Content Creator Apprentice (Youth Employment and Opportunities)

Do you enjoy creating content for social media, writing blogs and making videos? Do you want to develop your own skills by crafting content to help young people across Greater Manchester get into work and develop their own skills?

You’ll be working in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority’s (GMCA) Youth Employment and Opportunities (YEO) team. We focus on making sure that young people in Greater Manchester have the right education and skills to succeed in life, whether this is by continuing with full-time education or starting work. As a Content Creator Apprentice, you’ll become a vital part of our team working on the digital services that we provide by developing written and visual content that engages, informs and excites young people across Greater Manchester.

Sound like something you’d love? Read on to find out more about the role as well as how to apply. Please read the section carefully below marked "how to apply" as this contains important information about what to include in your expression of interest.

Your role:

The purpose of the Content Creator Apprentice role is to support the team by planning, pitching and creating a range of engaging digital content for young people. In this role, you will contribute to our range of young person facing digital services, includingGMACSandCurriculum for Life, helping to grow and share our helpful content and ultimately help Greater Manchester’s young people thrive. This will mean writing content as well as developing other content assets, like social media posts, short and long form videos, and any other types of content that young people ask for!

Your professional development will be a key focus of your role, and you’ll spend a proportion of your time undertaking a Level 3 Content Creator apprenticeship. This will help you gain all the skills you need to become a content creation professional with a wide range of skills and experience.

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:

• Confident writers, able to adapt the tone of voice of their writing to suit a range of audiences, primarily young people of different ages
• Good communicators, able to collaborate well
• Good planners, able to manage multiple deadlines and identify priorities
• Good researchers, able to quickly get to the core of an issue and identify the key message
• Interested in content creation and in staying ahead of the fast-moving world of social media marketing

Your apprenticeship:

You’ll be working to complete your Apprenticeship qualification by participating in a structured learning programme. You’ll be supported by a skills coach, tutor and your line manager to complete this.

As part of your Level 3 Content Creator apprenticeship you have to complete ‘off the job’ learning, which usually equates to about 6 hours per week. This learning is done during your working hours. Off the job learning is learning that takes place away from your main workplace responsibilities, that counts towards your apprenticeship hours. GMCA will fully support you with this.

How to apply (expression of interest information):

To apply for this role, please write an expression of interest and submit it using the application form. This expression of interest should be no longer than 800 words.

An expression of interest is where you use your own words to tell us:

• Why you’re interested in applying and why you feel you’re the right person for this Apprenticeship role.
• How you meet the essential knowledge, skills and behaviours in the role profile, with examples of where you have demonstrated these.
• Your education and work history, where it’s appropriate to this role.
• What great things you’ve achieved recently, such as any volunteering work, support you have provided to others and personal achievements.

We will read all the expressions of interest and assess these.

Interview stage:

If you’re successful at the expression of interest stage, you’ll be invited to an in-person interview at our central Manchester office. We may ask you to create a pitch or presentation beforehand and to present this to us. We’ll send you all the questions and tasks before the interview so you can prepare.

The interview is a chance for us to meet you, as well as for you to meet the team including key people you’ll be working with and see where we work.

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:

Greater Manchester Combined Authority - Home | greater.jobs

Mandatory Information:

DBS INFORMATION :

BASIC DBS

The role holder will be subject to an Basic level check by the Disclosure & Barring Service.

This post involves working with children, young people or vulnerable adults and is therefore exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act. Failure to disclose information when asked within this application could result in dismissal but will not necessarily be a bar to employment with us. The amendments to the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975 (2013 and 2020) provides that when applying for certain jobs and activities, certain convictions and cautions are considered ‘protected’. This means that they do not need to be disclosed to employers, and if they are disclosed, employers cannot take them into account. Guidance about whether a conviction or caution should be disclosed can be found on theMinistry of Justice website.

Artificial Intelligence (AI)

We embrace AI to enhance our operations and to innovate our services. However, we value human talent and are looking for passionate individuals to join our organisation. Please ensure you personally complete your application and read all the instructions carefully to maximise your chances of success.

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.