Dexter Gauntlet
Dexter Guantlet is a deputy to Black Lion Principal Herald, responsible for the College's Order of Precedence website.
Time requirement:
- There is no specified time requirement associated with this office. However, planned redesign and rearchitecture should prove to be more time-intensive than day-to-day (or even month-to-month) requests from staff.
This position requires:
- Trustworthiness in site administration
- Excellent communication skills, diplomacy, discretion
- Good overall customer service skills for interacting with both technical and non-technical staff as well as Kingdom IT
- Consistent and reliable internet and computer access, including an internet browser
- Knowledge of website design, HTML and CSS
- Sound usability and accessibility experience: UX for lay-persons and those with physical impairments, while presenting an aesthetically pleasing overall experience
Desireable skills include:
- Sharepoint and Office 365, including any of Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Video, Microsoft Stream, and Microsoft Flow
- PHP
- MySQL
- XML and XSLT
- JavaScript
- Git and Visual Studio Online
- Prior experience designing accessible UX
- Ability to analyze a codebase and replicate functionality in other technologies
- Familiarity with typing text (names in particular) which involve the international character set
Duties & Responsibilities:
- Coordinate with Kingdom IT to discover and resolve hosting issues, including domain name registration and server failures. It is expected that domain name and server ownership will ultimately be assumed by Kingdom IT in the near term.
- Coordinate with Black Lion and staff, as well as other kingdom stakeholders (eg, Crown, Seneschal, Chatelaine, Lists) to determine and integrate desired content and
functionality in a clear, aesthetically-pleasing, and maintainable manner
- Communicate with Black Lion regarding issues in satisfying requests, or ideas for expanding website capabilities
- Other duties and projects as assigned