Priority Candidates will be considered in the first instance Wigan Town Hall Library Street Wigan WN1 1YN Salary: Grade 10, 43,693 - 47,754 per annum. 37 hours per week Your role: As a Web Developer at Wigan Council, you'll be a key player in enhancing our digital web presence. Your responsibilities will include designing, developing, maintaining, and improving our web sites, ensuring they are user-friendly and accessible. You'll work closely with all teams across the Council, transforming research findings into compelling design propositions and identifying new business opportunities. Your expertise in design and development will help us provide a seamless user experience, contributing to the Council s strategic outcomes and priorities. About you: We're looking for a dynamic individual with a minimum of 2 years' experience in website development in a .NET environment. You should have a strong understanding of front-end web development, user centred front-end and web accessibility. Experience with Angular, React, ASP. NET, MVC, and Web API s is preferable. Your ability to empathise with users and think about problems from their perspective will be crucial. You should be a critical thinker, ready to challenge assumptions and innovate new solutions. Your experience in managing service performance improvements and understanding of the legislative and key operational issues relevant to the post will be highly valued. About us: Wigan Council has been voted Overall Council of the Year at the APSE (Association for Public Service Excellence) Awards. We are signed up to the Greater Manchester Continuous Service Commitment ensuring that your service will be continuous or 'unbroken' between the supporting organisations. At Wigan Council, we value our employees and recognise them as our greatest asset. We strive to deliver outstanding services and celebrate our successes. We offer a supportive environment where you'll have every opportunity to learn and develop further within the organisation. We put our customers at the heart of everything we do and pride ourselves on inclusive digital services. Join us and be a part of an organisation that encourages innovation and values its staff. Here at Wigan, we are proud to support flexible working patterns, when the service can accommodate this. We also take a blended approach to where we work, depending on the work we do. This may include working from home, the office, or the community. We like to thank our employees for their hard work and commitment by giving them the opportunity to access a range of exclusive rewards and benefits click here to find out more about working for TeamWigan. Wigan Council prides itself on equality, inclusion and promoting diversity within the borough and aims to recruit a workforce that reflects our diverse communities. We invest in training and developing our staff, in a positive learning environment, and aim to be a consciously inclusive employer. We welcome applications from everybody in the community and would particularly encourage applicants from our underrepresented groups to apply. At Wigan, it is really important to us that applicants demonstrate our Team Wigan behaviours, and we do all we can to make sure that everyone feels like they belong. We have guidance in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process. To be appointed to this role you must be able to prove your right to work in the UK. Pease visit the link below to check you qualify to apply. Please note, at present we are not a licenced sponsor. Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk) Prove your right to work to an employer For further information, please contact Amanda Litherland at a.litherlandwigan.gov.uk Interview date: Week commencing Monday 9 th December 2024 To view the details relating to this position, please click the links below: