Web Specialist

Web Specialist Temporary Position

JOB PURPOSE:

We’re seeking a highly strategic Web Specialist for a 12-month fixed-term position to evaluate, improve, and help shape the overall performance of our website. This is a fully web-focused role centered on user experience, site architecture, and data-informed decision-making within a Drupal environment.

The ideal candidate will take a holistic view of the website, analyzing user flows, identifying friction points, and implementing improvements to enhance engagement, usability, and overall site performance. This role requires deep, hands-on experience with Drupal, along with the ability to translate insights into meaningful, scalable changes across the site.

In addition to ongoing site optimization, this role will play a key supporting role in the launch and refinement of a new video hub, ensuring a seamless and intuitive user experience across video content, discovery, and engagement pathways.

Key responsibilities include:

· Conducting a comprehensive audit of the Drupal website, including user flows, navigation, and overall UX

· Evaluating homepage performance, content hierarchy, and key entry and exit points

· Utilizing insights and recommendations provided by the analytics team to inform priorities and improvements

· Translating analytics input into actionable updates across navigation, taxonomy, and page layouts

· Recommending and implementing enhancements to site structure and user journeys within Drupal

· Building, updating, and optimizing pages directly in Drupal, ensuring consistency and scalability

· Supporting the launch and ongoing optimization of the video hub, including content organization, user flow, and discoverability

· Applying web best practices, accessibility standards, and responsive design principles within Drupal constraints

· Collaborating with cross-functional teams to align web improvements with broader organizational goals

· Continuously iterating on site updates based on performance data and feedback

Required qualifications:

· Proven experience working extensively within Drupal (content types, taxonomy, layouts, and page building)

· Strong understanding of UX/UI, information architecture, and web best practices

· Working knowledge of HTML/CSS and how they apply within a CMS environment

· Experience applying analytics-driven insights to improve web performance

· Experience working with content-rich or media-heavy websites (video experience a plus)

· Ability to translate recommendations into clear, actionable changes

Preferred qualifications:

· Experience with search optimization and tools such as Algolia

· Familiarity with improving on-site search experience, indexing, and content discoverability

This role requires a proactive, strategic thinker who can evaluate the full website experience and execute improvements using data provided by internal teams. Strong communication skills and the ability to prioritize and implement changes effectively are essential.

Pay Range: The expected pay range for this position is $50.75 to $57.52 per hour.

Stanford University provides pay ranges representing its good faith estimate of what the university reasonably expects to pay for a position. The pay offered to a selected candidate will be determined based on factors such as (but not limited to) the scope and responsibilities of the position, the qualifications of the selected candidate, departmental budget availability, internal equity, geographic location and external market pay for comparable jobs.

About Stanford University’s Hoover Institution: The Hoover Institution on War, Revolution, and Peace is a public policy research center devoted to the advanced study of economics, politics, history, and political economy—both domestic and foreign—as well as international affairs.

With its eminent scholars and world-renowned library and archives, the Hoover Institution seeks to improve the human condition by advancing ideas that promote economic opportunity and prosperity while securing and safeguarding peace for America and all humanity.

Job Types: Full-time, Temporary

Pay: $50.75 - $57.52 per hour

Work Location: Hybrid remote in Stanford, CA 94305