Web Content Editor - LAU - Lebanon

The School of Business has a vacancy for a Web Content Editor to build and improve the school’s online presence and “brand” awareness through continuous update of the school’s website and presence on social media networks, blogs and search engines.

Main Job Duties & Responsibilities
- Manages the school website, using primarily the Movable Type publishing platform.
- Manages all faculty member websites and internet home pages, and student organization websites of the school.
- Designs and manages the school social media network.
- Trains faculty members on designing and managing their own presence on social media networks.
- Ensures that content is consistent with the web strategy of the school, in line with accreditation standards and relevant to users.
- Suggests edits to received content to make it suitable for the web (addition of links or pictorial material, sequence changes, use of tables, lists or charts instead of narrative, rephrasing sentences or eliminating unnecessary content for the sake of conciseness, etc.)
- Ensures consistency by copyediting according to LAU’s Editorial Style guide.
- Maintains all web-related school, department, course, student, teaching and research files for restricted access on the website.
- Manages all school electronic bulletin boards.
- Maintains web-related student petitions as well as career and placement services records.
- Maintains web-related documents for the academic accreditation of the school and the strategic plan.
- Studies trends in social media and research popular platforms as applicable to job duties.
- Studies emerging social media tools and observe how often those platforms and tools are used.
- Works closely with MarCom and IT teams in developing the school’s website.
- Performs other duties pertinent to this job as requested by the dean.

Minimum Qualifications
- Education: A bachelor degree in Communication or related field from an accredited university. Master degree is a plus.
- Experience: 2-5 years writing for the web and managing (or working within) an editorial workflow.
- Significant knowledge of website management and design principles and practices.
- Familiarity with graphic design processes, programs, and design directions.
- Command of English; excellent writing skills.
- Experience in web 2.0 features such as social media and personalization.
- Marketing, promotion and communications-planning skills.

CV and college transcripts should be emailed to beirut.hire@lau.edu.lb, specifying the job title in the subject line.

Closing date for applications is Monday January 19, 2015.

No applications will be accepted after this date, and only shortlisted candidates will be notified.

Content Manager / Web Author - Wunderman - Lebanon

- The candidate will be responsible for the good execution of the website development.
- Major responsibilities will be to implement the day-to-day site presentation, layout and updates for the relevant websites along with the development of new content, new features within new marketing and promotional activity.
- Schedule and execute the localization of corporate produced content and campaigns.
- Schedule and produce relevant editorial, promotional and marketing content for the consumer related web sites.
- Assist in creating, develop and manage a newsletter process including moving the newsletter process to a greater focus on personalization and CRM.
- Work with the Digital Sr. Account Manager to maintain relevant and up to date documentation on the web site and supporting systems.
- Work with the Digital Sr. Account Manager and other Producers to manage the prioritization and assignment of relevant web team resources and projects.
- The Producer will plan, program and co-ordinate activity, content, site maintenance and development with the Digital Sr. Account Manager
- Where necessary, modify existing processes and implement new streamlined processes, which maximize efficiencies and ensure all projects, resources and activity are monitored and delivered in the most cost effective fashion.
- Ensure the operational integrity of the websites, applications and infrastructure.

Skills
- Min. 3-4 years practical experience in edition of Websites
- Experienced to work with Microsoft Office-Products
- XML, html and CSS knowledge
- Knowledge of common XML-/ html-Editors (ideally experienced in Visual Studio)
- Basic knowledge of Graphic Software (e.g. Photoshop)
- Bridging ability between Design and Programming
- Expertise in Web technologies, standards and Information architecture
- Experience with Online Projects (ideally background as Online Project Manager/ Web Author)

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