4Cs Website Designer

Reference
1104920

Branch
Middlesex University

Start date
15/12/2025

Duration
9 Months

Hours and days
Total of 80 hours. We are flexible about when these hours should be committed.

Dress code
Not Applicable

Rate of pay
£20.00

Holiday rate
£2.41

Role

The role below is only for current Middlesex University Students 

Middlesex University is leading an international project with Croatian and Canadian colleagues. The project requires us to build a website, and so we are looking for someone who can undertake the following three tasks:

1. Work alongside the project leader to consult with the small team of researchers to produce a technical specification that meets the needs of the project.
2. Build the website to meet this specification.
3. Train the team leaders to be able to upload and manage resources.

We have already registered a domain name, but we are open to discussions about the best platform to use to build the website.

Duties and responsibilities

Education for Democracy website

The website has two functions.

First, it will be a website for a new network, ‘Education for Democracy’. This will include:

1. Information on the network's aims and participants
2. Information pages about forthcoming and past events
3. Information pages for a variety of projects/resources

 

Second, in section (c), it will host the 4Cs project pages as its first ‘live’ project:

This is the core means by which we will disseminate material in real-time in an open-access format. The website will be a functional forum for sharing and responding to work. It will also be open to the public so that the work will always be accessible to interested parties. We envisage this as being of interest primarily to teachers and fellow academics working in this area. The website will include the following material:

• Curated exhibition of student work from the initial phase to share the kinds of issues young people identify as divisive, with co-produced commentary.
• Student comments on others’ work, reflecting horizontal comparative engagement.
• Teaching plans with rationale for each site.
• Teaching resources were developed for each site.
• Reflections on the process of discussing divisive issues in class, from the students’ perspective (co-produced by the students and researchers), and teachers’ perspective (based on interviews by the researchers).

Skills and experience

1. Join team meetings and help guide researchers to produce a technical specification for the website.
   1. Ability to work with others
   2. Willingness to work with non-technical colleagues to refine ideas into a viable technical briefing for the website design
   3. Ability to produce a final version of the plan for the website design
2. Build the website
   1. Ability to build a website according to the agreed design/specification (platform to be agreed with the project leader)
   2. Ability to work with the team to test the website functionality
   3. Willingness to review and revise the website in light of feedback from the team and the results of testing
3. Train others in maintaining and using the website
   1. Ability to train a small team on how to manage the website
   2. Willingness to engage in on-going support e.g. dealing with questions

Location
Hendon/Online

Benefits

For this initial phase of the work, we can pay for 80 hours. We are flexible about when these hours should be committed, but ideally, the planning meetings and refining the technical specification will happen in January / February, and the first version of the website will be available in March / April.

Application Deadline: Sunday 7th December, 23:59

If you have any questions about the role, please contact Lee Jerome at: l.jerome@mdx.ac.uk, the project leader, who will manage this position.

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