Web Developer

 

Founded in 1894, the City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

The city attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% at the postgraduate level), from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade, City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate, and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realizing its vision of being a leading global university.

 

Background

 

The Web Development team is responsible for the development and support of City websites, online applications, and the intranet.

We work with the City Marketing and Communications team, schools, departments, and centers to create useful, informative websites for prospective and current students. We build responsive, accessible, and standards-compliant websites, using modern technologies and according to best practices.

As Web Developer, you will work as part of a small team to develop and maintain City websites and bespoke web applications and provide support for content editors.

 

Responsibilities

 

The main responsibilities of the role include contributing to the development of the primary City websites, providing second-line support for the University websites, working with City stakeholders to gather requirements and advise on web development practices, contributing to project planning.

 

Person Specification

 

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Experience in developing responsive, accessible, and standard-compliant websites, knowledge and experience of software testing, and experience with a Unix shell such as bash of zsh.

They will have good interpersonal and team-working skills as well as good problem-analysis and solving skills.

 

Additional Information

 

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme, and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

The role is available from Click here to enter a date. or earlier by negotiation.

For an informal discussion please contact Anett Soos via [email protected]

To apply and for more information about the post please use the links below.

Where hybrid working can be accommodated, specific arrangements will be agreed with the successful candidate before their start date. Regardless of where colleagues are working, City, University of London’s premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity, and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students, and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation, and socio-economic background.

City operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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