Description
The Department for Education is seeking a Senior Content Producer to create engaging social media and digital content. As a technically skilled and creative digital content producer, you will help tell the story of the Department's work through audience-first content across digital channels.
Responsibilities include:
- Creating engaging content for social media channels, including short-form video, photography, graphics, and platform-native formats
- Shooting, editing, and designing content, from filming and photographing to post-production and graphics
- Developing creative ideas for campaigns and everyday content, using audience insight, performance data, and social media trends
- Turning complex information into clear, accurate, and accessible content, with engaging copy for posts, videos, and graphics
- Adapting trends, formats, and creative techniques for a public sector organisation
- Working with colleagues across communications, policy, and ministerial teams to develop content from brief to publication
- Frequently working in schools and other education settings, showing sensitivity to the environment and children you'll be working with
- Using insight and evaluation to understand what works and improve future content
- Confidently upskilling others in the wider communications team to create simple video and graphic content
- Supporting content planning, publishing, and scheduling when needed
- Exploring and testing AI-powered and emerging creative tools to improve ideas, production, and workflow
The role requires:
- Proven experience shooting, editing, and producing high-quality video and photo content for social media
- Technical and creative expertise in using mirrorless and/or cinema cameras, lighting, sound, and directing contributors on camera
- Advanced skills in Adobe Premiere Pro or an equivalent editing tool, and in Lightroom or Photoshop for photo editing
- Ability to create simple, bold social graphics using tools such as Canva, Adobe Photoshop, or Illustrator
- Strong understanding of how formats, audiences, and trends differ across platforms, and how to use them creatively
- Self-starter who brings ideas and concepts for social products to the team
- Ability to work well with colleagues and stakeholders, explain creative ideas clearly, and respond constructively to feedback
The Department for Education offers a range of benefits, including:
- Salary of £50,714 - £54,647 per year
- Contribution of £14,691 towards membership of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme
- 25 days leave, increasing by 1 day every year to a maximum of 30 days after five years' service
- King's Birthday privilege holiday and 8 days' bank and public holidays
- Flexible working arrangements, such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time, and compressed hours