Information Architecture and Website Content Strategist (Remote Contractor)

Description

We are ThinkShout, a Portland-grown, certified B Corp dedicated to delivering exceptional web development and user experience to the nonprofits and forward-thinking organizations that inspire us. 

We are looking for a contractor who will lead strategy across a couple projects to help our clients solve organizational challenges in elegant and unexpected ways. You will proactively identify, define, and design solutions to make their platforms and content serve what their organizations and users need most.

Requirements

What We’re Looking For:

• A background in information architecture and website content strategy, with the ability to create data-informed recommendations for sitemaps, content models/ERDs, taxonomies, and UI/UX.
• Knowledge of open-source web development platforms such as WordPress and Drupal.
• Knowledge of SEO and analytics is a plus.
• Experience collaborating with designers on UI/UX; knowledge of Figma is helpful.
• The ability to identify client needs and apply digital technologies in innovative ways to solve nonprofit and mission-driven organizational needs.
• Experience and comfort with leading and facilitating workshops with various stakeholders. 
• A creative problem solver who can find the most effective ways for our clients to measure their work, implement growth strategies, and communicate with their audiences across digital channels.
• Experience creating compelling storytelling frameworks to enhance user engagement and effectively convey client missions and messages.
• The ability to context switch and work across different clients. 

How You’ll Spend Your Time:

• Lead across general strategy deliverables, including but not limited to: designing and facilitating client workshops; research and insight gathering; conducting landscape analyses; writing strategic briefs; developing recommendations for information architecture, website content strategy, and conversion optimization; conducting user testing and gathering insights; supporting content migration; giving client presentations.
• Understand and leverage the landscape of digital engagement tools to benefit our clients, including but not limited to: innovative IA/UX features, best practices, and interactions.
• Ensure all strategies and solutions are designed with accessibility in mind, adhering to WCAG guidelines and ensuring an inclusive user experience for all audiences.
• Partner with project managers to keep project work within budget and aligned to goals.
• Collaborate with other project leads: designers, front-end developers, technical architects, back-end developers, and project managers to align on project goals, process and deliverable outcomes.
• Meet with, consult, and partner with clients at various levels of the organization.

Benefits

Our rates vary based on expertise and complexity of work ($55- $150/ hour with most of our senior level contractors sitting around the $100/ hour mark). For this contractor role, we are anticipating a need for 10 hrs per week, with the potential to grow depending on projects needs. We prefer to be billed hourly for this initial contract.

ThinkShout is made up of people with a variety of backgrounds and lifestyles. We embrace diversity and invite applications from people of all walks of life. We are honest and recognize that our company isn’t as diverse as it should be. We’re trying to change that. If you aren’t sure whether you qualify, please apply anyway. We would much prefer to have an extra application to consider than for you to screen yourself out. We don’t discriminate against employees or applicants based on gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, race, religion, age, national origin, citizenship, disability, pregnancy status, veteran status, or any other differences. Also, if you have a disability, please let us know if there’s any way we can make the interview process better (jobs@thinkshout.com with subject line “Information Architecture and Website Content Strategist (Contractor)