Web Design and Content Officer

Chiswick Park Campus

SALARY DETAILS: £35,000 pro rata (0.6 fte - three days per week) Plus excellent benefits

Richmond American University London is looking to appoint a Web Design and Content Officer, you will be managing and enhancing the University’s website to ensure it serves as an engaging, user-friendly platform that meets the needs of our diverse audiences. Combining technical proficiency with strong content creation skills, you’ll collaborate with stakeholders to produce high-quality, optimised content that aligns with the University’s goals and brand standards.

Key responsibilities include:

• Manage and maintain the University's WordPress-based website, ensuring seamless functionality, accessibility, and alignment with user experience best practices.
• Plan, create, and publish engaging, audience-focused content, incorporating SEO strategies to improve visibility and organic traffic.
• Collaborate with internal teams to gather and organise accurate, relevant content, ensuring it aligns with the University’s tone of voice and style guidelines.
• Enhance user engagement by incorporating multimedia elements, such as images, videos, and infographics, while ensuring optimised performance and compliance with accessibility standards.
• Regularly review and update website design and content layout to improve usability and intuitive navigation.
• Monitor website performance using tools like Google Analytics, providing insights and recommendations to enhance user experience and meet strategic objectives.

About Richmond American University London

Richmond American University London is a unique institution, global in outlook and in practice, diverse and cosmopolitan in its culture. A leading private and not-for-profit institution, we are dually accredited in both the United States, by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education, and registered with the Office for Students in the UK. Our students receive both UK and US degrees, bringing together the best of British and American higher education.

Operating in London since 1972, our mission is to educate and inform future generations by providing them with the knowledge and support to think critically, the freedom to challenge assumptions and the skills to work with others. Our distinctive, multi-disciplinary Liberal Arts degree programmes offer a holistic approach to teaching and learning that focuses on developing academic and personal skills to enable our students to make positive contributions through employment, personal development, and public service after graduation.

Following the move to our new state-of-the-art campus in Chiswick Park, West London, we are developing a new strategy that will see the University grow and further diversify its student body, broaden and diversify is academic offer and expand its international partnerships.

Richmond is an equal opportunities employer; a Disclosure and Barring Service check at the basic level is required for this position. For further information about the University, please visit: www.richmond.ac.uk

Closing date: 31 January 2025

Interview date: Week commencing 10 February

Start date: End of March

To apply for this role, please email your CV and supporting statement, together with details of three recent work-related references via the 'Apply' button above.

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