Content Specialist

Website Content Specialist

Reporting To: Communications HEO leading the Website Development Project

Location: Oranmore, Co. Galway (On-site)

Working Hours: 37.5 hours per week

Salary Range Approx: €32,000 – €36,000

Duration: 3 months

Annual Leave: 22 days per year, exclusive of public holidays, pro-rated based on time worked

Role Overview

The Website Content Specialist will support a website development project by reviewing, rewriting, creating and preparing website content. The successful candidate will ensure content is clear, consistent, accessible and aligned with agreed website structures and organisational requirements

Key Duties

• Review and rewrite content across the entire website, ensuring a consistent tone, style and expression throughout.
• Create new web content where required, based on agreed structures, briefs and organisational needs.
• Edit and refine content using plain English principles while accurately representing scientific and technical information.
• Ensure all content is fully compliant with accessibility standards, including clear language, logical structure and user-focused presentation.
• Prepare content in both: Raw draft format, WordPress-designed templates in line with the new website structure

Work closely with:

• The core website development team.
• Members of the internal Website Working Group from across the organisation.
• The external web development agency to align content with design, structure and functionality.
• Incorporate feedback from multiple stakeholders while maintaining editorial consistency and quality.
• Apply web-writing best practice, including scannable content, headings and concise copy.
• Undertake any other duties required from time to time relevant to the role and salary point.

Skills, Experience and Requirements

• Proven experience writing and editing web content, ideally for large or complex websites.
• Demonstrated ability to work with technical or scientific content and present it clearly for non-specialist audiences.
• Strong IT skills, with the ability to learn quickly and work confidently across multiple systems and Microsoft 365 tools, including MS Office, Teams and SharePoint.
• Communications or content specialist with strong editorial skills.

Strong understanding of:

• Plain English writing.
• Accessibility requirements for digital content.
• Best practice for public-facing websites.
• Comfortable working collaboratively in a cross-organisational project team.
• Confident liaising with internal stakeholders and external suppliers/agencies.
• Well organised, detail-oriented and able to work to tight project timelines.
• Fluent in English. Candidates must be native English speakers or hold a certificate under the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages at Level C2 Mastery or Proficiency.
• Ideally will bring a background in communications, with some experience in science, research, environmental, regulatory or public-sector organisations.