Web Designer

Florida Gulf Coast University - Fort Myers, FL

Full-time

Fort Myers, FL

Educational Services

About the position

The Web Designer at Florida Gulf Coast University is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the university's website, including design, development, and maintenance. This role involves collaborating with various stakeholders to ensure the website aligns with the university's goals and provides an optimal user experience. The Web Designer will also engage in user research, usability testing, and performance analysis to enhance the website's functionality and accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Identify user requirements, web architecture, and project scope for the FGCU site and webpages in coordination with the University Website Manager and web development team.
• Design and implement web page layouts based on requests from campus constituents, ensuring alignment with web branding and UX best practices.
• Ensure optimal look, feel, and usability of the sites, maintaining consistency and timely availability of pages released to the site.
• Participate in establishing policies and procedures for web-related issues and ensure compliance with University web policies.
• Maintain an understanding of current and emerging web technologies and trends.
• Ensure accessibility of all University websites in compliance with state and federal laws regarding accessibility.
• Evaluate design elements for proper structure and compatibility with browsers and devices.
• Adhere to university web policies while designing and adding new web pages, modifying existing pages, and maintaining current links.
• Assist the UMC digital communications team with web support and project requests.
• Train new web editors on web editing CMS and apply design best practices.
• Utilize Google Analytics to analyze, improve, and report on FGCU web performance.
• Apply SEO tools to analyze site speed and core web vitals.

Requirements

• Five years of directly related full-time experience or a Bachelor's degree in an appropriate area of specialization and one year of full-time experience directly related to the job functions.
• Relevant professional experience in web page design and development.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, and Outlook).
• Experience with Adobe Creative Cloud or relevant technologies (Photoshop, Illustrator, Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch, Acrobat DC).

Nice-to-haves

• Bachelor's Degree in Web Design/Development, Digital Media, or Computing Science.
• Work experience in a higher education setting.
• Proficiency with web design tools (e.g., Figma, Adobe XD, Sketch) to create mockups and page layouts.
• Experience with Web Content Management Systems (Omni CMS, Cascade CMS, WordPress, Squarespace, etc.).
• Experience with SEO analysis tools (Screaming Frog, Crazy Egg, Deep Crawl, etc.).
• Google Analytics Certification.