Web Developer & Digital Applications Specialist

Requirements:

• 3–5+ years of professional experience developing and supporting WordPress websites.
• Strong working knowledge of PHP, WordPress themes and plugins, HTML/CSS, JavaScript, and front-end integrations.
• Experience maintaining content-rich websites in a production environment and independently troubleshooting application-level issues.
• Understanding of website analytics, tracking tools, and tag management.
• Strong communication, collaboration, and organizational skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and work independently in a part-time role.
• Experience supporting website integrations and structured data sources.
• Experience with collection management systems, digital asset management systems, CRMs, or similar platforms.
• Familiarity with Google Tag Manager, Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, or similar tracking platforms.
• Experience building campaign, fundraising, or marketing-focused web experiences.
• Knowledge of web accessibility standards (WCAG).
• Familiarity with cloud-hosted web environments and modern web development practices.
• Experience in museums, cultural institutions, higher education, or nonprofit organizations is a plus.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States; the museum does not sponsor work visas.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain and support the museums WordPress website, including its core software, plugins, themes, and custom features.
• Monitor website health and resolve errors, broken features, accessibility concerns, and performance issues.
• Test, deploy, and validate updates to provide a reliable, consistent user experience.
• Document website configurations, workflows, and application-level processes.
• Recommend improvements to reliability, maintainability, security, accessibility, and usability.
• Support the Online Collections experience so the public can browse and search artworks and related content.
• Coordinate with IT, Collections, and external vendors to resolve synchronization failures and integration issues.
• Collaborate with IT on projects involving both infrastructure and application-layer changes.
• Apply WordPress, plugin, and theme updates promptly.
• Monitor and maintain application-level caching, performance, and website responsiveness.
• Support selected digital enhancements and experiences, including landing pages, campaign pages, donation forms, and tracking tools.

Technologies:

• Cloud
• CSS
• Support
• JavaScript
• Marketing
• PHP
• Security
• Web
• WordPress

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We are the Baltimore Museum of Art, an internationally renowned institution and Marylands largest art museum, with the worlds largest public collection of works by Henri Matisse. We welcome nearly 250,000 visitors annually and are committed to artistic excellence, social equity, education, and strong community partnerships. This part-time, exempt Web Developer & Digital Applications Specialist role is based in Marketing & Communications, offers 20–25 hours per week, reports to the Chief Marketing Officer, and works closely with IT, Collections, Advancement, and other stakeholders. We offer a 403(b) retirement plan with a match, flexible and condensed scheduling, hybrid work options, museum and restaurant discounts, reduced-fee gym membership, and accrued vacation, holidays, personal days, floating holidays, and sick days. This is a bargaining-unit position, with a salary of $38.98 per hour. We are an equal opportunity employer and encourage qualified professionals from diverse backgrounds to apply.

last updated 43 week of 2026