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Development Seed is looking for a smart, creative person who knows Drupal and is passionate about making websites that will impact progressive organizations and their causes.  This job is for a Drupal site builder – you can work from anywhere in the world. Coding isn’t the only job role, you will be involved in every step of the projects you work on. For a typical project, you will:- Help plan how to build a website or online tool to meet an organization’s needs and goals- Convert mock-ups into theme files- Install and configure modules, or build new modules- Help organizations migrate their content- Train people to maintain and update the siteEssentially, one day you will work with a client to develop a new outreach strategy and the next day build a new module, or modify an existing one, to work with this strategy. The right person for the job will like to think up creative, new ideas and get his or her hands dirty in a project. This person also must like to work independently and have the social skills needed to work one on one with a client to push a project through. Lets start working for a month on a project and see what it turns into...MUST have skills:• Understanding of Drupal, PHP, MySQL, and CSS/HTML.• Creative. A lot of the work will involve coming up with innovative approaches, online strategies, and ideas. The ideal candidate will bring new and better ideas and want to have a lot of fun trying out new approaches.• Independent. We are a small team and want someone who works well with a small core of dedicated people and can work with no supervision. Also it is important that the candidate is socially smart with clients and likes researching and learning new applications on their own.• Fast. We are constantly working under tight deadlines and need someone who thrives under pressure and long hours. A killer month is rewarded.• Thorough. All our code is written with detailed technical notes and records of hours for client-billing purposes. Attention to mundane details is necessary in our work, but our creative and fast paced environment make up for it. Preferred skills:• Likes maps• Thinks international development is cool and important• Familiar with U.S. activist bases• Want to plug cell phones into campaigns• Wants to build something that no one has thought of before• Loves giving code back to the community• Proficiency in languages other than English Salary + Benefits• Good Salary – dependent upon experience• Two weeks paid vacation• Health insurance -w00t!About Development Seed:We are a small internet strategy shop based in Washington DC.  We don't just envision outreach solutions. We also sit down and design and build them. Our edge is that  we work closely with our clients to measure our impact, making our strategy very street smart. We like getting our hands dirty and learning from every project. We work progressive organizations that have world changing agendas, realize the potential of online tools, and want to put themselves out there and try new things. The trusting relationship we have with our clients allows us to work on cutting edge functionality. It is a great combination of motivations - really interesting work that’s for organizations that you admire. Our main niche is international development (we actually started as an organization out in the hills of Peru working on development projects that needed multilingual sites). While we are software agnostic, we have been working with Drupal for over three years and see it as an awesome development environment and a platform that can handle almost anything. We chose it back in the day because of its active community and awesome functionality, and both have only gotten better. We are able to do work on some pretty cool project because we are small and agile. One example of this is the recently launched website we did Oke USA, a fair trade banana group (http://www.okeusa.org), which is tightly integrated to Flickr. A giant case of bananas will be delivered to the office next week.  Interested? Send us something that shows us you are right for the job and would be cool to work with... links to websites that you have done, and maybe your blog or flickr account or what you are reading on del.icio.us, anything that you think will show that you are right for the job. Applications are received at jobs@developmentseed.org.