Web Designer

Utah Tech University • Saint George, UT

378d • $52,000 - $52,000

About The Position

The Web Designer at Utah Tech University is responsible for supporting the Director of Web Services and the campus community in the design, functionality, and maintenance of the university's public website. This role involves ensuring the website reflects the university's vision and goals, implementing web standards, and enhancing user experience through effective design and functionality.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree required; college coursework in communications, marketing, web design, and/or UX/UI design preferred.
• Knowledge of HTML, JavaScript (including AJAX and jQuery), PHP, XML, CSS, RSS feeds, Podcasts, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
• Experience with and knowledge of WordPress custom development; ability to create WordPress plugins, hooks, and other custom code and implement different APIs into WordPress.
• Knowledge of the Adobe Creative Suite; excellent design skills and abilities.
• Ability to produce quality content and adapt language and style to reflect audience-specific voice and tone, with good editorial/writing skills.
• Knowledge of User Experience Design techniques including wireframes, storyboards, user flows, process flows, and site maps to effectively communicate interaction design ideas.
• Knowledge and ability to work with Mac, PC, and UNIX environments, integrate Google applications and social media outlets, and manage the University's website from a client as well as a server perspective.
• Capable of the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of customer websites.
• Familiar with development and debugging tools for cross-browser issues.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, with students, faculty and staff.

Responsibilities

• Help provide overall design support and functionality for the University's website.
• Assist in total quality management of the site, including evaluation of links and usability.
• Process day-to-day updates on the Utah Tech website.
• Work with campus committees and the Director/Web team to ensure the University's website reflects the University's vision, mission and goals.
• Promote proper use of web standards and stay abreast of developing standards so University webpages are visually appealing and employ the latest formatting techniques.
• Design, build, implement, and maintain websites using a variety of graphic software applications and programming languages.
• Implement and create plugins, hooks and custom code for WordPress, the University's Content Management System (CMS).
• Present a consistent visual image on the University's website by promoting uniform fonts, formatting, icons, images, layout techniques, and modularization, including maintenance of HTML template and image archives.
• Determine appropriate compression techniques, resolutions, sizes, color maps, and depths to ensure that images are delivered at sufficiently high speed and quality for intended output media.
• Help create an easy, smooth, and functional user experience by using creating and implementing User Experience (UX) Design.
• Train campus web liaisons on CMS use.
• Respond to campus users' help requests.
• Hire, train, and assist student web designers with assigned tasks as needed; work with the web team and web interns to be innovative and work within a team environment.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• 14.2% retirement contribution, paid 100% by the employer (no match required), vested on day 1 of full-time employment.
• Regular undergraduate tuition waiver (paid at 100%) for employee, spouse, and unmarried dependent children to take courses at Utah Tech.
• Full medical, dental, and vision plans, with low employee-paid premiums, that begins on day 1 of full-time employment.
• Flexible Spending Accounts or Health Savings Accounts available.
• Employer-paid basic life insurance & disability insurance coverage from day 1 of full-time employment.
• Generous staff leave accruals, plus 12 paid holidays per calendar year.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree
• Number of Employees: 10,001+ employees