WANTED: Blether Media needs a tech developer asap

[Kyle MacRae]

Hey, we’re recruiting! If you know your RSS from your Elgg-o, this might be for you…

The job…

Title Technical developer
Hours 9am-5pm-ish Mon-Thurs; 9am-1pm Fri
Terms Freelance on an initial 6 months fixed contract
Pay £2,000/month gross. Negotiable after 6 months
Location Sunny Govan. In a prison cell. You’ll also regularly visit clients’ premises

Overview…

Blether Media was formed in March 2009. The business provides social media training and consultancy for businesses and not-for-profits across Scotland and beyond. Our early success has created an immediate need for a Technical Developer to work alongside the Managing Director. The role involves executing the technical requirements of our clients’ social media strategies.

This position gives the right candidate a great opportunity to join us at an early stage and benefit from fast-track career progression as the company grows. Working within a start-up environment requires, um, a degree of flexibility. You must certainly be genuinely excited about social media and open to reinventing your job description on a regular daily basis.

The post has a fixed 6 month term initially, on a freelance basis, with the intention of moving to a full time salaried position thereafter.

Essential stuff…

* Building and customising WordPress (and similar) platforms, with integration of widgets and plugins etc
* Bespoke website design and development
* Customisation and integration of 3rd-party party social sites and services e.g. YouTube, Vimeo, Flickr, Facebook, Bebo, Twitter, LinkedIn etc
* Building open source networks e.g. Ning, Elgg etc
* Excellent knowledge of emerging technologies
* Providing hands-on client training on their premises in the technical use of social media tools
* Day to day management of all technical aspects of the Blether Media business. Fixing our email would be a start

Requirements…

* High level of technical expertise, demonstrable through a portfolio of work
* Commercial experience an advantage but not essential
* Experience of working within a team and solo without supervision
* Excellent people skills. You’ll need to be patient and calm when training clients
* Willingness to do whatever it takes to meet clients’ expectations
* Ability to remain focused under pressure
* Ability to manage time and workload effectively
* Small business mentality with a dislike for all things corporate

Nice to have…

* An active social media presence
* A positive, glass half-full attitude
* A bike
* Something better to do on Friday afternoons

Apply?

Send us an email with your CV and links to your projects… and tell us why you want to work with Blether Media

Full details here: http://bit.ly/Zjzq3

[Alexander Slawinski]

Hi Kyle,

Sounds like a good opportunity. Definitely interested.

CV attached.

Kind regards

Alexander Slawinski

Tel. [phone]
www.alexander-slawinski.viviti.com