Details
1100701
University of Gloucestershire
01/10/2025
1 Month
40 hours, to completed by the end of October.
Casual
Pay
£12.21
£1.47
Description
Role
The Council runs the website www.investgloucester.co.uk as a marketing tool to encourage investment in the city. The site presents the attractiveness of Gloucester as a business location alongside information and resources that will assist a business to take the decision to invest in the city. Having been produced in 2020 the website now requires updating and improvement to its form and content.
The role of the Website Reviewer will be to review the website, make recommendations to Council officers on how it might be enhanced and improved drawing on their knowledge of recent technology enhancements and good practice, and, once approved, undertake the changes.
Duties and responsibilities
- To review the Invest in Gloucester website with a view to identifying ways of updating and improving it.
- To identify good practice and innovation within other locations' investment websites, and to adapt some of that good practice into Gloucester's site.
- To agree changes to the website with the Economic Growth team and to then implement those changes.
Skills and experience
- Familiarity with web design and editing and an appreciation of the factors and tools that will help a website to attract and retain viewers.
- Ability to carry out research to identify the latest good practice on competitor sites.
- Ability to prepare web copy and identify good images that will enhance the website.
- An understanding of the role of the Council in promoting the city in order to attract business investment.
Location
Home Working/Option to work in Gloucester Office.
Additional information
It is anticipated that the project will take 40 hours to complete. Those hours can be undertaken flexibly and remotely if necessary, maintaining contact with Council officers on a regular basis. The project needs to be completed before the end October 2025.