Location:San Francisco, CA or Remote
Hours:10-15 hrs/week
Duration:4-6 weeks
Summary
The Wikimedia Foundation is looking for a Contract Front End Designer for a short project to make usability improvements to our grantmaking platforms.Grants are the main gateway to support innovative ideas and programmatic work at the local level. While we spend a lot of efforts engaging emerging communities, the underlying technology on different grants platforms is not inclusive of ways to navigate the web in emerging economies.
We’re looking for someone who is comfortable in both a design and a technical role (mostly front-end). The Front End Designer will work with the Community Resources team to improve the functionality of two grant incubator platforms,IdeaLabandInspire Campaignpages.
We’d like you to do these things:
Implementing a mobile-friendly design, that makes the content readable on mobile
Creating an accessible archiving system
Curate and archive content
Implementing a consistent navigation that connects both pages
This can be done with existing {{Portal navigation}} template (guidelines). Other portals that have used this template:Learning and Evaluation portal,WikiProject Med.
We’d like you to have these skills:
Experienced in web design (HTML + CSS), mobile-first and responsive design.
Experience in mediawiki mark-up, especiallyfor creating Wikimedia design templates and pages that can be translated. (Read more about wiki templateshere.)
Skills in designing gadgets and scripts on wiki (e.g., LUA, JSON, Javascript)
Interest in designing web content curation systems and user flow.
Strong track record of positive and friendly communication with diverse cultural and language communities.
Proven ability to adhere to deadlines and to seek out learning & support for collaborative projects.
Exceptional verbal and written communication skills and interpersonal skills
*Application instructions:Please include a portfolio mobile projects or mobile-responsive portals, particularly on Mediawiki software
About the Wikimedia Foundation
The Wikimedia Foundation is the nonprofit organization that supports Wikipedia, the other Wikimedia free knowledge projects, and our mission of free knowledge for every single person. We help bring new knowledge to people around the world, lower barriers to participation, and make it easier for everyone to share what they know. We do this by keeping the Wikimedia projects fast, secure, and available to all, protecting the values and policies that allow free knowledge projects like Wikipedia to thrive, building new features and tools to make it easy to read, edit, and share from the Wikimedia sites, and by supporting the communities of volunteers who make the projects possible.
At the Foundation, we build technology to help people everywhere access Wikipedia, across devices and in nearly 300 languages. We engineer privacy for our readers and editors so they can safely and securely explore Wikipedia. We createprogramsand initiatives to make Wikipedia freely available to more people in more parts of the world. We buildnew toolsfor the community of editors so they can continue to improve and grow Wikipedia. Roughly a quarter of our budget goes to supporting the community that make the site possible, including throughgrantmaking programsthat enable volunteers and enrich the information on the sites.
The Wikimedia Foundation is an equal opportunity employer, and we encourage people with a diverse range of backgrounds to apply.
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