WordPress Front-end Specialist

Job Summary

Job Description

Are you passionate about web development, crafting seamless user experiences, and refining CSS? Join our Creative Services Department as a Front-End Specialist and bring your expertise to our WordPress development team. 

While this isn’t a client-facing position, it’s perfect for a collaborative, hands-on professional who thrives on debugging, fine-tuning, and delivering polished web solutions. As a key contributor, you'll help build and maintain websites, optimize them for mobile use, and uphold high standards of user experience and design. This role offers an opportunity to contribute to a dynamic team where innovation, collaboration, and user-focused design are at the core. If you're looking for a position that combines technical expertise with creativity, we’d love to hear from you!  

This casual, non-exempt role offers up to 19 hours per week and eligibility for casual benefits.

Additional Job Requirements

Essential Functions & Duties 

• Build and maintain WordPress sites using block/module-based tools 

• Translate design and architecture plans into functional, user-friendly web pages 

• Troubleshoot, debug, and resolve CSS-related issues to ensure compatibility across various platforms and devices 

• Conduct routine site maintenance, including addressing SEMrush-reported issues (e.g., fixing dead links, updating heading tags) 

• Apply a basic understanding of WordPress systems, including taxonomies, custom post types, and facet filtering, to improve site functionality 

• Ensure adherence to established web design and development standards, including accessibility and performance best practices 

Required Experience & Education 

• Proven proficiency in WordPress, including custom post types and taxonomy management 

• Strong understanding of CSS and responsive design principles to create seamless, mobile-first user interfaces 

• Basic knowledge of UX principles, ensuring a strong user experience throughout the site lifecycle 

• Experience troubleshooting and resolving front-end web-related issues, including CSS and browser compatibility challenges 

• Familiarity with SEO tools (e.g., SEMRush) and their application for site improvement 

• Ability to work independently while maintaining clear communication with leadership, as well as within cross-departmental working groups 

• Detail-orientation, with strong organizational and time management skills 

• Learning mindset, adaptable and open to new tools and processes 

Preferred Experience & Education 

• Familiarity with block-based site-building tools in WordPress 

• Knowledge of debugging tools for front-end issues 

Affirmative Action/EEO Statement

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.