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Industrial Placement 2025 - Digital Content and User Experience

Met Office • Full-time • United Kingdom • £25.61k / year • 1w ago

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Reference number

378862

Salary

£25,606 - £25,606

A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

Job grade

Industrial

Contract type

Temporary
Fixed term

Length of employment

12 Months

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Full-time

Number of jobs available

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Location

Exeter, South West England, EX1 3PB

About the job

Job summary

The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for a number of Industrial Placements, which will commence from July 2025 until July 2026.

We’re looking for two Digital Content and User Experience Industrial Placements to help us make a difference to our planet.

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us. You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities we can offer you after you graduate.

As our Digital Content and User Experience Industrial Placement, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and the location advertised will be your contractual place of work.

Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.

Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2026, there is potential for it to develop into an opportunity to join our Graduate Development scheme once you complete your university studies.

World changing work

From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.

We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers

Job description

Your world of expertise

Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. You’ll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference.

As our Digital Content and User Experience Industrial Placements, you’ll have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with our industry-leading digital teams. You will work closely with our skilled designers, developers, and digital experts to contribute to projects that help shape the way users interact with our digital platforms and engage with our content. You will be part of a collaborative team that values creativity, innovation, and fresh perspectives.

Your key duties

Manage and deliver keyword research as well as supporting ad-hoc content and SEO projects.
Act as product specialist for the website CMS.
Support the development of a website content strategy and governance design.
Support the SEO and Digital Content Manager to design and deliver CMS and accessibility training, promoting best practice across the organisation.
Support Digital Product Managers in delivering value to the users of the Met Office App and Website.
Support the User Experience Manager gaining insights from our users to feed development.

Person specification

Essential Criteria, skills and experience:

Is studying for an undergraduate degree with a significant marketing or digital marketing focus.
You can demonstrate your interest in digital content, user experience, and search engine optimisation (SEO)
You have excellent written communication skills.
You keep evolving with experience of pro-actively managing multiple projects or tasks and working well under pressure.
You can work better together in a team, building and maintain strong working relationships.

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £25,606, Met Office contributes £7,418 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Why join us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023 and 2024 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.

Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2026, there is potential for it to develop into an opportunity to join our Graduate Development scheme once you have completed your University studies.

Your package includes:

Your salary will be £25,606
Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days
Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands

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Selection process details

How to apply

If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills.

Closing date: 08/01/2025 at 23:59. Please note we often receive a high volume of applications, but we will contact everyone who applies once the closing date as past. Interviews will be completed by 25/02/2025.

For additional guidance on our recruitment process and how to apply please look at our approach to recruitment page on our careers site.

How we can help

If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.

If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.

We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. We require Security clearance, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible. You will need to achieve full security clearance within your first 6 months with us.

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Security

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check (opens in a new window).

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People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Medical

Successful candidates will be expected to have a medical.

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

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Working for the Civil Service

Please note this Post is NOT regulated by the Civil Service Commission.

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.

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).

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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).

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