Digital Content Executive - fixed term contract

Job summary

We are seeking a Digital Content Executive to join our Content & Creative team, working on a hybrid basis, two/three days from our HQ in Coventry and the remainder working remotely from home.

This role is offered on a 12-month,fixed-term contract and supports the organisation by delivering the highest standards of content that engages AHDB’s audiences across our channels. As part of this, the Digital Content Executive will manage a variety of projects, including publications, optimising content for search engines and reporting on content performance.

You’ll support with a variety of projects across the team, and this includes managing schedules and briefing content, working with designers and overseeing content for various channels.

The ideal candidate will have experience of proofreading, copyediting and copywriting, as well as exposure in SEO, analytics and using a content management system (CMS).

Established in 2008, AHDB is the independent, impartial public body that unlocks success in British agriculture. Funded by a levy from over 100,000 British farmers, growers and processors in the beef, lamb, pork, dairy and cereals sectors, we support and champion farmers and processors, often where no one else can or will.

Job description

• Create digital content that is optimised for search, encourages engagement and improves the user experience
• Update corporate websites using a CMS
• Help create user-centred web sections and pages
• Support teams across the organisation to ensure all content is delivered to a high standard, is on-brand and meets audience needs
• Work with teams across AHDB to continuously improve reach and engagement of their content
• Be an ambassador for the Content & Creative team and work to raise the quality of content across the organisation
• Offer advice and support to content authors and subject matter experts
• Optimise content for search based on SEO research provided by commissioned agencies
• Create and commission guidance for authors through supporting the development and maintenance of technical guides
• Support the Content & Creative team in formulating engagement strategies and measuring content performance

Person specification

• Experience in copyediting and copywriting
• Experience of using a house style and tone of voice
• A working knowledge of how audiences consume various forms of content
• Experience in creating and optimising content to drive organic search traffic, and using a CMS
• Proven ability to take a creative brief and deliver great, audience-centric content
• Experience in working with analytic tools to inform decision making
• Excellent organisational skills and a strong attention to detail, with good interpersonal and communication skills
• Strong project management skills
• Experience using Adobe PDFs and Microsoft packages

Benefits

We believe in rewarding our people for their hard work, so we have a great mix of benefits and opportunities to give you the recognition you deserve:

• 35 hours per week, Monday–Friday, to include hybrid working
• 33 days of annual leave plus one privilege day (inclusive of bank holidays)
• Life assurance cover (4x salary)
• A market-leading defined contribution pension scheme with Legal & General
• Enhanced pay of 20 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, subject to length of service
• A paid day each year to volunteer and make a difference in your community
• Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
• Excellent training and development opportunities and an agreed development plan
• Recognition awards throughout the year
• Reward Gateway membership – this gives you a huge number of online discounts and savings

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance (opens in a new window) for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

To apply, simply upload your CV and Cover Letter via our careers portal by clicking the ‘Apply’ button on this page. Our hiring managers will review your application, and we’ll be in touch with the outcome shortly after the closing date.

Shortlisted candidates will be invited to an initial interview via MS Teams. If successful, a second-stage face-to-face interview will be held at our HQ in Coventry, Warwickshire, following our competency-based framework.

Please note that we reserve the right to close the vacancy early should we receive a significant number of suitable applications.

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

Security

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 theCivil 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

Job contact :

• Name : Recruitment Team
• Email : recruitment@ahdb.org.uk
• Telephone : 02476 935722

Recruitment team

• Email : recruitment@ahdb.org.uk

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles of the Civil Service, and you wish to make a complaint, in the first instance, you should contact the Head of HR via email: hr@ahdb.org.uk