Digital Content Coordinator

The University of Alberta; Edmonton; Hybrid; CAD 55,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

The University of Alberta is seeking a Digital Content Coordinator to join the web team in Edmonton. The role focuses on laying out provided content to create pages that follow UX and SEO best practices, using HTML/CSS and Bootstrap 5 within a CMS environment.

The ideal candidate will manage day-to-day edits, build new pages, and respond to CMS tickets while helping implement university-wide standards for accessibility, performance, and user experience.

Qualifications

• Experience creating web content and managing pages using HTML/CSS.
• Familiarity with SEO, accessibility, and page performance best practices.
• Ability to design and layout pages for good user experience.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and edit top-level University pages and pages owned by External Relations.
• Build new web pages and redesign existing pages based on user data.
• Respond to CMS support tickets and contribute to the knowledge base.
• Implement institution-wide web standards including SEO and accessibility improvements.

Skills

HTML

CSS

SEO

UX awareness

Tools

Bootstrap 5

CMS

Job description

This competition is open to all applicants however; internal applicants will be given priority consideration based on minimum qualifications, or a combination of experience, skills, and abilities before external applicants are considered.

This position has a term length of one year plus one day from the date of hire.

Location - This role is hybrid with a mix of remote and in-person. Work primarily takes place at Enterprise Square, Edmonton.

Reporting to the Manager, Content Strategy, the Digital Content Coordinator works with a team to add and maintain web content on ualberta.ca for various colleges, faculties, departments and administrative units. This work involves laying out provided web content to create web pages following best practices in user experience and SEO. These tasks require knowledge of HTML and CSS, and the ability to use CSS libraries like Bootstrap 5 to create well-designed pages that improve the experience of web users.

The Digital Content Coordinator is also responsible for the day-to-day maintenance and editing of top-level University of Alberta pages and pages owned by External Relations. These activities may include building new web pages, editing current content or redesigning existing pages based on user data and good content design. The Digital Content Coordinator also supports other CMS users by responding to support tickets and contributing to a knowledge base about using the CMS. They will also participate in implementing institution-wide standards to the university web environment, including improvements to SEO, accessibility, page performance, design and user experience. Therefore, the ideal candidate would not only have experience with web content creation, but strong demonstrable experience with website management and web page design using HTML and CSS.