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Job title – Statistical publications designer (content designer)
Profession- Content Design & Publishing
Directorate – Data Analytics & Science
Full Time equivalent - 37.5 hours
No of Roles – 1
Contract Type – Permanent
Location - Homeworking/National - This role will be home based with access to our UKHSA London and other offices on an ad hoc basis.
Please be aware that this role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas. Relocation expenses are not available
Working Pattern – Full Time / Flexible Working / Hybrid Working
Grade & Salary – Grade HEO. National banding -£29,160 - £35,612 per annum. Inner London - £32,978 - £39,691 per annum. Outer London - £31,070- £37,829 per annum.
New entrants to the Civil Service are expected to start on the minimum of the pay band.
The internal roles rules apply to existing Civil Servants, i.e. level transfers move on current salary or the pay range minimum, transfers on promotion move to new pay range minimum or receive 10% increase. Either case is determined by whichever is the highest.
For further details please refer to the Information Sheet- Starting Salaries & Benefits attachment
This role is to be appointed under Civil Service Terms & Conditions. Full details on the T&C’s are found https://www.ukhsa.reed.com/.
Closing Date – 26/06/2023. 23:55pm. Unfortunately, late applications will not be considered
Interview Date – W/C 10/07/2023 Please note, these dates are subject to change.
Introduction
The Statistics Production Division is an exciting team within the UKHSA with responsibility for promoting, embedding and ensuring best practice in the production, use and communication of statistics, analysis and data for the whole organisation.
As a Statistical Publications Designer (Content Designer) in the division, you will be responsible for supporting the publication of official statistics reports and maintaining web pages for UKHSA on GOV.UK. You will work with a range of internal and external stakeholders to create, update and manage digital content that is fully compliant with the Code of Practice for Statistics, Government Digital Service (GDS) style guide and other standards.
We are looking for a personable and flexible individual who is experienced in working with written content. Someone who is able to engage and collaborate with others to get content published.
You’ll enjoy working with others to make things happen and are comfortable working to tight and conflicting deadlines. Ideally, you’ll have a broad range of skills, including copywriting, project management, the ability to think both critically and creatively about new ideas, and the tenacity to see things through.
Job Overview
We are looking for a Junior Content Designer to work with statistics product leads and digital content teams to ensure that our statistical portfolio, which includes official statistics and National Statistics, are published to a high standard and in a timely fashion on GOV.UK.
Working with those teams, you will help to improve the quality, value and transparency of draft reports prior to their release, focussing on areas such as clarity and accessibility. You will then work within Whitehall publisher to prepare those reports for publication. You will also help to maintain our other GOV.UK content, such as our official statistics release calendar and other pages, and work with the wider team to help ensure that our releases remain compliant with the Code of Practice for Statistics.
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Main Duties of the Job
You will:
- Create content on Whitehall publisher: draft reports, landing pages, and collection pages, and submit content for review, ready for publication
- Support the development of official statistics products in various digital formats ready for publication on UKHSA’s GOV.UK website.
- Work collaboratively with statistics product leads and the wider team to develop statistical outputs that are engaging to the user and ensuring content remains aligned with user need
- Help to maintain the official statistics release calendar for UKHSA outputs on GOV.UK, liaise with product leads to ensure outputs are pre-announced on Whitehall publisher and published to those timescales (in keeping with the Code of Practice for Statistics)
- Support the official statistics publications process end to end, flagging risks, issues or breaches of the Code with the Head of Profession for Statistics or other nominated statistics lead
- Support the release of any ad hoc publications as and when required
- Build relationships with product leads and digital content teams
- Keep up to date on and use the Government Digital Service (GDS) style guide and other standards to design high quality, accessible content
- Be an active member of the content design community, contributing to knowledge of best practices
Person specification
Essential Criteria
- Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in content design
- Experience of writing for the web, with experience of planning, creating and publishing website content that is in plain English, accessible and usable, and meets organisational objectives
- Using best practice in writing for the web including following a style guide
- Using a content management system to publish to the web (ideally Whitehall Publisher for gov.uk publishing), and basic image editing Experience supporting the end-to-end publishing process
- Comfortable working to specific timescales and tight deadlines
Desirable Criteria
- Experience of publishing high-profile content at short notice
- Experience of using metrics and user feedback to define and refine content
- Editing complex technical or scientific material into plain English
- Knowledge of health protection issues, such as infectious diseases
- Knowledge of official statistics pre-announcement and publishing requirements
We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.
UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%
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Selection process details
You will be required to complete an application form. This will be assessed and sifted in line with the essential criteria.
- An application form setting out your career history, starting with your most recent job, highlighting specific responsibilities and achievements that are relevant for this role, with reasons for any gaps within the last two years. As a guide, for each job you should summarise in one sentence the purpose or responsibilities and include three achievements (ideally one sentence each).
- A Statement of Suitability (in no more than 750 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities, experience and technical skills provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with particular reference to the essential criteria (and any desirable criteria that are relevant to you).
We will be mainly looking for evidence of the following technical skills:
- Content design
- Publishing digital products
The application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked separately and you must pass both to progress to interview.
NOTE: At the top of your Statement of Suitability, please state the number of words you have used. The system may allow you to provide more than 750 words, but it is important that you keep to the word count stated.
If we receive a large number of applications, an initial sift based on the application forms may be conducted and applications not meeting the minimum pass mark will not be progressed further. Applications that then progress to full sift will have both the application form and personal statement considered
If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview
Stage 2: Panel Interview
All candidates who are successful at the sift stage will undertake a single video interview including a presentation.
Behaviours
- Working together
- Managing a Quality Service
- Delivering at Pace
- Changing and Improving
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- Content Design
At interview, you will be asked to deliver a 5 minute presentation (the topic will be provided before your interview date) to bring out your technical and professional skills.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview.
Reserve List:
Candidates who pass the interview criteria but are not offered a post will be kept on a reserve list for 12 months and may be contacted if similar roles become available.
If you are interviewed for the post and do not meet the required threshold for the specified grade, your application may be assessed against a similar, lower grade role and you may be offered the post should one be available.
DBS - People working with government systems must complete Basic Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) checks which includes a disclosure and barring security check. Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed for this role is BPSS however there may be a requirement for this role to be SC cleared and you should familiarise yourself with the criteria of security clearance.
This role is Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants. Appointments to roles within UKHSA will be made in accordance with the Civil Service nationality rules. These can be found at https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- Nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- Nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- Nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- Relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- Certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's Recruitment Principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment.
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It’s important to note that there are currently exceptions to applications being considered if your conviction relates to any of the following:
- life sentences
- arson
- sexual offences
- hate and terror offences
Some departments will also consider the specific offence against the nature of the business, i.e., a conviction for fraud may rule you out for a finance role
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Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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This job is broadly open to the following groups:
- UK nationals
- nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
- nationals of the Republic of Ireland
- nationals from the EU, EEA or Switzerland with settled or pre-settled status or who apply for either status by the deadline of the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
- relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
- certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals
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