by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Regional Accommodation Manager
Location: United States; Canada
The Regional Accommodation Manager manages the Kaplan Language Group ( KLG ) residence housing program for particular Kaplan schools in North America. Their responsibility will include ensuring the availability of a sufficient quantity and variety of residential housing options for Kaplan students; managing occupancy rates to maximize profit for KLG while providing sufficient residence bed inventory for our sales and customer service teams to sell; and the efficient and effective resolution of student residence housing issues.
The ideal candidate will be very organized, communicative, interested in international travel and education, and have a strong commitment to providing excellent customer service to students, while being a strong and trusted partner to KLG s housing vendors.
Reporting to the North America Regional Accommodations Director (remotely based), this position can be based in the United States or Canada (depending on the successful candidate’s ability to work in either, or both, of those countries), and can be located at one of our nine North American schools, our regional headquarters in Boston, Massachusetts, or remotely (with a willingness and ability to travel to our US and Canadian schools, as well as our regional headquarters as needed).
Key Job Responsibilities
- Manage all aspects of the residential housing program for designated Kaplan Languages Group schools
- Work with prospective and current housing (and, potentially) airport transfer vendors, and manage the relevant residence housing budget
- Develop and execute effective plans to find, retain, and manage residence housing providers constantly seeking to improve and expand the current supply, while managing budgets and student satisfaction goals
- Work closely with local schools to fully utilize accommodation resources, maximize occupancy and the average daily rate of residences within each school s accommodation mix
- Work with the North American Director of Accommodations on reviewing residence agreements and contracts in the US and Canada; prepare occupancy and break-even analyses to present to senior management for approval of these residence agreements and contracts
- Forecast seasonal housing needs and work with existing and new suppliers to ensure these demands are met
- Prepare accurate and complete occupancy and availability reports for existing and potential residences,
- Act as point of contact for applicable residence providers and agents; work together to solve student service issues and meet capacity demands
- Communicate student, KLG sales, and agent feedback to vendors. Develop and implement plans to address any deficiencies identified in that feedback
- Coordinate and direct preparation of monthly residence revenue reforecast for the current and upcoming months and assist in ensuring accuracy
- Manage payment processing for housing review and approve invoices, work with Kaplan accounting staff to facilitate timely and accurate billing and payments from/to vendors
- Ensure timeliness and accuracy of residence database. Work with North American Director of Accommodations to implement technical and process improvements as identified and needed
- Synchronize communication among school staff, housing providers, students, agents, and sales advisors to ensure excellent service to students
- Coordinate the arrival and departure of international students; help them understand rules and policies; and aid in their adjustment to life in their local Canadian community
- Ensure appropriate turn-around time on all housing inquiries
- Monitor competitor activities as they pertain to housing (facilities, pricing, service, etc.)
- Maintain accurate records
- Work with housing teams across the global KLG organization to share best practices
- Complete other job duties as assigned
Minimum Qualification
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent*
- Two (2)+ years in a business or operational setting
- Ability to travel and work some evenings and weekends, as needed
- Must be authorized to work in the United States and/or in Canada
- Exceptional experience will be considered in lieu of a bachelor’s degree
Preferred Qualifications
- Prior experience managing staff
- Experience as an exchange student, or post-graduate, living outside your home country
- Prior experience with international students
- One or more foreign language ability
Physical Requirements
- Sitting
- Standing
- Walking
- Climbing
- Lifting up to 50+ pounds
- Pulling
- Pushing
- Carrying
- Grasping
- Reaching
- Bending
- Visual Acuity – Color Determination
- Speaking
- Listening
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Digital Content Specialist (Remote Role)
Remote – United States
Full time
R305148
Job Description
About Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University:
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is an independent, culturally diverse institution providing quality education and research in aviation, aerospace, engineering, and other related fields with residential campuses located in Daytona Beach, Florida and Prescott, Arizona.
The University’s Worldwide campus provides educational opportunities online and at approximately 130 locations throughout the United States, Asia, Europe, and Central/South America.
