Digital Content & UX Manager (PO6)
This is an exciting time to join Waltham Forest – London’s first Borough of Culture. We are busy creating a Council for the future and this is your chance to join an ambitious, customer focussed Digital team during a time of change and transformation.
Waltham Forest is east London’s cultural hotspot and one of the greenest and fastest growing areas in the capital. With fantastic connectivity, huge investment potential and limitless ambition we are fast becoming well known for economic growth and regeneration.
Over the past few years Waltham Forest has changed drastically as a place. Good schools, great parks, excellent culture facilities, mass regeneration and budding community entrepreneurial ship are making us a place that people want to call home. Our ambition is that everybody in Waltham Forest enjoys a quality life.
Job Purpose
At Waltham Forest we are 100% committed to providing our residents and local businesses with seamless, intuitive digital customer experiences. As one of the most creative boroughs in London we are focussed on transforming the way our residents connect with the world around them, and with us.
So we need to make sure the Waltham Forest digital experience is the very best it can be. And that means supporting services and people in a culture that puts customers first.
As the Digital Content & UX Manager you will own the digital content and user experience strategy, actively driving ongoing improvements to the Waltham Forest digital content and user experience while ensuring day-to-day business as usual updates are managed and delivered at a high standard. You’ll be a skilled at writing high-quality, user-focussed content, understand digital technology and people, and experienced at using insight and data to inform decision making.
You’ll provide leadership and set standards for your team of content experts, working collaboratively with the digital product and development teams. You will be committed to ensuring that at all times required outcomes (business change, service improvements and council savings) are met to untimely improve the life chances of our residents.
If you have energy and passion, and are ready to lead a digital content team to achieve our vision of delivering amazing digital services that will help change people’s lives then this job is for you.
Key knowledge, skills and experience required
- Strong digital content background with proven track record and solid experience of creating content for digital services.
- Proven experience in writing, delivering and tracking engaging digital content strategies.
- Familiarity with analytics is essential. You will be comfortable extrapolating insight from data and driving informed changes and improvements.
- An excellent grasp of UX techniques, methodologies and tools, experienced in creating wireframes, personas, user journeys, site maps and diagrams, as well as prototypes as required.
- Experience in user experience testing or other similar customer experience improvement tools.
- Experienced in planning, directing and co-ordinating a mixed and varied workload of conflicting priorities, responding effectively to the needs of all customers.
- Proven experience in a leadership role with strong interpersonal skills, influencing and people engagement skills. An exceptional communicator able to operate and empathise with stakeholders and business groups, influencing and gaining commitment to objectives.
- Experienced people manager. Actively build and maintain morale levels within the team through open communication and activities that foster a sense of team unity and a focus on the achievement of results. Ensure the Digital Content team is high performing and following agile methodologies where possible and continuously striving to improve digital customer experience.
Benefits
Waltham Forest offers something for everyone. As an employer of choice we offer a great benefits package including:
- Competitive salary package
- Flexible working including working from home
- Attractive pension scheme
- Interest free season ticket and travel card loans
- Childcare vouchers
- Staff development and training
- Discounts at local restaurants and bars
- A staff benefits portal with over 6000 deals on popular retailers and brands
Equal Opportunities
Waltham Forest is a diverse borough where diversity is valued and is integral to both, service delivery and employment of its staff. The Council is proud of its rich mix of communities and as the largest employer in the area, it works hard to respond to the changing needs of its population. We use our statutory duties on race, gender and disability equality and best practice in respect of age, faith and sexual orientation to ensure equality of opportunity in the workplace. The Council is committed to meeting its 4 equality objectives: - Promoting equality of opportunity - Opposing all forms of discrimination, intolerance and disadvantage - Ensuring our workforce reflects the diverse communities of Waltham Forest at all levels. - Providing fair, appropriate, accessible and excellent Services to all. Respecting Diversity is a core Council value. To support the above and reduce the risk of bias in its recruitment activities, the council is operating an anonymous shortlisting process, which hides personal information that can identify individuals until their application has been considered for shortlisting. The council also operates a scheme whereby, for jobs graded up to and including scale SO2, internal candidates are considered first. This includes those candidates who self-identify as having a disability for the purposes of the Disability Confident scheme. For more information, please refer to our recruitment and selection policy
How to apply
Application Information The councils preference is for on-line application forms. However if you have a disability and are unable to complete an on-line application, please ring 0208 496 4227 who will be able to arrange an alternative. For more information on how to complete your application form, follow this link: Applying for a job at Waltham Forest Council
