Publications and Accessibility Manager
| Posting date: | 10 June 2024 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | £40,850 to £48,243 per year |
| Additional salary information: | National: £40,850 - £44,260 London: £44,500 - £48,243 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 23 June 2024 |
| Location: | Belfast |
| Company: | Government Recruitment Service |
| Job type: | Temporary |
| Job reference: | 357033/1 |
Summary
In December 2021 Baroness Heather Hallett, a retired Appeal Court judge, was appointed by the Prime Minister as Chair of the independent public inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic.
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry was formally established with full powers under the Inquiries Act 2005 in June 2022. The Inquiry sits independently of the Government with the Cabinet Office acting as the sponsoring department.
Following an initial set up phase the Inquiry began hearing evidence in May 2023. We are now looking for an energetic and collaborative senior leader to join the excellent team that is delivering the Inquiry.
This is an exciting role, offering the opportunity to lead an innovative team, in fast moving circumstances, to ensure lessons are learned from the UK response to the Covid-19 pandemic.
Further information about the Inquiry can be found on the UK Covid-19 Inquiry website.
The Team
We are looking for exceptional staff to join the UK public inquiry into the Covid-19 pandemic, to learn lessons and better protect the people of the UK. From being announced in 2021 to full public hearings, the Inquiry continues to make national news. In order to hear from those who suffered hardship and loss, and scrutinise both the decision making and impact, there is a significant amount of work to be undertaken.
We are looking for a Publications and Accessibility Manager. This is an exciting opportunity to join an inclusive, innovative team where you will be supported to challenge yourself in often ambiguous circumstances. The team encourages working in a flexible, collaborative manner to undertake one of the broadest, most publicly anticipated inquiries in UK history. Working at pace and often with competing deadlines, Resilience is key, both in managing competing deadlines and working with emotionally challenging content, but for the right candidate(s) this is a once-in-a-career role where you will be supported to reach your potential while delivering for the public good.
You will be joining the Inquiry’s Communications and Engagement function at an exciting time - with the Inquiry’s hearings underway and high profile witnesses giving evidence in the Autumn and in early 2025 onwards.
We are sponsored by the Cabinet Office, however the Inquiry sits independently from the Government.
We are looking for a Publications and Accessibility Manager to join the Inquiry’s Creative and Integrated Communications team. This is a great role if you excel at multitasking and practical delivery, and you also want to develop your leadership skills.
The Inquiry publishes a report after each module, which is laid in parliament. Each report is also turned into various products to allow different audiences to understand what the Inquiry has learned and review the recommendations for the future, including both translated products and accessible formats.
The successful candidate will manage our publications process including: working with colleagues to forecast demand and agree timescales, formatting reports and documents (sometimes with an agency) and producing accessible formats (with an agency).
You will champion accessibility, diversity and inclusion across our communications and wider Inquiry work. You will help to evaluate our publications and accessible formats and share insights/learning across the organisation - helping to make the Inquiry’s work as impactful and inclusive as possible.
You will be line managed by the Deputy Head of Creative and Integrated Communications and your role will be varied. You will;
- Manage our report publication process from start to finish
- Manage multiple projects and priorities, working with others to meet tight timescales
- Advise and produce translations and accessible formats
Some of the key responsibilities include and are not limited to:
- Manage our publications process including: setting up schedules, working with teams to forecast demand and agreeing timescales.
- Act as contract manager for the agency to produce reports in a professional and consistent style.
- Ensure reports/documents have accessible features e.g. contents page, headings, high colour contrast etc.
- Proof-read reports/documents for spelling/grammar, respond to copy-editing queries.
- Implement the Inquiry’s accessible communications policy including supervising an agency to forecast demand and produce translations/accessible formats.
- Ensure that the Inquiry’s accessible communications policy is kept up-to-date and is regularly reviewed.
- Quality assure translations/accessible formats e.g. ensuring images support the text in Easy Read documents.
- Collaborate with team members to publish publications, translations and accessible formats on time and to promote them to relevant audiences.
- Lead on the evaluation of our publications, translations and accessible formats and share insights/learning across the organisation.
- Champion accessibility, diversity and inclusion across the Inquiry and support colleagues to identify communications barriers/needs.
- Contribute to planning and budgetary discussions, with the potential to develop your experience/skills e.g. managing agencies, financial forecasting etc.