Job DescriptionWorking at IRSC has its perks! In addition to helping drive change and having a positive impact by supporting our students, staff, and faculty, IRSC offers a benefits package:Wellness Wonders: Dive into a world of well-being with perks that nourish your body and soul. Health benefits that prioritize your fitness, mental health, and overall happiness await you with our employee only coverage paid by the college.Retirement Radiance: Picture your future shining as bright as your career! Our retirement benefits are designed to turn your golden years into a sunlit oasis. With robust plans and strategic investments, we're planting the seeds for your retirement bliss.Generous Time-Off Universe: Recharge and rejuvenate with ample vacation time, ensuring you return to work with newfound enthusiasm.Career Launchpad: Propel your career forward with projects that are not just tasks but missions, shaping industries and driving change.In the bustling digital realm of Indian River State College (IRSC), an opportunity awaits for a visionary and strategic individual to lead the charge in shaping the online narrative of one of Florida's premier educational institutions. As the Web Content Manager, you'll embark on a dynamic journey, steering the course of IRSC's digital footprint and ensuring that every click resonates with the college's values, mission, and aspirations.The Adventure Begins: Setting the Strategic CourseYour compass? The IRSC.edu website and its microsites.Your mission? To set a strategic direction that aligns with the college's communication priorities, brand essence, and stylistic nuances. With a keen eye for detail and a knack for innovation, you'll navigate the digital landscape, maximizing the potential of internet technologies to amplify IRSC's message far and wide.Relationship building? Foster a culture of communication and collaboration. Through regular updates, training sessions, and accessible documentation, you'll ensure that every department on board is equipped to navigate the waves of web publishing with finesse and confidence.Editorial Meetings: Plotting the Course AheadGather 'round, fellow wordsmiths! Editorial meetings are where creativity meets strategy. With your guidance, these gatherings will become the crucible of collaboration, where content plans are forged, editorial decisions are made, and calendars are crafted to steer the ship towards its content destination.Consulting with Administration: Steering Towards SuccessAs the lighthouse keeper, you'll communicate with the Administration, guiding them through proposed changes and challenging compliance issues. With your insights and expertise, you'll illuminate the path forward, ensuring that IRSC's digital journey remains steadfast and true.Are you ready to embark on an adventure unlike any other? Do you possess the skills, knowledge, and passion to shape the digital identity of Indian River State College? If so, then climb aboard and join us as we chart a course towards excellence in web content management.JOB SUMMARY:Under general direction, sets strategic direction for IRSC.edu and its microsites. Ensures the website functions as an effective tool in Indian River State College's overall communications strategy through publishing oversight and brand- and writing-style stewardship. Works to maximize the effectiveness of internet technologies.SPECIFIC DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:Sets strategic direction for IRSC.edu and its microsites, including communications priorities, brand and style, and voice and tone. (10%)Manages the Web Content Community and maintains regular communication with content editors and publishers about updates to policy or process, system maintenance, or other relevant change management matters and keeps the group engaged with changes to strategy, standards, and expectations. (10%)Regularly offers web content training sessions for Indian River State College content publishers and editors, and maintains up-to-date, easily accessible web publishing documentation. (15%)Convenes regular editorial meetings to facilitate collaboration, content planning, and editorial decision-making, and establishes editorial calendars to track and manage content, coordinate high-level website publishing, and facilitate collaboration. (15%)Addresses non-compliance issues through guidance, consulting, and if necessary, revocation of access or reassignment to training. (5%)Uses analytics, usability, best practices, user (end-user and author) feedback, and institutional priorities to make informed decisions about content and publishing process, and creates and/or removes pages, as guided by overall strategy, institutional needs, or input from Content Editors. (10%)Revises or removes content on College websites or microsites that violate the web management policy, content guidelines and standards, or school guidelines around acceptable use and copyright. (10%)Establishes and upholds style guidelines, publishing standards and processes, web management policies, content templates, and adherence to best practice to ensure site integrity and consistently high-quality content, and evaluates the effectiveness and efficiency of these guidelines, standards, policies, and processes, making adjustments if needed. (15%)Consults and communicates with Administration about proposed major site changes (structure, substance, process, or policy), ongoing or challenging compliance issues, and overall site web management. (5%)Completes all other duties and responsibilities as assigned. (5%)QUALIFICATIONS, KNOWLEDGE AND SKILL REQUIREMENTS:Bachelor's degree and at least 6 years of related experience.A solid understanding of content management principles and strategies for effectively organizing, categorizing, and publishing content within the Drupal CMS environment.Proficiency in Drupal CMS, including content creation, editing, and publishing workflows, as well as familiarity with content types, taxonomies, and permissions management.Excellent writing and editing abilities to create high-quality, engaging content that aligns with the organization's brand voice, messaging, and objectives.Experience with web design principles, user experience (UX), and user interface (UI) design for creating visually appealing, intuitive, and user-friendly websites using Drupal.Knowledge of and experience with principles and techniques that optimize content for search engines (SEO) and AI aggregation (OpenAI, etc.) to improve rankings and drive organic traffic to the College website and microsites.Proficiency in utilizing web analytics tools such as Google Analytics or Drupal-specific analytics modules to track content performance, analyze user engagement metrics, and make data-driven decisions to enhance content effectiveness.Effective project management skills to coordinate projects; manage timelines, resources, and stakeholders to ensure successful project delivery.PHYSICAL DEMANDS:This position requires an ability to sit, stand, walk, bend, lift, reach up, stoop, and carry items occasionally in excess of twenty-five (25) pounds. It also requires manual dexterity to operate standard office machines, such as, copier, fax, calculator, telephone, and other equipment as necessary. Indian River State College expects its employees to follow proper safety standards while employed by the CollegeClassification StaffSupervisory YesFLSA Exempt YesEmployment Type RegularCompensation and Application Deadline Pay range starts at: $67,654.48 | All salary calculations start at the minimum salary and will be based on candidate's education and experience. | Open until filled.
