Digital Content Creator

Digital Content Creator £39,274 per annum (pay award pending) – Grade 7 Leeds / Hybrid Full time / Permanent – 37 hours per week Closing date: Sunday 15 June 23:55 Please note that the Combined Authority will consider requests for part-time working and/or job share. We currently have a vacancy for a Digital Content Creator to join our Digital team. Based within the wider Media team, you will work closely with colleagues in press, marketing, and policy, to deliver creative and impactful videography and photography content for a range of areas, including transport, environment, culture, and policing & crime. Working closely with the Senior Digital Media Officer, you will craft content strategies for a range of social media platforms, create and edit videography and photography content, and draft copy to engage with our audiences. Our Offer Alongside a competitive salary, we offer an excellent benefits package including: * 28 days Annual Leave (increasing upon years of service) plus Bank Holidays. * Generous Employer-Contribution Pension Scheme. * Free Travel on rail and buses across West Yorkshire with the MCard (Zones 1-5). * Flexible Working Practices with Health & Wellbeing initiatives, including agile working options, as well as a generous flexi-time scheme to ensure you achieve the best work/life balance and career goals. * Bright, airy, modern office space, with all latest technology, just a 2-minute walk from Leeds Train Station. The Role Reporting into the Senior Digital Media Officer, your key responsibilities will include: * Develop innovative digital content strategies, which build engagement, spark conversations and communicate the objectives of the mayor and Combined Authority. * Create and edit engaging video and image-led content for a wide range of digital and social media platforms. * Draft copy for a range of social media and digital platforms for the mayor and Combined Authority. * Evaluate and monitor content performance to drive an insight-led approach to future content strategies. * Advise stakeholders on best practice for digital content. * Stay up to date with the latest social media content trends and platform developments. Please review the Role Profile on our website for more information about the responsibilities. About You You will have the following key skills, attributes, education and experience: * Educated to degree level or equivalent experience in Filmmaking, Broadcast Journalism, Digital Marketing, PR or communications. * Understanding of planning, delivering, and evaluating multi-channel campaigns. * Experience capturing, editing, and delivering video, photo, and audio content. * Experience writing, editing and proofreading high quality copy for multiple target audiences, often in limited timeframes. * Experience using content creation software such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop, Canva or similar. To Apply If this sounds like your next role, please complete the application form and tell us within the supporting statement why you would be a great fit for our role and how your skills, knowledge and experience align with the requirements within the Role Profile. Please visit our Advice for Candidates webpage and review the guidance on this page for support in completing your application form. Further Information The Combined Authority is passionate about creating an inclusive workplace that promotes and values diversity. We know through experience that different ideas, perspectives and backgrounds create a stronger and more creative work environment that delivers better outcomes. We welcome applications irrespective of people\’s age, disability, neuro-divergence, sex, gender identity and gender expression, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, pregnancy or maternity. or other personal circumstances. We have policies and procedures in place to ensure that all applicants are treated fairly and consistently at every stage of the recruitment process, including the consideration of reasonable adjustments for people who have a disability and/or who are neuro divergent. To find out more about inclusivity at the West Yorkshire Combined Authority please visit our dedicated webpage. Under the Disability Confident Scheme, applicants with a disability are guaranteed an interview, subject to the minimum criteria being met. Please note that whilst it is our policy to recruit at SP1 for all appointments, which is the salary stated above, each role includes career salary progression, with incremental increases applicable in most cases on an annual basis