Web Content Strategist (Temporary)

San Jose, CA (On-site)

$7K/mo – $8K/moMid Level4+ years expTemporary

Posted 2 days ago

Job Summary

Own the full content lifecycle for SJSU’s web presence, leading governance, audits, and optimization in collaboration with Marketing, IT, UMC, and agency partners across a major site redesign.

Job Description

Responsibilities

  • Identify core audiences for content and re-organize content to ensure a positive user experience.
  • Partner with the Director of Integrated Marketing to weave the SJSU brand voice throughout the website and digital ecosystem.
  • Track website content changes and log all content-related work for measurement.
  • Establish a content governance strategy for SJSU, in partnership with UMC and IT leadership.
  • Work closely with the agency of record to support recommendations around web governance and content strategy for the website redesign.
  • Leverage SEMRush or other tools to ensure website copy is optimized and search-friendly.
  • Utilize web crawlers (e.g., Screaming Frog), analytics (Google Analytics/Adobe/GSC) and SEO/AEO tools (SEMrush/Ahrefs) to audit content at scale and keep the project organized.
  • Work closely with the Content Migration Specialist to assess all website content for the redesign: archive, condense, or keep.
  • Draft new content or refresh existing content across all sjsu.edu web pages.
  • Refresh stories, develop new content that illustrates the brand and fact-check content, as needed.

Requirements

  • Equivalent to a bachelor’s degree in a related field. Additional experience which demonstrates acquired and successfully applied knowledge and abilities shown above may be substituted for the required education on a year-for-year basis. An advanced degree in a related field may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year basis.
  • Four (4) years of relevant experience.

Preferred

  • Master’s degree in Communications, Journalism, Marketing, Digital Media, or related field.
  • A minimum of four years of professional web content/content strategy experience
  • Experience with large or complex websites
  • Demonstrated SEO/AEO, content governance, accessibility, CMS, analytics, and web writing experience

Benefits

  • San José State University offers employees a comprehensive benefits package typically worth 30-35% of your base salary. For more information on programs available, please see the Employee Benefits Summary .
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The California State University is the largest system of four-year higher education in the country, with 22 campuses, 56,000 faculty and staff and more than 450,000 students.Created in 1960, the mission of the CSU is to provide high-quality, affordable education to meet the ever-changing needs of California. With its commitment to quality, opportunity, and student success, the CSU is renowned for superb teaching, innovative research and for producing job-ready graduates. The CSU powers California and the nation, sending nearly 127,000 career-ready graduates into the workforce each year. In fact, one in every 20 Americans holding a college degree earned it at the CSU and our alumni are 4 million strong.

Founded in 1947
Long Beach, California, USA
92K employees (3,651 in marketing)

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44.9%
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37.7%
Referral
14.3%
Social
1.5%
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1.6%

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Web Content Strategist (Temporary)

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