Graphic Designer (EPD Band 4/HEO)
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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 Health and Safety Executive (HSE) is the independent regulator for work-related health and safety. Our purpose is to protect people and the environment – we save lives.
HSE is highly regarded both nationally and internationally. The benefits that our work brings to business, workers and the UK economy are clear. Improved health and safety risk management protects workers and translates into reduced sickness absence, lower healthcare and welfare costs, and better productivity.
Our collective goal is to help make Great Britain one of the best, safest and healthiest places to live and work in, through influencing health and safety attitudes and behaviours, which helps to reduce death, injury and ill health.
We make a real impact, helping people manage risk in many different business contexts. This can be providing smaller businesses with simple advice and clear actions they can take to manage risk themselves. At the opposite end of the scale, this also means tackling the most serious risks to our society. For example, we provide clear communication and guidance to help chemical industries protect people and the environment while trading safely after Brexit or setting up the new Building Safety Regulator as part of the government’s response to the Grenfell tragedy.
At HSE, we offer hybrid working. The successful candidate will have the flexibility to work from home and their nearest HSE office. There will be a requirement to travel to Bootle one day a week (or when required). Therefore, we would encourage candidates to consider if the commute from home to the office or home to Bootle is a feasible distance to travel.
For further information about HSE please go to: http://www.hse.gov.uk
Job description
We are currently recruiting for a Designer in our Web and Design Unit.
This is an exciting opportunity for experienced and highly motivated designers who are enthusiastic about all forms of design and want to make a positive impact in helping to protect people from death, injury and ill-health.
We are looking for a designer with excellent digital skills to lead on a wide range of design projects. Manage design standards, corporate identity/branding assets and our wider brand family. It includes working with our commercial publications partner and delivering designs for our statutory guidance materials.
This is a specialist graphic design role that requires specific expertise designing materials professionally for a variety of formats (e.g. social, web and mobile). With experience of working in at least one of either video and animation, illustration, photography, audio design or information design in Microsoft Office 365.
Roles require expert practitioners with deep design experience who will define and assure design best practice, making sure our content aligns to HSE’s strategy and objectives, while meeting the needs of our users.
This role is key in transitioning HSE’s website and to improve engagement with citizens, employers and workers.
We’re looking for people with strong interpersonal skills who enjoy working in a demanding, high profile environment, with the ability to use a variety of different communication skills. You will need to be comfortable working independently across a range of communication, policy and digital disciplines.
You should have knowledge of Government Digital Service ways of working and design roles:
https://www.gov.uk/service-manual/the-team/what-each-role-does-in-service-team.
These jobs have been mapped to the Digital, Data and Technology Profession Capability Framework - GOV.UK.
For further information about HSE please go to: http://www.hse.gov.uk
Responsibilities
You will:
Work with the Head of Design to help develop and implement brand and design standards that meet our objectives.
You will prioritise workloads and collaborate with others in the design community and your counterparts across government.
Have broad industry and design profession experience and the ability to define and assure best practice, while influencing, leading and mentoring other designers.
Have strong leadership and influencing skills and the ability to cut through a variety of competing priorities. You will be experienced in building good working relationships in pressured environments and be an enthusiastic team-player with a proactive and collaborative attitude.
As part of the Civil Service, be expected to demonstrate leadership qualities, be inspiring about our work and confident in your engagement. You’ll encourage mutual respect, value diversity and our different skills, experience and specialisms.
Key responsibilities for this role include:
- Collaborating with team of designers in our creative/design studio responsible for designing materials for (not exhaustive):
- Creating a range of engaging materials, that help communicate health and safety guidance and law to a mass audience of users who come to our website.
- Designs for internal and external conferences and events.
- Handling statutory and technical documents that need design support.
- Designing our range of statutory and corporate reports linked to business plan deliverables, eg Annual Report and Accounts, Business Plans.
- Input into producing visual identities for campaigns and implementing in a range of collateral such as documents, social media images and videos/animations.
