Website Manager...

theBigGive.org.uk is a charitable website, which showcases the work of over 8,000 charities, providing an online donation service and organising annual fundraising Challenges. The most recent challenge raised over £9million for charity and launched with a fundraising party at Fortnum & Mason, attended by 800 high profile guests.

The online challenges generate considerable traffic to the website and this year over £2 million was donated by credit and debit cards through the website on the first day, generating millions of requests to the webservers, especially within the first hour. The site receives over ½ million unique visitors per annum and is used by some charities as their sole provider of online donation facilities meaning continuity of service is paramount.

Job Description

The Big Give is looking for a talented individual to take on the role of Website Manager, joining the organisation in August/early September. The Website Manager is responsible for both the day to day running of the website as well as co-ordinating and undertaking any new technical developments for The Big Give.

The Website Manager takes the lead on all online developments, and work includes adding and modifying website functionality, bug fixing, specification writing, testing and co-ordinating suppliers and contractors. The Website manager also plays a key role in facilitating the multi-million pound online fundraising schemes which take place annually in December.

The successful candidate will be joining a high-profile venture and will have a unique opportunity to influence the development of the organisation. The role requires both technical excellence as well as the ability to communicate with charities and donors at the highest levels.

This role will be based in the Reed Foundation office in Knightsbridge, and will include working with Sir Alec Reed, founder of Reed Recruitment and reed.co.uk. Previous graduates in the office have gone on to important roles within the Reed family of companies.

Key responsibilities

• In-house website development, both front and back end
• Project managing any projects which affect the website and its platform
• Ensuring continuity of the website for both donors and charities.
• The planning and design of new features and functionality
• Writing and executing test plans for both internal and external development projects
• Working closely with several third-party developers and contractors
• Managing suppliers, including but not exclusively the webhosting Company, development agencies and payment providers.
• Developing new ideas, initiatives and concepts for theBigGive.org.uk
• Writing functional specifications for external developers
• Championing new technologies and applying new concepts to the site
• Designing, managing and implanting the hosting architecture for the site, ensuring high availability during peak demand, such as the Christmas challenges
• Implementing backup strategies for the site and its data

Person Specification

Required

• 300 UCAS points from 3 A-levels or equivalent (e.g. ABC / BBB)
• A university graduate or undergraduate
• Exceptional PHP5 skills, including the ability to write object oriented code
• A broad knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript
• A working knowledge of MySQL, especially inserting and retrieving data
• Experience working in a Unix/Linux environment
• An example portfolio of previous development work
• Excellent all-round communication skills
• Experience working with source control software, in particular subversion
• Experience creating database schemas and a deep understanding of the MySQL data structures

Desirable

• Studied/studying a science/engineering degree although this will not automatically exclude a candidate if they can demonstrate the other skills required
• Familiarity with the JQuery, javascript Library
• An understanding of Apache webserver, including its configuration
• An understanding of Agile development techniques
• Familiarity with at least one PHP framework
• Familiarity with bug tracking systems, in particular Mantis
• Experience or knowledge of memcache

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