Web Designer and Digital Media Manager at Joint Initiative for Development (JID)

Responsibilities

• Demonstrated ability to manage and create Websites & mobile applications.
• Provide excellent Web management experience and work collaboratively with staff, and management.
• Partner with internal and external content managers, to ensure sites meet both client and organizational needs, align with the brand strategy platform, and meet W3C Web standards.
• Market and present web/digital strategies to diverse audiences, manage multiple projects and maintain schedules.
• Excellent web/digital media project management and estimating experience.
• Fluent in development optimization techniques to deliver the best user experiences in the most technically efficient manner.

Experience/Education

• 1-3 years, plus 1 year management experience of Web projects
• B. Sc in Computer Science or related degree.
• Additional certificates specifically on Web Design and Mobile Application Development will be of added advantage.

Skills Required
The Person should have advanced knowledge of most of the following:

• HTML, XHTML, CSS design, cross-browser and cross-platform compatibility, Access, mySQL, javascript
• Macromedia suite: Dreamweaver MX 2004, Flash, ColdFusion
• Adobe suite: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign
• CMS, graceful degradation, unobtrusive javascript
• W3C Web standards, WAI, ADA & Sections 508 and 504 compliance
• Preferred-XML, AJAX, RSS, PHP, ASP, SQLserver, ActionScript, Flash rich internet applications