WordPress Jedi

WordPress Jedi

Short term project
J105451
At a glance

Skills

  • SEO and analytics
  • Software and web development
  • Web design (including UX/UI)
  • Data protection / GDPR

Where

Dorking, RH4 1UT
Remote opportunity

Time

Either in or out of office hours Estimate of time needed:
15-90 hours

Deadline

30 Jun 2025

Visitors from Fifth Day

Welcome to Reach Volunteering. We are a community and registered charity that connects people, skills and good causes.

To apply for this role, and any other on our platform, you need to be based in the UK, have at least three years of experience using the skills you wish to volunteer in a professional capacity or have lived experience (for trustee roles). Read more about our criteria.

Help transform our charity website to help take us to the next level.

What will you be doing?

We're looking for a volunteer who can help adapt and customise our former Wix website content that has been transitioned to WordPress.

What are we looking for?

Experience in WordPress and website updates and innovation. Bring your creativity, teamworking and communication background to a great group of people. You need to be able to:

  • Customise existing themes or develop custom themes
  • Develop and modify plugins to enhance website functionality
  • Ensure website performance, speed, and SEO best practices
  • Collaborate with designers, content creators, and stakeholders, and train marketing volunteer (already in post) in Wordpress to support ongoing maintenance.
  • Manage site backups, and troubleshooting
  • Optimise websites for mobile responsiveness and cross-browser compatibility
  • Implement and manage security measures, updates, and patches
  • Maintain documentation for workflows, plugins, and codebase

What difference will you make?

The new website will be the top focus for all our fundraising and global reach. You will be able to be part of a digital team, supporting the charity to increase our impact, helping children in poor communities around the world get a better quality education - that will transform their futures.

Before you apply

We welcome aplications from volunteers who feel they match the criteria. We will arrange a zoom meeting to chat together. If all is positive, you will then meet someone from the digital team for a further chat.

Causes
  • Education
  • International development
  • Local / community
  • Refugees / migrants
  • Organisation type: 
    Charity

    We live in a society where success is often tied to the amount of education one has received. However, there are many people who lack access to quality education for their children's schooling,...