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Quest Website editor, Cultural Olympiad project

Company:
Posted by:
Cedric Sureshkumar
Job type:
Freelance
Posted date:
31st January, 2012
Salary range:
£14k
Closing date:
20th February, 2012
Sector:
Digital

Overview

Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Arts Development team require a freelancer for the delivery of Quest – an exciting Cultural Olympiad project in 2012.  This role requires flexibility with some evening and weekend work.

This is a freelance role for a total fee of £14,000 for a 10 month contract from 1 March – 31 December 2012. The actual number of days per week will vary according to project demands. The role will require indicative 4 days per week Mar – Oct 2012. Continuing at an indicative 2 days per week 1 Nov – 31 Dec 2012.

The deadline for applications is: Monday 20th February 2012 at 10 am. Interviews with short listed applicants will be held on Monday 27th February 2012. Ideally with an immediate start.

To register your interest and to receive a full job description please email Kate Orchard kate_orchard@bathnes.gov.uk with the name of the contract in the subject box.  

This role requires:

  • • Experience of developing, managing and editing a large website;
  • • Willingness to work to direction and contribute as part of a small team;
  • • Excellent communication and interpersonal skills (written & oral) and ability to offer basic training / technical support for people with minimal IT / web skills;
  • • Evidence of ability to write and present high quality, engaging website content for a range of audiences;
  • • Highly organised to prioritize a demanding workload with strict deadlines;
  • • Community-led approach to encourage groups, individuals and schools to record and share their Quest projects and challenges online;
  • • Excellent IT literacy  with experience of X/HTML and style sheets and use of social media such as You Tube, Vimeo, blogs, Facebook and Twitter;
  • • Experience of  websites based on content management systems and preparing and presenting multi media for use online (film, audio, and images);
  • • Web design / multi-media editing experience e.g. Flash, Photoshop, Dreamweaver, audio-visual;
  • • Ability to devise online guidelines for moderating, editing and publishing content.

Please note that a full CRB check will be required.

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