Alliance for a Healthier Generation
Title: Front End Developer
Department: Technology Team
Location: Open/negotiable
Hours: Full-time, exempt
OVERVIEW OF THE ALLIANCE
For more than a decade, the Alliance for a Healthier Generation has worked to empower kids to develop lifelong, healthy habits, by ensuring the environments that surround them provide and promote good health. The Alliance, founded by the American Heart Association and Clinton Foundation, operates as an independent 501c3 non-profit organization guided by its own Board of Directors. As one of the nation’s largest children’s health organizations focusing on combating childhood obesity, the Alliance utilizes the best available scientific evidence of programs, policies and practices that positively impact healthy eating and physical activity behaviors among youth. The Alliance’s current work directly impacts more than 25 million children, with a focus on low-income and minority populations who are at increased risk for poor health, obesity and other diseases. To learn more and join the movement, visit https://www.healthiergeneration.org.
It is the goal of the Alliance to fill employment vacancies with the most qualified applicants, whether recruiting internally or externally. Strong consideration will be given to qualified internal candidates. All internal and external candidates must comply with application requirements.
JOB SUMMARY
The Alliance is seeking a skilled developer with front end development, broad system design and implementation experience. This position will be responsible for defining, developing and deploying custom code to deliver high quality, high impact solutions. This position will work on the Alliance’s web products that include:
Alliance website: www.healthiergeneration.org/
Schools: schools.healthiergeneration.org/
Out-of-School Time: host.healthiergeneration.org/
Let’s Move! Active Schools: myactiveschool.letsmoveschools.org/
The Alliance’s custom code is built within Clockwork’s Active Media Manager, on LAMP stack with significant javascript. Data captured online syncs with Microsoft Dynamics CRM. In addition, there are three SSO integrations with third party sites.
The ideal candidate will be an experienced front end developer, comfortable with complexity, detail-oriented, forward-thinking and passionate about children’s health and social change.
