Web Content Specialist

Job Title: Web Content Specialist

Type: Contract- 6 months

Location: Atlanta, GA 30346

Our client is seeking a Web Content Specialist for a 6 month contract in the Atlanta Perimeter area to manage multi-language content (images, copy, video, etc.) for client's customer-facing brand site. The Content Specialist must collaborate with User Experience, Channel Integration and other partner teams to create and maintain content that is user-centered, brand right and globally consistent. This specialist needs a very strong understanding of brand identities and the ability to identify when content is on or off brand. The Web Content Specialist should understand and inform project needs; propose new content and determine impact on existing content; use global CMS/Back End systems; manage master web content inventories; write contextually appropriate content as needed, negotiate content revisions, and facilitate translations. The Content Specialist reports to the Web Content Strategy Manager or another Content Strategist.

Client details:
Located in nearly 100 countries and territories world-wide, our client is the world's largest global organization within their industry. Headquartered in Atlanta, GA, they continue to be on the cutting edge of new technology. This established and growing organization has been recognized for their superior employee development efforts in Training Magazine's Top 125 for 2010 and remains an industry leader in environmental sustainability making continuous efforts to make an impact on the global environment. They offer a fast paced and high energy environment where your career is destined to thrive.

WEB CONTENT SPECIALIST RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Be the key point person for partner teams as it relates to the most updated content on the sites.
- Work with project sponsors, managing editors and related UX disciplines to understand content needs and project scope
- Create and maintain content matrices containing asset-level detail, including metadata values that govern content behavior (placement within site structure, geographic distribution, translations)
- Manage process for updating content Matrix through multiple stakeholders
- Engage in iterative content processes, negotiating input and revisions from multiple subject matter experts; liaise with regional stakeholders for verification/validation, if necessary.
- Ensure content compliance with editorial guidelines and perform quality assurance checks on published content
- Publish, verify, and troubleshoot master English and translated content in various test environments
- Responsible for helping to educate and evangelize the importance or need for a master content inventory/Matrix
- Participate in informing suggested process workflow changes to ensure the most efficient methodology for content maintenance
- Describe quality assurance methodology; explain desired outcomes of testing, such as reliability and consistency; identify the steps in the project life cycle.

Requirements:

- At least 5 years' experience writing and editing for Web environments
- Ability to set and meet tight editorial deadlines, and to address evolving priorities
- Proven history of self-direction, creativity, and ability to meet deadlines.
- Must possess exceptional writing skills.
- Demonstrates a general understanding of technology used by the company; describes basic technological concepts and terminology; applies standard technology in daily work.
- Demonstrates an understanding of basic project planning processes, including planning action items and resources.
- Authorized to Work in the U.S.

Please contact Grace Seymour.

Synergis is a woman-owned company that serves a myriad of clients across nearly all industries, from start-ups to Fortune 100 companies. The outcomes of these relationships are demonstrated in a growing list of more than 300 clients and industry recognitions by Inc. magazine and the Atlanta Business Chronicle.

From its foundation in 1997, Synergis has been successfully recruiting and placing IT professionals in all areas of information technology. For more information, please visit the company website Synergis is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.