This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/512817000. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
The Office of Communications supports CBOs mission by developing, executing, and managing successful digital strategies. The web developer will provide technical expertise to help ensure seamless day-to-day operations and develop tactical and strategic improvements to CBOs digital presence.
Learn more about this agency10/03/2018 to 11/04/2018
$95,000 - $125,000 per year
AD 11 - 12
1 vacancy in the following location:
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Permanent
Full-time - Full Time
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The Congressional Budget Office is a small nonpartisan agency that provides economic and budgetary analysis to the Congress. The Office of Communications seeks a second front-end web developer to serve as a systems administrator for CBOs public website and as a driver of innovative digital solutions. The Office of Communications supports CBOs mission by developing, executing, and managing successful digital strategies. The web developer will provide technical expertise to help ensure seamless day-to-day operations and develop tactical and strategic improvements to CBOs digital presence. This is a midlevel position requiring an experienced person who can shift seamlessly between producing well-documented code, upgrading Drupal, writing valid CSS3, designing user interfaces, and effectively integrating interactive media projects into CBOs website. The roles responsibilities include: Creating prototypes and demonstrations of new functionality, in line with CBOs mobile-first approach, that makes the agencys work more accessible and interactive while providing optimal user experience. Serving as a technical expert for digital projects, ensuring that new capabilities are compatible with CBOs content management system (Drupal) and can be effectively integrated into the website. Modifying existing code bases, adding or configuring new Drupal modules, and creating custom modules or applications as needed to implement digital enhancements. Monitoring and applying necessary patches to ensure consistency between module dependencies. Extending themes, user interfaces, information taxonomy, and architecture to meet stakeholders objectives. Monitoring CBOs cloud-hosted servers and conducting regular reviews to ensure that CBO is receiving the maximum benefit from its external infrastructure. Helping to manage relationships with external contractors, serving as a day-to-day point of contact.
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Applicants must have a bachelors degree and at least five years of experience maintaining websites; that experience must include working with Drupal. An additional four years of related experience may be used in lieu of a bachelors degree for a total of nine years of experience. In addition, applicants must: Be experienced at working with open-source web platforms. Have experience managing deployments in Drupal with multiple developers across different environments as well as experience developing custom Drupal modules. Have strong JavaScript, HTML5, and CSS3 development skills, as well as experience using a CSS preprocessor, such as SASS. Be skilled working with MySQL databases and PC data formats including CSV, JSON, and XML. Have experience using Drupal development tools such as Lando, Drush, and Composer. Have experience with mobile-first or adaptive design principles. Demonstrate expert PHP development skills. Have a firm grasp of Drupal 8 APIs. Possess a working knowledge of community-contributed Drupal modules. Be self-motivated, detail-oriented, and capable of managing complex projects. Have a working knowledge of information taxonomy and data management. Be experienced with maintaining a central repository (for example, Git) for managing and documenting a code base. Desirable skills include: Experience working with managed cloud hosting; experience with client-side presentation libraries, such as D3, TauCharts, or Chartist; configuration management experience with Drupal 8 and familiarity with headless/decoupled Drupal as well as React or Angular (Javascript libraries); experience using and customizing Apache Lucene/Solr, including fielded searches and customized indexing; experience developing user interfaces for websites that publish large quantities of text, graphs, and other data visualizations; mature data visualization and presentation skills; a working understanding of statistics and economics; experience integrating external web services (REST, JSON, XML-RPC); and experience with project management and collaboration tools such as JIRA
Applicants must have a bachelors degree and at least five years of experience maintaining websites; that experience must include working with Drupal. An additional four years of related experience may be used in lieu of a bachelors degree for a total of nine years of experience.
This job is being filled by an alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive civil service.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Your application includes your résumé, responses to the online questions, and required supporting documents. Please be sure that your résumé includes detailed information to support your qualifications for this position; failure to provide sufficient evidence in your resume may result in a not qualified determination. Those who aren't qualified will be informed and not considered further. Others will be referred to the hiring division for further consideration.
NOTE: To ensure consideration you must submit a complete application by November 4, 2018 at www.cbo.gov/careers (not USAJobs). Although we may continue to accept applications beyond that date, we are only ensuring that those who submitted by the deadline above will be considered. Should the hiring division wish to review candidates who applied after that date, we will then process those applications to determine if they are qualified and should be forwarded for management review.
Please submit a cover letter, résumé, salary history, several work samples, and contact information for three references at www.cbo.gov/careers. This position may close any time after November 4, 2018. Incomplete applications will not be considered.
DO NOT APPLY THROUGH USAJOBS or EMAIL- APPLY ONLINE AT www.cbo.gov/careers.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
DO NOT APPLY THROUGH USAJOBS or EMAIL- APPLY ONLINE AT www.cbo.gov/careers.
Please submit a cover letter, résumé, salary history, several work samples, and contact information for three references at www.cbo.gov/careers. This position may close any time after November 4, 2018. Incomplete applications will not be considered. This position is governed by the Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 as made applicable to CBO by the Congressional Accountability Act, as amended.
You will receive an email confirming that you have applied to the position. Once your application is reviewed, it will be forwarded to the hiring division if you are qualified. If you don't meet qualifications, you will be informed by email and your application will not be considered further. All qualified candidates will be informed by email when the position has been filled.
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This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/512817000. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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