The American University in Cairo is looking for a Web Content Management Officer in Cairo, Egypt. If you meet the requirements below, you will be eligible to apply via Digital Marketing Community.

Job Responsibilities:

• Assure that all website updates are handled on a daily basis and for providing content writing for the AUC website and assuring its alignment with AUC’s strategic priorities, brand and messages.
• Accountable for the daily and regular requests, changes and approvals of the AUC institutional and academic website for Content Management System (CMS) users (30-50 users).
• Support twice daily approval cycle for content changes to ensure within 24-hour changes.
• Head and respond to daily updates/changes for non-CMS users (do not have access to the AUC website or pages) (approximately 80 non-users) including the creation of new pages for users with no access, assist in uploading of documents, the creation of slideshows, and creation of new widgets.
• Edit and review newly created websites in coordination with the rest of the web communications team to ensure quality control and continuity of website plan and execution.
• Initiate and maintain daily, regularly and periodic updates throughout the AUC website with new stories, upcoming events, and conferences, new facts, and figures, newly uploaded videos, upcoming important dates, based on the update frequency plan of the whole website.
• Repurpose and reflect all updates pertaining to community changes, messages from the senior administration and cabinet members across relevant pages with the new information.
• Draft and refresh all top-tier pages and promotional content (text and multimedia formats) following the best practice of web writing and optimization global higher education industry standard, rules and guidelines.
• Promote and align all content within AUC editorial style guide and AUC web protocol.
• Conduct all additional tasks requested from a direct supervisor.

Job Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree required, preferably in journalism and mass communication or marketing.
• At least 7 years of experience.
• Effective experience in communications with writing skills is required.
• Strong English writing and editing skills, complete command of principles of grammar and usage.
• Proficient website experience and knowledge of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is an asset.
• Demonstrated understanding of electronic communications applications and the Internet.
• Solid English writing and editing abilities.
• Deep knowledge of editorial style guidelines, grammar, and American English.
• Attention to details.
• Outstanding verbal and written communication skills.
• Hard-worker, committed, attentive to details, organized, can work independently.
• Ability to effectively communicate information and ideas in written and verbal format, and build and maintain relationships.

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