Salary:

£39,142 per annum

Type:

Permanent - Full Time

Closing Date:

Sunday, 5th January 2025

Loughborough College is seeking an enthusiastic and driven Web Developer. A self-starter with a genuine passion for web development, learning new skills, and can thrive working in a small team.

The Web team work within the wider Marketing and Communications team to design and develop engaging and interactive websites, e-communications, and web-based applications to assist with the core marketing and recruitment of students for the college.

Alongside marketing, the team work on internal student and staff-facing websites, applications and services which support and streamline the college’s business processes.

This is an excellent opportunity to contribute substantially to a small but dedicated team of developers. You will be involved in the whole lifecycle of projects from conception, planning and development through testing and deployment, offering a chance to shape and deliver high-quality, innovative and engaging solutions.

To be successful, you’ll need to demonstrate knowledge and experience of both front-end and server-side technologies, including:

HTML5
CSS / SCSS
JavaScript (e.g., Vanilla / Svelte)
PHP

Experience or knowledge of any of the following would be an advantage:

Content management systems (e.g. WordPress, Drupal)
Version / Source control (GIT)
SQL (MySQL / MSSQL)
Accessibility (WCAG 2.1)

In this wide and varied role, there will be an opportunity to develop, explore and enhance new and existing skills, as well as opportunities to take a lead on the continuous development of the team’s best practices.

The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised. We are committed to promoting a diverse and inclusive community with the belief that diversity plays an important role in the success of our business.

We are proud to have achieved the Investor in Diversity award. We actively encourage applications who are current under-represented and where we are using positive action under the Equality Act. We welcome everyone to consider becoming a part of our journey. The College is striving to attract, develop and retain the very best people by offering a motivating and inclusive workplace in which talent is truly recognised.

Alongside our commitment to your professional and personal development, we also offer a generous benefits package including:

A competitive pension scheme
On-site parking
One campus facility
Subsidised nursery fees
Up to 25 days annual leave per year
Additional annual leave available
Fantastic CPD and inclusive resources for development
Well-being hours
Opportunities of volunteering within local community and charities

We offer a range of family friendly, inclusive employment policies, flexible working arrangements and agile working where the business allows. We provide staff forums, staff working groups for sustainability, staff steering groups for Investors in Diversity and support services to support with mental health and wellbeing for staff from different backgrounds.

We are and have consistently invested in providing our learners and employees with an outstanding and unrivalled range of modern facilities and resources.

The successful candidate will be employed by The Leicestershire College a subsidiary company of Loughborough College. The terms and conditions of employment offered by the Leicestershire College are different to those of Loughborough College. Please note that employees of the Leicestershire College are based at Loughborough College.

Kindly be advised that we are unable to provide skilled worker sponsorship for this position. Applicants must have the right to work in the country without the need for sponsorship.

If you require any support to apply for this job, please email recruitment@loucoll.ac.uk

Important Information

EU citizens arriving into the UK after the 1st January 2021 will need apply for a Tier 2 visa to gain right to work in the UK.

To be eligible to apply for a Tier 2 visa, the role advertised will need to have an educational standard of at least A levels and the salary for the role has to be a minimum of £25,600 unless in a shortage area i.e. STEM or if you have a PhD relating to the role.

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