| Job Summary: | What is WIDA? For nearly 20 years, WIDA has provided a trusted, comprehensive approach to supporting, teaching, and assessing multilingual learners. We are an educational services organization that advances language development and academic achievement for multilingual children in early childhood and grades K-12. In short, we provide educators around the world with high-quality language standards, assessments, professional learning, and research. We are proud to be a part of the Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER) within UW-Madison's nationally ranked School of Education. Visit https://wida.wisc.edu/about/careers and watch our Introduction to WIDA video to see why WIDA is an incredible place to work!
The Software Developer position is located within WIDA's Administration and Operations department and will report to the Assistant Director of Information Technology. This position will be responsible for helping to develop and support our WIDA Secure Portal, accessed by over 100,000 educators annually, who use it to explore WIDA digital learning opportunities and resources. The Secure Portal is integrated with our Learning Management System, Canvas, and collects data to report information to the WIDA Consortium members. The team responsible for the Secure Portal utilizes Agile development to deliver new functionality and enhancements to existing functionality.
Working fully remote is an option for this position. Requests to work remotely would need to be reviewed based on the UW and School of Education (SoE) remote work policies and go through the SoE implementation process. To learn more about these policies, visit https://businessoffice.education.wisc.edu/human-resources/remote-work/.
WIDA is committed to challenging linguistic discrimination, cultural biases, and racism in education. WIDA values linguistic and cultural diversity both as an end and a means for success in the field of education. As such, we strongly encourage applications from a diverse pool of candidates who champion social justice as a core value. |
| Responsibilities: | Assists in design, development, testing, debugging, and troubleshooting of software and applications to support information technology business operations. - 40% Reviews application design specifications, codes new applications, and makes enhancements to existing applications
- 30% Tests and debugs programs, and prepares systems test data
- 10% Prepares program documentation and training requirements
- 5% Develops or modifies technical specifications for low-complexity projects using disciplined software development practices
- 10% Maintains and troubleshoots applications, systems, or websites
- 5% Implements data structure and systems performance strategies
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| Institutional Statement on Diversity: | Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison. We value the contributions of each person and respect the profound ways their identity, culture, background, experience, status, abilities, and opinion enrich the university community. We commit ourselves to the pursuit of excellence in teaching, research, outreach, and diversity as inextricably linked goals.
The University of Wisconsin-Madison fulfills its public mission by creating a welcoming and inclusive community for people from every background - people who as students, faculty, and staff serve Wisconsin and the world.
For more information on diversity and inclusion on campus, please visit: Diversity and Inclusion |
| Education: | Required
Associate's Degree |
| Qualifications: | Required:
* Proficient with Microsoft .NET technologies and MS SQL Server, including ASP.Net Core, ASP MVC, Microsoft Entity Framework, and SQL queries.
* Knowledge of HTML5, JavaScript, CSS, and SASS.
* Demonstrated understanding of software development best practices, including source control with Git, common design patterns, code re-factoring, re-use, and test-driven development.
* Collaborative approach to problem-solving.
* A value of promoting and fostering diversity, equity, and inclusion.
* A willingness to engage in and deepen knowledge of WIDA's Social Justice value.
Preferred:
* Experience with a Single Page Application framework like Angular or React.
* Agile development process knowledge. |
| COVID-19 Considerations: | UW-Madison continues to follow necessary health and safety protocols to protect our campus from COVID-19. All employees remain subject to the COVID-19 Workplace Safety Policy: https://policy.wisc.edu/library/UW-5086. Please visit https://covidresponse.wisc.edu for the most up-to-date information. |
| Work Type: | Full Time: 100% |
| Appointment Type, Duration: | Ongoing/Renewable |
| Salary: | Minimum $50,000 ANNUAL (12 months)
Depending on Qualifications |
| Additional Information: | Who we are
The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER), established in 1964, is one of the first and largest university-based education research and development centers globally. WCER's researchers and staff work to make teaching and learning as effective as possible for all ages and all people.
WCER at the University of Wisconsin-Madison's highly ranked public School of Education, is one of the world's first and most productive education research centers. Our center has helped scholars and practitioners develop, submit, conduct, and share grant-funded education research for more than 50 years.
WCER is an incubator for advances in education policy and practice. It provides services and resources for UW-Madison researchers, graduate students, collaborators, educators, funders, and communities locally and worldwide.
Our Mission
WCER's mission is to improve educational outcomes for diverse student populations, impact education practice positively and foster collaborations among academic disciplines and practitioners.
Our Values
At WCER, all employees share five fundamental organizational values. We take pride in these values guiding the purpose and quality of our work and interactions within ourselves and our outside stakeholders.
The values that the work and people of WCER strive to uphold are:
Innovation and Excellence. Continuous improvement is a driver for excellence. We innovate and improve in our work to advance education through leading research and development.
Equitable Education. Equitable education is essential to a healthy society. We aim to reverse imbalances and injustices in education through our work.
Affirming and Increasing Diversity. Individual differences and group diversity inspire creative and equitable outcomes. We actively affirm and seek to increase such diversity in our center.
Healthy Workplace. The well-being of our workplace enhances success for all. We commit to a workplace based on mutual respect and transparency.
Partnering Across Differences. Diverse backgrounds and expertise improve the quality of our work. We collaborate across disciplines, methodologies, organizations, and communities to strengthen our research and development outcomes.
WCER's Commitment to Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
Diversity is a source of strength, creativity, and innovation for UW-Madison and The Wisconsin Center for Education Research (WCER). Individual differences and group diversity inspire creative and equitable outcomes. WCER actively affirms values and seeks to increase diversity in our everyday interactions, practices, and policies.
Our center is conscious of inequities in the field of education and how these disproportionately harm the most marginalized members of our society - including BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and other People of Color) individuals, people from poor and working-class backgrounds, people with disabilities, women, and LGBTQ people. We firmly believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we strongly encourage applications from people with these identities or members of other marginalized groups.
For more information and news about our center, please go to https://wcer.wisc.edu/
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| How to Apply: | Please click on the "Apply Now" button to start the application process. As part of the application process, you will be required to upload a cover letter addressed to Dan Machmeier, a current resume, and a list with the contact information of at least three professional references. |
| Contact: | Franchesca Beswick
franchesca.beswick@wisc.edu
608-263-4221
Relay Access (WTRS): 7-1-1 (out-of-state: TTY: 800.947.3529, STS: 800.833.7637) and above Phone number (See RELAY_SERVICE for further information. ) |