- Managing a visual identity and working with defined branding parameters.
Work involves sketching, developing and delivering creatively strong, accessible formats and concepts executed to a high standard, making use of insight to deliver products that support delivery of HSE’s objectives.
Oversee all aspects of design work, including creation of accessible, user-centered designs working across divisions/teams to oversee creation and delivery of design projects, and specifically working with project and team leaders to support them in their role.
Quality assuring design work. Deliver evidence-based designs, using data, research and analytics to establish user needs and preferences, agreeing clear targets and evaluation criteria to demonstrate the impact of design improvements.
Establish and maintain relationships with other professional content and digital bodies and cross-government groups, to further objectives.
Personal attributes and skills include:
- Proven track-record of implementing design improvements with a good understanding of digital design software and technology.
- Ability to work flexibly across the team and contribute to the delivery of multiple projects at any given time.
- Plan, set and evaluate clear objectives using research and data to understand audiences, influence designs, evaluate impact and apply learnings.
- Work under pressure to deliver competing priorities to challenging deadlines with an appreciation of how to deal with high profile and sensitive issues.
- Be able to identify emerging issues, trends and opportunities which might impact or benefit our work.
- Strong customer/client presentation, negotiation and management skills, in developing and agreeing briefs, production schedules, pitching concepts and technical solutions and translating complex and technical policy issues for specific audiences.
Person specification
- Experience in graphic design and the use of Adobe InDesign and at least one of the following areas, to be demonstrated by portfolio at interview:
- Illustration
- Photography
- Video production (from concept to final form)
- Animation production (from concept to final form)
- Audio production (from concept to final form)
- Information design, using Microsoft Office 365 products
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
Benefits
- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
We invest in our people with;
- Competitive rates of pay
- Access to the highly competitive Civil Service Pension Scheme to which HSE contribute 27.1% far more than in the private sector
- Family friendly policies and working hours to help balance your home life and career
- 25 days annual holiday increasing to 30 days after 5 years' service, plus bank holidays and 1-day Civil Service privilege leave
- Parental leave benefits: Maternity, adoption or shared parental leave of up to 26 weeks full pay followed by 13 weeks statutory pay and a further 13 weeks unpaid, and paternity leave of 2 weeks full pay
Allowances
This post is eligible for Excess Fares Allowance. A successful internal candidate currently based at another office may be entitled to Excess Fares Allowance in line with HSE policy (http://intranet/finance/expenses/excess-fares-allowance-policy.htm)
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Selection process details
To apply please complete the CV template provided on the CS Jobs dashboard.
You will be assessed against your relevant skills, knowledge and experience which demonstrates the essential criteria listed within this advert.
All applicants will also need to provide a personal statement (max. 750 words) and it is essential that your statement of suitability includes evidence of the essential criteria.
Your CV and personal statement will be scored 1-7 and make up part of your overall score to assess your suitability to be invited to interview.
You should use the personal statement to help demonstrate:
How you have used evidence, data and research to make design decisions
- How you have created and iterated different types of designs across multiple channels
QUALIFICATIONS/ESSENTIAL SKILLS
We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the interview process:
Behaviours
- working together
- communicating and influencing
- delivering at pace
Applications close at 12.00pm on Monday 5th June 2023.
Sifts are due to take place week commencing Monday 5th June 2023.
Interviews are due to take place week commencing Monday 12th June 2023.
Please note the sift and interview dates could be subject to change due to panel availability.
It is the candidate’s responsibility to ensure they are aware of the terms and conditions they will adopt should they be successful in their application. For a summary of HSE terms and conditions as part of Civil Service Reform, please see the attached document.
Any move across the Civil Service on or after 4 October 2018 may have implications on an employee’s ability to carry on claiming childcare vouchers.
If you have a disability and you need an application form in an alternative format or you would like to know more about our recruitment process, please contact: [email protected]
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
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Nationality requirements
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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