Web Editor Jobs

Job Summary

UTSW is seeking a Web Editor with excellent organizational and creative skills to be used for the dynamic growing Department of Internal Medicine. The ideal applicant is a results-focused team player with a proven ability to develop high-quality content on tight deadlines and across all media platforms. The ideal candidate will have the ability to identify, analyze and resolve problems; conduct research and interviews; enterprise and execute compelling editorial content to meet specific needs and reach targeted audiences; and tell unique stories for an array of concurrent projects.

Experience and Education

• Experience in maintaining content within a content management system for distributed use is a plus.
• Experience with Microsoft SharePoint is preferred.
• Experience in search engine optimization (SEO) and search engine marketing (SEM) is a plus.
• Requires strong knowledge of best practices in user-based information architecture.
• Evidence of strong editorial skills is a must.
• Requires a BA or BS, demonstrable excellence in writing and editorial skills and two (2) years experience in web based editorial development and/or social media publishing.

Job Duties

• Works closely with the marketing team and the news team, to publish and extend marketing campaigns online.
• Stays abreast of current trends in Web design, usability and information architecture.
• Serves as editorial project lead on initiatives involving the department’s web sites, developing content project plans in cooperation with department leadership.
• Works as a liaison between the academic/administrative departments and the institutional design and video staff to ensure that all visual assets for web sites are maintained in the appropriate centralized resources, e.g. Bedeworks, Vimeo, Design Image Library.
• Performs other duties as assigned.
• Serves as a key member of the department’s social media team, which maintains the department’s content and presentation on social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and Wikipedia.
• Acts as liaison between the academic/administrative departments and CMPA, to ensure that all editorial output incorporates stakeholder requirements, employs best practices in UI, and adheres to the editorial standards articulated in the marketing style guide. Serves in a key editorial role for online content development, collaborating with internal web editors, web developers, and marketing managers to ensure that all web content is housed and given metatags in the appropriate content management system.
• Manages and oversees the publication of content for all department websites, microsites, interactive applications and other online interfaces, such as SharePoint.

Knowledge, Skills & Abilities

• Work requires strong analytical and problem solving skills with minimal direction.
• Work requires ability to execute efficiently and effectively under deadlines, juggle multiple projects at once and keep up with changing task prioritization.
• Work requires knowledge and understanding of interactive marketing tactics.
• Work requires strong communication skills.
• Work requires customer-service focus with experience working in matrix organization.
• Work requires strong project management skills and the ability to lead diverse content teams.
• Work requires strong knowledge and understanding of information architecture and organization skills.
• Work requires knowledge of content information design principles, web publishing vocabulary and content tagging principles, and strong familiarity with standard concepts, practices and procedures of publishing on the web.