Content Creator at City of Odessa | Odessa, TX | $24/hr – $34/hr

Content Creator

Odessa, TX (On-site)

$24/hr – $34/hrEntry Level3+ years expFull time

Posted 5 months ago

Job Summary

The role focuses on managing City of Odessa digital content and website operations, including content updates, ADA-compliant rewrites, and collaboration with vendors. It emphasizes creating content for multiple City platforms, auditing sites, and supporting public-facing communications. Strong emphasis on requirements and experience in public sector communications.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Promotes City activities, services and programs by generating relevant and timely content for City websites, employee intranet and City Council communication dashboard.
Responds to and fulfills requests to update, edit, add or remove content in a timely manner. Reformats and rewrites content as necessary to comply with ADA standards, follows website guidelines and creates intuitive processes for users.
Implements creative and research-driven solutions for increasing website traffic, enhancing functionality and improving design through use of site analytics and data.
Develops and completes auditing schedules for website and mobile application. Diagnoses and resolves technical issues, broken URLs and page errors. Removes dated or duplicated content.
Oversees the redesign, development and management of websites and mobile application by guiding project timelines, coordinating staff feedback and communicating with vendors.
Collaborates with departments and/or vendors to support the use of third-party applications on website(s) and mobile application.
Develops, creates, edits, and modifies existing internal and external website content; updates and enhances the content and technical aspects of web pages; trains City staff in website maintenance and editing.
Serves as photographer/videographer; edits photos/videos to share with public as needed for web content.
This position is designated as "essential personnel" and is required to be available for immediate call-in due to any natural or manmade disaster, or any event the Director of Communications or the City Manager deems necessary. An on-call schedule is managed by the Director of Communications.
Performs other duties as assigned by Director of Communications or City Manager's office.

Requirements

Education, Training and Experience Guidelines: Associate's Degree in Communications or related field is required; AND three years' experience in public sector communications; OR High school diploma/GED or 8-10 years of web editing and development work experience.
Knowledge of: Computer graphic design techniques and publication and web-based software applications.
Methods and techniques used in the development and production of marketing and media projects.
Skill in: Writing, editing and developing a variety of communications materials.
Operating a personal computer utilizing standard and specialized software.
Establishing and maintaining cooperative working relationships with City staff.
Communicating effectively verbally and in writing.
Monitoring technological changes and developments in the computer and media industries.
Identifying and implementing practical solutions to technical problems.
Establishing and maintaining effective working relations with co-workers.

City of Odessa

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Odessa,_TexasOdessa was founded in 1881 as a water stop and cattle-shipping point on the Texas and Pacific Railway. The first post office opened in 1885. Odessa became the county seat of Ector County in 1891 when the county was first organized. It was incorporated as a city in 1927, after oil was discovered in Ector County on the Connell Ranch southwest of Odessa.[9]With the opening of the Penn Field in 1929, and the Cowden Field in 1930, oil became a major draw for new residents. In 1925, the population was just 750; by 1929, it had risen to 5,000. For the rest of the 20th century, the city's population and economy grew rapidly during each of a succession of oil booms (roughly in the 1930s–1950s, 1970s, and 2010s), often with accompanying contractions during the succeeding busts (particularly in the 1960s and 1980s).[9]

Founded in 1927

Odessa, Texas, USA

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