As the largest and most comprehensive aviation and aerospace-focused university in the world, Embry-Riddle is a unique institution. Over the past 90 years, the University has evolved with industry to break new ground and produce top-level graduates who serve the ever-changing needs of aviation and aerospace and other STEM-related disciplines.
Embry-Riddle offers programs in seven primary fields of study including: Applied Science; Aviation; Business; Computers and Technology; Engineering; Safety, Security, and Intelligence; and Space.
For Academic Year 2021-22, there were over 11,100 undergraduate, graduate, and doctoral students that attended the University’s residential campuses and approximately 20,195 students in total enrolled with the University around the world.
The Opportunity:
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is seeking a Digital Content Specialist to join the Information Technology department in a teleworking arrangement. The Digital Content Specialist is responsible for the production of digital content on university websites and digital properties.
Reporting to the Director of Web Content, the Digital Content Specialist will manage web content requests and implement web changes on the University’s external and internal websites, manage content for exterior digital signage, and occasionally manage content for the University’s chatbot.
The Digital Content Specialist works closely with web designers, web developers, SEO and analytics analysts to ensure that website content can reach the intended audience, provide consistent user experience and convey information in a clear and accessible manner.
The Digital Content Specialist will partner with internal stakeholders to obtain all content requirements and assets while educating and guiding them on how to align content with University web content standards and digital best practices.
The Digital Content Specialist will manage and schedule content for exterior digital signage on campus, ensuring that the signs remain up-to-date and reflect University brand standards.
Information Technology provides a modern, collaborative environment with on-site amenities, professional development opportunities, and a flexible summer work schedule. Working for Embry-Riddle entitles employees to a robust benefits package from quality health care and retirement to generous education benefits.
Responsibilities include the following:
- Maintain, review, approve and enhance web content on Embry-Riddle’s external and internal websites and digital properties
- Oversee the creation and structure of new and existing web pages
- Manage content for exterior digital signs on campus, including creating slides and slide templates, evaluating slide requests, scheduling sign content and maintaining the content calendar
- Optimize web content for usability, search engines and accessibility
- Use Team Dynamix ticketing system to complete tasks and requests
- Serve as a backup content manager for the University’s chatbot
Qualifications
- Bachelor’s degree in New Media, Journalism, Computer Science or related field is required and at least one year of experience with content development and web publishing
- Demonstrated digital content experience and hands-on CMS experience
- Effective and clear communicator, comfortable managing stakeholder relationships
- Detail-oriented and quality-driven, interested in putting forward the highest quality digital content to best represent Embry-Riddle
- Ability to manage multiple projects and requests with varying deadlines
- Knowledge of usability and accessibility best practices for the web
- Experience with Sitecore, Adobe Creative suite, SharePoint, Google Analytics, and digital signage software a plus
- Ability to support IT Core Values by focusing on improvement, believing in our team, learning from mistakes, being accountable for actions and showing determination, focus and tenacity
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
SEO Specialist
United States, USA, United States | Marketing | Full-time | Fully remote
Job title: SEO Specialist
Department: Marketing
Manager: Director, Marketing Services
The Role:
We need someone who is passionate about SEO and Digital Marketing to help deliver amazing SEO results for our growing roster of clients. The ideal candidate will not only be proficient in the latest and greatest techniques and tools, but will also have the ability to think strategically about projects and play a role in putting together integrated campaigns blending organic search, PPC, display, and remarketing. You’ll be working on multiple client accounts across a variety of industries and verticals, but you’ll always have the same goal: to get the client the best possible results.
The right candidate will have a blend of technical experience and content skills. They should be able to multitask across diverse environments, communicate effectively with clients and internal team members, and be passionate about learning new technologies and processes. We’re looking for someone who can think strategically, but who isn’t afraid to roll up their sleeves and get some serious work done.
