WordPress Designer/Developer at Urban Kreative

Urban Kreative is looking for a rockstar WordPress Designer/Developer for a full-time, Nairobi-based position to work with management and team members on research, strategy, design, and development of web marketing programs.

These programs would revolve around WordPress CMS design/development duties, plus related search and social program collaboration, with a strong focus on responsive, mobile-optimized WordPress theme design and development.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Deep collaboration on WordPress design/development projects with management, team members, clients, and vendors.
• Conducts WordPress design/development research and performs discovery analyses for new client projects, including content reviews and wireframing.
• Creates WordPress design/development strategies based on research.
• Designs responsive, mobile-first WordPress concepts based on strategy.
• Implements WordPress websites from design concepts.
• Performs maintenance and support for WordPress websites.
• Implements and assess SEO best practices.
• Communicate with clients and project managers in regards to bugs and updates.
• Stay up-to-date with new web technologies.

Technical Requirements

• 1+ years experience designing and developing WordPress websites and other PHP based CMS frameworks.
• Experience with responsive design/dev practices for mobile and desktop.
• Front-end Development experience (HTML5, CSS, Javascript).
• Solid understanding of PHP is preferred.
• Experience with gathering data via APIs, knowledge of JSON, XML, MySQL preferred.
• Experience with web analytics reporting tools (Google Analytics, Moz, GWT, etc).
• Advanced knowledge of HTML, CSS, PHP, and MySQL.
• Experience with Dreamweaver and Photoshop required.

Qualifications

To perform this job successfully, a candidate must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.

The technical requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required.

Education & Experience: 1+ years related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Language Skills: Ability to read, analyse, and interpret general business information, professional journals, technical procedures, or governmental regulations. Ability to write reports, business correspondence, and procedure manuals. Ability to effectively present information and respond to questions from groups of managers, clients, customers, and the general public.

Reasoning Ability: Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions. Ability to interpret an extensive variety of technical instructions in mathematical or diagram form and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

About You:

• Highly self-motivated and capable of project ownership.
• Detail-orientated, organized, excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Possess an understanding of design principles.
• Experience with website design and web development via WordPress.
• Interest in an intern experience in a fast-paced, innovative environment.
• Coursework, or degree, in Computer Science, Engineering, Business Administration, or equivalent is a plus, but not necessary.
• MUST own a laptop.
• MUST have access to internet.