Stoke Gifford, South West England, BS16 1EJ Job Summary What you'll be doing Forestry England’s website is at the heart of our business - providing a quality user journey for all of our audiences, from mountain bikers and runners, to families, volunteers and timber buyers. As part of the web team, you will be at the core of shaping the website and influencing its development to drive more people to the nation’s forests. In this role, you will lead the technical development of the Forestry England website. You will be responsible for the website's ongoing maintenance and technical enhancement, ensuring it is available, secure and accessible. To do this, you'll also have the support of a technical agency and a website manager, and you'll deliver small development projects through this route too. Drupal development skills are key to this role. We'll expect you to have significant experience of managing Drupal websites, and of keeping up-to-date with what Drupal can offer. Beyond these skills, you will have experience of working collaboratively with stakeholders to refine requirements, and of building designs or prototypes for review. You'll also have experience of building a development roadmap and communicating priorities to the wider business. This role also supports other users to use the website and you'll have experience of successfully explaining technical information to non-technical colleagues. You will be the internal technical expert and a willingness to troubleshoot other components, such as API's and embeds and supporting platforms will be welcome. Please see the job description below for more information and details about what we need from you. Where you’ll work… Forestry England's digital team are predominantly based in the national office, in Bristol. Other locations for this role will be considered, but you must be willing to travel to the Bristol office at least twice a month, on a Tuesday. Job Description engage in project assessment and scoping to help ensure that appropriate technical possibilities are explored take an active role in the design process from understanding requirements to reviewing and challenging wireframes, prototypes and final designs create high-quality, accessible and responsive functionality by working to industry standards and through team participation and code reviews ensure Forestry England’s website, and associated technology are always fully operational identify further opportunities for developing the website in-line with strategic objectives keep abreast of new web and mobile technologies, recommending best practice, suggesting areas for improvement and advising the organisation accordingly support internal teams to manage the website using the content management system manage external development from a technical and administrative point of view, provided by a digital agency And any other tasks, reasonably requested by your line manager. engage in project assessment and scoping to help ensure that appropriate technical possibilities are explored take an active role in the design process from understanding requirements to reviewing and challenging wireframes, prototypes and final designs create high-quality, accessible and responsive functionality by working to industry standards and through team participation and code reviews ensure Forestry England’s website, and associated technology are always fully operational identify further opportunities for developing the website in-line with strategic objectives keep abreast of new web and mobile technologies, recommending best practice, suggesting areas for improvement and advising the organisation accordingly support internal teams to manage the website using the content management system manage external development from a technical and administrative point of view, provided by a digital agency And any other tasks, reasonably requested by your line manager. Person specification Essential Professional And Technical Experience experience of recreation management with an emphasis on safety, efficiency, and excellent customer service delivering large, professional websites and digital projects, using Drupal commercial experience working with LAMP / LEMP technology stack full-stack development experience (OO PHP, HTML, CSS, JS) experience using Git in a team environment excellent communication skills you must be comfortable communicating effectively with technical and non-technical team members, stakeholders and external partners full lifecycle involvement scoping work through to testing, deployment and support happy working as a sole developer and also managing external development from a requirements and technical review point of view working collaboratively with a digital agency to ensure accessibility and security is compliant at all times knowledge of open data platforms or API integrations experience in using SQL an ability to mock-up screenshots, wireframes and prototypes for stakeholders to evaluate new frontend designs Desirable Professional And Technical Experience experience of some kind of project management system, ideally JIRA commercial experience building Drupal 10 websites experience with cross-browser and cross-platform testing, including some automated testing working in a containerised development environment, ideally Docker based. We use Docksal experience working with a CSS preprocessor such as SASS or LESS (In terms of front end, (WIG would also be useful) knowledge of web accessibility best-practice experience working in an Agile environment, especially knowledge of Kanban or Scrum managing a team’s development with a git and gitflow approach (ideally using Bitbucket) an ability to mock-up screenshots for stakeholders to evaluate new front-end designs experience with any PHP debugger (we use xdebug) Qualifications Essential a relevant degree or professional qualification Behaviours We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process: Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Working Together Delivering at Pace Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Delivering large, professional websites and digital projects, using Drupal. Alongside your salary of £47,252, Forestry Commission contributes £13,688 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. Benefits… 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. 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. Read more about the benefits on the Forestry England website. Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills. How To Apply… 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. The Behaviours being assessed at interview are – Changing and Improving Communicating and Influencing Working Together Delivering at Pace Technical Skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Delivering large, professional websites and digital projects, using Drupal. Successful candidates will undergo a criminal record check and the government baseline personnel security standard check. If you require any reasonable adjustments, please email fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk. Read more about our application process and working with us on the Forestry England website. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills. Security Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks. Nationality requirements This Job Is Broadly Open To The Following Groups UK nationals nationals of the Republic of Ireland nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020 Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) Working for the Civil Service The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants. We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria. The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. Diversity and Inclusion The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window). This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative. The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window). Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Contact point for applicants Job Contact Name : FC Recruitment Team Email : fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk Recruitment team Email : fcrecruitmentteam@forestryengland.uk Further information Our recruitment process is underpinned by the principle of appointment on the basis of fair and open competition and appointment on merit, as outlined in the Civil Service Commissioners’ Recruitment Principles.If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with these principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should in the first instance contact FCE by email: englandhr.services@forestryengland.uk. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive, you can contact the Civil Service Commission, which regulates all Civil Service recruitment.. Location : Bristol, England, United Kingdom