Web Content Manager

Contract: 6-month Fixed Term Contract

We’re looking for a talented and passionate Web Content Manager to help bring our website content to life, ensuring it is audience-focused, on-brand and up-to-date. 

We are a global university with campuses in London, Dubai and Mauritius. In the UK we are a top 2 young university and we have got an international reputation for our approach to teaching creative, technical and professional skills. We value diversity and strive to create a fairer, more equitable work environment for our staff and students.

To be successful in this role, you’ll be an excellent communicator, with a flair for writing and a proven ability to work with style and tone-of-voice guidelines. Experience of using content management systems for large public-facing websites is a must, as is a strong understanding of content and SEO strategies.  

Your key responsibilities will include: 

• To maintain communication channels across our business as usual multiple content creation teams, ensuring the work of both teams are aligned and best-practice is shared.
• To create, write, edit and oversee website content to ensure it is well-written, accurate, reflecting the Middlesex University tone of voice and house style.
• To create and maintain a content and activity calendar, showcasing what the team is working on.
• To own the website content co-creating process, ensuring our website content is up to date, legally compliant and reflects the MDX brand.
• To develop and run training programmes for website editors across the University.
• To become the Web team’s go-to person for website content accessibility and user-experience.
• To take an evidence-based approach to website content production, using Google Analytics, running A/B tests and undertaking in-person and online testing of website content to ensure it meets the needs of our core audiences.
• To oversee our web content strategy, ensuring our web content and its governance and workflows are able to support the needs of the University and our audiences.
• To work with our brand and content team to ensure our house style and tone of voice is embedded across all our website content and that our guidelines reflect best-practice in website content.
• To be the web team’s lead on search engine optimisation (SEO).

This post is exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and requires a Disclosure and Barring Service certificate. You are therefore required to disclose details of any criminal record. ALL criminal convictions, cautions, reprimands, or final warnings, even if they would otherwise be regarded as spent under this Act must be disclosed, as well as any other information that may have a bearing on your suitability for the post, including pending prosecutions.

If you wish to discuss the job in further detail please contact, Andreea Savin, Digital Experience Manager, via email at a.savin@mdx.ac.uk.

Closing Date: 2^nd February 2025

Interview Date: TBC

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