Web Designer, Library Services
The Robert E. Kennedy has begun recruitment for a Web Designer. For more information about this position, including specific requirements and the steps to apply, see the job desciption at Cal Poly Jobs, requisition number 162499. Application review begins January 17, 2012.
Position Description
The web designer is responsible for the visual design, implementation, assessment, and management of the Robert E. Kennedy Library website. Collaborating with library systems and programming experts, the web designer creates standard and mobile interfaces across platforms to meet user needs in an efficient, inspired and integrated way. The incumbent must have strong project management and organizational skills and the ability to coordinate with a team to determine project objectives, technical requirements, content needs and milestones. The successful candidate will lead a major web redesign reflecting new technology and campus branding. The web designer also provides library-wide graphic design leadership, directing a talented team of pre-professional student artists to provide consistent and exciting graphic design for both web- and print-based library communications.
About Kennedy Library
With annual visitors exceeding 1.2 million, the Robert E. Kennedy Library is a campus hub for information resources, integrating traditional library resources with technology to support the University's evolving academic programs. We take pride in leading the way with innovative services, technologies, and collaborative spaces. The Library hosts and manages university-wide computer labs and open access computers, provides free checkout services for laptops and a wide range of AV devices, serves as the home for the Digital Commons (Cal Poly's institutional repository), and provides technology-enabled, collaborative, student-friendly spaces like the Learning Commons and café on the second floor. Planning is underway for a major expansion of the Academic Center and Library. The Library and Information Technology Services are now part of a newly established Information Services Directorate.
About Cal Poly
Cal Poly is a nationally ranked comprehensive public university located in San Luis Obispo, California. With more than 18,000 undergraduates and approximately 1000 graduate students, Cal Poly fosters teaching, scholarship, and service in a learn-by-doing environment where students and faculty are partners in discovery. As a polytechnic university, Cal Poly promotes the application of theory to practice. As a comprehensive institution, Cal Poly provides a balanced education in the arts, sciences, and technology, while encouraging cross-disciplinary and co-curricular experiences. As an academic community, Cal Poly values free inquiry, cultural and intellectual diversity, mutual respect, civic engagement, and social and environmental responsibility.
About San Luis Obispo
Cal Poly is located in San Luis Obispo, along the beautiful central coast of California, with easy access to the ocean, mountains, and wine country. Halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco, south of Monterey and Big Sur, San Luis Obispo offers a vibrant, culturally rich small-town community in an uncrowded and extraordinary natural setting.
