About us
Our purpose is simple - to save lives at sea. We provide a 24-hour lifeboat search and rescue service, seasonal lifeguards, and water safety education and initiatives. Our lifeboat crews and lifeguards need a dedicated, professional and talented team behind them, and that is where you come in. This is your chance to join that team and help save lives every day.
Working together with partners and communities, we aim to educate, influence, supervise and rescue those at risk from drowning. We see digital technologies as crucial in helping us achieve this goal.
Some of the benefits
* Salary: £34,893 to £41,050 (dependent on experience)
* Flexible working
* Starting with 26 days’ annual leave plus Bank Holidays
* Outstanding pension scheme (contributions of up to 16% of basic salary)
* Life assurance
* See our attached Summary of Employee Benefits for more details
About the role
As a Digital Platform Specialist, you will be helping to improve our Sitecore maturity, by maximising the inbuilt Sitecore Experience Manager capabilities. You will be the subject matter expert on Sitecore advising the organisation on capabilities of the platform, best practice for content managers and heavily involved in the pipeline of development work.
In your first few weeks in this Digital Platform Specialist role, you can expect to:
* Get up to speed with the BAU backlog, understanding the development already planned and working with stakeholders on prioritising new development
* Manage the delivery of our BAU Sprint cycles, writing user stories and defining acceptance criteria.
* Be involved in UAT of the of the organisations strategic Sitecore upgrade project
* Immerse yourself in the Sitecore platform learning the set up of the IA, components available, functionality used, 3rd party tools and data points that the system connects to.
* Help to build online water safety, campaign and donation journeys that deliver on our mission to save lives at sea
* Get to grips with the Digital Experience team and our ways of working – we are a friendly and high performing team
* Collaborate with our digital studio, performance & creative teams and our partner agency to build and manage engaging digital experiences
About You
To succeed in this Digital Platform Specialist role, you will need:
* Significant experience using Sitecore Experience Manager.
* To be comfortable managing and prioritising a BAU programme of work, with impeccable attention to detail, managing conflicting stakeholder expectations and deadlines
* Experience in using Google Analytics for analysis and interpretation of website performance, Google Tag Manager and OneTrust cookie management
* An understanding of Kanban, Lean and Agile methodologies would be hugely advantageous
If you have experience managing Sitecore, and are someone who is excited about driving forwards new technology capability, advocating quality control, with a pragmatic and calm approach to problem solving and a busy workload, we want to hear from you!
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