Job Title: Public Interest Technologist / Civic Hacker. Location: David N Dinkins Municipal Building, Civic Center, Manhattan. Salary: Salaried, full time position, $80,000; benefits provided by the Fund for the City of New York. Summary: BetaNYC is New York City’s civic technology, open data, and civic design community. Starting as a meetup in 2009, it has since grown to be a non-profit organization that hosts events, facilitates policy change, demystifies big ideas, and empowers a new generation of civic hackers. In a strategic partnership with the Manhattan Borough President Gale A. Brewer, BetaNYC is evolving a technology and design lab to support for the City’s community boards. Via human centered design practices, BetaNYC has worked with the Manhattan Borough President and Community Boards to outline a number of digital tools and data insights to improve community board operations. Now, we seek an energetic resident technologist and civic hacker to help maintain our digital projects, help build new tools, and help mentor our civic innovation fellows. We are looking for a creative technologist / software developer and effective communicator who can work diligently in a small diverse team, support BetaNYC’s work and ensures coordination across technology projects. If you think you meet many of these qualifications (not 100%), reach out anyway. We know that a savvy hacker can grow into this position. Ideally, you are a creative thinker who wants to solve civic problems at scale. We operate on open source principles: you should know how to communicate, collaborate, and think about our work as a collective effort. Responsibilities and Duties: You will be responsible for making new civic tech tools and maintaining BetaNYC’s digital/web products (eg BoardStat, Boundaries Map, CityGram, the Community Data Portal, SLAM, Tenants Map, etc). You will report to the Executive Director, with whom you will set weekly objectives. Manage communications with various stakeholders groups, not limited to elected officials, government agencies, community board members, community organizations, and private sector partners. Give presentations and trainings; write how-to documents. You will be expected to create and maintain documents via Google Docs Suite and Microsoft Office platforms, manage content on BetaNYC’s website, discussion boards, data portal, and Github. Qualifications and Skills: Strong analytical skills; attention to detail; punctual; respect for deadlines. Significant experience as a software developer with background in development, design, and implementation of new or modified software products; able to ship code, perform project/product management, and design. Strong knowledge of agile methodologies, open source tools, and the civic tech movement. Can-do, solution-oriented attitude; thrives in a fast-paced, collaborative environment; self-starter. Experience keeping many projects on schedule; strong organizational skills; ability to work in a small team, articulate personal needs, and collaborate on the mission. Strong communicator able to present and host trainings/workshops; present research findings and ideas in reports, memos, and blog posts; ability to break down complex ideas. Comfort with various data types, including spatial data; understanding of Excel, data analysis and visualization methods, and APIs. Experience required — LAMP, Git, HTML, CSS, WordPress, Drupal, JavaScript, working with APIs, exposure to Ruby or Python, cross-browser compatibility, Security Principles, Web Services (REST/ODATA//SODA). Preferred experience (not required): working with government stakeholders and/or within government; knowledge of NYC’s open data sets and tools like City Planning’s Geosupport; experience with Discourse, CKAN, PowerBI, Socrata, AWS, Salesforce, CiviCRM, AirTable, Carto, PostgreSQL, Google App Services; BI tools like Tableau, PowerBI, or Grafana; experience with ArcGIS or other GIS platforms. APPLY via screendoor at https://betanyc.forms.fm/pit-civic-hacker-job-posting or send an email to jobs@beta.nyc with a cover letter explaining your capabilities and your resume/CV. Benefits: BetaNYC is a 501c3 via the Fund for the City of New York. Benefits and policies: https://fcnyforms.seamlessdocs.com/f/benefitsoverview. Leave: Vacation, 20 days annually; Holidays, 12 days annually; Sick Leave, 15 days annually.