*** GRADUATE CAMPAIGN NOW OPEN ***
Finishing at Uni and looking for your first step into a successful Web Development career?
*** WE'RE RECRUITING ***
Our award winning in-house Marketing and Communications department is looking to recruit a Graduate Web Developer to join us straight from Uni on an initial one year contract. Launch your career and get hands-on experience from day one, working on our high traffic, highly successful live sites.
Who we're looking for: We're looking for graduates with a web development background and a passion to succeed in this competitive sector. Your degree might be in Computing, Marketing or another similar discipline. You'll need experience and a passion for web development - be that gained commercially or from your own projects. Our live sites run primarily on Drupal and Wordpress environments, so a good working knowledge of these would be highly beneficial.
*** APPLY NOW - CLOSES 6TH JUNE ***
What you'll be working on: You'll be based full time at our Knightstone Campus in Weston-super-Mare; Monday to Friday 8.30am until 5pm (with an early finish on Friday's). You'll have your own desk with MAC computer - including 2 x 27" monitors.
Reporting to our Web Development Lead and as part of the wider Marketing and Communications team, you'll be working on the maintenance and development of our 13 live sites. These span further and higher education, hospitality and leisure, commercial training, prison education and community interest companies and their sites.
This role has a nice balance of process driven technical administrative tasks and more adhoc requests coming in throughout the day. As part of the Marketing team you'll also need to be flexible with occasional evening and weekend working - helping with the smooth running of our larger events (Open Days, Graduation, Awards shows etc).
The training you'll get: We don't expect our graduate trainee's to know everything from day one - but we do expect them to hit the ground running! You'll be working alongside our friendly Marketing and Communications team completing tasks set via our project management software. Your line manager will guide and mentor you throughout your time with us and you'll learn the ropes on the job.
--- We anticipate this position commencing in early July - but can be flexible.
This is an exciting time to join Weston College. The College is Ofsted 'Outstanding', its Higher Education provision is graded 'Gold' by TEF, and Weston College has recently won the Queen's Anniversary Prize for Higher and Further Education, one of only two Further Education colleges in the country to be awarded this prestigious honour. Furthermore, the College is an Investors in People 'Champion' and has been awarded 'Platinum' by Investors in People, which demonstrates our commitment to invest in our staff to improve performance.
For full details, and to view a copy of the job description and person specification, please follow this link.
Weston College is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of young people and vulnerable adults, and expects all staff and volunteers to share this commitment.
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