Salary: £50,000 per annum
Hours: 37.5 hours per week, Monday to Friday, 2/3 days working from home.
Reports to: Head of IT Services.
Location: Harlow, Essex. Easily commutable from London Liverpool Street or Tottenham Hale Station. We offer a free minibus service to/from Harlow Town Train Station as well as free parking and EV charging on site.
Extra Information: Open to conversation on hybrid, flexible and compressed working arrangements.
About the role:
We are seeking a proactive and technically skilled CMS Developer to take ownership of our Umbraco platform. In this critical role, you will enhance our internal capabilities by managing, maintaining, and evolving our CMS—reducing reliance on external development support, accelerating content delivery, and improving cost-efficiency. As part of the wider IT function, you will also contribute to broader digital transformation initiatives and collaborate across teams to support the evolution of our digital platforms.
What you will be doing:
· Lead development, configuration, and maintenance of our CMS (Umbraco or similar).
· Manage technical aspects of platforms with external partners.
· Implement content, layout, and UX changes to support organisational and campaign needs. Troubleshoot issues and manage platform/s performance.
· Diagnose and resolve CMS issues, ensuring platform stability and performance.
· Deliver new features, enhancements, and platform updates in line with internal stakeholder requirements.
· Ensure all development meets accessibility, usability, performance, and security standards.
· Maintain clear technical documentation and support robust CMS governance.
· Provide guidance, training, and technical support to colleagues who use or contribute to the CMS.
· Triage and prioritise CMS-related requests, managing communications with stakeholders.
· Collaborate with colleagues across IT and Digital teams, contributing to wider efficiency and transformation programmes.
Requirements
Your experience:
Must haves:
· Proven experience developing and supporting CMS platforms (e.g., Umbraco, Sitecore, Episerver).
· Strong proficiency in .NET / C#, particularly backend development for web-based solutions.
· Solid front-end development skills: HTML, CSS, JavaScript (and frameworks such as jQuery).
· Experience with component-based CMS development and templating.
· Familiarity with content workflows, publishing pipelines, and permission models.
· Ability to manage projects or features from requirements through to delivery.
Nice to haves:
· Experience with enterprise CMS platforms in multi-stakeholder environment.
· Knowledge of RESTful APIs and integration techniques.
· Understanding of WCAG accessibility standards.
· Exposure to DevOps practices and version control (e.g., Git, Azure DevOps).
· Familiarity with the Microsoft 365 suite, including SharePoint, Teams, and OneDrive.
· Experience of managing SEO
· Experience of designing AI powered elements/modules
· Experience working in a not-for-profit or charity environment
If you're interested in applying and excited about working with us but are unsure if you have the right skills and experience, we'd still encourage you to apply.
Benefits
Benefits
Who are we?
We are building a future where all disabled people have the transport options to make the journeys they choose.
We fund, support, research and innovate so that all disabled people can make the journeys they choose. We oversee the Motability Scheme and provide grants to help people use it, providing access to transport to hundreds of thousands of people a year. We award grants to charities and organisations who provide different types of transport, or work towards making transport accessible. We also carry out ongoing research, in partnership with disabled people and key stakeholders in the industry, to inspire innovations that continue to champion accessible transport for all.
Why choose us?
We want working for the Motability Foundation to be the best career move you've ever made. When you join the Motability Foundation you will join a group of people who are supportive, innovative and motivated to improve the lives of our beneficiaries.
We value everyone's unique qualities and celebrate having a diverse, equitable and inclusive culture where everyone feels safe to be their authentic selves. This is embedded into our values, Collaborative, Respectful and Evolving.
We bring our people together through our People Forum, Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Forum, Social Squad and our Wellbeing Champions and our employee Spotlight Awards help us recognise the excellence and dedication of our staff.
We are proud to be recognised as Disability Confident Leader, have attained Platinum Level Award for Investors in People and are members of the Business Disability Forum.
A career with Motability Foundation can offer you so much more than earning potential, we pride ourselves in offering some fantastic benefits. Some of these include:
* 26 days annual leave, plus the option to buy/ sell up to five days.
* One wellbeing day for extra flexibility.
* Pension scheme - Up to 20%, including a 10% non-contributory contribution and matched contributions up to 5%.
* Life Assurance of four times your salary.
* Private healthcare through BUPA for you and your family, along with a Medicash Health Plan.
* Employee assistance programme: GP appointments, eye tests, flu vaccinations, sick pay and free gym and yoga sessions.
* Enhanced Parental Leave, including Adoption Pay.
* Free parking, EV charge points and a minibus service to/from the town centre and train station.
* Fresh fruit, breakfast snacks, and a Dress for Your Day dress code.
* Learning and development opportunities to help you grow.
Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We actively encourage applications from people of all backgrounds and cultures, and we aim to be an employer of choice for candidates with disabilities.
As a Disability Confident Leader, we have committed to ensuring that disabled people and those with long term health conditions have the opportunities to fulfil their potential. We want to ensure everyone has the opportunity to perform their best when interviewing and when working with us, so if you require any reasonable adjustments that would make you more comfortable, please let us know so that we can do our best to support you.
To help us create an inclusive workplace we are committed to offering to interview every disabled applicant who meets the minimum criteria for the job. Some of our roles attract a high volume of applications and in some circumstances, we may need to limit the number of interviews offered to disabled and non-disabled candidates.