Web-Master

About Ropes and Gray:

Ropes & Gray is one of the nation's most respected law firms. For more than 140 years, we have forged strong client relationships by providing extraordinary legal services with an emphasis on mutual respect, teamwork, innovation and the highest ethical standards.

 

We are honored that our employees frequently rank us among the "best places to work" both locally and nationally. We are strengthened by our commitment to inclusiveness. Recently, a survey by Vault ranked Ropes & Gray #8 for diversity among all large U.S. law firms.

 

Ropes & Gray offers excellent compensation and benefits packages. Our culture rewards performance and we continually invest to ensure that our people have plentiful opportunities for professional development.

 

We strive to be the best law firm, with the best people, which achieves the best results of any firm anywhere.

 

Job Description:

Work with team of developers, attorneys, designers, marketing and application owners to develop firm solution for client intranet and extranet sites from concept to implementation. Serve as the liaison and key point of contact between client teams and IT to enable delivery of content from a variety of systems and applications to intranet and extranet client sites. Responsible for the day to day operations of the firm's client-related websites, both the client portal on the intranet as well as extranet sites. Meet with client teams to define requirements and assist in the set up of new extranet and intranet client sites. Develop content management and website maintenance procedures for client-related sites. Work with client teams to organize content for delivery to a website. Troubleshoot issues. Perform publishing and site administration tasks as necessary.

 

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS:

* Establishes and maintains processes, for creating client team and extranet sites. Be an expert in the firm's content management, document management and publishing systems and provide support and training to client team members and others who are responsible for providing site content. Provide ongoing guidance to client teams in best practices for updating and maintaining content on their sites.

* Defines project deliverables, timeline and resource requirements for client-related website projects. Work closely with IT, Knowledge Management, Marketing and Practice Support during entire project lifecycle to ensure successful completion of the work.

* Coordinates review and approval from client teams for implementation and enhancement of sites.
* Be able to conceptualize and develop websites using standardized templates. Responsible for GUI-based development, design information structures, hierarchies and navigation models for intranet and extranet websites.

* Perform publishing and site administrative tasks as necessary. Including ensuring proper level of rights for content contributors and users, handling password administration for client extranet sites, establish service level agreements and support guidelines and documentation.

* Troubleshoot, test and provide overall quality assurance for sites.


Requirements:

EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND SKILLS REQUIRED:

 * Bachelor's degree in communications, information systems, library science, computer science or related field.

* Five or more years of website experience required. A background in Knowledge Management, in a webmaster role, or content management are all applicable.

* Solid background in web authoring tools. Minimum 2 years experience GUI-based development of intranet sites. Solid knowledge of metadata and taxonomies. Experience creating SharePoint sites, libraries and lists.

* Strong communicator with excellent writing and interpersonal skills. Creative and organizational vision, strong problem solving and analytical skills.

* Experience defining requirements for delivering content to websites dynamically from backend systems and commercial newsfeeds.

* Solid experience managing web projects, gathering user requirements, defining process and procedures and working on cross-functional teams.

* Working knowledge of extranets and client portals.

* Experience with SharePoint, Handshake, FileSite or other Document Management System preferred.

* Must be both a self-starter and a team player.

* Knowledge of law firms desirable.

* Exceptional attention to detail. 

Additional Information:

OTHER RESPONSIBILITIES:

* Performs other work-related duties as assigned.

Please apply directly online at:
http://ropesgray.interviewexchange.com/candapply.jsp;jsessionid=6C2AB8F94FC16ECCDF8E16E3DF531EED?JOBID=9439&jobboard=76

For more visit our web site:  http://www.ropesgray.com/