Mid- to Senior-Level Web Developer

Yleana Leadership Foundation

• The Yleana Leadership Foundation seeks a mid- to senior-level web developer to help create/maintain an in-house web solution which:
• Tracks student applications and information
• Manages camp-related information during registering and student tracking during and after camp
• Scores tests using OMR and test report management
• Maintain test results and outputs necessary statistics
• We are looking for a person to work by the hour on both creating and maintaining this system.

Compelling candidates should be familiar with (or have been exposed to):

ASP.NET

C#

LINQ

MVC

MVVM (Nice to have: knockout)

integrates APIs (google plus API, Twilio API etc.)

Front-end styling - markup (HTML, CSS) - We are definitely not looking for designing skills just markup coding

Cloud hosting (Azure)

Desired not required: Automated testing (Unit tests, Integration Tests, SpecFlow, Chutzpah etc.)

ReactJS

Desired but not required: .NET core

Desired not required: Familiarity with Scrum/Agile

The development will be managed externally by both our CTO and our senior web developer, who works out of Germany; project management and testing will executed by the Director of Operations in the United States. Flexibility of hours will be necessitated in order to conform with the time zones of folks working; the person who takes this position will need to meet with both the project manager in the United States and the web developer in Germany. Meetings will happen between 1-3 times per week, depending on need.

All communication will happen in English. It is mandatory that this employee speak, read, and write extremely high-level English - directions will occasionally be given verbally by native speakers and will include complicated use cases.

Salary is 20 USD/hr. Although there is no set hourly commitment necessitated and hours can be flexible, we expect this position to do approximately 15 hours of work per week. Also, there are portions of the year at which developers may need to be available at specific times (eg. when tests are being graded for the first time at camp, or when the application opens) to help in real time if something goes wrong.

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About us:

The Yleana Leadership Academy is a residential summer academy which serves rising high school seniors in urban areas (Boston, Lynn/Salem/Peabody, NYC, Philadelphia, and Baltimore) and seeks to close the achievement gap through a three-week transformative intervention summer SAT experience. We are part summer camp (on Colgate University's campus in upstate NY), part intense SAT training using the Socratic method and grounded in asking the questions that help to cultivate higher order thinking skills, and part leadership academy: We explore issues like race, class, power, income inequality, prisons, etc through our Issues curriculum, an open-forum discussion setting where we question these issues through readings by people like James Baldwin, Junot Diaz, bell hooks, Michelle Alexander, WEB DuBois, and Sherman Alexie. We also help our students acquire and hone the soft skills they need through a lens that answers the question "What do I do after college?" through our Entrepreneurship class, which culminates in a one-day startup fair with real live entrepreneurs from everywhere from London to Istanbul to Philadelphia to NYC advising the students all day until they face off in a Shark Tank competition. Students (all of whom qualify for free or reduced lunch, most of whom are first-generation) attend on full scholarship and, besides studying for the SAT, being part of Issues and taking Entrepreneurship classes, enjoy a traditional summer camp experience (complete with Friday night campfires!) while becoming a part of a welcoming and introspective camp community. One of the greatest compliments we received in 2014 came from a student who had been in foster care and had had trouble with her parents telling us that Yleana was the first place she felt safe, like people really cared about her. We strive to create and promote that atmosphere - a loving, caring, safe place for kids who haven't always had it easy.

In 2015, our average score improvement in a 3-week period was 250 points on the SAT. Besides just raising our kids' SAT scores, we also ensure that they have the one-on-one financial aid follow-up that they need in order to apply those SAT scores to the schools that would meet both their financial and academic needs.