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SPUR is an Equal Opportunity Employer and actively seeks a diverse staff that reflects of the community it serves. Employment is based upon personal capabilities and qualifications without discrimination based on race, color, religion, creed, gender identity, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, citizenship status, or any other protected characteristic as established by law.

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SPUR Holiday Cheer Website Manager

SPUR Holiday Cheer Drive Website Manager

Through the annual SPUR Holiday Cheer Drive, we provide winter essentials and meaningful holiday gifts to roughly 600 local children, as well as adults experiencing homelessness in Lynn, Marblehead, Salem, and Swampscott each holiday season. Working with each recipient, social service providers submit wish lists unique to each recipient that include something the recipient wants, something they need, something to wear, and something to read. Each November, all these wish lists are posted online, where sponsors can browse and sign up to sponsor a wish list.

We are in search of someone to assist us with the upkeep of this website during the Holiday Cheer Drive, technical support as needed, and providing minor updates to the site to enhance user experience. Due to a new platform update, dependency conflicts need to be fixed before this year’s drive. If you have experience with Heroku, a cloud platform as a service (PaaS), and would like to assist a local non-profit of providing hundreds of recipients receive meaningful gifts and winter essentials please apply by emailing jobs@spurnorthshore.org with your resume and cover letter.

Salary is commensurate with experience.

Requirements:

Be proficient in Python 3
Be able to utilize Flask framework
Experience with/ability to apply skills with web development including

HTML, Bootstrap, Postgres, and Heroku deployed with Git

Be comfortable managing version updates and dependency conflicts for

Flask, Python, and other dependencies

Ability to manage APIs for Postgres, etc.

Recommended:

Ability to rewrite/reorganize old/patched code using principles such as

modularity and separation of concerns