Volunteer: Website Assessment & Relaunch Roadmap

About the role

African Diaspora United for Development (ADUD) is undertaking an organization-wide relaunch and needs an experienced website professional to independently assess the current environment and help determine what should be retained, repaired, reorganized, replaced, improved, or deferred. This is assessment and planning only—it does not include coding, redesign implementation, production deployment, large-scale content rewriting or migration, penetration testing, or ongoing webmaster support.

Scope of work

The assessment will examine ADUD's public website, staging environment, WordPress/CMS configuration, and major website components across the following areas: usability, navigation, information architecture, mobile responsiveness, accessibility, performance, technical SEO, analytics, content organization, maintainability, and apparent security or administrative risks. It will also review relevant themes, plugins, forms, integrations, backup/update practices, and the effectiveness of the site for ADUD's key audiences.

Deliverables

• Current-state assessment of ADUD's public website, staging environment, WordPress/CMS configuration, and major website components
• Findings summary covering usability, navigation, information architecture, mobile responsiveness, accessibility, performance, technical SEO, analytics, content organization, maintainability, and apparent security/administrative risks
• Prioritized recommendations matrix identifying what should be retained, repaired, replaced, reorganized, improved, deferred, or investigated further
• Recommended sitemap, navigation, user-journey, and content-organization improvements
• High-level review of significant content gaps, outdated or duplicative material, and content-governance needs
• Phased website relaunch roadmap showing recommended activities, priorities, dependencies, and sequencing for future implementation work
• Final review session with ADUD leadership to present findings, answer questions, and confirm next steps

Success criteria

ADUD finishes the project with a documented, actionable technical and strategic baseline that can be handed directly to future UX, design, and development volunteers or contractors.

About African Diaspora United for Development

ADUD is a non-partisan, non-profit organization created to ultimately empower African diaspora communities worldwide, by engaging and partnering with individuals, businesses, agencies, and institutions in a collaborative effort to heavily contribute to the educational and social development of Africa and to build a stronger community. The vision of ADUD is to improve the partnership opportunities for our African diaspora communities, so that together we can stand strong to address the social and educational issues and lacks in Africa.

ADUD staff and trained volunteers will educate, connect people to resources and encourage community collaboration addressing subtopics including but not limited to health, youth, families, welfare and community development. Our programs are developed in direct response to community need.

Through our principal pillars Help, Educate, Lead, and Promote Philanthropy (H.E.L.P.), we assist our local diaspora communities by connecting people to resources here and abroad by offering specialized educational programs and projects, by offering various workshops on awareness of community needs and integration, healthy living, and other educational trainings, coordinating social and professional networking events, and providing organized opportunities to give back to our local communities and our countries.