Description
Position: Web Designer
Location: Columbia, SC
Duration: 12months +
DAILY DUTIES/RESPONSIBILITIES:
Participate in a team comprised of client and solution implementation staff to enhance the agency web site user experience and migration to a Content Management System. Emphases for the Web Designer candidate will concentrate on user centered site experience and redesign of static content to ensure site consistency with the agency's brand and communication strategy. This will include migration of content to Drupal CMS.
Specific web site duties and responsibilities will include but are not limited to the following:
- Work in a collaborative effort to evaluate, edit, enhance, format, or delete current static pages associated with the agency external web site
- Ability to plan, organize, review, implement associated project milestones to completion.
- Ensure web pages and images follow agency style guide.
- Ensure web pages are 508 compliant
- Ensure use of metadata tags and keywords
- Ensure web page uses agency CSS for style and layout
- Assist with site testing on a range of devices and browsers
- Ensure browser capability
- Create and/or work with Graphics on supporting web site related images.
- Ensure web site pages are checked out and in from central code repository.
- Identify issues and recommend solutions
- Assist with troubleshooting as required
- Ensure site continuity between pages and make corrections
- Recommend and assist in the design of site content to align with organizational strategic business objectives.
- Assist with content migration and supporting scheduled tasks to new Drupal CMS environment, testing, validation, and user acceptance.
- Create supporting project and system documentation.
REQUIRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
- Web Site Design
- CSS, HTML, JavaScript, and XML
- Dreamweaver
- Internet Browsers and devices
- Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)
- Graphic Editors
- Drupal
PREFERRED SKILLS (RANK IN ORDER OF IMPORTANCE):
- Excellent written, oral, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to establish positive working relationships with technical staff, customers and others involved in data-centric management.
- Knowledge of Information Technology Field, best practices, organization and operations
- Ability to integrate technical systems with agency goals and objectives.
REQUIRED EDUCATION:
Bachelor's or Master's Degree in Computer Science or related field and/or 7 or more years of relevant work experience.