Criminal Justice Hub
WordPress developer - Volunteer
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WordPress developer - Volunteer
WordPress Developer (Volunteer) – Criminal Justice Hub
About the Role
Criminal Justice Hub has launched its beta and is seeking an experienced WordPress developer to help refine our public-interest justice service.
Your expertise will ensure the platform evolves into a stronger, more reliable, and useful resource, supporting researchers, content volunteers, and visitors to better understand the UK’s criminal justice system.
The website serves as the central hub for:
- Publishing accessible information on criminal justice
- Organising and presenting public data
- Developing and improving practical tools for users (individuals affected by the system, students, practitioners, and organisations)
The right candidate will help us:
- Improve the beta through code reviews and issue resolution
- Build new features to enhance usability
- ** Strengthen technical quality**—accessibility, performance, and long-term sustainability
What Difference Can You Make?
As a volunteer developer, you’ll transform ideas into well-crafted digital solutions, ensuring our platform better serves users such as:
- Members of the public
- People affected by the justice system
- Students and content volunteers
- Criminal justice practitioners and organisations
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Your expertise will ensure the website is clearer, more accessible, and more useful.
Responsibilities
You’ll work independently and collaboratively as a volunteer, contributing key technical support where needed. Your role may include:
- Reviewing and improving the WordPress theme
- Developing or enhancing WordPress plugins
- Building new tools and interactive features
- Refining page templates, post types, and taxonomies
- Supporting accessibility and responsive design
- Helping the team translate user needs into technical solutions
- Maintaining consistency in the design system
- Assessing and improving code quality, performance, security, and maintainability
Requirements & Qualifications
We need a confident, reliable, and experienced WordPress Developer who meets the following criteria:
- Minimum three years’ professional experience in WordPress development (ideally more)
- Ability to work independently, review existing code, and suggest improvements where needed
- Strong familiarity with:
- Custom WordPress theme development
- WordPress plugin development and review
- PHP, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript
- WordPress hooks, templates, custom post types, and taxonomies
- Accessibility and responsive design
- Version control (e.g., GitHub/GitLab)
- Preferred (but not essential):
- Experience with public sector, charity, legal, justice, or accessibility-focused websites
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Key traits of the ideal candidate: ✔ Enthusiastic and supportive; comfortable coaching non-technical colleagues ✔ Practical problem-solver—able to take ideas from concept to implementation ✔ Reliable (with no expectation of constant availability)
This is a UK-based, unpaid volunteer role—you will not be managing paid staff, but we need dependable contributions when needed.
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Full flexibility is provided; the role is self-directed with on-demand involvement depending on the project’s progress.
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We need an experienced WordPress developer to help improve our service
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