WordPress Developer
| Posting date: | 05 September 2025 |
|---|---|
| Salary: | Not specified |
| Additional salary information: | Competitive |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 04 October 2025 |
| Location: | Manchester, M1 6EU |
| Company: | inploi |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | 75739775 |
Summary
Are you a talented WordPress developer looking to deliver on public sector projects that make a real difference to young people across Greater Manchester? Are you passionate about building accessible, user-friendly digital services?
As a WordPress Developer, you will be responsible for creating, maintaining, and optimizing WordPress websites to ensure our digital services are engaging, user-friendly, and accessible.
You will work on a range of projects, designing and implementing new features and functionalities for our websites, ensuring they meet the highest standards of performance and security. Collaboration will be key, as you will work closely with cross-functional teams, including designers, content creators, and other developers, to ensure a cohesive and efficient web presence.
Read on to find out more about the role and how to apply.
Your role:
You will be responsible for customising WordPress themes and plugins, integrating third-party tools and APIs, and troubleshooting and resolving technical issues. Strong problem-solving skills, a keen eye for detail, and a passion for web development are essential.
You’ll be primarily working with our Education, Work and Skills Directorate championing best practices within the projects to build a user-focused digital culture. This role will also likely include opportunities for cross-directorate working, contributing to other projects and teams across GMCA. We’re looking for someone who is passionate about creating accessible services that are simple enough for everyone to use.
We follow the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability job description model for Web Development. You will be required to gain a good understanding of the Government Digital Service Manual, the GDS Design System, and the UK Government Technology Code of Practice.
About you:
If you share our passion, beliefs and culture we want to hear from you:
- Collaboration - you’ll be working with lots of different people and you’ll be a key member of our team.
- Empowering - we want to give you the confidence and skills to do your work well, as well as giving you opportunities to develop and make suggestions for how we can work better.
- Delivering - our team works on lots of projects, and you will deliver work which will be part of their success.
Full information on the skills, values and behaviours ideal for this role are available in the role profile, but we are primarily looking for people who are:
- Experienced WordPress developers, capable of writing HTML, CSS, JavaScript and PHP and able to manage WordPress plugins and themes
- Strong problem solvers, able to identify and manage development needs and opportunities for technical improvement
- Good communicators and collaborators, confident in working across teams and with colleagues from other disciplines like design and content
- Passionate about creating accessible services that are simple enough for everyone to use
How to apply:
To apply for this role, please write an expression of interest and submit it using the application form, along with an up-to-date Curriculum Vitae (CV). This expression of interest should be no longer than 1000 words.
Interview:
If you’re successful at the expression of interest stage, you’ll be invited to an in-person interview at our central Manchester office. This interview will be a mix of standard interview questions as well as technical ones. This may involve a presentation on a technical topic which we’ll ask you to prepare ahead of time.
About us:
As an employer, the Greater Manchester Combined Authority (GMCA) is made up of a number of key Greater Manchester strategic functions and service providers including; Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS); Waste and Resources; Environment; Work and Skills; Research; Public Sector Reform; Police, Crime and Criminal Justice; Homelessness; the Greater Manchester Ageing Hub and the Commissioning Hub.
We value the diversity of our employees, and aim to recruit a workforce which reflects our diverse communities across Greater Manchester. We encourage applications from all suitably qualified individuals, irrespective of people's age, disability, Trans status and Non-binary identity, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy and maternity, race, religion or belief, sex and sexual orientation. We have guidance 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.
To find out more about working for us please click here: https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/
Our offer:
In return for your hard work, we offer our employees a competitive package as part of our offer that you can find out more about here:
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Mandatory Information:
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Applications that rely too heavily on AI may be rejected during shortlisting, however we understand that AI may be used as a reasonable adjustment, if using AI to support your application, please give a brief explanation why to help ensure fair selection process.
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Hybrid working
This role is part of GMCA’s hybrid working scheme. As part of our commitment to ‘Build Back Fairer’ in Greater Manchester following the Covid-19 pandemic, we have evolved our management methods by trusting and empowering staff to deliver their work in the best way that suits the business and their individual needs, and supports health and wellbeing. Our hybrid working policy sets out a flexible approach, combining attendance at our Manchester city centre office with remote working, typically from home; the location of work is primarily dictated by the needs of the business: ‘Do what is right for you and the business on that day’. If appointed to the role you will work with your manager to agree and regularly review the best working pattern for you, your team and your work.
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