Open Positions
Founded in 1941, the NSS is the largest membership organization dedicated to caves & caving. Come work with us to explore, study, and protect caves. The following positions are currently open.
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Volunteer (5/hours per month)
We're seeking a volunteer with strong front-end WordPress design skills to support project-based page buildouts to support NSS programs and teams. This role involves working within our WordPress instance (hosted in Plesk) using Beaver Builder, as a WYSIWYG editor, to help various teams publish and maintain aesthetically consistent and professional pages. Individual teams within the NSS can maintain the actual copy/content of those pages. They just need support in making sure page design is professional and in navigating the nuances of WordPress.
You'll use prebuilt templates as well as pages built from the group up to publish content provided by other volunteers. This position emphasizes design quality, layout consistency, and user experience, rather than content maintenance or custom technical development.
You'll use prebuilt templates as well as pages built from the group up to publish content provided by other volunteers. This position emphasizes design quality, layout consistency, and user experience, rather than content maintenance or custom technical development.
- Experience building and editing pages in WordPress
- Familiarity with visual builders (especially Beaver Builder)
- Strong understanding of CSS for refining page styling and responsiveness
- An eye for layout and responsive design
- Ability to work within an established style and structure
- A collaborative attitude and comfort communicating with non-technical teams
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Volunteer (5/hours per month)
The NSS is looking for a WordPress Web Developer to support the technical infrastructure behind caves.org. This volunteer role involves maintaining and improving our WordPress instance (hosted in Plesk), with a focus on plugin management, system integrations, and backend/admin wordpress functionality.
You would work and communicate with other website volunteers, non-technical content managers, and various teams across the organization to help accomplish the organization’s mission statement objectives. Example of plugins/platforms used includes WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, Zapier, Custom PHP, and event registration tools. Responsibilities may also include supporting systems that deal with publication indexing, resolving technical issues, and helping integrate WordPress with third-party platforms.
TO APPLY: Please reach out to Pete Johnson(pete@caves.org)
You would work and communicate with other website volunteers, non-technical content managers, and various teams across the organization to help accomplish the organization’s mission statement objectives. Example of plugins/platforms used includes WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, Zapier, Custom PHP, and event registration tools. Responsibilities may also include supporting systems that deal with publication indexing, resolving technical issues, and helping integrate WordPress with third-party platforms.
- Strong understanding of WordPress internals and architecture
- Proficiency in PHP, SQL, and working with custom plugins and
functions.php - Familiarity with WooCommerce, Gravity Forms, and common WordPress integrations
- Experience troubleshooting and maintaining WordPress plugins and databases
- Ability to support technical needs of non-technical users
- Optional but helpful: familiarity with Plesk or similar hosting environments
TO APPLY: Please reach out to Pete Johnson(pete@caves.org)
Operations Division:
Volunteer (20 hours/month)
The Operations Division Head manages the Information Technology Division of the society, ensuring that those technological systems effectively and securely support the mission statement and other divisions. The Division Head oversees the NSS’ tech stack and the volunteers who manage it. That includes:
- NSS AWS Instance
- NSS Plesk Virtual Hosting Environment w/90+ websites including Caves.org
- NSS Membership Database
- NSS IT Support Services (Google Workspaces, etc.)
- Various other NSS technical platforms
