Job Function:

We are currently seeking an experienced Online Campaign Specialist to support the successful management of marketing campaigns. Ideal candidates will have 2-4 years of experience in supporting and managing marketing campaigns from creative approval through deployment of campaigns via email, direct mail, telemarketing and web pages. This role is ideal for a critical thinker with good communication skills and a passion for campaign metrics.

Description of Responsibilities:

• Support Marketing Teams in the development marketing campaigns from setting up creative using HTML, to the deployment of a campaign in a multi-channel environment.
• Gather campaign performance results and provide findings for future decision support.
• Perform quality assurance of creative and messaging prior to campaign launch.
• Deliver top level campaign results using existing reporting tools.
• Apply Quality Control and list management skills for effective marketing.
• Use software tools, primarily Unica, to build and execute multi-channel campaigns, following established processes.
• Troubleshoot and resolve problems or issues with campaign and/or reporting software.
• Assist with front-end development of new systems as needed.
• Use problem solving skills and demonstrate ability to work independently.
• Reviewing all email campaigns to ensure compliance with applicable laws and privacy policies.
• Working with service bureaus and web site staff to make sure email messages, websites, and programs are technically correct.

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• 2 to 4 years' of HTML design, editing and coding experience including setting up e-mail messages and appropriate coding.
• Excellent communication skills, both verbal & written: phone, emails and instant messenger. Ability to communicate well to team members, management and clients who are at different business and technical knowledge levels.
• Proficient with MS Office, specifically Excel and PowerPoint
• Must be a quick learner, self-starter - ability to work with minimal supervision in a very fast paced, dynamic and demanding environment
• Teamwork skills - ability to work with group members across the company, be flexible, and willing to share workloads
• Bachelor's Degree

Please send cover letter and resume to hr@nrccua.org.

Job Function:

NRCCUA is a results-oriented, entrepreneurial organization based in Lee's Summit, MO. We strive to bring out the very best of your unique skills and ability and encourage you to achieve success by doing what you love to do in a small and friendly workplace where people respect and support one another.

Description of Responsibilities:

• Analysis and documentation of business processes and requirements.
• Lead requirements gathering and review meetings
• Translate business processes and requirements into specific software requirements appropriate for an agile development process.
• Develop functional specifications and system design specifications for new and ongoing software development projects
• Create necessary documentation and artifacts such as use cases, flow diagrams, and activity diagrams when necessary
• Understand company’s internal business processes and uses knowledge to write detailed requirement specifications, make recommendations on software behavior, and point out areas for improvement
• Works closely with business and development staff to ensure accurate requirements that both meet the business needs and are achievable within the software’s constraints
• Communicates needed changes to the development team
• Performs software acceptance testing
• Assists in enforcement of project deadlines and schedules
• Leads requirements gathering and review meetings

Required Education or Formal Training:

• 4+ years BA experience
• Experience working in a team oriented environment
• Experience leading requirements gathering meetings
• Strong experience writing complex flow charts, use cases and activity diagrams

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to clear and sufficiently detailed specification documents
• Ability to understand business processes and translate them into software requirements
• Skilled at creating flow diagrams, use case diagrams, and activity diagrams, and knows when and when not to create the various diagrams
• Good team and interpersonal skills

Physical Requirements

• Computer work

Behavioral Requirements

• Ability and desire to work within a team
• Ability and desire to work in a collaborative environment
• Flexible and adaptive to change; able to work productively in a changing environment
• Positive attitude and focus on finding solutions is required
• Willingess to go outside these job functions and help to accomplish the given task is essential
• Focus and commitment to the organizational mission, the objectives, and the task at hand is prominent
• Self-starter and problem solver

Please send cover letter and resume to hr@nrccua.org.

Job Function:

NRCCUA is a results-oriented, entrepreneurial organization based in Lee's Summit, MO. We strive to bring out the very best of your unique skills and ability and encourage you to achieve success by doing what you love to do in a small and friendly workplace where people respect and support one another.

The Application Quality Assurance Engineer will with developers and business analysts to define andexecute the necessary test plans to ensure an application's successful release.

Description of Responsibilities:

• Develop and establish quality assurance measures and testing standards for new applications and/or enhancements to existing applications throughout their development/product lifecycle
• Create and execute test plans and scripts that will determine optimal application performance according to specifications
• Ensure that testing activities allow applications to meet business requirements and systems goals, fulfill end user requirements, and identify existing or potential issues
• Communicate test progress, test results, and other relevant information to project stakeholders and management
• Collaborate with software/systems personnel in application testing, including system, unit, regression, load, and acceptance testing methods
• Analyze documentation and technical specifications of any new application/feature under consideration to determine integration methodology and assess possible effects to the system
• Analyze formal test results in order to discover and report any defects, bugs, errors, configuration issues, and interoperability flaws
• Assist in the deployment process to verify production releases meet required test plan objectives

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Excellent troubleshooting, problem solving, and debugging skills.
• Proven success building testing processes from the ground up.
• Ability to identify, learn and implement new testing technologies as needed.
• Direct experience with source control, configuration, build, and release management.
• Knowledge of the Visual Studio development environment;

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field is required
• Minimum 2-years’ experience writing and executing testing plans in a software development environment
• Experience implementing automated testing methods is preferred
• Working knowledge of T-SQL is advantageous
• Appropriate Certifications are a plus

Language Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to communicate clearly and effectively to persons with various levels of technical ability and experience

Mathematical and Reasoning Skills:

• Customized mathematical skills as determined by the requirements of the job
• Logical reasoning and cognitive ability required.
• Ability to effectively assess and manage risk.
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks, and effectively manage time

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Prolonged sitting, frequent standing, bending, stooping, and occasional lifting up to 50 pounds
• Normal range of hearing and manual dexterity sufficient to operate keyboard, telephone, and other office equipment as needed

Behavioral Requirements

• Focus and commitment to the organizational mission and objectives is prominent
• Systematic problem-solver with the ability to self-start and direct.
• Desire to work within a collaborative, team environment
• Flexible and adaptive to a change; positive attitude and focus on finding solutions
• Eagerness to grow professionally and a willingness/ability to self-direct professional growth
• Willingess to go outside normal job functions to accomplish the given task is essential

Please send cover letter and resume to hr@nrccua.org.

