/workflows (preferably using UML activity diagrams)
Contribute to application solutions research and selection
Business Applications Programming
Lead the planning and development of SharePoint 2007 sites (internally- and externally-facing)
Assist in gathering, documenting and maintaining business application project requirements and specifications; be proactive to understand and document existing application processes and workflow. This includes working closely with the technical project manager to ensure requirements documentation gets completed and signed off by clients
Own the SharePoint 2007 environment and assist in identifying, prioritizing, planning, and developing SharePoint solutions. Provide backup SharePoint support when the database administrator is unavailable or unable to address support issues. Participate on the business intelligence team and utilize SharePoint to develop metrics dashboards and other utilities linked to the data warehouse
Contribute to the development, documentation, and enforcement of processes and policies within the IT department
Learn new technologies and become familiar with implemented business software as necessary
Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:
Familiarity with software development life cycle is essential, and participation in Agile-managed projects is a plus
Demonstrated experience working independently, and multitasking as part of a fast-paced, customer service team
Flexibility to adjust to new priorities
Strong, demonstrated written and verbal communication skills
Excellent interpersonal skills with proven ability to develop effective working relationships with individuals possessing a variety of communication styles in a multicultural environment
Education and Experience:
5+ years professional experience in systems analysis with increasing involvement in developing solutions involving SQL Server 2005, HTML, JavaScript, Cold Fusion (preferred, but another scripting language facilitating database connectivity would be fine), and SQL
3+ years SharePoint development experience, at least one year in SharePoint 2007. SharePoint Designer experience is good, Visual Studio/.NET experience is better
.NET experience is highly desirable
Salesforce experience a plus
Coldfusion, SQL, ASP.NET, and APEX (Salesforce) programming skills desirable
Finance application experience a plus
B.S. degree in Computer Science or equivalent a plus
Application Instructions:
Only candidates who meet the above-stated qualifications will be considered. Your resume MUST INCLUDE A COVER LETTER EXPRESSING YOUR INTEREST IN WORKING TO SUPPORT TIDES AND WHY YOU ARE QUALIFIED FOR THIS JOB. Please submit your application to jobs@tides.org. No phone calls please!
Physical Demands:
Physical requirements: 8+ hours of sitting, walking, talking and listening. Ability to lift up to 25 pounds. Close vision to read monitors. 7+ hours computer work per day.
Equal Employment Opportunity:
Tides is an equal opportunity employer. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, and bilingual and bicultural individuals, as well as members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender communities. Applicants shall not be discriminated against because of race, religion, sex, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, political affiliation, sexual orientation, gender identity, color, marital status, or medical condition including acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related conditions.
Applicants with Disabilities:
Reasonable accommodation will be made so that qualified disabled applicants may participate in the application process. Please advise in writing of special needs at the time of application.
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