1826 - Junior content designer

+ 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., 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., + 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

+ 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., Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

+ 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%