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| The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association |
Salary: Up to £53,520 per annum + benefits
Location: England, South West, Reading Hub
Directorate: Marketing, Digital & Influencing - Digital Marketing & Production
Closing date: 21 July 2021
Job Level
Lead Professional
Job description
The Digital Product Owner helps those with sight loss to live the life they choose by defining and leading the delivery of the digital aspects of technology projects, working in close partnership with the Technology Delivery Manager.
This role is 9am to 5pm, Monday to Friday, 35 hours per week, with 26 days paid holiday (excluding bank holidays) a year. As a charity, we’re always keen to support flexible working as best we can. We offer a generous pension scheme, life assurance and enhanced pay for parenting and sickness leave. In addition, we provide an Employee Assistance Programme, flexible benefits package and discounts and cashback scheme to care for our people.
More details about this role, the Organisation and the recruitment process can be found in the attached candidate pack and job description.
We reserve the right to close adverts earlier than the closing date.
Diversity
Guide Dogs welcomes applications from all sections of the community and actively encourages diversity to maximise achievements, creativity and good practice. We positively welcome and seek to ensure we achieve diversity in our workforce and that all job applicants and employees receive equal and fair treatment, regardless of age, race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, disability or nationality. We encourage applications from people with disabilities as they are currently under-represented in the organisation and guarantee an invitation to interview for all applicants with disabilities who demonstrate, within their application form, sufficient evidence to meet the essential criteria for the job.
Safeguarding
Guide Dogs is committed to safeguarding and promoting the welfare of all children, young people and adults at risk of harm with whom we work. We expect all our employees and volunteers to fully share this commitment.
Candidate requirements
To be able to fulfil this role, the skills and experience we are looking for in a potential candidate include;
Essential
- Degree or equivalent qualification/experience
- Professional Marketing or Digital Qualifications (e.g. IDM, CIM)
- Significant proven Digital Product Management experience with demonstrable outcomes at a medium or large sized company
- Significant Digital Project Management experience including partnering with IS/IT teams
- Demonstrable experience of all aspects of Digital Marketing and strategy, as well as knowledge of all up to date tools and platforms
- Significant proven experience in a senior digital product management role in a medium or large-sized company
- Demonstrable experience of brand/product development
- Demonstrable experience of software development lifecycle
- For the complete list of essential and desirable criteria necessary to be successful in this role please see the Person Specification within the Job Description below. The candidate pack contains more information about this role & the recruitment process at Guide Dogs.
How to apply
If you have any accessibility issues, please contact our Recruitment Team.
Applications need to be made using the online application form, accessed using the ‘apply’ button above.
As part of your application ensure you provide to evidence and examples of how your skills & experience meet the criteria as set out in the attached job description.
The system has a one-hour time limit. We would advise you to prepare your answers separately and then copy and paste into the online form once finalised.
If any mandatory fields are missed, a pop-up box will appear at the top of the page advising which sections require completion.
Please note that you’ll have to upload a CV as this is a mandatory requirement as part of our Safer Recruitment Policy.
Guide Dogs follow Safer Recruitment practices to ensure we are safeguarding the vulnerable people we work with. As part of this, we require a full work history with any gaps accounted for & a minimum of 2 professional referee details fully covering the past 5 years. If there is not enough space in your application form to provide this information, please ensure you upload additional documentation containing the additional detail.
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Please contact our Recruitment Team if you require any support with your application.
Job description(.dox)
Candidate Park(.pdf)
Closing date: 21 July 2021
