Request for Proposals: Website and Design Support
About Children’s Institute
Children’s Institute (CI) envisions an Oregon where every child is prepared for success in school and life. To meet this goal, we advocate for strategic investments in high-quality early childhood education and healthy development while highlighting effective strategies to improve outcomes for children. We also develop and implement programs that demonstrate the essential components of an integrated early care and education system, prenatal through third grade.
Our advocacy and implementation efforts strive to connect research, lived experience, and community voice as we work toward accountable advocacy. We work to ensure that more children who experience barriers to opportunity due to poverty, race, disability and/or geography succeed in kindergarten and meet third grade benchmarks.
Website and Design
Children’s Institute is seeking a contractor or firm to provide technical support and maintenance of our website, design services for the website and other collateral, and marketing support. The website is built in WordPress and uses the Divi building platform. It features ecommerce capabilities, members-only content that requires sign in and account maintenance, and a range of plugins that impact functionality and design. Many of CI’s design needs are related to website design but also translate to other digital and print collateral. This work would be performed on an ongoing basis and in collaboration with the communications team at Children’s Institute.
Required Skills
- Ability to maintain the website, including features listed above, and keep it updated and secure in a timely manner
- Visual and website design skills, ideally in the nonprofit sector
- Ability to build website content on the WordPress platform, including custom CSS and mobile responsive layouts
- Provide cost estimates for individual projects as they develop during the contract period
- Marketing expertise to help drive website traffic and engagement
- Ability to work collaboratively with team members at Children’s Institute
To Apply
Please send a proposal sharing your background, skills, applicable links to your portfolio and interest in working on a contract basis with Children’s Institute.
Please also include: a sample itemized budget for a project, cost for ongoing monthly website maintenance, and your equity values or statement, if available. We anticipate that the contract would include a baseline monthly rate with an annual not to exceed cap. Individual projects, such as building a new set of custom pages, would need separate estimates subject to approval.
- Proposals are due Friday, August 2, 2024, or until a proposal has been accepted.
- Questions can be directed to Rafael Otto, Director of Communications, rafael@childinst.org.
CI staff will review proposals on a rolling basis and will contact applicants with questions as needed.