WordPress Website Manager

Location: Washington, DC, in office 2-3 days a week

Job Type: Full-Time

Reports to: Marketing & Communications Director

Start Date: Immediate

EARTHDAY.ORG is a mission-driven environmental nonprofit working to educate, advocate, and mobilize communities around critical environmental issues. Since its founding in 1970, Earth Day has mobilized over 1 billion people annually on Earth Day, and every other day, to protect our planet. Our website serves as a central hub for campaigns, educational resources, events, advocacy initiatives, and donor engagement, with a library of more than 1,000 pages and posts accessed by users worldwide.

We are seeking an experienced Word Press Website Manager to oversee the performance, maintenance, security, and ongoing development of our website and digital infrastructure. This role combines technical expertise, strategic thinking, and hands-on website management to support the organization’s mission and growth.

The EDO website plays a critical role in supporting global campaigns, educational outreach, advocacy initiatives, and fundraising efforts.

The Word Press Website Manager will be responsible for maintaining and improving a large-scale Word Press website, troubleshooting technical issues, implementing enhancements, supporting campaigns and organizational initiatives, and ensuring the website remains secure, fast, accessible, and search-engine friendly.

This role requires a highly organized and proactive individual who can manage both day-to-day website operations and longer-term technical improvements.

• Manage and maintain a large Word Press website with 1,000+ pages and posts.
• Perform routine updates to Word Press core, themes, and plugins while ensuring site stability and compatibility.
• Monitor website uptime, performance, and security.
• Manage backups, security protocols, malware prevention, and recovery procedures.
• Troubleshoot and resolve technical issues as they arise.
• Coordinate with hosting and development partners to maintain site security, uptime, and performance.
• Oversee database optimization and general site health.
• Build and maintain landing pages and reusable content components within the organization’s Word Press environment.
• Support integrations between the website and external platforms including CRM, donation, email marketing, advocacy, and event systems.
• Collaborate with communications, fundraising, and campaign teams to launch new website features and pages.

• Monitor and manage technical SEO health using tools such as Google Search Console and GA4.
• Support implementation of technical SEO best practices in coordination with external SEO consultants. This would include addressing crawl errors, indexing issues, broken links, redirects, and structured data issues.

• Help maintain clear site architecture, navigation, and user experience across a large content library.
• Oversee organization and optimization of digital assets including images, PDFs, and video content.
• Conduct regular quality assurance reviews to identify and resolve usability or formatting issues.
• Ensure consistency in page layouts, templates, and web standards.

• Manage Google Analytics 4 (GA4), Google Tag Manager (GTM), and related tracking systems.
• Set up new conversion tracking using GA4 and GTM.
• Provide insights and recommendations to improve website performance and user experience.

• 3–5+ years of experience managing Word Press websites, preferably large or high-traffic sites.
• Advanced knowledge of Word Press CMS, themes, and plugins.
• Experience with website security, backups, uptime monitoring, and performance…