Creative Content Officer (Videography/photography)

Recruitment process

The recruitment process consists of an application, submission of creative content, interview and assessment. These are expected to take place on W/C 19th January 2026.

Your interview takes place online through Microsoft Teams. A member of our recruitment team will be in touch with guidance. If you have any queries about this, contact Reuben.Kamalarajan@cps.gov.uk.

You should keep this week free or notify us if you're not available. We'll make every effort to accommodate your date preferences but we can't guarantee it.

Assessment

We ask you to complete an assessment as part of the recruitment process for this role. We will provide details immediately before your interview.

Stage one – CV

Please upload an up-to-date CV which should include:

• three years’ employment and/or academic history
• skills and experience
• achievements
• qualifications.

You also need to demonstrate the following experience required for this role:   

• Significant experience creating innovative, engaging video content for wide-ranging audiences
• Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop)
• Experience working with and interviewing colleagues/stakeholders at all levels on camera
• Proficient in using a range of camera equipment to film and edit videos, including B-roll, subtitles, and graphic elements
• Excellent written skills: ability to write scripts and interview questions
• Experience creating captioned/subtitled content and strong understanding of accessible video best practice
• Experience maintaining and archiving a video/photographic content library in an accessible way

You also need to demonstrate the following Government Communications Service professional competency framework competencies required for this role. You are assessed against Level 2/IO:

• Ideas – Design and develop engaging, targeted digital communications including video, graphics, and multimedia assets suitable for use across social media, websites and digital platforms
• Implementation – Demonstrate practical skills in delivering digital communications, including:
  • Writing for digital channels using plain English and accessible formats
  • Applying corporate branding and style guidelines
  • Ensuring compliance with relevant policies, legislation, and best practice (e.g. accessibility, propriety, social media use)
• Impact – Use analytics and digital metrics to measure success and inform improvements

You need to attach your CV as an anonymised document of no more than three A4 pages, to provide the panel with an insight into your work history and experience. We ask that you do not provide personal details which could identify you like name, age, home address.

It’s your responsibility to provide the specified application information in the requested format to ensure that you’re considered for the post.

If you’re unable to cover three years through employment and/or academic history, you need to provide a character reference for clearance purposes. The reference will be required at onboarding if you’re offered the role.

Stage two – Creative Content

If your CV passes the sift, you will be invited to stage 2 of the application process, where you will be asked to submit creative content.

You need to demonstrate the following Government Communications Service professional competency framework competencies required for this role. You are assessed against Level 2/IO:

• Ideas – Design and develop engaging, targeted digital communications including video, graphics, and multimedia assets suitable for use across social media, websites and digital platforms
• Implementation – Demonstrate practical skills in delivering digital communications, including:
  • Writing for digital channels using plain English and accessible formats
  • Applying corporate branding and style guidelines
  • Ensuring compliance with relevant policies, legislation, and best practice (e.g. accessibility, propriety, social media use)

Stage three – Interview/Assessment

If you pass stage two, you will be invited to the interview and assessment.

We use behaviours to help us understand your experience, to see if you're a good fit for the role. You are assessed against HEO level in the Civil Service success profiles behaviours framework. We are assessing three behaviours at interview / assessment stage

1. Communicating and Influencing – interview
2. Delivering at Pace – interview
3. Managing a quality service – interview

Essential Experience – assessed at interview and assessment:

1.    Significant experience creating innovative, engaging video content for wide-ranging audiences
2.    Advanced proficiency in Adobe Creative Cloud (such as Premiere Pro, After Effects, Photoshop)
3.    Experience working with and interviewing colleagues/stakeholders at all levels on camera
4.    Proficient in using a range of camera equipment to film and edit videos, including B-roll, subtitles, and graphic elements
5.    Excellent written skills: ability to write scripts and interview questions
6.    Experience creating captioned/subtitled content and strong understanding of accessible video best practice
7.    Experience maintaining and archiving a video/photographic content library in an accessible way

The following technical skills are being assessed at interview and assessment:

Government Communications Service professional competency framework Level 2/IO

• Ideas – Design and develop engaging, targeted digital communications including video, graphics, and multimedia assets suitable for use across social media, websites and digital platforms
• Implementation – Demonstrate practical skills in delivering digital communications, including:
  • Writing for digital channels using plain English and accessible formats
  • Applying corporate branding and style guidelines
  • Ensuring compliance with relevant policies, legislation, and best practice (e.g. accessibility, propriety, social media use)
• Impact – Use analytics and digital metrics to measure success and inform improvements

We understand interviews can be stressful, and we want to ensure you are able to best represent your skills, so the interview questions will be provided in advance, at least two working days prior to your interview.

Strengths

Strengths are tested at interview stage – the strengths tested are not shared before the interview.

AI

Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action.  Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Other

This is a full-time post. We do consider requests for flexible, part-time working and job share, always considering the operational needs of the department.

Please note that the CPS is unable to offer visa sponsorship. Therefore, if you require visa sponsorship to work in the UK, you will not meet the eligibility criteria for this role.

Clearance

If successful, you are required to secure a Disclosure and Barring Service check, for which you must have a current valid UK address.

If successfully appointed, we ask you to complete a character enquiry form and nationality and immigration questionnaire.

If you're a Crown Prosecution Service member of staff, you won’t need to do a Disclosure and Barring Service check as you already hold this clearance.

The job you’re applying for is covered by Article 3(a) of the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 (Exceptions) Order 1975, consequently Section 4(2) of that Act doesn’t apply. You’re required to disclose all previous convictions and cautions including spent convictions. Failing to make a full declaration will result in withdrawing your offer of employment if our checks reveal convictions that haven’t been disclosed.

Reserve list

If you're recommended by the selection panel but not appointed to the current vacancy, you’re put on a reserve list for 12 months. You may be offered another Creative Content Officer post in HQ Communications if a vacancy comes up during this period. We may also approach candidates on the waiting list to fill other roles that require similar knowledge and experience.

Feedback

We only provide feedback if you attend an interview or assessment.

Fraud check

The Crown Prosecution Service provides a Fair Processing Notice to all new applicants after they’ve been successful at interview. These candidates are informed that, as one aspect of pre-employment screening, their personal details – name, National Insurance number and date of birth – are checked against the Internal Fraud Database. We won't employ anyone included on the database unless they can demonstrate exceptional circumstances.

The Strategic Resourcing team in the Crown Prosecution Service will, on behalf of the vacancy holder, inform applicants when they are refused employment because of their inclusion in the Internal Fraud Database.

Civil Service Commission

If you’re dissatisfied with the recruitment process and wish to make a complaint, please contact Strategic.Resourcing@cps.gov.uk with your concerns.

If you remain dissatisfied and wish to make a further complaint, please click on the following link to the Civil Service Commission complaints page https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/civilservicerecruitmentcomplaints/

Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles can be found at

https://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/recruitment/

Details of the Civil Service Nationality Rules are located at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules

Candidates are subject to UK immigration requirements. For the most up-to-date information on the requirements of working in the UK, please go to the UK Visas and Immigration website at https://www.gov.uk/browse/visas-immigration/work-visas

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.