Now Hiring: Website Manager

Status: Part-time, up to 10 hours per month 

Location: Remote

Reports to: Executive Director

Salary: $28/hour starting 

The Website Manager is responsible for maintaining and updating Clarion West’s website, which runs on WordPress CMS and utilizes a dedicated WordPress hosting service. The Website Manager also manages Clarion West’s Google Suite instance and assists as needed with other relevant web infrastructure. The Website Manager should be well-versed in the maintenance and manipulation of these systems. HTML and CSS proficiency is also required.

UX/UI AND PROGRAM UPDATES:

• Understanding and applying best practices for site navigation, accessibility, functionality, responsive design, and SEO
• Assist with site structural changes relevant to effectively sharing program updates and information
• Structuring new page templates to fit the needs of programs and events

SECURITY:

• Vetting and updating plugins
• Maintaining PHP and server updates
• Credentialing users at varying permission levels
• Monitoring changes to website
• Troubleshooting site errors as needed
• Management of Google Suite

DEVELOPMENT:

• Auditing and providing guidance on Clarion West’s technology infrastructure
• implementing approved changes/improvements and onboarding relevant staff to same
• Creative problem solving with regard to the need for new features/implementations or expanded functionality of the website and integration with Clarion West’s database and other web-based apps

ANTICIPATED TIME COMMITMENT: 

• This is a part-time position with flexible time commitments
• Most months, the position will spend a few hours per month monitoring site and plugin security and traffic
• When preparing for larger site updates to reflect program changes, the position may need to spend more time preparing recommendations and templates. Typically this work would not be more than 10-15 hours per month, but additional hours may be approved when necessary. 

To Apply:

Please send a resume and work samples to  with WEBSITE MANAGER as the subject of your email. Work samples should include the URLs of least two (2) WordPress websites either designed, maintained, or meaningfully developed by the candidate.

This brief will remain active until the position is filled.

About Clarion West

Clarion West is a 501(c)(3) non-profit speculative fiction writers organization focused on helping writers become successful, fostering greater equity and inclusion in the speculative fiction world, and bringing writers and readers together. Clarion West is best known for our residential six-week workshop held every summer consecutively since 1984. We also host one-day, weekend, and online workshops year-round and events that bring writers and readers together. 

Mission: We support emerging and underrepresented voices by providing writers with world-class instruction to empower their creation of wild and amazing worlds. Through conversation and public engagement, we bring those voices to an ever-expanding community. 

Although there are fine science fiction and fantasy writers of all ethnicities, races, and genders, historically the field has reflected the same prejudices found in the culture around it, leading to proportionately fewer successful women and LGBTQIA+ writers, writers of color, and writers from marginalized backgrounds. We believe that these communities must be centered in the work we do. Hence, we encourage applications from people with these identities or who are members of other marginalized communities.