Data-Driven Project

OKFN — Fri, 13 Feb 2015 00:00:00 +0000

Organization: OKFN

Status: closed

Compensation: competitive

Role: Front-end Developer and UX Designer

Frontend Developer and UX Designer for Data-Driven Project

What: working on cutting edge data-driven, high-impact open knowledge projects related to public finances and healthcare with a world-leading non-profit.

Designing and implementing a new user experience around clinical trials data to present complex information to patients and healthcare professionals in a simple way. More than 10,000 people a year die each year in the UK alone from adverse effects to prescribed medications. This project is part of an ongoing effort

Skills and experience wanted

[Essential] Experience designing compelling web-based user experiences presenting information to non-expert users [Essential] Excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS and frontend javascript [Essential] Familiarity and opinions on one or more frontend development frameworks (but paired with flexibility and a lack of dogmatism) [Essential] Good experience with version control tools preferably git and github Desirable Experience in visualization a real plus [Desirable] Agile, sprint-oriented development process Familiarity with free/open-source software and its processes (bonus points if you have run or contributed to an f/oss project) General

With 3-4h timezone of London (we’d love to be more flexible but in our experience it is hard to work effectively with someone further afield) Prior experience working effectively with remote teams You can take the initiative and relish challenge and the ability to work in a self-directed manner in harmony with a broader team Form of Engagement

Likely length of the engagement: at least 6m close to full-time Start date: it can vary but we would Form of engagement: this will be a contracting role Test: give them some data from e.g. http://wiki.okfn.org/Get_The_Data_Challenge or github.com/datasets and ask them to mock a small website presenting it.

How to Apply:

See the GitHub repository (okfn) or description below

agile | Open Source Design

Data-Driven Project

Frontend Developer and UX Designer for Data-Driven Project

Skills and experience wanted