Drupal Developer
The Natural History Museum is looking to recruit a Drupal Developer to work on the Scratchpads project (http://scratchpad.eu), which is based on the Drupal (http://drupal.org/) content management system. The role encompasses the development of content, theming and functionality for new and existing PHP and Drupal systems and applications.Scratchpads are a web-based informatics tools written using Drupal. They allow distributed groups of biodiversity scientists to create their own virtual research communities on the Web. The successful applicants should be able to work on their own initiative and be proficient in theming, coding, configuring and doing quality assurance on Drupal based websites. Mentored training and support will be provided. You will work with members of the developer and user community (research scientists, software developers and organisations) to manage and parse biodiversity data, in addition to helping with the design, construction and testing of Drupal modules and sites. The project includes opportunities for international travel to meetings, workshops, conferences and presentations as a member of the Scratchpad development team.
A bachelor’s science degree (or equivalent) and previous experience in Drupal web development is also essential for this post.
Salary: £37,564 per annum plus benefits
Contract: Fixed term appointment (9 months)
Closing date: Midnight on Thursday 7 March 2013
Role competences:
- A bachelor’s science degree (or equivalent)
- Previous experience in Drupal web development (version 6 and 7). We require evidence of Drupal websites that the candidate has developed.
- Hands on experience configuring Views, CCK, and other contributed Drupal modules
- Hands on experience configuring the Drupal CMS for use by non-developers to add and edit the content
- Experience with PHP, MySQL, Drupal, SQL, XML, HTML and CSS.
- Knowledge of jQuery/Javascript is highly desirable
- Experience of Linux is also highly desirable
- Experience with Drupal theming and CSS is highly desirable
- Familiarity with other programming languages (e.g Java) in addition to PHP would be useful but not essential
- Familiarity with natural history (biodiversity, taxonomy, systematics) would be advantageous but not essential
Front-End Developer
The Natural History Museum is looking to recruit a Front End Developer to work on integration of the Museum collections digitisation projects. The role encompasses the design and development of the front end of a web application to interface with the Museum’s collections management system, KE-EMu, which will allow the quick and easy addition of multimedia and associated meta-data. KE-EMu is a collections management system designed specifically for natural history museums and other special collections.The successful applicants should be able to work on their own initiative and be proficient in producing beautifully designed and intuitive web applications. Mentored training and support will be provided. You will work with members of the developer and user community (research scientists, software developers and organisations) to identify the key software requirements. The project includes opportunities for international travel to meetings, workshops, conferences and presentations as a member of the Natural History Museum’s development team.
This is a fixed term appointment for twelve months, but with the possibility of a contract extension.
A bachelor’s science degree (or equivalent) and evidence of websites and web application components that you have developed are also essential for this post.
Salary: £36,986 per annum plus benefits
Contract: Fixed term appointment (12 months)
Closing date: Midnight on Thursday 7 March 2013
Role competences:
- A bachelor’s science degree (or equivalent)
- Previous experience in HTML5 web application development
- Experience with systems analysis
- Experience working with a back end developer to produce fully featured intuitive web applications
- Extensive experience with JavaScript libraries, such as jQuery, MooTools, Dojo, Prototype, Backbone.js
- Experience working with a front-end frameworks, such as Bootstrap, Cappuccino.
- Extensive experience cross-browser testing and producing sites that conform to the WCAG 2.0
- Experience in prototyping, designing and creating clean and intuitive web application user interfaces
- Ability to produce designs that are simple, elegant and scale well across screen sizes
- Experience developing user documentation, training and application testing
- Fluent in software such as Photoshop, Illustrator, Fireworks
PHP Developer
The Natural History
Museum is looking to recruit a PHP Developer to work on integration of
the Museum collections digitisation projects. The role encompasses the
development of a web application to interface with the museum’s
collections management system, KE-Emu, which will allow the quick and
easy addition of multimedia and associated meta-data. KE-Emu is a
collections management system designed specifically for natural history
museum and other special collections. It has a well-documented API that
will enable the successful applicant to build and integrate a web
application to support museum digitisation workflows.
The successful applicants should be able to work on their own initiative and be proficient in producing well-documented and tested code. Mentored training and support will be provided. You will work with members of the developer and user community (research scientists, software developers and organisations) to identify the key software requirements. The project includes opportunities for international travel to meetings, workshops, conferences and presentations as a member of the Natural History Museum’s development team.
This is a fixed term appointment for twelve months, but with the possibility of a contract extension.
A bachelor’s science degree (or equivalent) and evidence of websites and web application components that you have developed are also essential for this post.
Salary: £36,986 per annum plus benefits
Contract: Fixed term appointment (12 months)
Closing date: Midnight on Thursday 7 March 2013
The successful applicants should be able to work on their own initiative and be proficient in producing well-documented and tested code. Mentored training and support will be provided. You will work with members of the developer and user community (research scientists, software developers and organisations) to identify the key software requirements. The project includes opportunities for international travel to meetings, workshops, conferences and presentations as a member of the Natural History Museum’s development team.
This is a fixed term appointment for twelve months, but with the possibility of a contract extension.
A bachelor’s science degree (or equivalent) and evidence of websites and web application components that you have developed are also essential for this post.
Salary: £36,986 per annum plus benefits
Contract: Fixed term appointment (12 months)
Closing date: Midnight on Thursday 7 March 2013
Role competences:
- A bachelor’s science degree (or equivalent)
- Previous experience in Drupal web development (version 7) or extensive experience with an alternative PHP framework. We require evidence of websites and web application components that the candidate has developed.
- Experience of systems analysis and systems integration, interfacing with external services via APIs.
- RDBMS experience, ideally one or more of the following: MySQL, PostgreSQL,MSSQL
- Experience with NoSQL databases, such as MongoDB, CouchDB
- Experience working with a front-end developer to produce fully featured intuitive web applications.
- Knowledge of optimising PHP code, especially when interfacing with external services
- Experience with unit testing and systems integration testing
- Experience of command line Linux server administration is highly desirable, including knowledge of command line software like ImageMagick
- Familiarity with other programming languages (e.g. Java) in addition to PHP would be useful but not essential
- Familiarity with natural history (biodiversity, taxonomy, systematics) would be advantageous but not essential
