Website:

 

Commences:

ASAP

 

Remuneration/ payrate:

Voluntary

Location:

Various

 

Summary

Embrace offers free tutoring to refugee high-school students and other students facing significant challenges to completing their education. We are looking for someone to further develop and manage our website.

Details

Embrace Education is a registered non-profit, Uni-student run organisation that provides free tutoring and mentoring to disadvantaged high-school students in Melbourne. We have a particular focus on assisting students from refugee and recent migrant backgrounds, as we recognize that these students often face extraordinary difficulties in completing their education.

Started in only late 2006, the program now offers significant tutoring support to students in need. In addition, we also provide students with material aid in the form of second hand computers, stationery, textbooks and calculators, as well as new items purchased through grant funds, to support their studies.

Our website is based on Drupal 6 and was set-up in 2009 by a Monash IT student. As he is now overseas, we are looking for someone to help us further develop the site. This voluntary position offers an IT student (or person with similar experience) the chance to use their skills to contribute to a Uni-student run not-for-profit organisation that is increasing the life-chances of disadvantaged high-school students, in addition to developing further experience in website module management and building.

 

Areas of Responsibility:

 

The three key areas the successful applicant will be involved with are...

1.      Regularly updating modules and other website components to increase website security and stability

2.      Further development of background systems to enhance our managerial efficiency

3.      Troubleshooting when elements of the site generate errors or misbehave

o   This will include acting as the main contact for website visitors who have suggestions for improvements

 

Time Commitment: 5–10 hours per week. This commitment will vary depending on the level of active development of the site at any given time; most weeks the time commitment will be well below figure.

 

Location: the successful applicant must be able to meet once per month at Monash Clayton. However, the remaining work can be completed from home.

 

Selection Criteria:

 

The successful applicant must satisfy the following criteria:

·         Suitable web development experience...

o   experience with Drupal (or similar e.g. Joomla) will be highly valued

o   coding experience in appropriate languages such as php

o   general IT experience (e.g. through studies/work etc)

·         Commitment to the ideals and vision of Embrace Education

·         Organisation and time-management skills

o   Ability to complete tasks on time and to a high-standard

·         High standard of professionalism and personal ethics

·         Good communication skills and ability to work effectively in a team

 

 

Application procedures

Please send an expression of interest to admin@embrace-education.org with the following information:

·         Your Resume or Curriculum Vitae

Applicants will also be expected to undertake:

·         An interview

·         Both a Police and Working With Children Check

 

 

Application closing date: December 12th, 2011, 5:00pm.