Digital Content Producer

Job Introduction

Location: Hybrid, requirement to be in one of our Scotland Offices (Edinburgh, Glasgow, Dundee, Aberdeen) at least once a week

Contract type: Permanent

Salary: £35,581.75 per annum

Hours:  35 hours per week 
 

Closing date: Thursday 7th May, 23:30

Are you a creative digital storyteller with a passion for film, animation and motion graphics? Join Shelter Scotland as our Digital Content Producer and help bring to life the real experiences of people facing homelessness and bad housing.

About the role

As Digital Content Producer, you’ll create high-quality video, photography and other visuals that tell our story with clarity and power. You’ll have a creative mind and a passion for storytelling, which you’ll use to inspire people and to drive change.

Reporting to the Communications Manager and working alongside another Digital Content Producer, a Communications Executive and a Digital Communications Executive, you’ll bring enthusiasm and a positive attitude to our welcoming team. You’ll need to be confident in your technical abilities and good at working with people across different teams, as well as under the pressure of a deadline.

Role specifics

We’re looking for a creative and skilled Digital Content Producer with strong experience in videography, photography and digital content creation, and a portfolio that shows your ability to deliver high-quality work across a range of briefs. You’ll be confident managing projects from concept to delivery, including filming, editing and post-production, and using tools such as Adobe Premiere Pro, Illustrator and Photoshop to create engaging, on-brand content. You’ll have a flair for storytelling, with the ability to work sensitively with people to share authentic experiences and turn complex issues into clear, impactful content. With strong design skills, excellent attention to detail and the ability to manage multiple deadlines, you’ll work collaboratively across teams to produce content that informs, engages and inspires action, helping to strengthen Shelter Scotland’s digital presence.

Apply to be part of our team and be the change you want to see in society.

Benefits 

We offer a wide range of benefits, including 30 days of annual leave, enhanced family friendly policies, pension and interest free travel loans. Our employees also have access to a tenancy deposit loan, payroll giving, cycle to work scheme and an employee assistance programme.

We are happy to talk about flexible working, personal growth, and to promote a workplace where you can be yourself and achieve success based only on your merit.

About the team

 This role sits in the Shelter Scotland Digital team and is a key role in ensuring delivering an excellent experience for anyone visiting our website.

We work together. You'll be expected to lead the team and work with wider teams, on all and any of our projects and products, sometimes at a moment's notice. That could mean working with Product Owners and Managers, developers, designers, policy specialists, legal teams, senior management - anyone you need to, to produce world-class digital content.

How to Apply

Please click ‘Apply for Job’ below. You are required to submit your work history and a supporting statement. The supporting statement should include your responses to the points in the ‘About You’ section of the job description of no more than 1500 words in total. 

Please provide specific examples following the STAR format and ensure you demonstrate how you address the behaviours below in your responses:

• We prioritise diversity and have an inclusive and open mindset

Any applications submitted without a supporting statement will not be considered.

About Shelter Scotland 

 Shelter Scotland is Scotland’s national housing and homelessness charity. Our vision is of a home for everyone in Scotland. For over 50 years, the way we drive change has remained the same. We advise and support people in housing need today and use the insight we gain to inform our campaigns to change tomorrow. We also raise professional standards for those working in Scotland’s housing and homelessness sector by offering a broad range of training courses.

Home is a human right. It’s our foundation and where we thrive. Yet everyday thousands of people are being devastated by the housing emergency.

We exist to defend the right to a safe home. Because home is everything.

We need ambitious, passionate people to join us. This is your chance to play a part in the fundamental change we are striving to achieve.

Our enemy is the social injustice at the core of the escalating housing emergency. To win this fight, we must be representative of the people we are here to help and those who support our movement. In all our people decisions, we take pride in being inclusive, equitable and transparent. We are committed to combating racism both within and outside Shelter Scotland. We welcome you on our journey to becoming truly anti-racist.

Safeguarding statement

 Safeguarding is everyone's business. Shelter Scotland is committed to protecting the health, wellbeing and human rights of those we support, and enabling them to live free from harm, abuse and neglect. All our staff will be expected to observe professional standards of behaviour and conduct their work in line with our Safeguarding Policies. 

Shelter Scotland does not accept unsolicited CVs from external recruitment agencies nor accept the fees associated with them.