General Summary:
Under general supervision, the Web Content Administrator manages the County's intranet and public-facing websites, publishes content, maintains brand standards, monitors performance, and adheres to best practices. This role requires previous experience working with a content management system, preferably Drupal and SharePoint. Must be proficient with Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Acrobat Pro. Additional experience in front-end website (e.g., HTML, CSS, JavaScript) is required. A sample of your work is required.

• Daily review of County’s website pages, providing feedback, ensuring ADA compliance, correcting issues, and publishing content
• Build new sites, pages, and content, and create engaging, effective graphics as requested for strategic County objectives
• Implement search engine optimization tactics to promote website presence and increase web traffic
• Monitor analytics and provide performance reports
• Apply SSL certificates on schedule
• Work with supervisor to plan for, test, and implement CMS and related product updates
• Provide CMS training and additional website support as needed

Essential Duties:
The Web Content Administrator is responsible for managing and developing Brazos County’s intranet and public-facing websites, publishing content, maintaining brand standards, monitoring performance, and adhering to best practices. The Web Content Administrator is the primary creator and maintainer of County websites and as such, is the primary contact for all maintenance issues and activities, including developing and delivering end-user CMS training, monitoring analytics, and providing performance reports. The Web Content Administrator ensures the County’s web presence is stable, well designed, accessible, effective, up-to-date, and properly maintained.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

• Publish content as requested by due date and time
• Monitor sites for errors and correct promptly
• Ensure websites are ADA compliant
• Work with team members to ensure website SSL certificates are renewed and applied before expiration date
• Develop and maintain fillable forms
• Create graphics suitable for County’s websites
• Evaluate, test, and recommend CMS Modules and Themes for new websites and site redesigns as needed
• Design, test, and, upon approval, implement new features for websites
• Provide support and basic CMS training for content managers in County departments
• Create How To knowledge articles about common CMS tasks for content managers in County departments as needed
• Work with supervisor to plan for, test, and implement CMS and related product updates
• Create knowledge articles related to area of responsibility for IT team as needed
• Adhere to County’s change management procedures
• Monitor analytics and make recommendations to increase traffic to County websites and improve navigation/usability
• Search engine optimization, where appropriate
• Resolve website-related technical issues promptly
• Comply with best practices for maintaining website security
• Monitor and report industry-standards and other developments relating to web design and implementation

Other Duties May Include

• Attending meetings, training, and conferences
• Evaluating tools and services needed for managing and/or improving County’s web assets

The Web Content Administrator will be on an on-call rotation with other department employees. Some overtime and/or weekend/holiday work may be required periodically.

Other Duties as assigned.

Supervision
Received:
Given: This is a non-supervisory position.

Education
Required: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, or a related field, or any equivalent combination of education and experience that provides the required knowledge, skills, and abilities.
Preferred:

Experience
Required: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. Experience with scripting, embedded and markup languages and development techniques including VBScript, JavaScript, Perl, and Python; Active Server Pages and PHP; Dynamic HTML, XML, Cascading Style Sheets, and the Document Object Model. Experience with functional specifications development and documentation. Experience with Rapid Applications Development environments and the Object-Oriented Paradigm. Experience with UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems. Experience with search engine positioning
Preferred:

Certificates, Licenses, Registrations
Required: None required.
Preferred:

Physical Demands
Typical: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to sit; use hands to type; reach with hands and arms; and talk and hear. The employee frequently is required to stand and walk. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move objects weighing up to 40 pounds, such as computers, printers, stacks of records, or other similar objects. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, and ability to adjust focus.

Knowledge, Skills, & Abilities
Typical: Industry standard PC hardware and software. Database design, normalization, optimization, management, and performance tuning. Computer programming and hardware and software testing. Knowledge of image types for online use (TIFF, GIF, JPG, PNG). Thorough knowledge of client-side and server-side scripting applications. Thorough knowledge of browser compatibility issues for all platforms/major browsers. Knowledge of WYSIWYG development tools (Macromedia Studio) and image editors (Photoshop). Operate standard word processing, spreadsheet, and database software; analyze data and develop solutions, including writing and testing programs. Excellent oral and written communications, project management and organizational skills and the demonstrated ability to work as a team player

Work Environment
Typical: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate but may be noisy or distracting. The employee is required to perform multiple tasks simultaneously and to perform tedious and exacting work. The employee may be required to work closely with others as part of a team or perform required job functions remotely, to work under time pressures to meet deadlines, and to work in emergency situations.

Job Type: Full-time

Work Location: In person