Location: London Start: Jan 2006 Length: 12 Months Contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reuters AlertNet (www.alertnet.org), the award-winning humanitarian news website run by Reuters Foundation, is looking for a creative and enthusiastic developer to help with an exciting new project aimed at harnessing online technology to make a real difference in the world. Over the coming months, AlertNet will be developing a set of innovative online resources aimed at bridging the information gap between aid workers and journalists covering emergencies. We're looking for a resourceful programmer with a flair for design to help us come up with practical tools aimed at boosting global awareness of humanitarian emergencies and helping relief agencies respond quickly and efficiently. The successful candidate will have a wide range of responsibilities, from developing new interactive online tools that make best use of new web techniques to making existing online tools more efficient. He or she will also gain valuable nuts-and-bolts experience of developing and maintaining the world's favourite humanitarian news portal. This is an excellent opportunity for a young and motivated developer to work with new web technologies in a dynamic team that aims to put Reuters principles of speed, accuracy and impartiality at the disposal of the humanitarian community. Key Tasks - Responsible for leading a Flash-based country profile comparison project - Testing new AlertNet tools - Streamlining and improving existing site functionality - Occasional out-of-hours monitoring of breaking disaster news for our alerting service Educational Requirements - Educated to degree level Skills - Excellent general HTML, XML and Perl skills - Mason and ASP an advantage. - Good knowledge of Macromedia Flash. - Good knowledge of MySQL and Access databases. - Familiarity with UNIX - Marketing experience an advantage - including advertising and search engine - Knowledge of Photoshop and experience in design an advantage Contact Adam Blacker to apply: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To find out more about Reuters visit www.about.reuters.com Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd. _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list [email protected] http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders
