Front-End/ Web UI Developer

Austin Community College

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Austin Community College is a public two-year institution that serves a multicultural population of approximately 41,000 credit students each Fall and Spring semester. We embrace our identity as a community college, as reflected in our mission statement. We promote student success and community development by providing affordable access, through traditional and distance learning modes, to higher education and workforce training, including appropriate applied baccalaureate degrees, in our service area.

As a community college committed to our mission, we seek to recruit and retain a workforce that:

• Values intellectual curiosity and innovative teaching
• Is attracted by the college's mission to promote equitable access to educational opportunities
• Cares about student success and collaborates on strategies to facilitate success for populations including; first generation college students, low-income students, and students from underserved communities.
• Focused on student academic achievement and postgraduate outcomes
• Welcomes difference and models respectful interaction with others
• Engages with the community both within and outside of ACC

Job Posting Title:
Front-End/ Web UI Developer

Job Description Summary:
Work under the direction of the web administrator to assist in the application of a comprehensive marketing program to meet the college's strategic goals. Work with creative teams in the development, production, maintenance, and evaluation of complex communication solutions; and design and maintain site information architecture, navigational structure, user interface, visual design, graphics, and multimedia components.

Job Description:

Description of Duties and Tasks

1) From a user-centered perspective, develops and tests rich interactive web experiences that align with the college strategies. Develops information architecture, navigational structure, user interface, visual design, graphics, HTML emails, and interactive features and elements for multiple web devices and emails.
2) Works collaboratively with the marketing and design teams to establish strategies, tactics, process, and schedules for web projects.
3) Creates user interaction models, workflows, information architectures, prototypes, and guidelines for user interfaces.
4) Produces finished final deliverables that are to be deployed to production websites and web applications.
5) Optimizes web designs and features to minimize download time and meet browser and platform compatibility standards.
6) Researches new products and services that can be implemented to improve the effectiveness, functionality, and appearance of the institution's web presence.
7) Keeps abreast of current web standards, web marketing strategies, design trends, development processes, and production methods.
8) Maintains current knowledge of web development hardware and software tools and methods.
9) Serves as a member of the emergency communication team, as needed.

Knowledge

* Excellent knowledge of visual design and a strong understanding of layout and typography, including web typography.
* Thorough knowledge of web user experiences, information architecture, and web graphics creation.
* Thorough knowledge of web standards, including an understanding for designing for accessibility and user experience.
* Working knowledge of professional web development and graphics tools.
* Working knowledge of CSS standard compliant website design and coding.
* Familiarity with open-source CMS development, preferably Drupal/WordPress.
* Familiarity with web marketing principles.

Skills

* Ability to quickly learn and apply new web development methods and technologies.
* Ability to meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

* Maintaining an established work schedule.
* Effectively using interpersonal, communication, and instructional skills, including tact and diplomacy.
* Effectively using organizational and planning skills with attention to detail and follow-through.
* Maintaining confidentiality of work-related information and materials.

Technology Skills

* Use a variety of spreadsheet, word processing, database, and presentation software.
* Demonstrated experience in web markup, including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.
* Familiar with the concept of responsive and adaptive front end interface development.

* Experience with client-side scripting and JavaScript frameworks, including jQuery.
* Familiarity with solutions to cross-browser compatibility issues.

Required Work Experience

* One year related work experience which may include paid or unpaid internships.

Required Education

* Associate degree.

Preferred Education

* Associate degree or higher in graphic design, graphic arts, web design or a related field.

Physical Requirements

* Work is performed in a standard office environment.
* Subject to standing, walking, sitting, bending, reaching, pushing, and pulling.
* Occasional lifting of objects up to 10 pounds.

Salary Range

$65,560 - $81,949

Number of Openings:
1

Job Posting Close Date:
April 8, 2025

Clery Act

As required by the US Department of Education, employees are required to report violations under Title IX and, under the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Crime Statistics Act (Clery Act), select individuals are required to report crimes. If this position is identified as a Campus Security Authority (Clery Act), you will be notified, trained, and provided resources for reporting.

Disclaimer

The above description is an overview of the job. It is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and responsibilities of the job, nor is it an all-inclusive list of the skills and abilities required to do the job. Duties and responsibilities may change with business needs. ACC reserves the right to add, change, amend, or delete portions of this job description at any time, with or without notice. Employees may be required to perform other duties as requested, directed, or assigned. In addition, reasonable accommodations may be made by ACC at its discretion to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions of the job.


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