Web Manager - Addison Group

Job Title: Web Manager

Pay Rate: $47

Location: Washington DC (Hybrid Work Environment)

Major Duties and Responsibilities:

• Ensures website functionality by managing intake of all web requests --ensuring requirements are clearly defined, wireframes finalized, ticket creation, setting timelines, post launch QA for new page templates and components, and website maintenance and enhancements.
• Collaborate with the Digital Publishing team, Executive and Managing Journal Editors and internal and external stakeholders to bring new features and applications to the site.
• Derive technical requirements for website improvements, prototype wireframes and develop final design mockups.
• Produce or update necessary technical documentation (e.g., SOPs for site maintenance, QA checklists, etc.).
• Use data, industry best practices, and customer / competitive insights to identify opportunities to create innovative user experiences.
• Implement SEO strategies to increase web traffic and enhance discoverability of journal content -- follow SEO best practices for site design, content creation and management.
• Identify and promote ideas for site speed improvement and optimization.
• Optimize website performance, including page load times, mobile responsiveness, and search engine visibility.
• Maintain familiarity with website hosting vendor’s new technologies -- identify opportunities for web development, improvement, and optimization.
• Plan and coordinate the acquisition of various types of web content, ensuring the timely posting and cross linking.
• Collaborate with Enterprise Content and Digital Strategy team on enterprise taxonomy – ensuring alignment between JACC Journals and Enterprise Content Team.
• Partner with Digital Content Manager to ensure journal content has been reviewed by appropriate staff and publishing times set for on-time publication to website.
• Write user stories for product and database analysis, updates or enhancements.
• Define and prioritize new features or enhancements within the product backlog, and make sure the ideas are documented and deployed correctly.
• Monitor website analytics and generate reports to assess performance and identify areas for improvement.
• Responsible for coding (CSS, HTML, XHTML, XSLT, JavaScript) UI/UX design, graphic design of front-end applications.
• Contribute to digital publishing team discussions around UI/UX, usability, and user-centered design to ensure processes and products meet market needs and are efficiently developed and supported.
• Ensure content has been staged, reviewed and approved by appropriate stakeholders prior to being published on websites.
• Work with vendors to learn and manage various web admin tools and bug tracking systems and follow up with weekly calls to get the problems resolved.
• Ensure platform fixes impacting the site or content display have been made appropriately and quality checks are passed. 
• Responsible for web content architecture and maintenance including wireframe, design and development of new web pages. 
• Test new products upon implementation and provide user documentation.
• Providing demos and training of new tools to other team members.
• Be adaptable with working hours to accommodate website or content updates during conferences in different time zones.
• Maintain product catalog data. In addition, maintain the meta data for our website and related to product catalog; update as needed.
• Other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or similar field related qualification and 3+ years of relevant professional web management, design and editing experience (or equivalent combination of education and experience)
• Familiarity with design tool Adobe Creative Cloud
• Strong competency with HTML 
• Experience with SEO, web analytics (e.g., GA4), and digital marketing tools 
• Collaborative, positive attitude with a strong team ethic
• Motivated, self-directed, and results oriented
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to maintaining high standards of quality
• Excellent time management skills and ability to prioritize and reprioritize time effectively, and work within tight deadlines
• Exceptional organizational, interpersonal, critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision-making skills
• Ability to ideate and contribute to innovative and creative solutions.
• Strong understanding of digital content best practices, responsive design, and web compliance standards 
• Familiarization with Agile and Waterfall approaches 

Desired Qualifications:

• Some knowledge of scientific publishing, online publishing
• Experience with Atypon’s hosting platform, Literatum
• Understanding of publishing formatting: XML, XSLT to assist with reviewing and troubleshooting content related to display issues, by analyzing XML documents
• Strong competency of the following development tools: CSS, HTML5, JavaScript, Dreamweaver, XHTML, XSLT
• Experience with project management and collaboration tools – JIRA, Monday.com, Asana, and/or Confluence is a plus
• Experience with SQL server databases is a plus

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Addison Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Addison Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Addison Group complies with applicable state and local laws governing nondiscrimination in employment in every location in which the company has facilities. Reasonable accommodation is available for qualified individuals with disabilities, upon request.