The Website Coordinator is a volunteer Officer position on the OWCA Executive Board.
Position Details
- Length of term: 2 years (March 2025 to December 2026)
- Time commitment: 5-15 hours per month (includes synchronous and asynchronous work)
- Number of openings: 1
- Renewable?: Yes, up to 2 times
- Elected by: OWCA Executive Board
Qualifications
We welcome your application regardless of your prior experience with professional associations. The Executive Board will support you as a new Board member and help you to implement your ideas.
You should apply for this position if you:
- Have edited a website before, in any context
- Would like to develop skills with WordPress, basic HTML, and digital accessibility
- Would enjoy learning the backend of our website and researching answers to website problems
If elected, you would receive extensive training on our website, within your monthly time commitment. You will also work alongside the other Website Coordinator.
Responsibilities
As Website Coordinator, you would do the following within your monthly time commitment:
- Learn to manage the OWCA website and the OWCA membership software
- Collaborate and meet with the other Website Coordinator regularly
- Make timely updates to website content and navigation, as requested by the Board and committees
- Edit website content for readability and accessibility before it is published
- Assist the Conference Committee with creating and updating the conference website
- Attend committee meetings, when invited, to discuss/plan website projects
- Assist OWCA members with technical issues in their accounts
- Help develop detailed documentation for the website
- Research website plugins (or apps) that add additional features for the Board and committees
- Attend monthly Executive Board meetings to report on changes to the website, review items that need Board feedback/approval, and vote on Board and committee projects
Learn More
To learn more about this position and the OWCA, you can take a look at previous applications for our executive board.
You can also review the following pages on our website:
- Anti-Racism Commitment Statement
- OWCA’s Commitment to Accessibility
- Accessibility Resources for the OWCA Conference
If you have questions, please email election@onlinewritingcenters.org.
How to Apply
Please create ONE of the following:
- Written statement (200-300 words) OR
- Video statement (2-3 minutes). Video statements should be uploaded to YouTube and include edited closed captions for accessibility (please review the OWCA Guide for Video Applications for assistance).
Your statement will be shared with the OWCA Executive Board for voting. In your statement, please answer the following questions:
- Why do you want to be more involved with the OWCA and to hold the position of Website Coordinator?
- What interests you or motivates you when it comes to website editing?
Submit
Applications for this election are due Feb. 14, 2025 (by end of the day).
