Discover Digital Development Officer

The ALLIANCE is excited to be recruiting a Discover Digital Development Officer.

Fixed term until 18 April 2025 (Maternity Cover)

‘Discover Digital’ is a project to raise awareness of digital tools which promote health and wellbeing. Its current aims are enabling outreach and inclusion, promoting digital and health literacy, developing meaningful signposting and supporting the wider digital health and social care landscape.  

The role of the Discover Digital Development Officer sits within the Digital Hub at the ALLIANCE. The main focus of the role will be to deliver the intended outcomes of the Discover Digital project. These are:

• Use service design approaches to develop and promote the Discover Digital Guide as a learning resource

• Development and provision of online and in-person Discover Digital workshops and the roadshow package, also using service design principles

The successful candidate for this role should have:

• Knowledge of the digital health and social care landscape in Scotland

• Knowledge and understanding of service design approaches

• Understanding of the issues affecting disabled people, people living with long term conditions and unpaid carers 

• Excellent interpersonal skills

• Excellent communication skills

• Experience of partnership working

• Understanding of membership organisations/networks and an enthusiastic approach to involving, supporting and responding to stakeholders

• Understanding of the third sector in Scotland

• Good understanding of data protection and how it relates to the role

• Experience of managing workload to deadlines

• Experience of website updating

• Experience of using social media as an engagement tool

• Ability to work effectively as part of a team and on own initiative 

• IT skills including database management

• Good organisational and administrative skills

As an ALLIANCE employee you will benefit from:

• 210 hours annual leave (equivalent of 30 days) 

• 91 hours of public holidays (equivalent of 13 days) that can be taken flexibly 

• Additional leave between Christmas and New Year

• Contributory pension scheme

• Open to flexible working (formal and informal)

• Hybrid working – opportunity to work from home for part of the week

• Enhanced maternity and paternity pay

• Enhanced sick pay

• Employee Assistance Programme

• Learning and development opportunities

• Corporate rates for gym membership 

• Time of in lieu

• Cycle Scheme

• Carer Positive Employer

The ALLIANCE is a healthy working lives employer and encourages a healthy work life balance and is happy to talk flexible working. 

The ALLIANCE recognises that in real life, great people don’t always ‘tick all the boxes’. Even if you don’t meet every point on the job description, if this role and our organisation feels like a good fit for you, we still want to hear from you. 

Closing date for applications is 9am on ¬Tuesday 11th June 2024.

Interviews will be held on Friday 21st June 2024.