Front End Developer Office Provost

Front End Developer for the Office of the Provost

Strategic Communications and Marketing

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign has many stories to tell. From Nobel Prize-winning theories to biomedical innovations to the birthplace of special education and accessibility standards, we have a 150+ year tradition as a place where people refuse to accept "that's just how it is" as a suitable reason to stop asking hard questions. This is a university that forces the world to redefine the word "impossible" on a regular basis.

And the Strategic Communications and Marketing team at Illinois leads that storytelling. We're looking for a front-end developer to help lead the Office of the Provost in sharing those stories - big and small - in a consistent, coordinated, and targeted way. This position will be part of a communications and marketing team directed toward advancing the priorities of the Office of the Provost, one of the most critically important units at the university.

Working collaboratively with Office of the Provost stakeholders, this position manages website development and content to ensure accuracy, accessibility, and a consistent, engaging user experience. This office oversees academic programs, policies and priorities and budgeting and planning, with a mission to ensure life-changing student educational experiences and world-class scholarly excellence.

Job Summary

Responsible for creating, managing, enhancing and improving the code and front-end systems for a number of websites managed by or affiliated with the Office of the Provost.

Duties & Responsibilities

* Website Projects

* Manage development, coordination and approvals for regular website projects.

* Consult with Office of the Provost stakeholders to maintain awareness of critical and emerging issues and projects.

* Ensure pieces maintain and strengthen the Illinois brand standards.

* Manage and track a digital calendar of website projects for the Office of the Provost.

* Audit current website activities and determine what should continue and what should sunset.

* Participate in the Illinois Web Implementation Guidelines Group (WIGG) and the IT Accessibility Liaison Program (ITAL) as the technical representative for the Office of the Provost.

* Cultivate and maintain relationships with campus web developer community, representing the Office of the Provost.

* Assist Director of Institutional Communications with Office of the Provost communications project intake and strategy for website portions.

* Take guidance about project planning and priorities from the Executive Vice Provost.

* Lead website strategy and production for Office of the Provost projects.

* Translate UI and UX designs to solutions that are both responsive and accessible, balancing user's needs with business and development requirements, and working with Strat Com designers as needed.

* Employ best-practice web standards in the development of front-end code that is compliant, accessible, and usable to audiences across many devices.

* User-test all new releases to our services.

* Website Content Edits

* Work closely with Office of the Provost stakeholders for any website-related content changes.

Specialty Factors

* High school diploma or equivalent.

* Two (2) years of work experience in IT‐related functions such as hardware/software support, programming, network design, network engineering, IT systems integration, or closely related field. College coursework which includes Information Technology (IT), IT Management, Programming, IT systems, or a closely related discipline may be substituted as follows: 30 semester hours equals one (1) year, Associate's Degree (60 semester hours) equals eighteen (18) months, 90 semester hours equals two (2) years, Bachelor's Degree (120 semester hours) equals three (3) years).

* Demonstrated experience in developing websites, themes, templates and/or solutions.

Preferred Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology, web development or related field.

Experience creating websites for diverse audiences.

Broad, general knowledge of higher education and an understanding of the university academic and administrative…