
11 - 50 employees
Founded 2007
🤝 Non-profit
🌍 Social Impact
Non-profit • Social Impact
The Water Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on providing safe, sustainable water and sanitation solutions to communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2007 it has built and maintained water sources and WaSH (water, sanitation, hygiene) programs, emphasizing long-term sustainability through its Water Promise monitoring and maintenance initiative. The organization also engages in fundraising and advocacy, connects donors with communities via detailed project stories, maps, and photos, and prioritizes clean water access, sanitation, and hygiene improvements as part of international development efforts.
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11 - 50 employees
Founded 2007
🤝 Non-profit
🌍 Social Impact
Non-profit • Social Impact
The Water Project is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization focused on providing safe, sustainable water and sanitation solutions to communities in sub-Saharan Africa. Since 2007 it has built and maintained water sources and WaSH (water, sanitation, hygiene) programs, emphasizing long-term sustainability through its Water Promise monitoring and maintenance initiative. The organization also engages in fundraising and advocacy, connects donors with communities via detailed project stories, maps, and photos, and prioritizes clean water access, sanitation, and hygiene improvements as part of international development efforts.
• Own the architecture, roadmap, and day-to-day health of digital platforms, including websites, internal systems, donation flows, fundraising pages, sponsor dashboards, project directory, and live impact map • Build and maintain features across PHP and React applications and WordPress properties, including backend services and front-end HTML, CSS, and JavaScript • Keep donor-facing experiences fast, accessible, mobile-friendly, and secure, especially payment and personal data • Manage hosting, deployments, monitoring, backups, third-party vendors, and integrations • Partner with Marketing to attract, retain, communicate progress to, and delight donors • Work with program teams and in-country staff to surface water-point health and maintenance data • Ensure donors and sponsors have an accurate, current view of supported communities • Own data architecture across program, donor, and financial data flowing between Salesforce, web platforms, and analytics tools • Enhance reporting and dashboards for leadership, the board, partners, and donors • Set standards for data quality, governance, privacy, and retention, and document them • Identify and deliver practical AI and machine-learning applications for mission needs • Evaluate, integrate, and responsibly operate AI tools and models with guardrails for accuracy, privacy, and community dignity • Help staff use AI tools effectively in daily work • Oversee Salesforce consultants and connect giving, campaigns, and communications into a reliable supporter view • Lead, mentor, and manage 1–3 developers • Set priorities, review code, and foster a productive team environment • Collaborate with department heads to translate organizational goals into a technology roadmap • Establish engineering practices including version control, code review, testing, documentation, and incident response • Manage the IT budget, licenses, vendor relationships, staff devices, accounts, and cybersecurity basics
• 6+ years of hands-on software development • At least 2 years leading developers or key technical projects • Strong, current skills in PHP, React, modern JavaScript, HTML, and CSS • Ability to use AI tools to generate quality code • Experience building on and extending WordPress, including custom themes, plugins, performance, and security • Good SQL and data modeling skills • Experience with data warehouses, ETL/ELT pipelines, and BI or dashboarding tools • Practical production experience applying AI and machine learning, including LLM APIs, building or fine-tuning models, and evaluating outputs • Experience with cloud hosting, CI/CD, and securing systems that handle payments and personal data • Judgment to choose the simplest effective solution and discipline to maintain it • Clear communication with non-technical colleagues, donors, and partners • Genuine connection to the mission of reliable, lasting water access • Preferred: experience in a nonprofit, international development, or WASH setting • Preferred: work with IoT or remote sensor data, GIS and mapping, or mobile data collection tools • Preferred: working experience with Salesforce, ideally Nonprofit Cloud or NPSP, including API integrations • Preferred: BS in Computer Science or related field, or equivalent experience
• Competitive salaries • Fully covered medical, dental, and vision insurance • 401(k) match • Generous vacation policy
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