vernment Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale. Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need Service Transformation and Experience: We support service teams across central and local government to deliver a digital-first operating model and great services that everyone can access. A blueprint for modern digital government is our guiding vision. This is your opportunity to contribute to products of national significance, enabling the join-up of public sector services that improve the lives of citizens and support economic growth. Job description As a Senior Accessibility Specialist you will: help set the strategy and standards for ensuring digital services are more inclusive and accessible help to deliver both the Digital Inclusion Action Plan and Blueprint for Modern Digital Government commitments manage cross government and public sector accessibility and digital inclusion communities and associated events help to evolve and grow existing capability to deliver these commitments and manage risks inline with regulatory obligations be able to demonstrate a passion for and excellence in your profession be a credible subject matter expert in your profession and apply and develop this in the context of digital service transformation help to define and measure success in this space work collaboratively with other parts of the Service Transformation directorate, the rest of GDS and across the public sector seek to continuously improve your performance in the above, including requesting feedback and looking externally at best practice This list is not exhaustive, there may be a need to flex and change for business needs. Person specification We're interested in people who have: experience of collaborating with teams to identify and fix accessibility barriers and raise accessibility capability the ability to write accessibility guidance and documentation, and deliver accessibility training and presentations experience of evaluating the accessibility of digital websites and providing feedback, advice and solutions to help fix identified issues knowledge and experience of existing and emerging accessibility guidelines and standards, particularly the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) version 2.2 familiarity with front-end development technologies, specifically HTML, CSS, JavaScript and WAI-ARIA knowledge and experience of testing with a range of assistive technologies including customised browser settings, screen magnification, screen readers, speech recognition and literacy software Benefits There are many benefits of working at GDS, including: flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97% 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days an extra day off for the King’s birthday an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development paid volunteering leave a focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK advances on pay, including for travel season tickets death in service benefits cycle to work scheme and facilities access to an employee discounts scheme 10 learning days per year volunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per year) access to a suite of learning activities through Civil Service learning Any move to Government Digital Service from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk Office attendance The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period. DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home). Things you need to know Selection process details The standard selection process for roles at GDS consists of: a simple application screening process - We only ask for a CV and cover letter of up to 750 words. Important tip - please ensure that your cover letter includes how you meet the skills and experience listed in th

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