Statistical Publications Designer

Job description

Job responsibilities

The Statistics Production Division has an important role within UKHSA with responsibility for promoting, embedding and ensuring best practice in the production, use and communication of statistics, analysis and data for the whole organisation.

As a Statistical Publications Designer (Content Designer) in the division, you will be responsible for supporting the publication of official statistics reports and maintaining web pages for UKHSA on GOV.UK. You will work with a range of internal and external stakeholders to create, update and manage digital content that is fully compliant with the Code of Practice for Statistics, Government Digital Service (GDS) style guide and other standards.

We are looking for a personable and flexible individual who is experienced in working with written content. Someone who is able to engage and collaborate with others to get high-quality content published.

You will enjoy working with others to make things happen and be comfortable working to tight and conflicting deadlines. Ideally, you will have a broad range of skills, including copywriting, project management, the ability to think both critically and creatively about new ideas, and the tenacity to see things through.

This role will give you the opportunity to have genuine impact, improving a wide range of statistical content produced by a large organisation.

Essential Criteria

You will be assessed on the below six essential criteria, which have been selected from the Job Description

• Experience of writing for the web, with experience of planning, creating and publishing website content that is in plain English, accessible and usable, and meets organisational objectives
• Using best practice in writing for the web including following a style guide
• Using a content management system to publish to the web and basic image editing
• Experience supporting an end-to-end publishing process
• Comfortable working to specific timescales and tight deadlines
• Editing technical or scientific material into plain English

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of publishing high-profile content at short notice
• Experience of using metrics and user feedback to define and refine content
• Knowledge of health protection issues, such as infectious diseases
• Knowledge of official statistics pre-announcement and publishing requirements

Selection Process Details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles and will assess your Behaviours/Experience/Technical skills.

Stage 1: Application & Sift

Success profiles

You will be required to complete an application form. You will be assessed on the above listed six essential criteria, and this will be in the form of a:

• Application form (Employer/ Activity history section on the application)
• 750 word Statement of Suitability

This should outline how your skills, experience, and knowledge, provide evidence of your suitability for the role, with reference to the essential criteria.

The Application form and Statement of Suitability will be marked together.

Longlisting: In the event of a large number of applications we will longlist into 3 piles of:

1. Meets all essential criteria
2. Meets some essential criteria
3. Meets no essential criteria

Please note that candidates in the Disability Confident Scheme will be shortlisted if you meet the minimum essential criteria.

If you are successful at this stage, you will progress to interview and assessment

Please do not exceed 750 words. We will not consider any words over and above this number.

Feedback will not be provided at this stage.

Stage 2: Interview (success profiles)

You will be invited to a (single) remote interview.

Behaviours, technical skills and experience will be tested at interview.

For the technical assessment you will be provided with an article prior to the interview, there will be a follow up presentation and discussion during the interview.

Technical skills and experience that will be tested during the technical assessment are:

• content design
• publishing digital products

The behaviours tested at interview stage will be:

• Changing and improving
• Communicating and influencing
• Managing a quality service
• Delivering at pace

Interviews will be held week commencing 16th December 2024. Please note, these dates are subject to change.

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Eligibility Criteria

Open to all external applicants (anyone) from outside the Civil Service (including by definition internal applicants).

Location

This role is being offered as hybrid working. We offer great flexible working opportunities at UKHSA and operate using a hybrid working model where business needs allow. This provides us with greater flexibility about how and where we work, to get the best from our workforce. As a hybrid worker, you will be expected to spend a minimum of 60% of your contractual working hours (approximately 3 days a week pro rata, (averaged over a month) working at one of UKHSA's core HQs (Birmingham, Leeds, Liverpool, and London) or at one of our scientific campus sites (Colindale, Porton and Chilton).

Our core HQ offices are modern and newly refurbished with excellent city centre transport link and benefit from benefit from co-location with other government departments such as the Department for Health and Social Care (DHSC).

Security Clearance Level Requirement

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is Basic Personnel Security Standard.

If based at one of our scientific locations, you will be required to have a Counter Terrorism Check security vetting check as a minimum. For meaningful National Security Vetting checks to be carried out individuals need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time. You should normally have been resident in the United Kingdom for the last 3 years as the role requires Counter Terrorism Check (CTC) clearance. In exceptional circumstances UK residency less than the outlined periods may not necessarily bar you from gaining national security vetting and applicants should contact the Vacancy Holder/Recruiting Manager listed in the advert for further advice.

Person Specification

Application Form and Statement of Suitability

Essential

• Application Form and Statement of Suitability

Behaviours

Essential

• Changing and Improving
• Communicating and Influencing
• Managing a Quality Service
• Delivering at Pace

Technical

Essential

• Technical Skills

Disclosure and Barring Service Check

This post is subject to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act (Exceptions Order) 1975 and as such it will be necessary for a submission for Disclosure to be made to the Disclosure and Barring Service (formerly known as CRB) to check for any previous criminal convictions.

Certificate of Sponsorship

Applications from job seekers who require current Skilled worker sponsorship to work in the UK are welcome and will be considered alongside all other applications. For further information visit the UK Visas and Immigration website (Opens in a new tab).

From 6 April 2017, skilled worker applicants, applying for entry clearance into the UK, have had to present a criminal record certificate from each country they have resided continuously or cumulatively for 12 months or more in the past 10 years. Adult dependants (over 18 years old) are also subject to this requirement. Guidance can be found here Criminal records checks for overseas applicants (Opens in a new tab).

Employer details

Employer name

UK Health Security Agency

Address

London (Canary Wharf or Colindale), Birmingham, Chilton (Didcot), Leeds, Liverpool, Porton

London, Birmingham, Chilton, Leeds, Liverpool, Porton

E14 4PU

Employer's website

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/uk-health-security-agency (Opens in a new tab)