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Reference number

374539

Salary

£52,000 - £52,000

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Other

Contract type

Permanent

Type of role

Other

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

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About the job

Benefits

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Location

Remote working (anywhere in the UK)

About the job

Job summary

A key role managing the content, technical, and strategic aspects of IPSA’s three websites – the MP website, the public website and the Compliance Officer’s website – as well as IPSA’s intranet. The role-holder also designs, produces, and edits IPSA’s internal and external editorial, video and audio content and provides governance, guidance and support for all content production across the organisation, ensuring material is on brand, accessible, and engaging.

Working with teams across IPSA and external third-party suppliers, the role-holder is responsible for creating and maintaining information architectures, publishing, proofing, and editing of IPSA’s websites, webinars, editorial products and graphics for digital, print, and social media.

The role reports to the Director, MP Services, Strategy and Change within the Strategy and Change function but works closely with the Technology, Communications, Policy and customer facing teams to ensure high quality content is developed and delivered across internal and external platforms and media, as well as contributing to the wider strategic digital needs of the organisation.

Job description

Leading the development and delivery of IPSA’s digital content platforms – managing the technical and strategic aspects of the MP, public, and Compliance Officer websites in collaboration with external suppliers and internal IPSA teams, including the product backlog, publishing workflows and issues, and information architecture.

Key Responsibilities

Managing external facing website content editorial – including sub-editing, writing, and proofing, content design, and structure – ensuring all content is consistent, on brand, accessible, and engaging.
Managing the technical aspects, structure, and content of IPSA’s intranet, including page creation and design, architecture, and editorial.
Managing all video, and audio content for webinar production, as well as production and editorial of all customer-facing publications, and creating all graphics for digital and print products and social media.
Establishing and maintaining content governance principles and workflows, providing guidance and support for all content production across the organisation using brand and style guides, templates and glossaries.
Carrying out autonomous projects and other pieces of work, as well as contributing to wider IPSA projects, as required.
Living and breathing IPSA’s values of staying connected, seeing the bigger picture, being open, doing the right thing, and making a difference through all that you do.

IPSA is a learning organisation. We constantly review our work against our customer’s need and assess the environment in which we operate so that we can continuously improve. Therefore, the list of key responsibilities may adapt and change over time within the spirit and nature of organisational change and the development of the role.

Person specification

You’ll have bags of experience in developing digital content and websites, creating compelling and engaging content that’s simple to read and understand. You’ll be incisive and end-user focused, using your editorial prowess to positively influence how our customers and the public feel about us and to support trust in democracy.

You’ll be articulate, with excellent copywriting skills and laser sharp attention to detail, simplifying complex information into plain English. Through high collaboration, you’ll work with busy teams to seek insight and approval. Your proven project management skills will help you to deliver complex editorial projects across multiple stakeholders, to schedule and budget, while your commercial acumen will result in an innovative approach to repurposing content and delivering value for money and cost-effective solutions.

You’ll dazzle with your creativity and confidence, building engaging and user-friendly content across multiple channels within a limited budget, and you’ll be relentless about IPSA’s brand and style of communication, helping to build IPSA’s profile externally.

You’ll be digitally driven with an excellent understanding of search functionality, site navigation, content optimisation and web analytics. You’ll be a pragmatic problem solver, proactively seeking solutions and going the extra mile to achieve outstanding results.

The experience and technical level required for the role, along with personal qualities, skills, attributes, and qualifications (where relevant) are listed below.

Essential

Digitally driven with high levels of knowledge and experience of developing digital content and content architecture.
Significant experience in strategic website content management, creating and delivering website content strategies aligned to organisation objectives.
Highly articulate with excellent copywriting skills.
Outstanding proofing, editing, and design capability with high attention to detail.
Exceptional creativity with editorial, video, and audio creation experience, fluent in the use of Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, Audition and MS SharePoint.
Experience in managing project timescales and adapting/prioritising to ensure deadlines and budgets are met.
Strong problem-solving skills.

Desirable

Familiarity with a range of content management systems (or extensive knowledge of Contentful) for creating and publishing content.
Familiarity with analytics tools, especially GA4, and using data to assess and improve content.
An understanding of the political environment within which IPSA operates.
Ability to manage budgets and supplier procurement processes.
Ability to organise and prioritise own workload, working productively to tight deadlines.
High level of IT skills, including Word, Outlook, Excel and PowerPoint.
High speed/fibre broadband at home.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £52,000, Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority contributes £15,064 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

A competitive salary which is regularly benchmarked against industry.
Hybrid and flexible working, with occasional travel to London for team meetings
Generous contributions into a ‘Civil Service’ pension.
25 days holiday entitlement (+ bank holidays), increasing by 1 day each year up to 30 days.
Option to purchase additional holiday days each year.
Access to learning and development tailored to your role with coaching opportunities.
Working in a high-performing organisation which supports democracy with a great team ethic.
A culture encouraging equity, diversity and inclusion.
Time in your work to time to participate in our inclusive workplace networks.
Mental Health First Aid network and access to our EAP
Enhanced family leave provisions
Workplace awards programme for living IPSA’s values and innovative ideas.
Season ticket/rent deposit loans.
Cycle to work scheme.
Give As You Earn scheme.
Volunteering days and ‘you’ time.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

We’re committed to creating an inclusive, vibrant community and to making IPSA a brilliant place to be.

At the heart of our people philosophy is our promise to engage, enable, and empower every team member to deliver excellence, learn, and develop every day.

Ensuring equality of opportunity is central to this.

With diversity of backgrounds, experiences, and thinking IPSA will continue to operate as a high-performing organisation with a truly diverse and inclusive culture.

That’s why we encourage applications from all backgrounds and communities, such as returning parents or carers who are returning from a career break, people who are LGBTQIA+, from Black, Asian, and other ethnic backgrounds, with a disability, impairment, learning differences or long-term condition, with caring responsibilities, from different geographic regions and people from all socio-economic backgrounds, and any other under-represented groups in our workforce.

As well as our Inclusion Panel we have several workplace networks that promote and celebrate diversity, equity, inclusion, and sustainability.

Our values guide us and we demonstrate them in all our work. These are Staying Connected, Seeing the Bigger Picture, Being Open, and Doing the Right Thing. and Making a Difference. As a values-based organisation, you can expect them throughout the recruitment process and beyond.

Interview process and timeline

Interviews will be virtual via Microsoft Teams, so you’ll need access to a secure WIFI network and a private space.

Our interviews are competency and values-based. We’ll ask you a series of questions designed to help assess your suitability for the role and for IPSA. We may also ask you prepare a presentation and undertake a pre-released task to help assess your suitability.

The closing date for this role will be 10 November 2024, so we encourage you to submit your application without delay. Shortlisting will take place in w/c 11 November 2024. Interviews will take on 19 and 20 November 2024 - please make a note of these dates in your diary as we will be operating a tight interview schedule.

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is counter-terrorist check (opens in a new window).

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)
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

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

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).

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Contact point for applicants

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