Wordpress Engineer New New York, NY

GiveDirectly (GD) aims to reshape international giving – and millions of lives – by providing cash grants directly to the world’s poorest. The Brookings Institution estimates that $70B of cash transfers would be required to eliminate the poverty gap; the aid sector currently spends $135B each year, much of it on evidence-free interventions. GiveDirectly wants to change that, establishing cash transfers as a benchmark for foreign aid – as the index fund is a benchmark for the financial industry – and in the process accelerating the end of extreme poverty.GD has raised over $1B since launching in 2011, delivered cash to more than 1.5 million people in 15 different countries. We’ve also supported large-scale, experimental research that indicates strong recipient impact of our programs. As a result, GD has been celebrated as one of the most innovative non-profit companies by Fast Company, while the growing cash transfer movement (and GD’s leading role within it) have been featured in the New York Times Magazine, This American Life, Foreign Affairs, and The Economist.Across our global offices, our culture is candid, analytical, non-hierarchical, and agile. We work alongside 750+ individuals who come from 21 different countries and speak 69 different languages. Team members at GiveDirectly attest that diversity, equity, and inclusion are not just buzzwords, but a fundamental part of our culture and values. We actively seek to recruit individuals from the communities we serve, and use DEI as a lens in our hiring practices, programs, and initiatives. Our goal is to maintain a workplace where everyone can bring their authentic selves to work, and feel valued and respected for who they are. We strive to be inclusive of all cultures and experiences while upholding our values globally. In the spirit of our "Know Yourself and Grow" value, we recognize there is always room to improve our team's working experience. But day to day, we aim to "Create Positive Energy" - we take care of one another, have fun, aim to maximize flexibility and accessibility in roles, and pursue professional development opportunities to stay challenged & engaged in our work.We are proud to be an equal opportunity employer, and we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or any other status protected by law.Role OverviewTitle: Wordpress DeveloperAre you ready to genuinely transform people’s lives with your work? We want you to work together with our designer, website manager and engineers to continuously improve www.givedirectly.org to help raise more money for those in extreme poverty.This role has previously been carried out by a volunteer in a few hours per month. However, we are now ready to be more ambitious and take our site to the next level by investing in you and an in-house designer.This won’t be project work with artificial client-driven deadlines, nor will it be work that makes little difference to the world. You will be continuously improving the same site, working with great people you will get to know well, and every $1000 or so that we raise transforms a life.The end of the calendar year is busy for us: it is when we raise the most money. Part of the goal of having someone in-house is that we can be better prepared and ensure that nothing goes wrong at this critical time, making everybody's lives and stress levels much easier.Reports to : Fundraising engineering managerLocation:This role is fully remote and has flexible hours that might suit you if you have caring or other commitments that mean you cannot do 9-5 in an office. We require you to overlap with an East Africa time zone by at least 4 hours each day so we can meet and talk with people in the USA (where we raise most of our money) and Africa (where we give out most of our money). You will need to travel for between one and three weeks a year to meet the rest of your wider team face-to-face.We are also open to the role being 80% part-time if that is more attractive to you.Responsibilities:Maintain our Wordpress infrastructure to ensure it is always secure and available.Plan, review and schedule updates to the core site, plugins and other dependencies.Manage our hosting (we currently use wpengine, but are open to other solutions if you want and there is an in-house software engineering team if you need more support).Improve www.givedirectly.org to raise more funds. This means working closely with our in-house designer, website manager and other staff to:Implement new Wordpress components so other GD people can develop and update pages and blog posts independently.Implement style and theme changes across the site, including menus and footers.Completely implement and A/B test changes to our most important pages.Work with our website manager to identify pages that are no longer needed.Work with the designer to clean up our legacy styles and themes.Clean up or out old plugins and old code and approaches.Qualifications:You care about our mission to end extreme poverty.You have emotional intelligence and can foster inclusivity - our team is drawn from many countries and cultures.You possess a can-do, problem-solving attitude. We need you to be willing to work with what is there and do your best.You can plan and organize your own multi-month projects.You have the ability to follow through on plans - you don’t forget, even when the next step can’t be taken for months.You can reason about messy systems - our systems and approaches are not neat and tidy.You know how to manage a Wordpress site, create and update Wordpress themes and blocks, keep Wordpress secure, and work within and clean-up messy legacy Wordpress sites.You have experience working in a team with one or more designers and website managers, managing your own time and work without immediate supervision or deadlines, and proactively keeping everyone informed about what is happening.This is not a good role for you if:You are a perfectionist. We want to raise more funds for recipients, not build the best.You crave the variety of different projects. You will be working on www.givedirectly.org.You need an office environment. If there are other GD employees where you live, they may cluster in a co-working space some days. But mostly you will be on your own.You need the adrenaline of tight deadlines and close supervision to do your best work.Nice to haves:We welcome and strongly encourage applications from candidates who have personal or professional experience in the low-income and/or historically marginalized communities that we serve.If you have an eye for design, or copy-writing, or more substantial software engineering, then there will be opportunities to grow in that direction.If you have experience with user testing and designing based on user feedback, then that will help us raise more funds reliably and rapidly.Priority Application Deadline:

TBDFlexible work options:This role is available as either full-time or 80% part-time.If you opt for 80% part-time, you will be paid 80% of the salary. In both cases, a minimum of 4 hours of overlap with the NYC timezone is required each day.Compensation:At GiveDirectly, we strive to pay our employees generously and equitably. We use an accredited third-party salary aggregator to ensure that staff’s total compensation package falls within the 75th percentile of similar roles. We also have a no negotiation policy to ensure we are paying staff equitably across roles.We will share an estimated salary benchmark for the specific country you are based in during the hiring process.About the hiring process:The hiring process follows the same general outline for all open roles:First interview (20 mins)Take home skills assignment (~90 min)Panel interview (1 hour)Final interview (30 min)Reference checks (20 mins each)GiveDirectly is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values the strength diversity brings to the workplace. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law.

#J-18808-Ljbffr