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The College of Arts & Sciences – Marketing and Communications, has an outstanding opportunity for an Assistant Director of Web Services
The Arts & Sciences Web Team creates, manages, and maintains websites on behalf of the College of Arts & Sciences. The College of Arts & Sciences provides a liberal arts education in a research university, giving students rich opportunities to explore our cultural and natural worlds. Our faculty expand the frontiers of knowledge through research, scholarly interpretation, and the creative arts. We embrace, embody, and explore the world in all its diversity. Our commitment to inclusivity is unwavering.
This is an exciting opportunity to work with a small team of developers and designers to support the Arts, Humanities, Natural and Social Sciences at the UW. As part of our team, the Assistant Director builds and improves websites, manages projects, provides support and educates site editors. The candidate will have the opportunity to work collaboratively to produce sites that reflect the amazing research, scholarship, creativity, and student experiences that occur within the College of Arts & Sciences.
The Assistant Director must be comfortable guiding teams through website builds, and must exhibit an appreciation and respect for a diverse academic environment, inclusive of students, faculty and staff of many social, economic, cultural, ideological, racial and ethnic backgrounds
The candidate should also have interests in usability\UX, and a commitment to providing excellent services to clients. They should have experience working in an agile, multi-task, and multiple website setting. Experience working with the Drupal content management system, and developing solutions using HTML, SQL, JavaScript, CSS, PHP, XML and JSON is essential. Strong verbal and written communication skills are required, as you will work with developers, designers, editors, producers, marketing managers, and faculty from across the College.
RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:
Leading department web services and support, this includes coordinating team efforts to keep existing sites in good working order and building new sites that meet the needs of our departments.
Leading groups of faculty, staff and students through web site builds, while creating schedules, assigning tasks and generally providing project management.
Overseeing support tickets related to department sites, and being responsible for maintaining high levels of customer satisfaction.
Working with team members to maintain documentation and training materials.
Working with the web team to improve workflows, testing, debugging, systems and operational efficiency.
Understanding and advocating for high accessibility and usability standards.
Operating as a Drupal subject matter expert, helping the team craft sturdy and sustainable websites.
Working with our marketing and visual design teams to implement and evangelize the University of Washington and College of Arts and Sciences brands
REQUIREMENTS:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or related field, and two or three years of progressively responsible web developer and/or lead programmer experience in an IT environment. This should include a minimum of two years of experience using HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, PHP, and JSON on a LAMP stack (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP).
Demonstrated experience in:
Building and maintaining websites using Drupal 8, both front-end and back-end experience is necessary.
Identifying customer needs and providing solutions.
Helping customers organize content and producing clean, clear and friendly site navigation.
Additionally, you should have;
Meticulous attention to detail and accuracy
Ability to work successfully in a team environment as well as independently.
Excellent verbal and interpersonal communication skills.
Equivalent education/experience will substitute for all minimum qualifications except when there are legal requirements, such as a license/certification/registration.
Desirable qualifications include;
Experience working in an institution of higher education.
Experience using project management systems.
Knowledge of IT accessibility issues for users with disabilities; familiarity with accessibility standards and best practices; experience testing for accessibility; and demonstrated ability to design content/applications with accessibility considerations.
Application Process:
The application process for UW positions may include completion of a variety of online assessments to obtain additional information that will be used in the evaluation process. These assessments may include Work Authorization, Cover Letter and/or others. Any assessments that you need to complete will appear on your screen as soon as you select “Apply to this position”. Once you begin an assessment, it must be completed at that time; if you do not complete the assessment you will be prompted to do so the next time you access your “My Jobs” page. If you select to take it later, it will appear on your "My Jobs" page to take when you are ready. Please note that your application will not be reviewed, and you will not be considered for this position until all required assessments have been completed. |
