Tech Development Consultant (Contract)

CIMA Consulting

CIMA Consulting is a firm in Charlottesville, VA, dedicated to advancing causes that matter by partnering with nonprofits and social impact businesses. We use a customized, agile, and collaborative approach to achieve strategic and operational goals for socially conscious organizations seeking a results-oriented partner.

About Our Team

CIMA is dedicated to supporting causes that matter. Our team members come from varied professional backgrounds, but we share common traits: the desire to over-deliver for our clients; a talent for clear and compelling writing; and a generous spirit toward clients and colleagues. We work hard and smart, but we also have fun and value our time away from work to recharge. We have passionate debates about punctuation, local pastries, and the right time to plant tomatoes.

About the Tech Development Consultant Role

The Tech Development Consultant is responsible for providing technology, workflow and data management solutions for internal use among staff and for our client-specific projects. The right candidate will be one who is passionate about the latest technologies, reads up on what the best new emerging low-code and no-code solutions are, has opinions about the most useful project management platforms, and has a broad view of what emerging tech or data management solution would work best for solving a particular problem. Ideally, you have experience coming into an organization, assessing tech needs, evaluating potential solutions, and implementing those solutions.

This position will serve in both external, client-facing and internal-facing tech development roles, contributing to a variety of projects. CIMA offers low-code and no-code software configuration, integrations, and systems design to meet the needs of the nonprofits we work with. We provide consulting on technology solutions they need to manage their data, create operational efficiencies for their teams, and evaluate the impact of their programs. With 1-2 projects on the immediate horizon, the person in this position will immediately jump into a lead role on client-facing projects. The successful candidate will have the opportunity to contribute not only to the work itself but to our strategy as we grow this arm of our consulting practice, and will bring experience in landing new business and creating scopes of work for tech projects.

In addition to client-facing work, the consultant will act as an intrapreneur, identifying operational efficiencies within CIMA, developing our central database (Airtable) and Notion teamspaces, and finding integrations that will empower our team to work most effectively. This requires not only expertise in technology and data solutions, but an ability to communicate and coach teams through a change process that many may be unfamiliar or uncomfortable with, and to listen and learn from the team’s nonprofit and consulting expertise to create solutions that work.

Responsibilities:

Development

• Develop solutions that meet client needs using low code platforms, including but not limited to Airtable and Notion, including user interfaces, native AI tools, automations, and integrations.
• Create applications that streamline business processes and increase efficiency.
• Create automations using low code platforms, including Make, Zapier, N8N
• Make design decisions and recommendations.

Project Scoping & Management

• Guide and participate in the entire application development process, from design to implementation and support.
• Analyze process issues and gather user requirements.
• Work closely with users to scope and build the best solutions to their problems.
• Create project timelines and roadmaps and track project progress, ensuring on time completion of deliverables.

Client Services

• Obtain feedback from users and stakeholders and implement improvements .
• Develop training materials and train users.
• Coach and mentor other tech developers and interns.

Core Competencies:

• A bachelor’s degree with at least three years of experience. Experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• Proven success in a client-facing project or account/project management role; an ability not only to complete the tech and data work but to distill client needs, communicate effectively, scope projects, and gently guide clients and colleagues through adoption of new technology solutions.
• Experience with agile and/or lean startup project management methodologies
• A passion for automating work processes and creating efficiencies, being an early adopter/tester of new tech.
• Prior experience in Airtable and implementing complex automations/integrations that may require moderate coding ability.
• Familiarity with JSON and sourcing data through APIs preferred.
• Working knowledge of Python and Javascript preferred.
• High level of experience with Airtable, Notion, and Make/Zapier required. Experience with Google Workspace, project management platforms, Squarespace, and relational databases strongly preferred. Experience with other low-code, no-code front end/data visualization software (e.g. Softr, WeWeb, Bubble), and other software frequently used by nonprofits (e.g. Quickbooks, fundraising CRMs) would be preferred/ideal.
• Ability to vet and supervise external contractors through Upwork or similar where specific additional technical expertise is necessary.
• A curiosity and growing knowledge about AI and how it impacts the nonprofit sector.
• A demonstrated appreciation for/commitment to social impact.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-moving, intellectual environment, with the feel of a start-up; willingness to listen, and collaborate, and seize upon opportunities for growth and change.
• Flexibility, dedication, and the ability to laugh at one’s self (and others, but only in a nice way).

Position Details:

Working Title: Tech Development Consultant

Salary Range: $45-60/hr

Time Commitment: ca. 10 hours/week (on average)

Work Type: This is a contract position, not an employee position

Expected Start Date: 3/16/26

Resumes without cover letters will not be considered.

If we sound like the right place for you, we want to hear from you. There is no “perfect” candidate. Everyone brings something different to the team and those differences make us better.

Our goal is to be a company that is representative of the people that we and our nonprofit clients serve. We encourage all interested applicants to apply, including but not limited to members of the LGBTQIA+ community, BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), and individuals with disabilities. CIMA does not and shall not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical conditions, age, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or military status.

To Apply:

A resume and cover letter detailing your qualifications and experience are required for consideration. In your letter, address the aspects of the job description and ideal characteristics that stand out to you. Only applications submitted through Idealist will be considered. Resumes without cover letters will not be considered. We look forward to hearing from you!

This is a contract position. No benefits are included.