Senior Digital Officer - London, United Kingdom - UK Government - Cabinet Office

Description

Job summary

Cabinet Office Communications is recruiting for an experienced and enthusiastic Senior Digital Officer to play a central role in managing the department's digital media output.

Job description

The Senior Digital Officer will have a special focus on creating engaging content to highlight the work of the Deputy Prime Minister, in addition to the Cabinet Office's other ministers, senior officials and policy areas.

Person specification

• DSLR and mirrorless cameras as well as related equipment (mics, lighting, etc)
• Adobe Creative Cloud Suite including Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Lightroom and Illustrator (or similar programmes)

They must have a demonstrable background in developing digital handling strategies that support organisational objectives.

They must also be adept at ensuring plans are fully integrated across diverse digital communications channels, including Twitter, LinkedIn and Instagram.

They should be able to provide advice to senior colleagues about how best to clearly convey Cabinet Office messages across a range of digital channels, using the latest technology, platforms and trends.

They must be able to work quickly and effectively, often under pressure and to tight-deadlines.

They must also be able to build effective working relationships with a range of internal and external stakeholders and manage competing priorities.

They should also have an awareness of the content in which the Cabinet Office, and HM Government operates in, and be able to offer strategic digital advice on responding to current issues when required.

Finally, they must be able to evaluate the effectiveness of digital communications against objectives. They should be able to review lessons learned to identify areas for improvement and inform future work.


Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

• Insight
• Ideas
• Implementation
• Impact

Benefits

• Learning and development tailored to your role.
• An environment with flexible working options.
• A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity.
• A Civil Service Pensionwhich provides an attractive pension, benefits for dependants and average employer contributions of 27%.
• A minimum of 25 days of paid annual leave, increasing by one day per year up to a maximum of 30.

Things you need to know

Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths, Experience and Technical skills.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.


Please provide:

• A CV of no more then 2 pages
• A personal statement of no more the 500 words outlining how your skills and experience match the requirements of the role.
• A 250 word response providing examples of your experience matching each of the three behaviours.

Technical skills

• Communicating and Influencing
• Making Effective Decisions
• Delivering at Pace

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For this professional communications role, you'll also be tested against the following Government Communications Service (GCS) technical skills at SEO level Insight

• Ideas
• Implementation
• Impact

Evidence of digital production skills - We may ask you to provide evidence of your digital production skills, such as a video that you have created.

Expected Timeline
Sift outcome released - TBC

Interviews - TBC

Interview location: 70 Whitehall, London (details will be sent to those being progressed to interview once selected).

If successful at sift, you will be invited to select your preferred interview slot.

You will then receive an invite to interview from the vacancy holder before your interview is scheduled to take place.

Reasonable adjustments

Further information
Please note terms and conditions are attached. Please take time to read the document to determine how these may affect you.

A reserve list will be held for a period of 12 months, from which further appointments can be made.


Security Information
If successful and transferring from another Government Department a criminal record check may be carried out.

Please note that this role requires SC clearance, which would normally need 5 years UK residency in the past 5 years.

This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period.

This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.

Security
See our vetting charter.

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window)checks.


Nationality requirements
Further information on nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals

- nati