Webmaster

A highly skilled Webmaster who can powerfully differentiate our digital presence._
- This role requires a unique blend of creativity, technical proficiency, and a keen eye for detail._

History and purpose

Cognician is a multi-award-winning online learning company with offices in Cape Town, London and San Francisco. Our founding belief is that people are capable of great things when their behaviour is driven by powerful ideas and deeply felt emotions. What does that mean? It means we deliver significant, measurable behaviour change to our clients in 30 days or less.

Cognician was founded in 2010 by Barry and Patrick Kayton, who grew the company and platform out of their previous instructional design agency, Bright Sparks, founded in 1999. After being joined by Robert Stuttaford, CTO, and Michael Leeman, CFO, the core founding team went on to grow Cognician into a team of 60 strong, and the world’s best-kept secret in corporate learning. And 2022 saw Colin Sloman, join as our Chief Strategy Officer.

Our primary global partner and client is Accenture. Via Accenture and other partners, we have acquired an enviable list of Fortune 500 clients. Our aim now is to accelerate our growth through content marketing (cue great website intro ), driving the sale of our packaged products and maintaining a compelling dialogue with clients and prospects.

Industry

Online corporate learning, operating at the intersection of learning and change management.

Job description

We’re looking for an experienced Webmaster (aka website design and maintenance pro), to help us 10x the Cognician Universe through a world-class website that matches our world-class product

Over the last 13 years Cognician has built a reputation for delivering exceptional custom-built behavior change programs to Fortune 1000 clients. And now we have a complimentary arm of our business having developed ready-to-go behavior change programs, which our clients can roll out at speed, at scale, and at lower cost, but without compromising on the impact we’re known for: measurable change in 30 days or less. And you, as our primary all-things-web evangelist, will help us keep building; communicating our vision, mission and value through our primary touch point with the world - our website
- What experience do you have?_

We’re looking for someone who has a proven track record in:

- Creating and maintaining websites of beauty and significance
- SEO optimization and monitoring
- Website security and compliance implementation
- Brand strategy and articulation

You’ve worked for a **minimum of 5 years in a Web Design or Master role **doing exactly the above.
- Here’s your familiar wheelhouse:_

Working closely with the senior leadership team, you’ll elevate our digital presence by building up and out the Cognician website. You’ll create your very best work through visually appealing and user-friendly website design and development. No browser incompatibility for you

You’ll pioneer this role with our burgeoning content marketing strategy and proactively suggest ways our digital presence can support it's goals. Working closely with the leadership team you’ll understand and ultimately translate their vision.

Website = Brand Identity, that’s an equation you’ll regularly solve, managing web design projects from conception to completion. And that means collaborating with the broader Cognician team to ensure consistency in Cognician’s visual storytelling across all digital platforms.

SEO Optimization, Website Monitoring and Analytics and QA are on your essentials check-box list

As you grow our digital presence, you’re making sure to grow too You’ll stay up-to-date with the latest web design trends and technologies and continuously develop skills in relevant programming languages, design software, and tools.

And you’re our best defence Because you’ll ensure all our web designs not only comply with compliance legal standards but they’re rock-solid-secure against potential cyberthreats.
- Why do you want this job over another?_

We’re looking for someone who finds the work we do at Cognician to be personally meaningful. Our purpose is to create a world in which current ways of working pose no barrier to rapid transformation, and all employees feel empowered to activate new, productive behaviors for themselves, their team and their organization. And your work, your contribution, will be a daily expression of this.
- How do you know this job is for you?_

Here are some things that folks might have said or observed about you, or that you might believe are true about yourself:
You’re a fantastic listener. You ask great questions.

You’ve considered getting QA as your next tattoo - KIDDING, but Quality assurance is BIG for you.

Your listening skills are only outmatched by your eye for design and detail.

You’re a results driver and completely comfortable at CSuite level.

You’re a disciplined creative who thrives on acco