Junior Digital Content Designer

Posted on 28 July 2022
  • Directorate BHCC: Governance, People & Resources
  • Salary £22571 - £24920 (Pay Award Pending)
  • Contract Permanent
  • Closing Date This vacancy has closed

Location

Hove Town Hall

Job Summary

  • Job reference
    orbis/TP/172149/26146
  • Positions available
    1
  • Working hours
    37
  • Closing date

    This vacancy has closed

  • Job category
    Communications
  • Organisation
    Brighton & Hove City Council

Job introduction

We have an exciting entry level digital content design role available to join the council’s Corporate Communications Service and help develop the organisation’s external website.

Working as part of a dynamic team you will help to create, update, and review content for the council’s corporate website and various other external digital platforms, focusing on user experience, the council’s online style guide, design pattern library and digital accessibility standards.

About the role

Day-to-day you will support the Digital Content Design team and work with council services to ensure organisational needs are met and digital content (webpages, documents such as PDFs, images, and videos) follows industry best practice.

This role would suit an enthusiastic and talented junior content editor with an understanding of writing for websites. You will have good communication skills and be keen to make a positive contribution to our future way of working.

Working with us

We support a flexible workplace, with our staff working full time, part-time, and compressed hours, to fit around care commitments and work/life balance needs. The Digital Content Design team currently works remotely.

Applicants can work flexibly and remotely but may need to occasionally come into the office if required. If working from home is not possible, safe office accommodation is available.

We are an open and welcoming team who encourage a respectful, supportive, and collaborative workplace.

Professional development is supported and encouraged. Brighton & Hove City Council provide a large variety of learning and development courses for employees to hone existing skills and develop new ones.

If this role interests you, we want to hear from you.

Interview date

Interviews will be conducted remotely – date to be confirmed.

For an informal discussion, please contact Chloe Dunford – Digital Communications Manager. Send an email to chloe.dunford@brighton-hove.gov.uk

Please read our Apply for a job at the council (brighton-hove.gov.uk) pages carefully. They give you all the guidance you need to complete your application as well as information on what will happen after you’ve submitted your application and at interview.

As part of your application, you will need to upload your CV and answers to some shortlisting questions. Your answers to the shortlisting questions are the most important part of your application as they will be used in the shortlisting process to assess whether you meet the essential requirements for the role that are set out in the person specification and to decide whether you should be offered an interview. Before you start your application, please read our guidance here (CV guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) and Shortlisting questions guidance (brighton-hove.gov.uk) as this gives important advice which will increase your chance of success in the shortlisting process.

Additional information

Your starting salary will be pro rata if the above position is less than 37 hours or term-time only.

Work Permits: This role does not meet the requirement for UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) Points-based Immigration System. Successful candidates will need to evidence that they have the Right to Work in the UK.

Part office / part home – hybrid -  We are a workplace that supports flexibility and employee wellbeing in the way we work whilst providing the best service for our customers. Team and service working arrangements are designed to support both employee work life balance and team collaboration. These would be part of your individual working arrangements alongside any personal preference agreed with your manager in advance of joining.

For more information about our values and the benefits of working at the council, visit Why work for us (brighton-hove.gov.uk)

Company information

Encouraging a diverse workforce

Our city is known and loved for its diversity. Not only is the mixture of people, culture and skills vital to the economic and social development of the city, it's what makes Brighton & Hove such a great place to live, work and visit. We are committed to developing and retaining a workforce that is representative of the diverse communities we serve so we welcome applications from individuals from all backgrounds. In order to achieve our aims of proportionate representation, we particularly encourage applicants from a BME or White Other background as well as those who identify as disabled, male or trans.

Find out more about our commitment to being a fair and inclusive place to work where everyone can achieve their potential by reading about our fair and inclusive actions, our anti-racism strategy and the work we are doing to encourage a diverse workforce (brighton-hove.gov.uk).

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