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Position: Website Developer (Word Press, New Build)

Reports to: Website, IT & App Manager

Location: United Kingdom, Remote Based

Contract: 40 hours per week, 12‑Month Fixed Term Contract

Salary: £42,000 per annum

Revised: November 2025

The Ehlers‑Danlos Society is dedicated to advancing and accelerating research and education concerning Ehlers‑Danlos syndromes (EDS) and hypermobility spectrum disorders (HSD). We support the development of effective and equitable EDS and HSD therapies and collaborate globally to improve the lives of affected individuals. Our vision is to ensure every person living with EDS and HSD receives the right treatment and care at the right time for their specific needs.

The Website Developer will be pivotal in delivering The Ehlers‑Danlos Society’s next‑generation website. Joining the Website, IT & App Team, this role leads the technical implementation of a new, organization‑wide Word Press website, supporting its launch and initial optimisation. The primary focus is the new website build—transforming agreed designs, content structures, and user journeys into robust, accessible, and maintainable templates and components.

This requires close collaboration across Communications, Research, Education, Services, and Fundraising teams to ensure the site supports key organizational goals and is easy for staff to use and update.

This role involves five core areas of ownership, including, but not limited to:

• Take the lead role in the technical development of the new organization‑wide website built on Word Press.
• Translate agreed designs, wireframes, and content models into robust, reusable Word Press themes, templates, and components.
• Configure and extend Word Press (themes, custom post types, taxonomies, fields, plugins, block editor, etc.) to support a complex, content‑rich, multi‑audience site.
• Support the set‑up of appropriate environments (e.g., development, staging, production) and deployment processes for the new site.

• Build front‑end code and templates using modern HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, adhering to mobile‑first and progressive enhancement principles.
• Implement accessibility best practices to meet or exceed WCAG 2.2 AA (or equivalent agreed) standards.
• Optimize pages and components for speed, stability, and Core Web Vitals, especially on mobile devices (e.g., mobile LCP ≤ 2.5 s).
• Participate in cross‑team reviews of accessibility and performance testing outcomes, helping to prioritise and implement necessary improvements.

• Integrate the website with key third‑party systems and services (e.g., analytics, CRM (currently ), events ticketing platform, donations, email, and similar tools).
• Implement technical SEO foundations, including structured, semantic markup, clean canonical URL structures, redirects, sitemaps, and other agreed best practices.
• Implement technical GEO foundations, utilising schema markup, content recency, and digestible page structure for FAQs, events, educational pages, and articles, enhancing experience with AI‑driven search.
• Work with colleagues to ensure appropriate tracking and reporting are in place to measure the performance and impact of the new site.

• Work with content and design colleagues to ensure templates, components, and content types are easy to use and maintain.
• Configure content structures, fields, and taxonomies to support efficient content creation, localisation, and migration from the current site.
• Contribute to content migration activities (e.g., scripts, tools, checks, and fixes) and help troubleshoot issues.
• Document technical decisions, patterns, and workflows to support long‑term governance and future maintenance.

• Collaborate with the existing Website & App Team to ensure alignment between the new website, the current website, and the app, sharing knowledge and reviewing code where appropriate.
• Work closely with the…