Full Stack Web Developer (Year-Round)

Walk among our towering pines, where the music from over one hundred practice huts invades your senses and lifts your spirits. Count how many nation’s flags you recognize as these symbols of our student’s home countries gently blow in the breeze above an auditorium that plays host to musical superstars. Escape the afternoon doldrums by dropping in on a pottery session, or an improv class, or a Nutcracker rehearsal. Fill your days with passion and purpose that stay with you long after you turn off your office lights. This is not your typical desk job-this is Interlochen.

Position Summary: Interlochen Center for the Arts seeks a full-stack web developer responsible for maintaining, enhancing, designing, and coding Interlochen Center for the Arts digital marketing properties. This fully remote position is a member of the Office of Enrollment Management and Marketing, working closely with internal marketing professionals to optimize recruitment and retention experiences for Arts Academy, Arts Camp, College of Creative Arts, Interlochen Online, and Interlochen Presents.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities:

• Complies with Interlochen policies/procedures and acts as a good steward of Interlochen finances
• Conducts user-acceptance testing
• Consults and implements A/B tests and user-experience surveys
• Prioritizes duties in a manner consistent with organizational objectives and growth
• Respects the culture, diversity and rights of all students, their families and the community
• Implements technical SEO improvements
• Consults and implements conversion rate optimization test plans
• Consults, designs, codes, and implements front-end / visual updates
• Seeks the best use of materials, equipment and staff to maximize efficiency and effectiveness
• Optimizes website health
• Maintains website to industry standards
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Manages workflows and deployments
• Performs routine backups to local servers
• Consults, designs, codes, and implements back-end / user-interface updates

• Ability to offer professional consulting, insight, pushback, and alternative recommendations, if required
• Highly skilled in user-experience (UX) standards
• Highly skilled in various applications, programming languages, and digital services, including: APIs, CSS, CSS3, cross-browser compatibility, ES6, Git, HTML, HTML5, JavaScript, JQuery, PHP, REST, SASS/SCSS, security principals, SOAP, and web user interface design (UI)
• Familiar with quality assurance and code validation tools
• Familiar with Agile development standards
• Bachelor's degree required with a minimum of in house, agency, or freelance full stack development experience
• Proficient in Web Content Accessibility Guidelines
• Highly skilled with content management systems, specifically Drupal 8+
• Highly skilled in responsive design
• Highly skilled in front end build systems
• Proficient in A/B testing and UX tools
• Ability to follow and execute specific verbal and written instructions

Application Materials Required:

• Resume
• Cover Letter

Safeguarding our students, guests, and employees is a valued mission within Interlochen Center for the Arts. As a condition of employment, Interlochen Center for the Arts requires all new hires to receive various vaccinations, including the influenza and COVID-19 vaccines, barring an approved exemption. Prior to beginning employment, all employees must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 and all new hires will be required to submit proof of vaccination prior to their start date.
Benefits:

• Health, dental, and vision insurance

• Employer paid and voluntary life insurance

• Employer paid short and long-term disability

• Employee development & tuition reimbursement programs

• Paid time off

• Employee discounts to Interlochen events and performances

• Interlochen is proud to provide priority placement at Pitter Patter Preschool & Childcare located in the Interlochen Community Center, near our campus, for employees' dependents. In addition, Interlochen employees may be eligible for the MI Tri-Share Program. This program shares the cost of childcare between the state of Michigan, Interlochen Center for the Arts, and the employee (The employee will only pay 1/3 of the total cost, if eligible). Income guidelines and more information about MI Tri-Share can be found at https://www.michigan.gov/mwc/initiatives/mi-tri-share-child-care.

Interlochen Center for the Arts provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, ethnicity, national origin or ancestry, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, religion (religious creed), age, disability status, genetics, pregnancy, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.
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From: Interlochen Center for the Arts