Another opportunity for a student who is looking to go abroad and get some field experience. Brian ---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: emma brunskill <emma@eecs.berkeley.edu> Date: Thu, Feb 3, 2011 at 5:44 PM Subject: [Ict4dev] Earn $10k using CS to fight health disparities in India -- deadline tomorrow (Friday) To: ict4dev@csail.mit.edu I apologize for sending this out late, but could be an exciting opportunity. - emma ----------------- Mobilizing Health is looking to recruit one programmer to do something different. We want you to spend the Spring and Summer to work full time with us to take our web app to the next level. Mobilizing Health is a global health and technology non-profit that uses our web application to connect under-served communities in India with licensed practitioners via SMS. Our team is a hybrid of Stanford and Cal students and our beta pilot, with the first version of our application, is running live in Udaipur, Rajasthan (India) and has just helped its 1000th patient. Our board includes Silicon Valley and New York executives and entrepreneurs, and we have raised over $100k to develop our prototype, launch alpha and beta pilots, and expand our program. We are looking for a new Technology Director interested in bringing their CS skills to the public service sector. Our Tech Director needs to start in April and commit to working over the Summer in India. During the Spring, we will be working here in the US (Bay Area), and in the Summer, we will travel to India to implement our technology with partner organizations. Mobilizing Health is offering a $10,000 stipend to cover living costs and will finance all India expenses, including airfare. General Requirements: - Outstanding communication skills. You’ll be working closely with our members and partners in India. - Culturally sensitive and strong in new environments (for India) - Ability/desire to work full-time in a start-up setting - Comfort in working with partners to translate project requirements into code - A background in Computer Science, Symbolic Systems, or equivalent. Technology Specific Requirements: - A strong command of Ruby (or willingness to get up to speed quickly) - Unix chops - Experience with jquery required - Prior experience working on a production level web application For bonus points, show us your experience with: Sinatra, Rails, Git If this is a challenge that interests you, please send me your resume and apply here by Friday, February 4th: http://bit.ly/b66ANz. If you have any questions, concerns, or just want to learn more about MH, feel free to send me an email at pooja@mobilizinghealth.org. Cheers, Pooja -- Pooja Upadhyaya Founder, Mobilizing Health Alumna, Class of 2010 | Molecular & Cell Biology, Neurobiology | University of California, Berkeley M: 949.350.1716 | Email: pooja@mobilizinghealth.org -- Emma Brunskill http://www.eecs.berkeley.edu/~emma/ _______________________________________________ Ict4dev mailing list Ict4dev@lists.csail.mit.edu https://lists.csail.mit.edu/mailman/listinfo/ict4dev