Graduate Web Designer / Web Developer

We're looking for an enthusiastic recent graduate wanting a dynamic role in web design and development. The role can be adapted to suit someone with visual design, content editing or coding skills. Working with both marketing and software development, you'll be working on live sites almost immediately, making a real difference to our online presence, improving our apps and keeping us at the forefront of our sector.

This brand new role is an excellent opportunity to learn and develop skills with a wide variety of software and hardware, including website and social media. It provides support for a number of departments in the organisation as well working directly with the Digital Marketing Manager, social media editor and software developers.

Serving a young market, we constantly need to update and develop our systems, use the latest technologies and integrate with new online services. Our web services include:

Kings Camps - the UK's leading sports provider for children in the holidays.

Kings Recruit - the UK's leading provider of jobs for sports coaches and childcare specialists.

You'll be part of a small dynamic head-office team that's committed to our very real mission of using sport and activity to enrich the lives of children and young people and help them to fulfil their potential.

Key Responsibilities

The list of responsibilities below covers both design and development, but since this is a career starter role, the actual responsibilities will be customised to suit the successful candidate.

1. Update our website and apps
   1. Improve the content and visual design of our websites - text, images, video, data
   2. Provide technical assistance for HTML/CSS/JS issues and improvements in WordPress, MailChimp and other online tools
   3. Support our social media engagement with job applicants and customers
   4. Update our presence on third-party sites around the internet
   5. Develop code for both front-end and back-end solutions
2. Enable the team - marketing, social media and IT
   1. Create/edit reports to show marketing how our websites are performing
   2. Monitor and report on advertising and social-media campaigns
   3. Upload and download data, videos, images to/from our websites
   4. Help supply data for social media campaigns
   5. Assist with online enquiries and social media engagement
3. Support the organisation
   1. Provide web, app and social media support to other departments
   2. Provide basic training in online packages

About you

• Educated at degree-level or have gained equivalent workplace skills
• A demonstrated interest and experience with IT hardware and software
• Ideally having experience with popular online tools like WordPress, MailChimp, SurveyMonkey, Facebook, Google Maps - or similar
• Able to communicate and contribute well as part of a team
• Self-disciplined, able to prioritise, with good motivation and organisation skills

About us

• The Kings Foundation is a children's education charity established in 1991
• Our youth focus is reflected in our office and programme staff
• We're based in a dedicated, spacious and open building in a great part of Sheffield
• We work internationally with large development and leisure organisations