Contents Location About the job Benefits Things you need to know Apply and further information Location Wales About the job Job summary What the organisation will expect: You will be able to work independently on day-to-day issues, providing advice to more senior grades and supporting departmental priorities. You will be flexible, pro-active and self-motivated, working across teams when necessary to deliver Organisational business objectives; understanding your areas of responsibility and display awareness of the wider impact of your actions. You will be adaptable, flexible, open to, and accepting of change affecting you and your area of work and deal with that change efficiently and professionally. What your team will expect: You will be able to manage your own workload and priorities to ensure that objectives are met on time and to a high quality using own initiative and decision making. You will invest time in your own development, acting as a role model and supporting the development of others. Providing opportunities and encouragement for individuals to develop, sharing your knowledge and experience You will manage/supervise, develop, motivate and support diverse group of staff and colleagues, making best use of staff and other resources. Actively support and include all staff and colleagues, treating them fairly and respecting everyone as individuals. What your stakeholders will expect: You will establish professional relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve results. You will communicate effectively both orally and in writing, using appropriate communication channels. The UK wide Civil Service Digital Data and Technology (DDaT) profession consists of people who work in a digital, data or technology specialist role. They design, build, and run government digital services. They are responsible for the way we find, access and use data and for the technology infrastructure which support those services. The DDaT profession in the Welsh Government supports a range of digital services across the whole organisation, including developing, maintaining and publishing GOV.WALES web content and services. As part of our DDaT profession, you can make a significant and direct contribution for the people of Wales. Job description A junior content designer is a graduate with a degree in a relevant subject or an individual with some relevant work experience in website content creation. At this role level, you will: Explain content decisions Work collaboratively Work independently after being given direction by more senior content designers Independently identify user issues and needs Support content team administration and publishing processes Engage with and contribute to the cross-government content community Follow good practice and standards to design usable and accessible content which meets user needs. Work to continuously improve content, reviewing published content to ensure it is accurate and meets GOV.WALES standards. Contribute to the GOV.WALES content community, sharing experiences, supporting peers, and contributing to the development of standards. Use content management systems to publish content to strict deadlines. Person specification Agile working: In your work, you will be able to: demonstrate experience of working in Agile teams, including an awareness of Agile tools and how to use them advise colleagues on how and why Agile methods are used and provide a clear, open and transparent framework in which teams can deliver adapt and reflect and be responsive to feedback see outside of the process Content concepts and prototyping: You can: show an awareness of the different types of prototypes, from paper sketches to coded prototypes, and you can understand when to use them Stakeholder relationship management: You will have an awareness of: understanding who your stakeholders are, and can work to understand their needs understanding the importance of managing relationships with your stakeholders Strategic thinking: In your work, you will be able to: support the creation and development of strategies and policies contribute to iterating and improving processes and guidelines understand how activities meet strategic goals User focus: You will have an awareness of: user experience analytics and principles understanding the purpose of user stories and focus on user-centred design more widely User-centred content design: You will have an awareness of how to: demonstrate some experience in writing and editing digital content, and of using content management systems to publish content understand the importance of content standards and style guidelines and can apply these to your work understand the importance of using data and evidence to make content decisions, and you know the right questions to ask to use data to shape and iterate content work well under supervision This post maps to the DDaT Capability Framework role of Junior Content Designer. Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Seeing the Big Picture Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Managing a Quality Service 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 employer contribution of 28.97% Things you need to know Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience. Number of Stages: 2 stage process Stage 1 Application Form Stage 2 Interview Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements This job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). 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. Diversity and Inclusion The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window). Apply and further information This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative. Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. 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