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Company: Culture Cafe, Inc.

Position: Webmaster

Responsibilites and Tasks:
Culture Café, Inc. (www.culturecafe.com) is a social media startup in Montreal. The company is currently looking for a part-time Webmaster, with plenty of room for advancement to full-time. Culture Café will allow internationals living in a place where they are not originally from, to find one another as well as resources for that culture in the city or town where they live.
Culture Café is beta launching on or about March, 2008 to select communities in a few key cities.

The candidate should be located in Montreal or should be able to visit Montreal frequently if not located there. At least two years of experience participating in the management of medium- to large-scale sites is required. The candidate should express an interest in working in a dynamic, growth-oriented start-up environment with a small team. Since this website is for internationals, experience working or living abroad and/or the knowledge of other cultures and multiple languages (preferably Spanish in addition to English and French) is a big plus. The approximate start date is late February, 2008 when we begin Q&A of the site.

The Webmaster will be tasked with general content management and administration as well as managing and optimizing ads, conducting reporting and traffic analysis, and some customer service. The position is a project/process management position and the candidate will be managing technological assets as well as content assets; making sure that the right team members are getting the necessary information to correct any problems, create new material and make bug fixes and visual changes. Please note that although this position requires a high degree of understanding of the technologies involved in this web site, this is not a technical position that will require any creation or maintenance of code, as well as any graphics production.

Required Knoweledge:
Other required skills:
• Be self-disciplined and have self-motivated work ethic.
• Hands-on experience in web production, including basic HTML, image production/optimization, and content management systems.
• Understanding of DHTML, CSS, RSS, XML, Flash, and other web technologies.
• Understanding Ruby, Subversion, and by extension LAMP development (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP), and CVS.
• Have solid writing skills.
• Be accountable, detail-driven, and able to successfully manage several things at once.
• Be savvy and willing to get under the hood of the tools we\’ll be working with, including our own system as well as affiliate marketing interfaces and ad serving software.
• Ready to be an active member of the site.

Compensation:
To be discussed.

How to apply:
If you are interested, please send an email with an attached Curriculum Vitae to Ms. Decker at decker@culturecafe.com. We would be pleased to tell you more about Culture Café at that time.

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