GESR Website Lead

If youre interested in making a difference to peoples lives, the Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.

Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.

We are part of the Darlington Economic Campus, a cross-government hub bringing people together to tackle key national issues while working closer to the communities we serve.

The Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) Team is the central support team for the Government Economic Service (GES) & Government Social Research (GSR) professions.

The central platforms for communicating and engaging with members of the Government Economic Service (GES) & Government Social Research (GSR) professions across government are their respective Members Intranet sites. With over 6,000+ members currently signed up across both sites, the Government Economic and Social Research (GESR) Team leads on all aspects of the curation, administration, management, development and maintenance of these across government platforms.

We are looking for someone with the knowledge, skills and/or experience needed to lead and deliver continual curation, operation, maintenance and development of the Members Intranet sites for the GES and GSR professions.

The successful candidate will need to be able to: balance a variety of priorities; have the flexibility to respond to changes; and the ability to progress work without supervision and manage their own workload.

This role is a great opportunity for a candidate who has skills and/or experience in maintaining a website, use of content management systems, and either has or wishes to develop their customer management and communication skills.

The role would suit a proactive and self-motivated individual - as Website Lead the successful candidate will be expected to act on their own initiative, identify opportunities for improvement and then make those improvements happen, all within a team context.

Key responsibilities of this role include:

1) Lead on the curation, maintenance, updating and delivery of the GES & GSR Members Intranet Sites

• Lead on sites Content Management System (CMS), delivering regular content updates (across the content spectrum - text, visual, audio and video), sourcing content from internal and external stakeholders, ensuring content is relevant, engaging, speaking to audience / membership, meeting member and professional needs, and ensuring stability of service and user experience.

Application Stage

Application Form

Applications should consist of a CV including your employment history, and a 250-word statement demonstrating evidence of each of the below shortlisting criteria. Your CV and employment history wont be scored. Its used to give context to your application and support discussions at interview.

The panel will review applications and invite those that best demonstrate evidence of the shortlisting criteria below for interview. Please keep this in mind when writing your application.

Please note that only applications submitted through Civil Service Jobs will be accepted.

1. Experience - Please describe the website maintenance, and use of Content Management Systems, experience and/or skills you have that are relevant to this role.

2. Changing & Improving - Please describe how youve taken the initiative to identify and deliver changes to a website, platform, process, system or other aspect of your teams work.

3. Managing a Quality Service - Please demonstrate how you have worked with customers or colleagues to understand their needs and expectations, and then gone on to deliver a good service, product or output for them.

The lead criterion is: Experience

If we receive a high volume of applications, well first sift using the lead criterion (Experience) only. Those meeting the minimum score will then be assessed against all remaining criteria.

Interview Stage

If you are successful at the application stage, you will be invited to interview where you will be assessed against the following criteria:

• Experience
• Behaviours:
  • Managing a Quality Service
  • Changing and improving
  • Working Together
• Strengths

Interview Task / Presentation

Prior to your interview, we will contact you about a presentation that the panel would like you to deliver as part of the assessment. Further details will be communicated to you nearer the time.