Technology Manager
Democratic Socialists of America (DSA) is the largest democratic socialist organization in the United States and has experienced massive growth over the past two years. We now have 56,000+ members and over 200 groups in 50 states and the District of Columbia engaged in movement-building, public education, direct action, advocacy, and electoral politics. Our goal is to build multi-racial working class power and win transformative reforms like Medicare for All, protect programs like Medicaid expansion at the state level, support a stronger labor movement, and elect socialists to office, all while shifting the public framing around capitalism and democratic socialism.
This position will report to the Operations Director and supervise the Database Coordinator. This role will provide support to and coordinate with the national volunteer tech committee and maintain National DSA's tech infrastructure in partnership with an outside IT vendor. The ideal candidate is passionate about innovative technology use for organizing and works well with a team.
Responsibilities
Technology Support & Management
Receive tech support requests from national staff and effectively troubleshoot issues based on organizing or infrastructure needs, or recommend alternatives
Oversee and be in regular communication with the national volunteer Tech Committee
Develop and maintain Project Schedules and Manage Project Status Reporting: Prepare status reports to convey project scope, goals, milestones, budget, risk, status, change requests, and critical issues
Deploy new technology solutions across the organization
Act as the organization's webmaster, maintaining web assets and overseeing domain management, web hosting, security, and CMS
Conduct training sessions and develop teaching materials for propagating software applications knowledge throughout the organization
Asset Management
Ensure proper use of and inventory tracking of hardware and software
Advise on new technology purchases
Assist in the maintenance of, use, and implementation of organization-wide information systems and platforms
Set up, configure and distribute laptops to new staff, and ensure all staff members' files are regularly backed up
Communicate with vendors to ensure technical assistance is provided under the existing purchase agreements and/or arrange for additional support when needed
Maintain documentation for identified technological risks and mitigation strategies. Proactively gather and update risk status and documentation as needed
Monitor health of web servers and websites including malware, traffic, load balancing, and other resources; manage server backup, websites backup and database backup; perform restore from backups for servers, websites, and databases.
General
Alert Organizing and Operations Directors to emerging trends and best practices in organizing technology, data security, and cloud infrastructure
Update and maintain data management and data privacy policies
Recommend and implement digital security protocols and systems for national office, national priority committees, national working groups, and chapters
Analyze how we currently use technology to organize, evaluate needs from priority committees, national working groups, and chapters on an ongoing basis
Recommend best practices, and develop standard operating procedures
Work with entire staff to automate processes as much as possible
Continue to find new ways to improve quality and efficiency
Develop and maintain documentation on all supported systems to support knowledge transfer across staff and the organization
Assist with other duties as needed.
Qualifications
4 years working experience in a relevant field
Expert technical knowledge of and practical experience working with the following applications and services:
ActionKit CRM
WordPress CMS
Intermediate technical and user-end experience working with the following applications and services:
VAN
Spoke/Relay/Hustle
Track record writing HTML code and SQL code
Experience implementing digital security protocols
Must have ability to present ideas with technical language in a user-friendly manner
Strong organization and prioritization skills. Ability to develop and implement strong systems
Must possess exceptional interpersonal skills with a focus on building rapport, listening, and problem solving. Collaborative spirit and a team oriented player
Able to independently advance work towards goals without significant oversight from manager and to occasionally travel
Desired Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in a related field such as information systems or system design
Understanding of database design principles
Experience with SEO
Reports to: Operations Director
Work Schedule: Full-time. Work hours will fluctuate according to organizational needs
Salary: $65K - $75K
Benefits: We offer employer paid medical, dental, and vision insurance for employees and their spouse/partner and/or dependent children, and three weeks of vacation in the first year of employment, then four weeks each year thereafter.
This position is Exempt
Application Deadline: Apply as soon as possible, as interviews begin immediately.
To Apply: Email the following documents to jobswithdsa@dsausa.org with the subject line: Technology Manager - Last Name.
Resume
Cover letter with statement of your qualifications related the job description
3 references with direct supervisory knowledge of relevant work
No phone calls or recruiters, please.
Democratic Socialists of America is an equal opportunity employer and committed to a staff that reflects the working class. We strongly encourage and seek applications from women, people of color, as well as members of the LGBTQ communities.
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