Web content officer (two posts) – Police Scotland

CLOSING DATE: April 10, 2014

Web content officer (two posts)

Pitt Street, Glasgow

Band D: £20,733 – £24,201

Ref No: R70/13

YOU will be responsible for managing, organising and structuring information on the Force website, making certain that accessibility, taxonomy and metadata obligations are met. You will promote and sell the website as the key communication tool for Police Scotland.

The post holder will gather and write engaging content for the Police Scotland website and collaborate with the IT team to develop advanced digital content for the website e.g. video, apps.

The following essential competencies will be used for the selection process:

* Problem solving

* Effective communication

* Job knowledge

* Personal effectiveness

* Service delivery

* Team working

* Partnership working

Please be aware that that the interim SPA pay and grading structure may be subject to future change.

Individuals working, or applying for, a flexible working arrangement who wish to apply for this post will have their flexible working arrangement considered in line with current policy, as well as both personal and organisational needs.

Police Scotland is committed to promoting a diverse workforce and to achieving and promoting an organisational culture where staff and officers are treated with dignity, fairness and respect. To assist us to monitor the effectiveness of our equality and diversity practices, we would encourage you to complete and submit the Equality and Diversity monitoring form, which will be separated from your application form prior to the selection process. The information you provide will be treated as sensitive data under the Data Protection Act 1998.

Applicants must be a British citizen, a member of the EU or other states in the EEA, a Commonwealth citizen or a foreign national free of restrictions. You should also have been resident in the UK for a minimum of three years immediately prior to application. In certain circumstances, it is possible for the minimum residency period for vetting to be waived. This can only be done where it is possible to make, or confirm, in the relevant jurisdictions with local Law Enforcement and National Security bodies, which are equivalent, and of a similar standard, to enquiries, which would be made in the UK, on both the applicant and all family members and associates. In cases where it is not possible to makes the equivalent checks, the residency criterion will be stringently enforced.

No CVs please – full application forms must be completed.

For an application pack, visit www.scotland.police.uk/recruitment.

Closing date: Thursday 10 April 2014 by 4.30 pm

Interview date: To be advised

Website: http://www.scotland.police.uk/recruitment