Video Content Lead London, England
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Do you have the flair to create stand-out videos to capture the attention of your audience by using design skills with Adobe software?
Can you champion digital engagement and social media?
Would you like the opportunity to join our fast paced digital content team to innovate and drive our video content forward?
If so, we'd love to hear from you!
Job description
We’re looking for a Video Content Lead to join our fast-paced digital content team to innovate and drive our video content forward. You will be a senior manager within the digital content team, providing direction and leadership for a small team of videographers.
This will be a hands-on role, where you will still play an active part in developing videos to support the department’s work. You will develop clear workflows for the production team, ensuring the team meet deadline and resource is allocated where appropriate.
You will also work closely with special advisors, communications, and policy colleagues to ensure we are communicating messages in the right way. You will work closely with the Secretary of State and Ministers and have the confidence to help shape and direct content that will help us reach our target audiences.
You will have experience of using insight to assess the effectiveness of content and channels used, drawing conclusions to improve digital communication and the user experience.
As part of the role, you will be required to attend visits and filming locations so there will be a travel element involved which may also include international travel as well as national travel around the UK.
Out of hours working is also a key feature of this role as you will be required to accompany Ministers on visits and complete videos to tight deadlines.
Person specification
- Lead the team to deliver professional video content to a high standard building trusted relationships and working closely with senior stakeholders to deliver innovative and creative video products.
- Proactively recommend filming opportunities and creative approaches which you and your team will develop at pace into high quality videos for channels.
- Accompany colleagues, senior stakeholders, and Ministers on visits to deliver high quality video products.
- Work closely with the Strategy and Design leads to ensure we are developing content with channels/audience in mind and brand guidelines are met, covering their remits during absences.
- Draw on knowledge of emerging trends in digital and social media to ensure content is innovative and consistent, being alert to emerging issues which might impact or benefit this work.
- Use insight gained to assess the effectiveness of content used on social/digital media channels and to recognise patterns and trends, drawing key conclusions to help improve the impact of our digital communication.
For an in-depth insight into the role please refer to the Role Profile.
About You
You will be confident when communicating with senior stakeholders. You will be proactive, adaptable and flexible. You will You will be aware of the current news agenda using judgement to inform video production ideas and being receptive if changes are needed.
You will have the experience of managing a small team where you can lead and utilise resources and the skillsets to achieve objectives. You can work at pace and will have the ability to managing conflicting tasks. You will have experience of using Adobe suite software.
Behaviours
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
- Delivering at Pace
- Communicating and Influencing
Technical skills
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:
- Insight
- Ideas
- Implementation
- Impact
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As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and Personal Statement.
Please tailor your CV to suit the role. For your Personal Statement, please provide detailed evidence of the following:
- Experience of project managing and developing high-quality video content to tight deadlines using Adobe suite experience, in particular Premiere Pro, After Effects and Illustrator
- Proven experience of line management and leadership, overseeing an individual’s work schedule and professional development
- Ability to work at pace, respond quickly, flexibly, and imaginatively to events and prioritise under pressure juggling both immediate and long-term projects based on conflicting demands
- Experience and understanding of monitoring, analysing, and evaluating digital content success and using insight to inform future content development and distribution
- Presenting and communicating in formal and informal settings to a wide range of audiences
- Experience of working with senior stakeholders.
The sift is due to take place week commencing 29/05/2023.
Interviews/assessments are likely to be held week commencing 12/06/2023.
We’ll try to meet the dates we’ve set out in the advert. But there may be occasions when these dates will change. We’ll give you plenty of notice of any important dates.
The selection process will be designed specifically for the role. As a result, your assessment will include:
- An interview with a presentation, video show reel of portfolio
You’re encouraged to become familiar with the role profile and the Government Communications Framework, as you may be assessed against any of the criteria recorded within.
Government Communications Framework
Please see attached candidate notes for further information about our recruitment process.
The Department for Transport alongside other Government Departments recruit using Success Profiles. This means for each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate in order to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, drives up performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.
You can read more about Success Profiles here.
Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening, subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD). This check will provide information about employees who have been dismissed for fraud or dishonesty offences. This check also applies to employees who resign or otherwise leave before being dismissed for fraud or dishonesty had their employment continued. Any applicant’s details held on the IFD will be refused employment.
A candidate is not eligible to apply for a role within the Civil Service if the application is made within a 5 year period following a dismissal for carrying out internal fraud against government.
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For more information about how we hire, and for useful tips on submitting your application for this role, visit the How We Hire page of our DfT Careers website.
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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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