Job Function:

We are seeking an experienced Product Manager. This is your chance to be part of a small team, and use your creativity and expertise to help build a great company (and have fun doing it!).

Description of Responsibilities:

• New and existing product and feature development, requirements definition, product vision, and specification development.
• Product planning and execution throughout the full product lifecycle.
• Work alongside engineering team to set development priorities, define and implement a product roadmap through initial launch and subsequent releases.
• Ensure products are aligned with the overall goals and strategy of the company.
• Provide actionable guidance to engineering with clear development priority efforts.

Required Education or Formal Training:

• 5-7 years of experience, ideally with 1-2 years in an Internet/Software Product Management role.
• Led at least one product throughout the full lifecycle to launch. Experience with agile software development a plus.
• Experience in higher education a plus

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Strong understanding of technology (not coding), but needs to be comfortable and able to participate in technical discussions with engineering team.
• Highly collaborative, engaging and motivating approach.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong organizational and project management skills.
• Highly self-motivated, proactive and self-sufficient.

The successful candidate will possess strong verbal and analytical skills, as well as a demonstrated interest in software and technology. Ability to shift gears quickly and gracefully is a must!

Please send cover letter and resume to hr@nrccua.org.

Job Function:

NRCCUA is a results-oriented, entrepreneurial organization based in Lee's Summit, MO. We strive to bring out the very best of your unique skills and ability and encourage you to achieve success by doing what you love to do in a small and friendly workplace where people respect and support one another.

The Senior Applications Developer is responsible for analysis and design of applications that provide operational success and revenue growth at NRCCUA. The position must employ an advanced and experienced skill set to build, implement and maintain applications, direct the technical direction of the organization and act as a mentor to the development team. Furthermore, the Senior Applications Developer drives enterprise standardization across the development groups to ensure consistency and completeness in product offerings.

Description of Responsibilities:

• Define architectural standards for design and deployment of development efforts; ensure documentation created and maintained; ensure that build and implementation standards exist and are followed
• Provide technical direction on systems analysis, design, development, testing, and deployment of applications that touch database systems. Analyze and document business requirements; research and guide technical direction related to development platforms
• Ensure that development projects are properly defined, planned, managed and executed through defined and implemented development policies and procedures.
• Perform senior-level development duties as needed to implement new systems and/or maintain existing system; mentor technical staff in development technologies (e.g., .NET C#, ASP.NET, LINQ, MVC, etc.) by demonstrating advanced techniques and best practice standards to foster a learning/growth environment.
• Drive code reuse and contribute to the growth of the enterprise library; Ensure effective communications across development groups
• Guide technical and professional growth of the development staff
• Assist in cost-benefit analysis for enterprise projects to determine when to use manual, hardware, or software solutions; assist in buy vs. build decisions for enterprise projects
• Ensure that development efforts maintain efficient server performance and high availability; trouble-shoot application related issues when they arise
• Ensure that development efforts maintain a high degree of quality and integrity
• Define and ensure compliance of build management (source control) policies

Required Education or Formal Training:

Education and/or Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field is required, Master's degree preferred
• Experience in all phases of software development lifecycle including analysis, design, development, testing, deployment, and maintenance
• A minimum of 6 years of experience leading small/medium size development teams
• Prefer 10 years total experience in the development of Microsoft Windows and web solutions
• Prefer 6-8 years total experience in C# development
• Prefer 5 years total experience working with Microsoft SQL Server
• Appropriate MCSD Certification is a plus

Desired Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Qualifications:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

• Ability to manage multiple projects, create development plans and meet deadlines effectively
• Current knowledge of Microsoft development platforms and appropriate .NET frameworks
• Familiarity with classic design patterns, development architectures and frameworks
• Have a clear understanding of client-server, multi-tier, and SOA models
• Experience with multiple development languages including C#
• Experience with both windows forms development and web development using ASP.NET.
• Experience with ADO.NET, LINQ and Entity Framework development.

Language Skills:

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• The ability to communicate clearly and effectively to persons with various levels of technical ability and experience

Mathematical and Reasoning Skills:

• Customized mathematical skills as determined by the requirements of the job
• Logical reasoning and cognitive ability required
• Ability to effectively assess and manage risk
• Ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks, and effectively manage time

Physical Requirements

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Prolonged sitting, frequent standing, bending, stooping, and occasional lifting up to 50 pounds
• Normal range of hearing and manual dexterity sufficient to operate keyboard, telephone, and other office equipment as needed

Behavioral Requirements

• Focus and commitment to the organizational mission and objectives is prominent
• Systematic problem-solver with the ability to self-start and direct.
• Desire to work within a collaborative, team environment
• Flexible and adaptive to a change
• Eagerness to grow professionally and a willingness/ability to self-direct professional growth
• Positive attitude and focus on finding solutions
• Willingess to go outside normal job functions to accomplish the given task is essential

Please send cover letter and resume to hr@nrccua.org.