Website Manager in Bristol

We are Forestry England. We live and breathe forests. Join us. We’re foresters, professionals and experts. We are a passionate team who love to share our enthusiasm and want to make a positive difference for you and the environment. Together, we’re using our scale and expertise to grow the nation’s forests for everyone. We’re already adapting our landscapes for tomorrow, and getting stuff done today, like creating amazing places and experiences for you to enjoy. We're providing vital homes for wildlife, making our air cleaner to breathe and producing sustainable timber.

What you’ll do… We’re looking for an experienced Website Manager to improve the Forestry England website for the millions of people who use it every year. Your goal will be to make sure the website drives forest visits and support for Forestry England, while showcasing our work and organisation. To do this, you’ll deliver new content and functionality for the website, to create usable and accessible digital experiences, working closely with the senior digital manager, our development agency, and internal website team.

To be successful in this role, you must be confident in delivering content and UX projects, preferably in a Drupal environment, and be able to liaise with multiple stakeholders to capture feedback and communicate requirements. You’ll enjoy working with stakeholders and the wider organisation and be passionate about championing the user and placing them at the heart of all developments. Alongside this, you’ll have strong written and verbal communication skills and be able to edit website content to a high standard. You'll also have experience in training staff and communicating best practice across a variety of channels.

Finally, you’ll be passionate about data and user testing and use these skills to support your decision making, and be very familiar with JIRA and other development management tools. Please note, as part of this role, you will be expected to cover Forestry England’s social media channels a few weekends per year. Time off in lieu is given for this.

Where you’ll work… This role is based in the Bristol office, with the expectation that you will travel to the office a minimum of twice a month, on a Tuesday. The successful candidate will be required to work on Mondays as part of their working pattern.

Alongside your salary, Forestry England contributes an average of 28.97% towards your pension. You will become a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension Scheme.

Benefits: 25 days holiday a year, raising by one day every year’s service, up to 30 days (pro-rated for part time employees) plus additional days off such as bank holidays. STaR is our employee benefits scheme offering discounts on everyday supermarket shopping, as well as other things such as hotel stays, clothes, mobile phones, other electrical items, medical and car insurance, holidays, gym discounts, household bills, Headspace wellbeing app. Free parking at Forestry England sites and free entry to our National Arboretums at Westonbirt and Bedgebury. A commitment to lifelong learning through career development. Forestry England will support your career development in a variety of ways, including continual professional development, support for individual learning plans and sponsored membership of professional bodies.

You will be asked to write a 200 word statement on your relevant experience and career history, along with a personal statement of no more than 500 words. You will be assessed on both during sifting. More details about how to apply are listed on the application form. You will be assessed on a technical skill during your interview, which will be the delivery of digital projects, preferably using Drupal. You will also be required to do a presentation during the interview, and the topic will be specified in advance.

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Working for the Civil Service… Forestry England is part of the Civil Service. The Civil Service has a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS). This means candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria during the application process will be guaranteed an interview. We also offer a Redeployment Interview Scheme to current civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the role. This role is also part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans and Prison Leaver Recruitment initiative.

Within Part 7 of the Immigration Act 2016, it is essential that applicants should have the ability to provide conversation in accurate spoken English. Our recruitment process makes appointments based on fair and open competition and merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.