[Hidden-tech] Amherst College hiring for 3 new Web positions

[Willa Jarnagin]

Hello,
I'm a member of the Hidden Tech list under my personal address at 
WillaDesign.com, but I am also the Web Designer at Amherst College, and 
I wanted to let this list know about 3 new Web jobs at the college, in 
hopes that some of you might be interested.

If you check out the Amherst site -- http://www.amherst.edu/ -- be aware 
that we're in the middle of a long-overdue redesign. The new design is 
by a vendor.

Here is the official notice from the college, with contact information 
at the end:

Amherst College is creating a new Web Technology Support group to 
envision, build, and maintain Web applications for the College. The Web 
Technology Support group will be a new unit within the IT department and 
will work very closely with Public Affairs and other offices on campus. 
Amherst seeks a hands-on Director of Web Services as well as a Web 
Systems Administrator/Programmer and a Web Programmer to develop and 
support primarily open source applications. This Web group will work 
closely with the College Web designer in Public Affairs, database 
programmers from IT's Database Services division, and programmers and 
system administrators from IT's Systems and Networking group.

Director of Web Services: Amherst seeks an experienced and imaginative 
manager of technologically sophisticated Web sites to oversee the 
technological aspects of ongoing and new Web-based activities for all 
areas of campus. Candidates must have hands-on experience in a 
Linux-Apache environment as well as knowledge of PHP, MySQL, XML, and 
other common open source tools. In addition, candidates should have 
thorough knowledge of such communication/collaboration tools as blogs, 
RSS, wikis, content management systems, CVS, etc. Candidates should have 
strong project and budget management skills as well experience 
supervising technical staff and communicating technical issues to 
non-technical colleagues.

Web Systems Administrator/Programmer: Amherst seeks an experienced Web 
site system administrator who also has extensive knowledge and skills 
with server-side application development and support. Candidates must 
have thorough knowledge of Linux, Apache, Tomcat/Jakarta as well as 
extensive PERL, PHP, and XML skills. Knowledge of ODBC and SQL database 
standards, especially, MySQL, is required. Successful candidates will 
have 3-5 years of professional experience working on complex, 
database-driven Web projects in team environments with high quality and 
reliability requirements. Candidates should be experienced supporting 
and working on Web sites which utilize CVS and content management systems.

Web Programmer: Amherst College seeks an experienced Web Programmer with 
extensive knowledge of XML,XHTML, DHTML, CSS, and other evolving Web 
publishing protocols. Successful candidates will also have knowledge of 
PHP, JavaScript, XSLT, client-side scripts, and their evolving standards 
and methods of implementation. Candidates with experience working in a 
Linux-Apache environment are preferred. Successful candidates will have 
professional experience working on complex, database-driven Web projects 
in team environments with high quality and reliability requirements. 
Candidates should be experienced working on Web sites which utilize CVS 
and content management systems.

Amherst College is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer and 
encourages women, minorities and disabled persons to apply. Below are 
listings of current vacancies with a brief description of the duties 
involved. For more information, please visit our web site at 
www.amherst.edu.

Interested candidates please email a cover letter and resume to 
hr at amherst.edu. Please reference the job title for which you are 
interested in the subject line. A review of applications will begin 
immediately and continue until the position is filled.