IT Website & SharePoint Intranet Developer

Position Summary:

Metis Family Services (MFS) is seeking an agile IT WordPress Website & SharePoint Intranet Developer for a 4-month fully on-site contract. Using Divi we are looking for a new public website presence. Design configuration and security will be essential. The second project will be to develop an organizational intranet within our SharePoint. The ideal candidate has 34 years of web development experience strong SharePoint intranet skills and hands-on expertise with Microsoft 365 tools. If your IT skills are diversified you enjoy working in a high paced work environment and you are interested in a creative challenge this term opportunity is for you.

Reports to: IT Manager

Objectives:

Website Development

• Design and develop a modern responsive accessible WordPress website using templates.
• Familiarity with Divi template would be an asset as we will be building the website using Divi.
• Ensure the site is secure scalable user-friendly and optimized for performance.
• Side design will align with internal
• Configure hosting backups security practices and core site infrastructure.
• Website timeline expectations are two weeks.

Intranet Development

• Plan design and build a user-friendly SharePoint intranet that integrates with the website where required.
• Configure site collections libraries metadata navigation and content structures.
• Set up proper permissions governance and security controls following best practices.
• Build a scalable intuitive intranet aligned with MFS branding and organizational needs.
• Use Power Automate Power Apps and Power Pages to build workflows and integrated components.
• Intranet timeline expectations are two to three months.

Documentation:

• Create documentation and provide knowledge transfer to the internal IT department.
• Documentation timeline is two to three weeks.

Qualifications Education and Experience:

• 34 years of professional web development experience with a portfolio of completed websites.
• Strong proficiency with WordPress and templates.
• Hands-on experience developing SharePoint Online intranets.
• Solid understanding of SharePoint architecture libraries metadata navigation and permissions.
• Experience integrating SharePoint and website components.
• Proficiency with Microsoft 365 tools: Power Automate Power Apps Power Pages.
• Familiarity with content strategy and visual design.
• Strong troubleshooting multitasking and prioritization skills.
• Process-oriented approach with strong attention to detail.
• Excellent communication and team collaboration abilities to work on-site with stakeholders to gather requirements and translate them into technical solutions.

Core Competencies:

Indigenous Relations Behavioural Competency:

• Cultural Agility is the ability to work respectfully knowledgeably and effectively with Indigenous people. It is noticing and readily adapting to cultural uniqueness in order to create a sense of safety for all. It is openness to unfamiliar experiences transforming feelings of nervousness or anxiety into curiosity and appreciation. It is examining ones own culture and worldview and the culture of Métis Family Services and to notice their commonalities and distinctions with Indigenous cultures and worldviews. It is recognition of the ways that personal and professional values may conflict or align with those of Indigenous people. It is the capacity to relate to or allow for differing cultural perspectives and being willing to experience a personal shift in perspective. Effectively to other people from diverse backgrounds with diverse views.

Additional Behavioural Competencies

• Results Driven concern for surpassing a standard of excellence. The standard may be ones own past performance (striving for improvement); an objective measure (achievement orientation); challenging goals that one has set; or even improving or surpassing what has already been done (continuous improvement).
• Teamwork and Co-operation is the ability to work co-operatively with diverse teams work groups and across the organization to achieve group and organizational goals. It includes the desire and ability to understand and respond effectively to other people from diverse backgrounds with diverse views.
• Service Orientation implies a desire to identify and serve customers/clients who may include the public co-workers other branches other ministries/agencies other government organizations and non-government organizations. It means focusing ones efforts on discovering and meeting the needs of the customer/client.
• Seeking and Using Feedback involves recognizing that improving performance and authenticity can occur through a reciprocal relationship. This requires an acknowledgement that here is an opportunity for mutual learning and development and levels the field in what is brought to supervision. Reciprocal learning can require active listening and modeling personal change in order to foster trust.
• Reflective Practice is the ability to critically assess how ones values beliefs ethics and culture influence decisions and relationships. An ability to demonstrate exemplary behaviour and curiosity regarding the perspectives of others results in appropriate boundaries and insightful practice.
• Responsive Learning is facilitated through multiple approaches to encourage a deepening and expanding of skill sets with a view to continuing to build expertise that result in improved individual and organization outcomes.
• Information Seeking implies going beyond the questions that are routine or required in the job. It may include digging or pressing for exact information; resolution of discrepancies by asking a series of questions; or less-focused environmental scanning for potential opportunities or miscellaneous information that may be of future use.
• Planning Organizing and Co-ordinating involves proactively planning establishing priorities and allocating resources. It is expressed by developing and implementing increasingly complex plans. It also involves monitoring and adjusting work to accomplish goals and deliver to the organizations mandate.
• Decisive Insight combines the ability to draw on ones own experience knowledge and training and effectively problem-solve increasingly difficult and complex situations. It involves breaking down problems tracing implications and recognizing patterns and connections that are not obviously related.
• Conflict management (Reduces and Resolves Conflict in a Proactive Manner) involves working to resolve conflict when the conflict directly impacts on achievement of work objectives. Anticipates and acts to mitigate/reduce potential conflict management and to reduce and resolve conflict at the outset by encouraging continued. Open twoway communications.
• Handling crisis involves effectively managing risks and crises and handling public relations.

Additional Information:

• Ability to pass vulnerable population criminal reference check
• Hourly rate: $55 65$ / hour
• Hours: Monday - Friday 8:30 - 4:30 PM (35 hours/week).

Start date: As soon as possible.

Please apply for this position from our website at the following link position is an excluded role.

Metis Family Services thanks all applicants for their interest in this career opportunity; however only those considered for the position will be contacted.