2150 - Digital Communications Officer

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 390303

**Salary**:

- £29,657 - £33,748

**Job grade**:

- Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- WG - Office of the First Minister and Brexit Group

**Type of role**:

- Communications / Marketing

**Working pattern**:

- Full-time

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Cardiff, Wales, CF10 3NQ

About the job

**Job summary**:

- As a digital communications officer within the corporate social media team, you will be responsible for developing engaging bilingual content that informs, stimulates discussion and reaches a broad audience. You will also be expected to work with colleagues to identify areas for further content development and to respond to queries.

**Job description**:

- As a digital communications officer within the corporate social media team, you will be responsible for developing engaging bilingual content that informs, stimulates discussion and reaches a broad audience. You will also be expected to work with colleagues to identify areas for further content development and to respond to queries.

**Person specification**:

- Support the development of high-quality bilingual content to use across digital channels meeting standards on style, tone of voice and publishing.
- Source appropriate imagery and use photo editing software for digital content.
- Use timelines and scheduled content to create a consistent stream of new content for audience interaction while analysing, managing, and altering schedules where necessary to optimise.
- Work closely with colleagues to create content that raises awareness and boosts engagement with key WG policy announcements, events and launches.
- Monitor user engagement and trends - gathering analysis and reporting.
- Supporting the storyboarding, shooting, editing and optimising of video content.
- Curate, tag and store content, documenting rights and usage.
- Editing photography and designing written content.
- Stay up to date with new digital technologies and social media best practices.

Your role will form part of Welsh Government’s communications profession. This is a growing profession, and you will have the opportunity to be part of shaping and growing it.

We are committed to developing the skills and capability of our staff and encouraging them to use five days of learning a year.

To support this, we offer a range of opportunities which could include:
Conferences / Shadowing / Mentoring / Work based learning / qualifications / coaching

This role offers the chance to:

- Gain hands-on experience in managing and delivering content to a range of different audiences across high-profile digital accounts.
- Collaborate with stakeholders, including policy colleagues, press offices, communications and marketing agencies. Providing an opportunity to develop strong interpersonal skills and build professional networks.
- Proactively make links and work with a wide range of Welsh Government teams external partners including other Governments in the UK.

**Languages**:

- Welsh language skills will be required for this role.

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Delivering at Pace
- Developing Self and Others
- Communicating and Influencing
- Making Effective Decisions

**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.

If you are successful at the sift stage, an exercise will be set to assess your ability to develop high-quality bilingual content.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

**Security**:
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
- 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)
- 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