Academic Web Editor & Writer - Strategy & UX

University of Missouri-Kansas City; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 53,976 - 55,900; Full time

Job summary

University of Missouri - Kansas City is seeking a creative, collaborative editor for the Division of Strategic Marketing & Communications. You will proactively review and edit academic web pages, manage client relationships, schedule timelines, and ensure content meets deadlines and accessibility guidelines.

The role requires strong writing, organizational skills, and experience with web CMS, analytics, SEO, and CMS platforms.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• At least 2 years of experience in a related role.

Responsibilities

• Manage client relationships and expectations
• Plan and schedule project timelines
• Communicate expectations, turnaround times, and updates to the team and clients
• Identify content needs and create accessible web content using superb judgment, writing, editing and creative skills.
• Maintain quality and accuracy of web content as it evolves over time.
• Optimize content for SEO with consistent brand language, tone, and voice.
• Review website analytics and recommend updates to improve the user experience.
• Track, gather, proof, and edit written content from various sources
• Identify photo needs and select engaging and relevant brand photos from the photo archives
• Edit and proofread existing and new content, keeping in mind usability, accessibility, client goals and overall web strategy.
• Demonstrate strong people skills and the ability to work with a wide variety of team members and customers, building positive relationships.
• Ability to prioritize among multiple projects, meet deadlines and remain adaptable in a changing environment. This includes moving quickly on short-term needs while making progress on longer-term goals.
• Respond productively to feedback and ask clarifying questions to resolve misunderstandings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Skills

Strong writing

Organizational skills

Meet deadlines

Google Analytics

SEO knowledge

Web accessibility

Education

Bachelor's degree in Digital Media/Journ./English or related

Tools

Wordpress

Cascade Server

HTML

CSS

Job description

University of Missouri - Kansas City is seeking a creative, collaborative editor for the Division of Strategic Marketing & Communications. You will proactively review and edit academic web pages, manage client relationships, schedule timelines, and ensure content meets deadlines and accessibility guidelines.

The role requires strong writing, organizational skills, and experience with web CMS, analytics, SEO, and CMS platforms.