PART TIME WEB DEVELOPER

Our story

The Post and Courier: Founded in 1803, The Post and Courier is the oldest newspaper in the South, the second oldest in the United States and the largest in South Carolina with more than 90 journalists on staff. With many honors and accolades to its credit, the newspaper has garnered the highest awards in journalism often besting much larger media conglomerates including two Pulitzer Prizes. In 2021, The Post and Courier split from its parent company and along with the community papers formed Evening Post Publishing Newspaper Group.

Evening Post Newspaper Group also publishes:

Aiken Standard

Summerville Journal Scene

The Gazette

The Berkeley Independent

Moultrie News

Free Times

Georgetown Times

Kingstree News

The Star

Other entities held by Evening Post Publishing Newspaper Group include:

Evening Post Books Founded by Pierre Manigault and John M. Burbage in 2008, Evening Post Books is the award-winning book publishing division of Evening Post Newspaper Group based in Charleston, South Carolina. The publisher specializes in books written by authors hailing from and writing about the South Carolina Lowcountry, including high-quality fiction, non-fiction, and specialty publications.

White Oak Forestry – Established in 1984 he forestry manages more than 16,000 acres in the Santee Delta with a focus on timber harvesting and conservation of the longleaf pine.

South Carolina Event Productions – South Carolina Event Productions creates and produces a wide variety of events across the state that help cultivate community, reach new audiences, and create unique experiences for attendees. With The Post and Courier’s statewide reach, South Carolina Event Productions also develops extensive marketing plans to help promote the events, highlight key sponsors and partners, and ultimately increase overall brand awareness, and revenue.

King & Columbus – a dynamic digital marketing agency that strategically helps ambitious businesses generate profits by building awareness, driving web traffic, connecting with customers and growing overall sales.

Our mission is driven by providing quality journalism that is engaging and valuable to the communities we service.

What you will do:

The Web Developer will work as part of a team to create and support a wide variety of digital platforms, capabilities, features and functions. Your primary responsibilities will include providing quality solutions in conjunction with the manager, other developers, our in-house Marketing team, and building the front-ends of our web-based, internal tools. The focus of this position is ongoing development and support of digital site/content management systems, advertising platforms and business intelligence systems.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Participates in all full lifecycle software development of web applications.
• Communicates effectively with technical team members as well as content subject matters experts.
• Ability to learn new software and technologies quickly.
• Ability to follow instructions and work with other departments to find solutions.
• Plans, implements, and supports page designs and features in multiple content management systems (CMS).
• Contribute to the maintenance and update of our corporate websites and online brand presence with additional landing pages, functional upgrades and trackable links.
• Flexibility/adaptability. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change.
• Accountable for project plans, timelines, project tracking, meeting delivery dates and support on assigned projects and tasks.
• On-call support of digital platforms and operations as needed.

Requirements, minimum education level, and experience:

• Minimum of B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field preferred.
• Minimum of 3 years web/digital development experience.
• Basic knowledge and experience in developing software applications using PHP, HTML, SQL and JavaScript.
• Experience in custom responsive web design.
• Experience in cross-browsers/cross-platform testing.
• Experience working with REST Web APIs (XML and JSON).
• Experience with creating Angular custom variables in pure JS.
• Experience with code repository tools such as GitHub.
• Experience with WordPress and customizing themes.
• Experience with Zapier preferred.
• Familiar with current web analytics like GA4. Experience in tracking and campaign creation in GA4 preferred.
• Familiar with SEO best practices.
• Familiar with pingdom, Google Webmaster Tools, Google PageSpeed Insights tools.
• Familiarity with JIRA and Confluence preferred.
• Familiarity with Adobe Creative Suite preferred.
• Applicants must complete a developer testing/QA of work.
• Must be able to pass a background check

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong React, Angular, Node JS, HTML, CSS, Advance JS, JavaScript, HTML, XML, JSON and REST skills.
• Business analytics experience – web analytics or otherwise.
• Flexible, self-starter with the ability to take ownership of numerous, fast-moving projects at once and meticulously follow processes.
• Detail-oriented with strong attention to follow-through.
• Strategic thinker with proven ability to build and grow technical skills.
• Ability to analyze data and information and translate into actionable strategies.
• Strong written, verbal, and visual communication skills.

Physical Requirements, Work Environment and Travel:

Must be able to focus for long periods of time at a computer screen given the nature of the digital business. This is a hybrid remote/on-site position and will be expected to be able to come into our downtown Charleston, SC office, as needed, to collaborate with teammates in-person.