Junior Web Designer/Developer Job Opening
2 Positions (Deadline Feb 14, 2019)
Imagine a workplace which encourages you to take on responsibility and where your ideas will be heard and implemented. Imagine a fast paced environment where your performance makes the difference.
Renotex Media & Technologies is looking for young 20 – 35 year old online adventurers to join our savvy Web Design Team!
Job Description, Salaries and Benefits
The junior web designer/developer will be responsible for the design, layout and coding of our client’s websites. They’ll be involved with the technical and graphical aspects of the websites – how the sites work and how they look. They will also be involved with the maintenance and update of existing sites.
After establishing the target audience for a website and identifying the type of content it will host, the junior web designer/developer will:
- write the programming code, either from scratch or by adapting existing website software and graphics packages to meet business requirements
- test the website and identify any technical problems
- upload the site onto a server and register it with different search engines.
Our web designers/developers usually work between 37 and 40 hours a week, 9am to 5.30pm, Monday to Friday. Additional hours may be required to meet deadlines, which could include evenings and weekends but those can always be avoided by a savvy professional.
The junior web designer/developer’s salary will be based on initial skillset, negotiating power and comes with daily/weekly/monthly benefits and allowances.
It may be possible to work from home and flexible hours may be available.
You’ll be required to work in an open-plan office environment. A limited amount of travelling may be required.
The applicants should:
- have skills in software programming (most importantly php, html, css) and graphics
- have creativity and imagination
- be adaptable and able to pick up new techniques
- have good interpersonal and communication skills
- keep up to date with advances in computer technology and how this affects the business environment
Renotex Media & Technologies expects applicants to have a degree-level education, with relevant work experience and vocational skills. A range of qualifications that provide a good grounding in web design, interactive design, graphic design and internet technology is an added advantage.
As the IT industry continues to develop it is vital for web designers/developers to keep up to date with new software and technology.
The normal progression route for the junior web designer/developer will be to become a senior or principal web designer/developer and maybe have his own team within the company.
What is the work be like?
The junior web designer/developer will responsible for the design, layout and coding of our clients’ websites. They will be involved with the technical and graphical aspects of the websites; how the sites work and how they look. They may also be involved with the maintenance and update of existing sites.
In order to design a website, the junior web designer/developer will:
- establish the purpose of the website based upon its target audience
- identify the type of content the site will host
- determine any functionality that the site must support, for example, whether it will handle financial transactions or enquiries
- give guidance on layout, colours and styles.
This will determine the type of technology to use and how complex the site will be. The web designer/developer will then:
- write the programming code, either from scratch or by adapting existing website software and graphics packages to meet business requirements
- test the website and identify any technical problems
- upload the site onto a server and register it with different search engines.
The junior web designer/developer will be required to work as part of a team, which will include a web author/editor and an account manager.
Skills and Personal Qualities
Applicants should:
- Creative mind and strong eye for design and layout
- Solid understanding of color, spacing, balance and proportion
- Great collaborator and experience working with a team
- Can create designs that intuitively flow
- Innovative thinker
- Detail oriented
- Can easily adapt artistic styles on the fly
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
- Efficient time management
- Flexible
- Works well under pressure
- Efficient and deadline driven
- Knowledge of SEO
- Bachelor’s Degree in relevant field is required.
- A design portfolio
- Knowledge of HTML, Javascript, WordPress, CSS and PHP
- Proficiency using Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, Illustrator), InDesign or other visual design programs
- Copywriting skills a plus
- 2+ years relevant design work experience is an added advantage
- A positive attitude, incredible creative ability and a relentless work ethic
Interests
It is important to be interested in:
- keeping up to date with advances in computer technology and how this affects the business environment
- the internet
- troubleshooting and problem solving.
- a growth mindset
- blocking disruptive environments
- deep work tendencies
Important
Renotex Media & Technologies is a non discriminatory marketing company and will consider every applicant from their respective identities. Also, technical know-who a common term used to recruit applicant from the back door does not apply in our HR principals.
Ready to apply?
All your application/ CV / Accademic papers MUST all be one in PDF to hr@renotexonline.com