Carleton College
Web Content & Design Specialist (Temporary)
Carleton College Campus, USA · Staff+ · Contract
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About the role
- Carleton College is launching a new standard website theme to enhance consistency, accessibility, and user experience across all 600+ sites.
- This project is a crucial step in ensuring our academic departments, administrative offices, and student organizations have intuitive and on-brand web presences.
- This is a temporary position working 40 hours/week through February 2027.
Responsibilities
- Collaborate with site maintainers to audit and prepare their sites for the theme migration, focusing on content quality, organization, and visual appeal.
- Partner with site owners to re-organize and simplify site navigation and content, leveraging the new web design blocks to improve user experience.
- In partnership with the web analytics and training strategist, contribute to training and support materials that empower site maintainers to manage their sites independently.
- Provide ad-hoc design and content support to site maintainers throughout the migration process
- Web Content & Design Specialist (Temporary)
- The Web Content & Design Specialist (Temporary) will play a key bridge-building role in this effort, working closely with ITS, Communications, and site maintainers to transition and optimize sites for the new theme.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent full-time professional experience, ideally with degree or coursework in computer science, design, and/or communications.
- Proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud, specifically Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, to be able to create visual assets for pages when needed.
Skills
- Practical experience with content management systems, specifically WordPress, and a solid understanding of HTML.
- Demonstrated knowledge of UX/UI best practices and a strong user-first mindset.
- Understanding of web accessibility requirements, including WCAG.
- Attention to detail.
- Strong organizational and project management skills, with the ability to track progress on multiple sites simultaneously and meet deadlines.
- Curiosity and empathy.
- Ability to learn new technologies as needed.
- Experience working within a distributed web model or a large-scale web migration project is highly desirable.
- Must have the ability to understand and follow written and oral work instructions, operations, safety procedures, and hazardous labels.
- Note: This position description is not intended to be all-inclusive.
- Review of applications begins immediately and continues until the hire is complete.
- Members of underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.
Compensation
- The expected starting hourly range for this position is between $28.75 and $29.70. Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training
- Actual pay will be adjusted based on job-related factors permitted by law, such as experience and training; licensure and certifications; market factors; departmental budgets; and responsibility.
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Company info
- Founded in 1866, Carleton College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college of roughly 2,000 students located in the historic river town of Northfield, Minnesota.
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