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Virtual Project Manager

Radical Designs is a small software development and strategic consulting company devoted to progressive, grassroots social change. Over the last 4 years, we have worked with over 150 clients on a broad spectrum of issues. Our clients protect natural resources and human health, ensure quality of life for the working class, fight white supremacy and the prison industrial complex, and keep the pressure on the US government to reject Middle East militarism as a failed policy. Our clients are winning.

We are looking for a full time project manager that can help us develop successful websites and online organizing strategies for progressive organizations.

Responsibilities:

• Work with the director to develop website bids and project specifications.

• Work with clients to identify organizational audiences, website sitemaps, user pathways, and online organizing strategies.

• Train clients on how to use our content management tools and develop client support resources and documentation.

• Work with clients, web development staff, designers, vendors and other contractors to guide websites to launch.

• Answer ongoing technical support requests and channel these requests to appropriate staff.

• Assist website production staff with website setup and configuration of websites as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Experience with social justice organizations in communications and/or organizing strategy.

• Experience with online organizing strategies and tools. Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

• Familiarity with web site best practices including information design, usability, user pathway design.

• Experience using content management systems and CRM systems.

• Self motivated with high level organizational skills and attention to detail

• Experience with CSS, HTML, and Photoshop

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience with the AMP content management system or Democracy In Action CRM

• Basic familiarity with javascript, apache, PHP or Ruby on Rails

Terms

This is a full time salary position that pays 37-41 thousand a year depending on experience, plus medical benefits and 2 weeks paid vacation. We also do profit sharing at the end of the fiscal year. Employees will be considered for an ownership stake in the company after 2 years. We have an office in the Civic Center area of San Francisco but are open to offsite work and creative hours if you are the right fit for this position. The position starts in early September.

We are really, really chill. We are a small, employee-owned company. We have fewer than ten staff, no foundation money, no venture capital and no debt. We value our people over our contracts every day of the week. We believe in workplace democracy and try to make collective decisions about work load, staffing, projects, technical direction, and other things that will directly affect your job, but avoid long nasty meetings where we are wasting your time about things you don't care about.

If you identify as a member of a community that is underrepresented in the political or technology sector, you are especially encouraged to apply for this position. This includes people of color, women, transgendered persons, people born before 1970, people born below 10ºN, people from Hunters Point and people who have been imprisoned or homeless.

Interviews will take place the last week of July for a position starting in early September

Employer Posted:Wednesday, July 16, 2008