The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) is seeking a highly skilled web developer with significant experience deploying the Drupal CMS to lead its web development efforts.
The BPOC is an exciting new technology collaboration of 17 museums, cultural arts, and science institutions in Balboa Park, San Diego, funded by the Legler Benbough Foundation for three years. During this time, the BPOC will work on a number of technology projects that span across the institutions including technology training, conference support, collaborative website development projects such as a multi-institution public calendar and education program scheduling software, collection management system support and integration, collaborative digitization project support and supporting efforts to increase multi-institution visits using alternate reality gaming. Our current members include the Japanese Friendship Garden Society of San Diego, the Mingei International Museum, the Museum of Photographic Arts, the Reuben H. Fleet Science Center, the San Diego Air & Space Museum, the San Diego Automotive Museum, the San Diego Hall of Champions, the San Diego Historical Society, the San Diego Junior Theatre, the San Diego Museum of Art, the San Diego Museum of Man, the San Diego Natural History Museum, The Old Globe, the WorldBeat Center, and the Zoological Society of San Diego. In addition to the required skills listed below applicants should be passionate about the application of technology in the cultural sector. Requirements: * 8-10+ years of professional experience with at least 4 years leading an internal or external development team * Experience building successful enterprise-level websites on the Drupal CMS platform with the requisite expert level skills using PHP, MySQL, and CSS * Demonstrated skills in discovery, specification development, information architecture, and design * Experience with SEO, registration systems, social media tools, content syndication, and ecommerce * Experience in content-driven industries including media, publishing, entertainment, museums, education, nonprofits, etc. * Strong project management skills and experience using code repositories such as Subversion and project management systems such as Fogbugz to manage complex projects * Entrepreneurial spirit and desire to make an impact * Dedicated to the use and support of open source Compensation commensurate with experience. Please direct applications and queries to hhart at balboaparkonline.org<mailto:hhart at balboaparkonline.org>. Thanks, Heather Hart Balboa Park Online Collaborative A Project of the Benbough Operating Foundation 2131 Pan American Plz San Diego, CA 92101 619.819.5143 hhart at balboaparkonline.org<mailto:hhart at balboaparkonline.org>
