Lead, Academic Support, Website And Graphic Design

Job Description
Walden’s Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS) provides instruction to help students develop academic and professional skills for success. We align our support with university-wide, degree-level learning outcomes. Everyone in OASIS collaborates with teams across Walden to ensure we connect students with flexible, seamless instructional support where and when they need it.
This position plays a pivotal role leading the overall design and user experience for a suite of academic instructional websites, the student catalog, and student handbook. This position will work with a wide variety of stakeholders and partners across the university to design engaging, accessible, and responsive websites and digital assets. This position will have the opportunity to demonstrate their expertise in web design tools, programming languages, and design principles to deliver website and other digital assets to drive a best-in-class user experience that also meets both aesthetic and functional standards.
All candidates will be required to submit a portfolio of work samples and/or links to their work.
Responsibilities;
Develop visually appealing and intuitive websites and digital assets that provide a seamless user experience and align to defined brand guidelines.
Collaborate with key organizational stakeholders and OASIS leadership to understand and meet website requirements and objectives. Work with front-end web developers to deploy designs.
Create wireframes, prototypes, and user flows to visualize and iterate on design solutions. Design UI elements and tools such as navigation menus, search boxes, tabs, and widgets.
Design page layouts and templates;
Develop and maintain a design library and style guide. Enforce design standards.
Ensure websites and designs meet current Section 508 compliance and WCAG guidelines and are compatible with various devices and browsers.
Stay current with industry trends, best practices, and emerging technologies in UX/UI design.
Plan and conduct usability testing sessions to gather feedback and insights for continuous improvement.
Participate in the OASIS Extended Leadership group.
Contribute to building a positive team culture and a healthy workplace in OASIS and beyond.
Performs other duties as assigned.
Complies with all policies and standards.