Web Designer/Developer

Department: Col of Humanities and Soc Science

Classification: GMU Worker

Job Category: Part-Time / Hourly Wage

Job Type: Full-Time / 40 hours per week

Location: Fairfax, VA

Workplace Type: Hybrid Eligible

Sponsorship Eligibility: Not eligible for visa sponsorship

Salary: Salary commensurate with education and experience

Criminal Background Check: Yes

About the Department:

The CHSS IT team manages the IT needs of the college that are not otherwise provided by the university and serves as the point of contact between ITS and the college for IT matters. The team supports, maintains, and curates applications developed or purchased to meet IT needs of the college. The team maintains several systems including a wCMS which supports most of the websites for the college and its units, an application to facilitate communication among units about course enrollment, a budget tracking system and other applications as needed. The team provides training and technical support for those systems and their users. The team keeps abreast of changing technologies and the evolving needs of the college and university to provide the best support possible. It provides training, consulting, and support to CHSS units for IT concerns that are not otherwise effectively centrally provided by the university.

About the Position:

The Web Designer/Developer position is a temporary, full-time role (40 hours per week) scheduled to continue through August 2026. 

Responsibilities:

• Works with the College of Humanities and Social Sciences IT and Marketing and Communications team to support front-end design and user-interface aspects of the applications developed by that team, including integrating design code into established code bases and new projects;
• The designer/developer also contributes to the code bases for the applications developed by or supported by the CHSS IT team, including the related test code; and
• Participates in building new features, fixing bugs, and upgrading code, libraries, and frameworks.

Required Qualifications:

• Knowledge of principles of web design and information architecture;
• Expertise in the general set of web development skills, such as HTML, CSS, JavaScript, version control, validation tools and general best practices, including prototyping and testing, responsive design;
• Thorough understanding of web accessibility standards including the ability to create accessible designs, test design elements for accessibility and fix accessibility issues;
• CSS and HTML design implementation on new and established projects, coding with design frameworks, and accessibility best practices and testing. Able to incorporate designs into a web CMS;
• Experience with Bootstrap;
• Experience working with stakeholders through the design process;
• Demonstrated experience creating modern, responsive, accessible web designs; and
• Demonstrated experience coding and implementing web UI design elements.

Technology and Languages used:

• HTML, CSS, JavaScript (vanilla, JQuery, Stimulus)
• Bootstrap and Tailwind CSS
• Sass
• Git/GitHub
• Ruby on Rails

Preferred Qualifications:

• Programming experience using Ruby on Rails; and
• Experience with full-stack development and with the maintenance of development and production hosting environments, including maintaining the security of those systems and their integration with other systems.

Instructions to Applicants: 

For full consideration, applicants must apply for Web Designer/Developer at https://jobs.gmu.edu/. Complete and submit the online application to include three professional references with contact information, and provide a Cover Letter/Letter of Intent with Resume for review.

Posting Open Date: February 26, 2026

For Full Consideration, Apply by:  March 16, 2026

Open Until Filled:  Yes