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Web intern (Ottawa, ON)
Salary: $14/hour
This position will play a role in improving, updating and analyzing CPAWS' web activities.
- Making updates to CPAWS managed sites as directed, using our CMS
- Using public domain image repositories to find appropriate images for projects
- Coding HTML emails
- Suggesting ways to improve existing sites
- Assembling statistics on our email blasts, websites and social media accounts for analysis
- Organizing and tag images from our collection
- Using services like Google maps, Twitter, etc. to create interactive tools for our sites
- Researching and compare online service providers.
- Working with our chapters to improve their websites
- Writing and editing text for the web
- Experience with updating blogs and/or content management systems - if you have your own blog, site or social media presences, feel free to include them in your cover letter.
- Basic understanding of HTML and CSS syntax, tags/selectors, etc.
- Image editing skills (cropping, resizing)
- Stronger understanding of HTML/CSS
- Knowledge of Javascript
- Programming experience (especially PHP/MySQL)
- Bilingual
- Laptop with your own preferred image editing and web development software.
- Some background in conservation
How to apply:
Email webmaster@cpaws.org by March 30 with a cover letter and resume. If you have a blog, social media presence, or site that shows off your skills, please include links to those as well.
This position is being offered through the Youth Eco Internship Program at YWCA Canada with funding from the Government of Canada’s Economic Action Plan. The YEIP particularly encourages applicants from visible minority, Aboriginal, immigrant, refugee and traditionally marginalized communities to apply, and is committed to providing employment supports wherever possible. For more information please visit www.yeip.ca.
Posted March 4, 2010
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