Web Specialist

University of La Verne

Web Specialist

Job Description Summary:
The Web Specialist supports the university's web development, maintenance, and digital communications efforts. Reporting directly to the Director of Digital Communications, this position plays a key role in La Verne's web presence through targeted updates, user experience improvements, maintaining back-end architecture, and providing constituent support through training and promoting digital campaigns.

The University of La Verne is a private not-for-profit university founded in 1891 located in La Verne, California. The core values that we live by are Ethical Reasoning, Diversity and Inclusivity, Lifelong Learning and Community and Civic Engagement.

If you're passionate about these values, join us at the University of La Verne!

Specific Duties:

• Support the Manager of Web Development in creating new functionality for University of La Verne websites: build new page templates; support CSS development; coordinate on coding, and update projects.

• Provide content support for University of La Verne websites: web maintenance requests; correct broken links/images and typographical errors, accessibility issues. Ensure that changes are made in compliance with university editorial and visual style.

• Manage Google Custom Search Engine used by university websites: clean up bad links; promote various pages to greater prominence; and maintain results via best practices.

• Oversee digital processes repository for Digital communications. Build and share technical guides for the campus community to use when familiarizing themselves with content maintenance.

• Train administrative staff in the use of WordPress and LookingGlass (MyPortal) maintenance.

• Research, recommend, and enact new and emerging technologies that boost the efficiency of Digital Communications, in general, and the Web Specialist, in particular. Attend training and conferences relevant to the job position.

• Assist other units in the Office of Strategic Communications with execution of mass email campaigns and other digital communications intiatives, as needed.

• Assist the Director of Digital Communications, as needed.

• Be a culturally competent employee who attends/completes mandatory diversity and inclusivity trainings as provided by the university.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in communications, marketing, computer science, or related field(s)
• 2 years of experience in website development and maintenance
• Experience with database management
• Knowledge of Git (or similar) code repositories and VPN structures
• Intermediate knowledge of Javascript, jQuery, CSS3, HTML5, XHTML, JSON, XML, REST API
• Experience with WordPress development and maintenance
• Ability to meet deadlines
• Strong written and oral communications skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Command line knowledge of Linux/Unix servers (CLI)
• WordPress CLI
• Experience working with a comprehensive web hosting company like WP Engine or Pantheon

Location: La Verne Central Campus

Special Instructions:
To be considered for this position please visit our web site and apply on line at the following link: http://laverne.edu

Institutional Profile
Located in Southern California, the University of La Verne offers a distinctive and relevant educational experience to a diverse population of students, preparing them for successful careers and a commitment to lifelong learning across the liberal arts and professional programs. The academic units of the not-for-profit university include the College of Arts and Sciences, the College of Business and Public Management, the LaFetra College of Education, and the College of Law. The university offers both undergraduate and graduate programs, including degree programs tailored for working adults. The university's central campus is located 30 miles east of Los Angeles in the historic Old Town section of La Verne, a city with a population of approximately 35,000 at the foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains. The university also has eight regional campuses throughout California and the College of Law campus in Ontario, California. The university is classified as a Carnegie Doctoral Institution with moderate research activity. Core values are reflected throughout all curricular and co-curricular programs, its emphasis on close professor-student interaction, personal support of its students, and its diversity.

The University of La Verne prides itself in being reflective of the diversity of Southern California. Approximately 80 percent of its nearly 8,500 students come from diverse backgrounds and the U.S. Department of Education has designated the university as a Hispanic Serving Institution (HSI). With 80,000 alumni, the university fulfills a critical community function in educating students from underserved populations, many of whom are the first generation in their family to attend college.

The University of La Verne is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against employment or employees on any basis prohibited by state and federal law. University of La Verne hires and promotes individuals based on their qualifications and is consistent with applicable state and federal laws, without regard to race, color, religion, gender, disability, medical condition a or sexual orientation




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