Key Responsibilities:
- Assisting with strategic development for SEO campaigns, starting from kick-off and extending through post-launch and analysis
- Defining and building tailored keyword lists based on clients’ objectives and market opportunity, using a mix of proprietary tools, analytics data, and PPC data
- Preparing and executing on-page optimization strategies to achieve organic visibility for our clients
- Reviewing and editing page content to comply with SEO guidelines and best practices, and to ensure proper messaging, use of value propositions, and call to action statements to drive conversions
- Conducting website technical audits to identify areas of concern from an SEO perspective, including analysis and implementation of technical recommendations to help reduce website page speed, uncover and remedy web crawling issues, analyze JavaScript rendering, and more
- Reviewing website server logs, crawl reports, and analytics reports to come up with strategies to improve indexation
- Reviewing web analytics data to analyze visitor behavior and trends to come up with next steps, and to deliver insights to clients
- Working with our internal resources to prepare, plan, and execute link building and content marketing strategies
- Maintaining strong relationships with clients and proactively assessing opportunities to improve their site’s performance
- Coordinating regularly with our website development, SEM, analytics, design, and business development teams, as well as with senior management, to ensure that clients are getting positive results
Skills & Qualifications:
- 2-3 years of direct SEO experience at an agency working with multiple clients simultaneously
- Strong face-to-face, telephone, and email communications skills
- Organized and detail-oriented
- Understanding of how to interpret data from platforms like Google Search Console and Bing Webmaster Tools to drive SEO strategy
- Ability to think strategically to identify and define keyword opportunities for optimization
- Ability to write compelling, optimized content (page content, metadata, etc.)
- Knowledge of factors that influence search engine rankings
- Demonstrated track record of delivering organic traffic related outcomes that move the needle in competitive markets
- Working knowledge of HTML, CSS, Javascript, and/or other programming languages
- Familiarity with various web platforms/content management systems, like WordPress, Craft CMS, Shopify, etc.
- Understanding of Schema markup
- Experience working with canonical tags, redirects, robots.txt files, and XML sitemaps
- Understanding of best practices for site architecture and URL structure
- Familiarity with website analytics platforms such as Google Analytics or Adobe Analytics
- Knowledge of SEO software such as Moz, BrightEdge, DeepCrawl, Conductor, SEMRush, SEOBook, ScreamingFrog, and others
The salary range for this position is $65,000 – $80,000 per year, depending on experience.
What we offer:
- Healthy work/life balance.
- A creative environment to do the best work of your career.
- An amazing team of developers, designers, marketers, and project managers.
- Flexible hours.
- Flexible paid vacation policy.
- Health, Dental, and Vision insurance.
- Retirement plan with company matching.
About Happy Cog:
Happy Cog is a growing interactive agency of 80+ people, all working 100% remotely.
We design, develop, and market websites and mobile apps for a wide variety of clients — everyone from small startups, to Fortune 100s. Projects we’ve recently worked on have included online ordering platforms for restaurants, custom content management systems for law firms, an economic mobility research platform, and many more.
We are looking for great people to join our team, so whether you have a wide array of workplace experience, none at all, or if you feel like your past experiences don’t meet all our qualifications, we encourage you to still apply. Who knows, your experience might be just what we are looking for!
Happy Cog is an equal opportunity employer and considers applicants for all positions without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, age, national origin, citizenship status, marital status, protected veteran status, genetics, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, physical or mental disability.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Title: Design Lead, Neighborhood Monetization
Location: US Remote
Nextdoor is where you connect to the neighborhoods that matter to you so you can belong. Our purpose is to cultivate a kinder world where everyone has a neighborhood they can rely on.
Neighbors around the world turn to Nextdoor daily to receive trusted information, give and get help, get things done, and build real-world connections with those nearby neighbors, businesses, and public services. Today, neighbors rely on Nextdoor in more than 300,000 neighborhoods across 11 countries.
Meet Your Future NeighborsAs the Design Lead on the Neighborhood Monetization pillar, you’ll be a part of pillar leadership and manage a small team of designers focused on ensuring that Nextdoor drives incredible outcomes for our customers. You will be responsible for all design aspects, from Ad Creation and Management, Reporting, Analytics, and Ad formats across all of Nextdoor. You’re a player-coach, as excited to shape the strategy and the design vision as you are to get into designing the details and shipping the product.
