Open-Source Community Manager

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Chayn

Remote (local)
  • Career category: Information Technology (IT)
  • Job type: Job
  • Experience level: Other (specified in job description)
  • Organisation type: Civil Society
  • Remote option: Remote (local)
  • Right to work requirements: Right to work required in advance
  • Remuneration: £190 GBP-£250 GBP / daily
  • Work schedule: Full-time
  • Length of contract: Temporary/ Fixed-term
  • Deadline: 31/10/2025
  • Location: United Kingdom
Gender-based violence (GBV)
About Chayn
Chayn is a global nonprofit making healing accessible for all survivors of gender-based violence. By reimagining technology, we create online resources that are trauma-informed, multilingual, and feminist, supporting survivors to heal at their own pace, wherever they are.

Role description
This role will focus on building our open-source developer community and maintaining our public repositories.

Responsibilities may include, but are not limited to:

Open-source community management

  • Maintain and moderate our GitHub repositories, ensuring they follow best practices for open-source projects
  • Review, triage, and respond to issues and pull requests from community contributors
  • Create and maintain comprehensive documentation, contributing guidelines, and onboarding materials for new contributors
  • Collaborate with our engineering team to identify opportunities for open-source contributions and improvements
  • Foster an inclusive and welcoming community environment that aligns with Chayn’s values
  • Support volunteer developers and contributors with technical guidance and project coordination
Technical contributions

  • Merge dependency updates
  • Contribute code to our open-source projects, including bug fixes, new features, and improvements
  • Support the technical aspects of our open-source initiatives, including CI/CD pipelines and automated testing
  • Work with our engineering team to ensure our projects are accessible, well-documented, and contributor-friendly
  • Help maintain our technical roadmaps and coordinate community contributions with internal development priorities
Content and communications

  • Develop technical documentation, API references, and developer guides
  • Create video tutorials for the developer community

Your profile
We’re looking for someone who is passionate about both technology and social impact, with a strong understanding of open-source development practices and community-building. You should have excellent communication skills and be comfortable engaging with diverse technical audiences. Experience working with trauma-informed approaches or in social impact organisations would be valuable but is not essential.

You might have a background in software development, developer relations, technical writing, or community management. Perhaps you’ve been an active contributor to open-source projects or have experience building developer communities. You could be coming from a traditional tech company looking to apply your skills in the social impact space, or from a nonprofit background with technical expertise.

If it’s of interest to you, there may be opportunities to collaborate closely with our engineering team and take on additional development responsibilities.

It’s important that all team members have an understanding of intersectionality and systems of oppression and an affinity with Chayn’s aims and organisational values which can be found here.

Essential

  • Strong technical background with experience in software development.
  • Experience in the following languages and frameworks
    • Typescript
    • React
    • Node
  • Experience with Git, GitHub, and open-source development workflows
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with ability to explain technical concepts to diverse audiences
  • Experience in community building, developer relations, or technical advocacy
  • Passion for open-source software and collaborative development
  • Understanding of software development best practices, including testing, documentation, and code review

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