Job Summary
We are seeking a 12-week IT intern to evaluate our recently migrated WordPress intranet and propose a practical version 2.0 redesign. The site is stable and supportable by IT, but it remains dated from a usability and content organization standpoint. The intranet serves a largely operational workforce, so the design should emphasize clarity, simplicity, and fast access to information. The goal is a supportable redesign within WordPress that IT can maintain without a dedicated webmaster.
Essential Duties/Accountabilities
Education and Experience
Required Skills and Abilities
Physical Requirements and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
We are seeking a 12-week IT intern to evaluate our recently migrated WordPress intranet and propose a practical version 2.0 redesign. The site is stable and supportable by IT, but it remains dated from a usability and content organization standpoint. The intranet serves a largely operational workforce, so the design should emphasize clarity, simplicity, and fast access to information. The goal is a supportable redesign within WordPress that IT can maintain without a dedicated webmaster.
Essential Duties/Accountabilities
- Review the current intranet to assess navigation, layout, content structure, and usability.
- Meet with stakeholders from HR, FP&A, operations, sales, warehouse, and other departments to gather requirements and identify pain points.
- Recommend a simplified site structure, navigation model, and page layout approach for a version 2.0 redesign.
- Create wireframes, mockups, or a lightweight prototype to demonstrate recommended improvements.
- Propose practical WordPress themes, plugins, and native capabilities that improve the site while remaining easy to support.
- Evaluate role-based content visibility options for departments such as HR and FP&A.
- Define a content ownership model that enables designated department users to update their own content without opening IT tickets.
- Document recommendations for governance, permissions, and maintenance, and present a final proposal to IT leadership.
Education and Experience
- Pursuing a degree in IT, Web Design, UX, Information Systems, Communications, or a related field.
- Exposure to WordPress, web content management, UX principles, wireframing, or prototype tools is preferred.
- Experience gathering feedback from non-technical users and translating it into practical recommendations is a plus.
Required Skills and Abilities
- Strong interest in usability, simple design, and practical solutions.
- Ability to work within an existing WordPress platform without proposing custom development.
- Clear communication skills and strong organization skills.
- Ability to work independently and collaborate with business and IT stakeholders.
Physical Requirements and Work Environment
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions of the job.
- Required to position self to access equipment by standing, sitting, or walking, climbing, kneeling, crouching, or crawling.
- Operates computer and telephone equipment for extended periods of time.
- Visual acuity is required to perform essential job functions such as basic reading tasks. Tasks may involve close vision, distance vision, color differentiation, peripheral awareness, depth perception, and visual focus.