You’re mission-oriented, deeply human-centered, and passionate about creating digital experiences that bring people closer in real life. You’re fascinated by neighborhood dynamics and human behavior and excited to design tools that empower neighbors to build stronger communities and transform how customers can reach engage and convert their neighbors in the local area. You’re ever-curious and let new insights change your mind and inspire new solutions. In this role, you’ll help define what the Neighborhood Monetization team takes on and guide your team toward building product experiences that enable people to build neighborhood relationships. You’ll work cross-functionally and across multiple platforms to shape the future of the Nextdoor product as we continue to grow.
The Impact You’ll Make
If you want the challenge of fast-paced growth, the satisfaction of seeing your design work come to life, and the pride in helping grow a world-class design team, this is the place for you. Please include a link to your portfolio in addition to your resume and cover letter.
- You’ll partner with senior product management and engineering to shape the strategy for the Neighborhood Monetization pillar, while also leading a team of designers in articulating and implementing the vision
- You’ll envision, design, and ship delightful, user-centered, cross-platform experiences that build the fabric of local communities around the globe
- You’ll be involved in all aspects of the product development for a major product area; from strategy, research, prototyping, concept to interaction design, to final QA and code tweaks right before launch
- You’ll lead cross-functional brainstorms, discussions, design reviews and inspiring design team activities
- You’ll guide a small team of designers, helping them grow in their craft and career
What You’ll Bring To The Team
- 10+ years demonstrated experience shipping great mobile products in an agile environment.
- You’re a proven leader across the product development cycle: from strategy and research to synthesis and ideation; from going wide to explore many divergent concepts to focusing and honing in on the pixel-level details; from roadmapping to front-end development and implementation
- A supportive approach to leadership and growing designers’ careers
- A strong visual design sense and typographic skills, and the ability to design within, and help define, visual guidelines.
- Excitement about and expertise in creating rich interactive prototypes with Framer, Origami, or Principle
- Familiarity with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Swift, Java, or Xcode
- You’re deeply curious about how to empower neighbors to strengthen their communities, and about what makes neighborhoods tick around the globe as we expand our footprint
Rewards
Compensation, benefits, perks, and recognition programs at Nextdoor come together to create one overall rewards package.
The starting salary for this role is expected to range from $140,000 to $230,000 on an annualized basis, or potentially greater in the event that your ‘level’ of proficiency exceeds the level expected for the role. Compensation may also vary by geography.
We also expect to award a meaningful equity grant for this role. With equal quarterly vesting, your first vest date would be within the first 3 months of your start date.
Overall, total compensation will vary depending on your relevant skills, experience, and qualifications.
We have you covered! Nextdoor employees can choose between a variety of great health plans. We cover 100% of your personal monthly premium for health, dental, and vision and provide a OneMedical membership for concierge care.
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by Ronald Barron | Jan 26, 2023 | Uncategorized
Job Description
Sr Combat Designer
- Remote US Or Canada, US – Remote OK
- Full-Time
Something Wicked Games is a new studio founded by creative and leadership talent behind some of the world’s best role-playing games including Fallout 3, Fallout: New Vegas, Fallout 4, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and The Outer Worlds. We create moving, impactful games in a collaborative, creatively autonomous environment.
Something Wicked Games is currently developing Wyrdsong, a preternatural RPG set in a semi-historical Middle Ages Portugal. We are a full remote studio looking for team members who are adventurous, confident, and purposeful.
We are seeking a Senior Combat Designer to join our team. This role will fundamentally shape our core game experiences.
Responsibilities
- Work closely with design leadership to design the moment-to-moment combat of the game
- Write detailed design documents that can clearly communicate design goals and functionality
- Propose, prototype, and iterate on combat and related systems
- Collaborate with other departments to execute, iterate, and balance combat
Minimum Qualifications
- 5+ years of experience in Game Design
- At least one shipped title as a Combat Designer
- Development experience on role playing games or action games
Pluses
- Experience with Unreal Engine
- Proficient with Microsoft Excel
- A passion for video games with knowledge of systems and mechanics from current game titles
- Experience delivering in all stages of product development
- Highly self-motivated and self-sufficient
Something Wicked Games is an equal opportunity employer. We bring unique talents together to build something special, that’s why we welcome and encourage diversity in the workplace regardless of race, gender, religion, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability, or veteran status.
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