Website Director, New England Historic Genealogical Society, Boston MA
Posted May 12, 2014
To advance the study of family history in America and beyond, the New England Historic Genealogical Society educates, inspires, and connects people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise. We have an 8-story research center on Newbury Street in Boston, with over 70 full-time staff; and, we serve 25,000 members nationally and 80,000 total constituents.
NEHGS is seeking a Website Director. The Website Director oversees all activities on AmericanAncestors.org – the NEHGS flagship website -to provide users with the highest-quality offering of online experiences that engage, attract, and retain constituents and offers industry leading genealogical research databases. This position is the internal and external leader of initiatives to maximize the use of the web for family history research.
Duties and Responsibilities:
- Ensure 24 x 7 operation of the NEHGS websites
- Interact with key stakeholders in management and governance to advise on web capabilities, opportunities, and status of on-going projects
- Collaborate with database team to strategically build relevant, high-quality databases
- Manage, evaluate, and train web team members
- Increase revenue from the online delivery of family history related goods and services
- Work with Marketing and other teams to ensure effective, engaging content in support of goals
- Oversee the creation of new functionality to increase constituent satisfaction
- Provide written and oral presentations of web functionality to internal and external audiences
- Develop and support interfaces and integration with other systems such as CRMs and accounting
software
- Manage web usage statistics and prepare regular reports for distribution to management
- Stay current on web technologies and trends in order to advise and recommend approaches for website development
- Ensure a high level of fiscal control and accountability for web budget
Education level for the position:
Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related area or equivalent work experience
Skill and Qualifications for the position:
- Minimum of three years of experience as a manager of contracted projects
- Minimum of five years of experience as a web content administrator
- Strong affinity for family history – prior experience with genealogical research desired
- Solid knowledge of web design and development concepts and standards as well as information architecture (taxonomy, meta data) and Social Media skills desired
- SQL or other relational database management systems experience
- Experience with a packaged content management system, including managing software upgrades.
- Strong analytical capabilities, expertise in troubleshooting and solving system problems. Able to work independently, as well as teaming with other IT staff members and vendors.
- Strong communication skills, able to communicate effectively with both technical staff and end-users; excellent customer service skills.
- Proven expertise in HTML/CSS, ASP.NET, JavaScript and XML.
- SEO best-practices knowledge
Please email cover letter and resume to Michelle Major, Human Resources Coordinator; [email protected]
May 23, 2014
To advance the study of family history in America and beyond, the New England Historic Genealogical Society (NEHGS) educates, inspires, and connects people through our scholarship, collections, and expertise.
Founded in 1845, NEHGS is the country’s oldest and largest nonprofit genealogical organization.
The NEHGS research library is home to tens of millions of books, journals, manuscripts, photographs, microfilms, documents, records, and other artifacts that date back more than five centuries. The award-winning website www.AmericanAncestors.org offers access to more than 200 million names in thousands of searchable databases. Serving more than 70,000 members and registered users internationally, the NEHGS staff includes some of the leading expert genealogists in the country, specializing in early American, Irish, English, Italian, Scottish, Atlantic and French Canadian, and Jewish genealogy.