(New York, NY)

About The Posse Foundation

The Posse Foundation is a nonprofit youth leadership development and college access program that started because of one student who said, “I never would have dropped out of college if I had my Posse with me.” We identify public high school students with extraordinary academic and leadership potential who may be overlooked by traditional college selection processes. The Foundation places them in supportive, multicultural teams—Posses—of 10 students. These teams are then prepared, through an intensive eight-month Pre-Collegiate Training Program, for enrollment at top universities nationwide to pursue their academics and to help promote cross-cultural communication on campus. The Foundation’s partner universities award Posse Scholars four-year, full-tuition leadership scholarships and awards.

The Posse Foundation is a national organization that operates out of Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, and Washington, DC. The Posse Program has demonstrated great success over the past twenty-one years, placing over 3,638 students at 39 top colleges and universities. Since 1989, Posse Scholars have won over $402 million in scholarships from Posse partner universities and are persisting and graduating at 90 percent—higher than the national averages. Additionally, on March 11, 2010, The Posse Foundation became one of only 10 organizations selected by President Barack Obama to receive a portion of the president’s $1.4 million Nobel Peace Prize award money.

Job Description

Posse’s national office is looking for an experienced database developer to enhance, grow and maintain our Web-based scholar and alumni database, Posse Access. Posse Access is a new technology initiative at the foundation, a web application and database intricately connected to Posse’s program operations and to our research arm, The Posse Institute. Over the next few years, Posse aims to grow the application’s scale and capabilities so it can further connect thousands of exceptional young leaders to the best colleges and universities in the country. The Database Developer reports to the Vice President for Strategic Projects. Primary responsibilities for the position include:

• Developing, testing and troubleshooting features, enhancements and bugs in the current MySQL database and Posse Access web client.
• Assessing and implementing software and hardware to help ensure the efficiency, security, stability and quality of all data in the system.
• Leading and building strategy to advance the application’s scope and features by securing key technology partners who can help improve the current system.
• Managing the migration of data from Posse Access to various platforms.
• Helping generate database reports for national office.
• Providing database application training and support to all users.

Qualifications

• Several years of experience building LAMP-based applications.
• Proven database development, administration and management in a LAMP environment.
• Proficiency with MySQL queries and reporting strongly desired.
• Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP.
• Experience with Expression Engine or similar CMS strongly desired.
• Experience with Raiser’s Edge, Salesforce and test-driven development a plus.

*Salary commensurate with experience

Apply by sending your cover letter and resume by July 21st to:

Mickey Steiner at mickeys@possefoundation.org

Please write Database Developer on the subject line.

For more information about The Posse Foundation, visit www.possefoundation.org

Apply by sending your cover letter and resume by July 21st to: Mickey Steiner at mickeys@possefoundation.org Please write Database Developer on the subject line. No phone calls please. For more information about The Posse Foundation, visit www.possefoundation.org