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Does this issue concern you?
As of September 10, 2012 there have been 32 verified cases of negligence involving child labor and unsafe working conditions. Most recently, the company's factories in China failed an independent safety inspection. Company X's profits last quarter were over $3B USD. Manufacturing an X shouldn't require human suffering.
Leading Solution
Let's send a clear message to the CEO of X: we demand ethical treatment of all employees in their supply chain, including employees of manufacturing partners. We want to know how and when they will mandate fair treatment, and we will start by publicly asking the CEO of company X to commit to a specific plan/timeframe. Let's get one million people to view this issue to ensure that we get an adequate response!
Actions
- Sign this open letter to the CEO by November 15th
- Help us achieve one million participants by tweeting and posting this Spark
- Check back here on December 15th (the CEO's deadline to respond) to see if this plan is adequate, or if we need to take additional action
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Would you like to volunteer at The Spark?
Application Developer
An international group of volunteers is building an online platform that will allow Internet users to get together and tackle the world's biggest problems. We want to ensure that governments and companies are held accountable to the people that they serve.
Application developers will be responsible for implementing, testing, and maintainting application code. Strong focus on performance, scalability, and security.
Requirements
- 5+ Years development in Java, C++, or Python
- 4+ years of experience building high availability and/or distributed applications
- 1+ years of development with node.js
- 1+ years of experience developing NOSQL applications
- Demonstrated knowledge of secure coding practices
Plusses
- Development experience with MongoDB
- Experience with the Express web application framework
- Experience with AWS
- Ruby experience
- Experience with the Sinatra Ruby framework
- Experience with git
This role requires a passion for online activism, a strong desire to rebalance the world's power structure, and an exceptional work ethic. This role requires a minimum commitment of 15 hours per week (25 preferred) for a minimum timeframe of six-months.
If you have the right skills and a strong will, please submit your resume to Jobs@TheSpark.org.
Front-end Developer
An international group of volunteers is building an online platform that will allow Internet users to get together and tackle the world's biggest problems. We want to ensure that governments and companies are held accountable to the people that they serve.
Front-end developers will be responsible for implementing, testing, and validating designs provided by the UX and design teams. Strong focus on secure, performant code.
Requirements
- 3+ years Javascript and jQuery development
- 3+ HTML Development
- 3+ years CSS
- Demonstrated knowledge of secure coding practices
Plusses
- Experience with git
- Experience with the Jade, Stylus, or HAML templating markup
- Basic Linux use and administration experience
This role requires a passion for online activism, a strong desire to rebalance the world's power structure, and an exceptional work ethic. This role requires a minimum commitment of 15 hours per week (25 preferred) for a minimum timeframe of six-months.
If you have the right skills and a strong will, please submit your resume to Jobs@TheSpark.org.
Offline Communications Lead
An international group of volunteers is building an online platform that will allow Internet users to get together and tackle the world's biggest problems. We want to ensure that governments and companies are held accountable to the people that they serve.
The Offline Communications Lead is responsible for maximizing project reach and exposure from pre-launch, launch, through to post launch. The OCL must be a Public Relations expert with a proven track record in generating offline buzz, as evidenced by gross rating points, sentiment monitoring, and brand performance. The OCL will be collaborating regularly with cross-functional members of The Spark team (Board of Directors, Online Comms Lead, Development, Legal, Fundraising) to ensure that messages are polished and consistent. The OCL must be a provocative and influential writer, speaker, and networker (with formal experience in communications) in order to create and communicate clear and effective messages across offline multimedia. This role requires a passion for online activism, a strong desire to rebalance the world's power structure, and an exceptional work ethic. This role requires a minimum commitment of 15 hours per week (25 preferred), occasional travel, and regular interviews for a minimum timeframe of eighteen months.
If you have the right skills and a strong will, please submit your resume to Jobs@TheSpark.org.
Crowd-sourcing Expert
An international group of volunteers is building an online platform that will allow Internet users to get together and tackle the world's biggest problems. We want to ensure that governments and companies are held accountable to the people that they serve.
We are seeking an expert in distributed problem solving and in the science of effective surveys. The ideal applicant should have demonstrable experience designing, building, and operating a public-facing, large-scale crowdsourcing environment. The term crowdsourcing in this sense is referencing a system that is designed to structure ad hoc input from the general public in a way that results in high quality data and insights, from which complex decisions can be made. Due to direct experience with complex, large-scale crowdsourcing projects the applicant for this role must be known as a leader in this space who is often consulted on how to best optimize crowdsourcing efforts, as well as how to avoid mistakes and pitfalls. As a prerequisite for this role, applicants must be able to provide concrete examples of what they have accomplished via past crowdsourcing projects, with specific performance measurements. This role requires a passion for online activism, a strong desire to rebalance the world's power structure, and an exceptional work ethic. This role requires a minimum commitment of 5 hours per week (15 preferred) for a minimum timeframe of six months.
If you have the right skills and a strong will, please submit your resume to Jobs@TheSpark.org.