Website Manager

Website Manager (Not a website Developer)

Start ASAP

Initial 3 month contract

£300-350 per day

Inside IR35

The job is based at our Alice Holt Research Centre, which is near Wrecclesham in Farnham, Surrey. The candidate will be expected to be in office one day a week with the rest of the week as remote working

Forest Research is seeking a website manager to take over the day-to-day management and further development of their website

General:

• Key point of contact for the website, responsible for its day-to-day management, working alongside the Communications team to ensure design consistency and driving customer experience improvements.
• Managing daily content updates, content demand, workflow, prioritisation and delivery.
• Using Google Analytics to produce and report website statistics.
• Ensuring compliance with statutory regulations and website accessibility requirements.
• Troubleshooting and timely resolution of issues.

In addition, the postholder will be:

• Working with FR's current contractor and internal stakeholders to improve the corporate part of the website, especially those pages directly related to staff recruitment.
• Managing tender process and engagement of contractors for undertaking specific operational research on the FR website.
• Working with the existing contractor and stakeholders to define an improved user-focused website structure, identifying and modifying existing content.
• Directly implementing changes and/or developing tender contracts for specialists to implement changes to optimise website functionality and useability.
• Providing direct support and self-service training content for FR web editors.
• Establishing a properly-tailored reporting system for FR website data analytics.

Experience required:

• An experienced website specialist who is comfortable hitting the ground running and working independently.
• Experience working with stakeholders and managing agencies; basic use of native HTML; practical experience of WordPress CMS; dashboard integration; search engine optimisation (SEO); Google Search Console; user interface (UI) research; user experience (UX) best practice; interpretation and reporting of website analytics.