GOV.UK Content Publisher

On behalf of the DWP, we are seeking an experienced GOV.UK Content Publisher for a part-time, 3-month contract (Inside IR35). This role will be delivered on a 3-day-per-week basis and can be based from one of several strategic office locations across the UK (listed below).

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.

Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:

• Help people to move into work and support those already in work to progress, with the aim of increasing overall workforce participation
• Help people to plan and save for later life, while providing a safety net for those who need it now
• Provide effective, efficient, and innovative services to the millions of claimants who rely on us every day, including the most vulnerable in society
• Improve experience of our services while maximising value for money for the taxpayer.

Role Purpose 

We are seeking an experienced GOV.UK Content Publisher to play a key role in shaping and maintaining the digital presence of Skills England during a short-term engagement.

The successful candidate will be responsible for publishing, maintaining, and optimising content on GOV.UK, ensuring it meets Government Communication Service (GCS) and Government Digital Service (GDS) standards and best practices. Working closely with stakeholders across the organisation, you will provide expert guidance on GOV.UK publishing requirements, build and manage a pipeline of publication-ready content, and help deliver a consistent, high-quality user experience. Strong stakeholder management and communication skills are essential, as you will work with senior leaders and subject matter experts to shape content, secure approvals, and promote adherence to GOV.UK standards. This role will play a key part in supporting and enhancing the digital presence of Skills England, an executive agency of the Department for Education.

As a Content Publisher, your main responsibilities will be:

• Publish, maintain, and quality assure content on GOV.UK using Whitehall Publisher and Content Publisher, ensuring accuracy and consistency.
• Format and optimise content in line with GOV.UK style, accessibility requirements, and best practice standards.
• Review, edit, and quality check content to ensure it is clear, concise, user-focused, and written in plain English.
• Collaborate with policy, communications, and subject matter experts to develop, verify, and prepare publication-ready content.
• Manage content updates, change requests, and version control, ensuring content remains current, accurate, and compliant.
• Provide expert guidance on GOV.UK publishing processes, supporting colleagues and responding to urgent or time-sensitive publishing requirements.

Essential:

• Proven experience publishing and managing content on GOV.UK, with a strong understanding of GOV.UK publishing tools, standards, and best practices.
• Excellent content design, writing, and editing skills, with the ability to create clear, concise, user-centred content in plain English.
• Strong knowledge of web accessibility standards and quality assurance, ensuring content is compliant, inclusive, and delivers a positive user experience.
• Excellent stakeholder management and organisational skills, with the ability to influence, advise, and manage competing priorities in a fast-paced environment.

Desirable:

• Graphic design skills, with the ability to create engaging visual content that enhances digital communications and supports user engagement.
• Experience contributing to wider digital communications and content delivery activities across websites, campaigns, and online channels.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a Disability Confident employer, DWP encourage applications from disabled and neurodivergent candidates. Applications from candidates who identify as having a disability and meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

As a signatory of the Armed Forces Covenant, DWP welcome applications from veterans, service leavers, reservists and military spouses or partners. Applications from eligible candidates who meet the essential criteria for the role will be prioritised for review. Where application volumes are high, additional role-specific and desirable criteria may be applied as part of the shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".