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Primary Skills- Web Editor, Drupal, Web Content, Section 508.
Complete Description:
DC.Gov is the District government's official web portal, consisting of over 100 websites and almost 100,000 pages. It has annual traffic of 14 million visitors making 29 million visits per year. It won the 2014 Best of the Web Award for City Government Web Portals from the Center for Digital Government.
OCTO's Web Team is currently in the midst of implementing responsive design for agency websites. Responsive design was introduced in 2014 with the DC.Gov home page and associated resource pages. Now OCTO intends to expand that to the 100+ agency websites.
Transition activities include managing agency client expectations, explaining technical concepts to non-technical people, conducting quality assurance of the agency website after the responsive templates have been applied to the agency website and assisting with the launch of the new, responsive site. The candidate will follow universal content management principles as well as District of Columbia web standards throughout the responsive design implementation. It is the candidate’s responsibility to become familiar with District of Columbia terminology, District services and the agencies that provide such services. Some fact finding and research is required.
This particular effort is expected to last approximately 4-5 months depending on the progress of implementation.
Expertise with Drupal is required. Experience with responsive design is highly desired. Although the principal role is that of a web editor, strong analytical skills, as well as the ability to work with others are contemplated as part of this position.
Behavior Characteristics:
Able to work in a challenging environment, with changing priorities and assignments. Multi-task on multiple web migration projects. Detail oriented. Organized. Work collaboratively with large team. Can explain technical processes to non-technical individual
Skills:
Skill | Required / Desired | Amount | of Experience | Expertise Rating |
Oral and written communication | Required | 10 | Years | 3 - Expert |
MS Windows, Adobe Acrobat and Photoshop | Required | 10 | Years | 3 - Expert |
Web production, including content creation, editing, and publishing | Required | 10 | Years | 3 - Expert |
Web content management, including site maintenance | Required | 10 | Years | 3 - Expert |
Section 508 accessibility and plan language knowledge | Required | 7 | Years | 3 - Expert |
Commercial off the shelf content management systems | Required | 7 | Years | 3 - Expert |
Client relations and tasks management related to content migration | Required | 4 | Years | 3 - Expert |
Photo editing, tagging and captioning | Required | 3 | Years | 2 - Proficient |
Drupal | Required | 3 | Years | 3 - Expert |
Knowledge of government operations | Nice to have | 2 | Years | 2 - Proficient |
Responsive Design | Highly desired | 3 | Years |
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Are you available for weekend and evening work, if required? (Not usual)
Are you available to work onsite during normal business hours (8:30 AM to 5:30 PM) and remotely during non business hours, if necessary?
Candidate must bring his own laptop and smart phone. Vendor or client will not be providing it.
Software required for the job includes Windows and Photoshop. Will your laptop have this software?
