App Developer

Positions Available: 3

Job type: Temporary - Project will last until December 2021.

Pay: Volunteer Position

Work Location: Remote 

About Yellow Heart Committee

Yellow Heart Committee (YHC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization mobilizing to support the holistic mental health of trauma survivors through policy advocacy, education, and community outreach. This is achieved through our pillars of HEART: Healing, Empowerment, Advocacy, Relationships, and Therapy. Yellow Heart Committee aims to create a world where the barriers between people and policy are broken, and survivors of trauma have access to spaces for holistic healing and comprehensive education.

Our Commitment to Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion

We strive to be an organization that lives into its beliefs around Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI). We welcome and expect our current and future team members to join us on this collective journey. 

Key Responsibilities

Due to the nature of the project, we will discuss additional details during an interview.

It will be a low time commitment from September through late October/early November with the expectation that the platform will be completed by December 31st 2021. 

Qualifications

Top candidates for this role must have:

  • Creative

  • Self starter

  • Computer-literate

  • Able to collaborate with multiple individuals at varying levels

  • Effective in written communication

  • Experience in app development

Preferred candidates will:

  • Have a degree in computer science or a field similar to the subject

  • Work in tech  

Expectations of Team Members

  • Effectively Works as a Team Player

  • Builds and supports a cohesive team to accomplish project goals

  • Operates with self-awareness and maintains perspective to support the team

  • Takes responsibility for addressing team challenges

  • Presents information to partners and YHC colleagues in a clear and concise manner, both written and oral

  • Demonstrates active listening skills that demonstrate empathy and understanding

  • Matches communication style to the context and need

Promotes Diversity, Equity, and Inclusiveness

  • Seeks out, values, and responds to cultures—including perspectives, experiences different from one’s own

  • Understands, anticipates, and plans for the ways that culture impacts our work with both partners and other Mass Insight staff

  • Helps build cultural awareness in other staff

  • Uses knowledge of staff, including their cultural perspectives, experiences, interests, and concerns, to differentiate management; uses knowledge of self to account for how one’s beliefs, values, biases, and work preferences affect one’s staff

Compensation 

This is a volunteer position and can be used for resume building and experience.

Please email njohnson@yellowheartcommittee.org with any questions.

Yellow Heart Committee strives to build a team that reflects the cultural diversity of the communities we partner with. Yellow Heart Committee is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, ability, age, religion, sexual orientation, or national or ethnic origin. BIPOC and other historically marginalized groups are encouraged to apply.