Website Administrator

Overview:

The AYCC is a coalition of over 20 youth -focused and youth-run organisations from across Australia, the membership of these organisations is well over 200,000. The AYCC is committed to uniting youth organizations across Australia, and around the world, to build a generation-wide movement to prevent climate disaster. We inspire, educate, empower and mobilise young Australians to take action on climate change whether that be in their homes, schools, universities, work places or as advocactes on the national and international stage. We also provide a space for our member groups to coordinate, communicate and network with each other, and run shared projects and campaigns.

During 2008 we will be coordinating a series of exciting, innovative and effective campaigns to engage young people, business, government and the general public on the urgency of the climate crisis and the important issues surrounding climate policy this year.  In preparation we are creating a dynamic Communications team who will work closely with our project coordinators to develop campaign/conference branding and materials, create engaging and inspiring viral videos, document our achievements on film and photography, update and moderate content on our community website, and communicate our programs, events, activities and messaging with our membership and to the media via press releases and a bi-monthly youth climate movement newsletter.

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Position Description - Website Administrator:

We are looking for a recent graduate with some practical on the job experience to coordinate our ongoing website design, editing and maintenance.
We are looking out for a website and graphic designer who is pro-active and ready to volunteer part time for a cause. The successful applicant is to join a newly formed team of young professionals for a long term project. This applicant will be required to work in an exciting environment where creative initiative, solid communication and a great sense of what's cool in your generation is a must.

Applicants should have a creative spirit that's open to experimenting with new ideas and skills to implement these ideas. This is a position that will stretch and broaden the boundaries of website applications and as such we are looking for someone who is competant, and prepared to work in this creative environment.

In this role you will be responsible for:
•    Handle the ongoing maintenance and content editing of our websites
•    Create regular online updates for our websites
•    Work closely with our media coordinator and designer to help turn ideas into powerful and targeted web promotional and marketing initiatives
•    Ensure our websites have optimum search engine positioning
•    Provide management with daily website statistics and usage trend reports and graphs
•    Extract daily contact information from our websites, pass contact information onto our data entry person, ensure all requests for information are followed up, and all enquiries responded to promptly.
•    Be a member of our marketing team and contribute ideas, strategies and information to continually enhance our on-line presence to our target audiences
•    Maintaining Database

To be successful in this role you will have:

•    Relevant Tertiary Qualifications and some on the job experience in web production development, Internet mangement and online services
•    Expert-level HTML & other relevant software skills to effectively manage our current & future websites and associated applications
•    Attention to small details
•    Modern Style and Strict Standards XHTML/CSS
•    Flash skills would hold a great advantage