Job Description
Ranked #49 in U.S. News & World Report’s list of Best Public Colleges and Universities, Rutgers University–Camden is a diverse, research-intensive campus of approximately 6,100 students at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral levels and 1,100 faculty and staff members. Located in Camden, N.J., directly across the Delaware River from Philadelphia, the university is uniquely situated to serve the local community while achieving global reach. A U.S. Department of Education-designated Minority Serving Institution, the university thrives due to a supportive culture that helps students achieve their goals and fosters collaboration among employees. Rutgers–Camden is recognized as a national model for civically engaged urban universities and was selected by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching for a Community Engagement classification. Washington Monthly magazine has ranked Rutgers University–Camden among its “Best Bang for the Buck” universities and best national research universities. Recently, Rutgers–Camden earned Carnegie classification as an R2 research university due to a high volume of internationally recognized research, creative output, and scholarly activity. Posting SummaryRutgers University-Camden seeks an Assistant Director of the Application Development Team. The Assistant Director of RU-Camden IT provides management and oversite of the Web and Application Development Team at Rutgers-Camden. This team provides programming and web-based application development services to Rutgers-Camden faculty, staff and students, as well as maintains both Drupal and Wordpress content management systems. The team is comprised of web and application developers, each charged with developing, implementing and maintaining a wide variety of web-based products and services supported by Rutgers-Camden. This position will also be required to actively participate in the design and development of applications, systems and services of the department. Most applications are developed using PHP/MySQL.
Responsibilities + Skills
Advanced application development skills with PHP and MySQL.Experience with PHP frameworks such as Laravel.Experience designing relational databases using MySQL.
Education
Bachelors degree in information technology, computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience with four or more years of programming experience with solid knowledge of current programming languages and methodologies. An additional two years of experience with managing staff and complex projects is also required. Must be able to collaborate and communicate effectively with all levels of university faculty, staff and administration.
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