The Canadian Association of Professional Academic Librarians (CAPAL/ACBES) is seeking a **Webmaster** for a three-year volunteer term.
As Webmaster, you will play a vital role in maintaining and enhancing CAPAL/ACBES’s online presence, ensuring that our websites, membership tools, and communications platforms remain effective, secure, and user-friendly.
Webmaster Duties:
The webmaster maintains CAPAL’s websites which contain important documents and communications of our organization. This includes:
- maintaining the site domains through our ISP (currently Canadian Web Hosting)
- making regular updates to WordPress and its themes and components, to ensure that the site is safe and effective
- maintaining the membership website and member registration pages using the member management service, such as Wild Apricot
- working with members of the Communications committee and others to update the documents on our WordPress site and add new materials
- working with the Conference Committee to support its communications and the conference website. This may include archiving materials from previous conferences
- maintaining our email lists (listserv, MailerLite, Mailchimp, and Wild Apricot) and working with those who need to use them, primarily the Communications and Membership Committees
- Providing technical support for the use closed based file management and user accounts, such as Sync cloud storage site
- Ensuring the website meets WCAG 2.0 guidelines
The Webmaster needs a background in technical support and should have some experience in website setup and maintenance, as well as communication and member management platforms.
The Webmaster attends meetings of the Board and relevant committees (membership, communications and conference) as needed.
Required:
- Experience with at least one of the following: HTML, XML, WordPress, PHP, JavaScript, or other programming languages
- Examples of previous work/experience of a past online media object(s)
- Excellent communication skills
- Ability to troubleshoot and resolve website issues
- Familiarity with meeting web content accessibility guidelines, including WCAG 2.0
How to apply:
Please send a CV and a cover letter outlining your interest and relevant experiences to capalibrarians@gmail.com
Deadline to apply: 5 pm on March 24th, 2025