Senior Content Creator and Videographer

Overview

MHCLG is seeking an experienced senior content creator and videographer to join its communications team in London. This role suits someone who can turn policy and public-interest topics into clear, engaging digital stories, with a strong focus on video and social-first graphic content. The team is looking for a creative professional who works well under pressure, adapts quickly when priorities shift, and is confident contributing to fast-moving communications work.

The position involves creating content that helps explain government activity and announcements around renters’ rights, homelessness, housing supply, and investment in communities. You will work across shooting, directing, producing, and editing video, while also developing graphics that communicate complex subjects in a simple and visually compelling way. The role includes regular travel for ministerial visits and offers opportunities to collaborate with colleagues across government, including No10.

What you will do

• Develop polished video and graphic assets for social media, ensuring they support campaign goals and audience needs.
• Work with influencers, digital creators, members of the public, and external partners to extend the reach and relevance of content.
• Manage the full video production process, from planning and filming through to editing, to support evergreen and digital communications.
• Carry out filming, lighting, and sound recording during shoots.
• Handle post-production tasks such as colour correction, audio mixing, and adding graphics.
• Design visual content suited to different social channels while maintaining audience engagement.
• Keep up with trends, tools, and techniques in social video and bring new ideas to projects.
• Ensure all content follows brand standards and stays consistent in style and tone.
• Organise several projects at once and deliver them to deadline without losing quality.
• Review performance data and audience feedback to help improve future content.

What the role requires

• Strong experience in videography and photography for capturing high-quality material.
• Practical use of Adobe Creative Suite for editing and content production.
• Experience handling contracts connected to essential services, such as sound licensing arrangements.
• Ability to create engaging social media graphics.
• A solid record of working with partners, stakeholders, and creators to build effective content.
• Experience running corporate channels and producing digital content.
• The ability to use audience insight to segment audiences and shape targeted communications.
• An understanding of government priorities and the ability to work collaboratively across departments to communicate public work.
• Confidence as a senior communications team member who can support, guide, and develop colleagues while maintaining high standards expected by No10 and the Government Communications Service.
• Agility under pressure, with the ability to balance competing deadlines across a broad policy area and provide communication advice quickly.

Selection process

The recruitment process has two stages and will assess Ability, Behaviours, Experience, Strengths, and Technical skills. Applicants should submit a CV and cover letter in a single document, with no personally identifiable information included in the CV. Direct CV applications are not accepted.

Stage 1 is a sift based on the CV and cover letter. You must explain why you want the role and show how you meet the essential experience and skills. The cover letter must be no longer than 700 words.

Stage 2 is an interview. Behaviours will be assessed against Seeing the Big Picture, Communicating and Influencing, Changing and Improving, and Delivering at Pace. Technical questions will focus on the essential criteria in the job description, and strengths questions will be asked in a natural format. Candidates will also be asked to prepare a short presentation, which will be assessed as part of the technical element.

Sifting is expected during the week commencing 13/07/2026, with interviews likely taking place during the week commencing 20 July. Interviews are currently planned to be held remotely by video call, though this may change.

Security and eligibility

The London office requires BPSS plus SC clearance. Successful candidates must also complete a criminal record check and meet the required security standards before appointment. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard checks. Feedback will only be given if you attend an interview or assessment.

This role is broadly open to UK nationals, Irish nationals, Commonwealth nationals with the right to work in the UK, eligible EU/Swiss/Norwegian/Icelandic/Liechtenstein nationals and family members with settled or pre-settled status or a valid EUSS application, certain individuals with limited or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible for EUSS by 31 December 2020, and Turkish nationals and certain family members who have gained the right to work in the Civil Service.

Additional information

The salary is £47,444, and MHCLG contributes £13,744 toward membership of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. The department also offers benefits such as tailored career pathways, flexible working, MyLifestyle Staff Benefits Scheme, Childcare Vouchers, and Cycle to Work Schemes.

Artificial intelligence may be used as support in applications, but all content must be truthful, based on the applicant’s own experience, and free from plagiarism. Applications that contain copied or AI-generated material presented as original may be withdrawn, and internal candidates may face disciplinary action.

Applicants are also asked to review several employment and policy areas before applying, including security clearance requirements, nationality rules, right to work, the Civil Service Code and recruitment principles, CV declarations, sponsorship, salary and grade, existing civil servants, conflict of interest, location and flexible working, internal fraud database checks, appeals and complaints, and fixed-term appointment rules for external candidates, existing civil servants, secondees, and MHCLG employees.

How to recruit information covers applying, sifting, interviews, interview results and feedback, reserve list, near miss, Civil Service grades, Disability Confident, Reasonable Adjustments, and related recruitment schemes.

Successful candidates must satisfy security requirements before appointment.