Church to Hire Manager of Internet Coordination
On September 29th, we announced we were going to hire a new Product Manager for LDS.org. We have determined not to hire a product manager, but instead someone to serve as my assistant in coordinating the content and services on Church sites. The new position is
Manager of Internet Coordination
This person will be responsible for coordinating the content and services on Church Web sites. It is a strategic position responsible for rigorously understanding the needs of end users (including leaders, members, and non-members) and developing and executing plans to meet these needs.
Applying candidates must have each of the following:
- Member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and currently temple worthy.
- Bachelor’s degree; masters preferred.
- 8+ years of experience managing Web content and services, including extensive experience managing and marketing corporate-level Web products and services.
- Experience in monitoring, evaluating, and reporting on Web site use and effectiveness.
- Skill in developing business plans and requirements that shape the development and delivery of services to customers.
- Experience leading complex customer research and analysis of diverse audiences.
Exceptional candidates will have one or more of the following:
- Understanding of industry directions for developing and delivering content on the Web.
- Successful experience with search engine optimization and Web marketing.
- Proven experience in managing the life cycle of Web content and services, including identifying business needs and success criteria, creating product plans, maintaining and supporting content and services, monitoring and evaluating content effectiveness (metrics), managing user feedback, and creating plans to increase effectiveness.
A more complete job description can be found online (job listing #0700598).
Please pass this information along to anyone that you feel meets the requirements.
I was once asked about 3 or 4 years ago by my elders quorum president what my opinion was about what the LDS.org site could do better in terms of utilizing the Internet to the fullest because there was going to be some committee formed (never happened?) I submitted an article that I had prepared that was focused on one thing. Getting LDS.org legitimately to rank better in the search engines for the term “Jesus Christ” By the looks of things not only did my article probably never make it to you (assuming you were over the site at the time) but lds.org has fallen off page one in almost every major search engine for the very important term “Jesus Christ”
I’m not another “optimization” kook trying to make a buck off the Church. I have genuine incite that could potentially get lds.org thousands of new Christian, mostly non LDS visitors each day because they will find lds.org when they are using search engines to look for “Jesus Christ.” If you are at all interested please email me, and I’ll resend or rewrite and send the brief article if I can’t find it.
Thanks for your comment. I was not over LDS.org back then. I’d love to get a copy of your suggestions.
FYI, we are busy developing a site centered on Jesus Christ. Within a few weeks, we’ll release a section of 6-8 pages on jesuschrist.lds.org, then just after the first of the year, a much larger site. This should help the search engine rankings, and help people understand we are Christians and give them the chance to learn more about what we believe.
That site is now launched. See http://JesusChrist.lds.org.