- Give parents and teachers the advice and support they need to help all children embrace the internet with confidence and protect them from online harms.
- Raise awareness through campaigns and industry partnerships so that children and young people can be happy and healthy online.
- Ensure the views of parents and children are consistently and systematically heard by industry, policymakers and government.
- Lead the development and maintenance of finely-crafted custom WordPress website implementations for all in-house projects, demanding and delivering high quality, compliant, clean and commented code, optimised for performance.
- Oversee the development of new digital products and optimise existing ones to meet business objectives and user needs.
- Actively troubleshoot and resolve website issues, serving as a go-to expert for technical challenges.
- Integrate and work with third-party APIs as required to support our digital products. Establish and maintain good deployment practice and workflow. Be familiar with branch/trunk-based development practice.
- Lead efforts to ensure our digital platforms are accessible to all users, adhering to agreed WCAG standards and best practices.
- Contribute to project planning and scoping activities for website and CRM initiatives, taking responsibility for delivery of all technical development aspects of relevant projects, ensuring clear objectives, timelines, and resource allocation.
- Implement and uphold a rigorous QA process for all development activities. This includes thorough testing, meticulous code reviews, and ensuring the completeness of delivery against requirements. Also, identifying and addressing any issues or opportunities for improvement.
- Continually monitor and optimise key performance metrics across our digital properties to enhance user experience and support business objectives.
- In collaboration with SEO Lead, develop and execute technical SEO strategies to improve search engine visibility, rankings, and organic traffic.
- Maintain digital and web operations security through proactive management, encompassing measures such as secure credential storage and maintenance, timely application of security patches, code vulnerability scanning, and personal information safeguarding.
- Effectively communicate with internal stakeholders to understand requirements and priorities and allocate tasks to the web development team accordingly.
- Contribute to monthly reports on on-site health performance and updates to internal stakeholders, highlighting key metrics and insights.
- Be familiar with and use the usual suite of analytics and reporting platforms, including Google Analytics 4, Google Tag Manager, YouTube Analytics, Google Console (Core Vitals), Facebook and Twitter Analytics, Hotjar, Dot Digital, and Supermetrics.
- Maintain concise and accessible technical documentation, covering technical architecture, integration configuration, processes and code for knowledge sharing within the team and with external partners.
- WordPress Experience: Minimum of 5 years of experience in WordPress development.
- Opinionated on WordPress best-practice, having worked on custom plugin and Gutenberg component development.
- Programming Skills: Expertise in PHP, Javascript, React framework, HTML/CSS
- Database Management: Experience with database management, including MySQL.
- Website Feature Implementation: Ability to implement and maintain custom post types, taxonomies, plugins, and custom REST API endpoints.
- Troubleshooting Skills: Proficiency in identifying and resolving website issues.
- Excellent communication skills.
- Hosting and Server Management: Familiarity with hosting solutions (WPengine), DNS, and server-side configurations.
- Cloudflare Knowledge: Understanding of Cloudflare services.
- Comfortable using and implementing GTM and GA4, including custom event tracking.
- Proficiency in using the full Adobe Creative Suite including Photoshop, InDesign and Illustrator
- Demonstrated experience in A / B testing on lead capture to drive conversion.
- Experience managing 3rd party suppliers
- A track record of exceeding projected KPIs
- Collaborative and communicative: familiar working with multiple stakeholders in a fast-paced environment
- Improvement mindset: not content with the status quo; have demonstrable experience in identifying opportunities to drive business improvement through technology
- Strong communicator with well-developed critical thinking, problem-solving, and organisational skills.
- Strategic long-term thinker, coupled with pragmatic, hands-on adaptable approach
- Positive, enthusiastic, and with a growth mindset
- Self-starter that rises to unusual challenges and enjoys change and a dynamic working environment
- Passionate about our mission to keep children safe online
- Annual salary £xx depending on experience.
- 28 days annual leave plus all bank holidays rising to 31 days after 5 years.
- Additional day of annual leave for your Birthday
- 2 additional volunteering days per annum
- Enhanced maternity pay scheme.
- Enhanced sick pay scheme.
- Season ticket loan scheme.
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Senior WordPress Developer - Greater London, United Kingdom - Internet Matters
Description
Job Title: Senior WordPress Developer
Reports To: Head of Digital
Company: Internet Matters
Location: Blackfriars, London 3 days week and WFH 2 days
Role type: Full-time, permanent, £50,000 – 60,000 per annum
Company description
Internet Matters is a not-for-profit organisation that helps parents, carers and professionals keep children and young people safe online.
We have not yet reached our 10th birthday but are one of the leading online safety organisations in the UK working with major global brands like Meta, Google, and TikTok and our founding partners BT, Sky, TalkTalk and Virgin Media O2.
We're here to offer the best advice and information available to help parents, carers and professionals engage in the online lives of children and young people, empowering them to manage the risks they may face online.
We exist to:
Overview of Role
We are seeking an experienced, collaborative, and highly skilled Senior WordPress Developer to lead the ongoing development and maintenance of our digital products. The successful candidate will be responsible for all technical aspects of our digital presence, including new development, site maintenance, code quality, infrastructure configuration, and security. You will take the lead role in optimising site performance, technical SEO, and maintaining brand consistency.
As a Senior WordPress Developer, you will demonstrate a blend of hands-on, action-oriented delivery, and strategic technical thinking. You will be a WordPress expert, fluent in current and emerging best practices related to developing and maintaining large-scale WordPress sites. You will be comfortable establishing and maintaining development and deployment best practices and mentoring our junior developer in their personal development.
Responsibilities:
Website Development and Oversight:
New Site Builds and Optimisation:
Problem-Solving and Debugging:
API Integration and Deployment:
Website Accessibility Implementation:
Project Planning and Responsibilities:
Quality Assurance
Optimisation:
SEO Technical Strategy:
Digital and Website Securi:
Communication and Stakeholder Management:
Reporting:
Tools and Reporting Platforms:
Documentation:
Skills, knowledge and experience:
Qualifications: Degree educated or compensating work experience
Required experience and skills:
Desired skills
Type of person:
If this sounds like you, in return, we offer: