Web Developer

Founded in 1894, City, University of London is a global university committed to academic excellence with a focus on business and the professions and an enviable central London location.

City attracts around 20,000 students (over 40% at postgraduate level), from more than 150 countries and staff from over 75 countries.

In the last decade City has almost tripled the proportion of its total academic staff producing world-leading or internationally excellent research. During this period City has made significant investments in its academic staff, its estate and its infrastructure and continues to work towards realising its vision of being a leading global university.

The Web Development team is responsible for the development and support of City websites, online applications and the intranet.

We work with the City Marketing and Communications team, schools, departments and centres to create useful, informative web sites for prospective and current students. We build responsive, accessible, and standards-compliant websites, using modern technologies and according to best practices.

As Web Developer, you will work as part of a small team to develop and maintain City websites and bespoke web applications, and provide support for content editors.

The main responsibilities of the role include contributing to the development of the primary City websites, providing second-line support for the University websites, working with City stakeholders to gather requirements and advise on web development practices, contribute to project planning.

The successful candidate will have excellent knowledge of HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Experience of developing responsive, accessible and standard-compliant web sites, knowledge and experience of software testing, experience with a Unix shell such as bash of zsh.

They will have good interpersonal and team-working skills as well as good problem analysis and solving skills.

City offers a sector-leading salary, pension scheme and benefits including a comprehensive package of staff training and development.

The role is available from Click here to enter a date. or earlier by negotiation.

Closing date: 2nd July 2023 at 11:59pm.

For an informal discussion please contact Anett Soos via anett.soos@city.ac.uk

To apply and for more information about the post please use the links below.

Where hybrid working can be accommodated, specific arrangements will be agreed with the successful candidate before their start date. Regardless of where colleagues are working, City, University of London’s premises will be their primary and contractual place of work.

City, University of London is committed to promoting equality, diversity and inclusion in all its activities, processes, and culture for our whole community, including staff, students and visitors.

We welcome applications regardless of age, caring responsibilities, disability, gender identity, gender reassignment, marital status, nationality, pregnancy, race and ethnic origin, religion and belief, sex, sexual orientation and socio-economic background.

City operates a guaranteed interview scheme for disabled applicants.

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