About the job

Job summary

The purpose of this role is to help deliver the Government’s programme to improve the accessibility of Welsh law. The key objectives of this role are to:

• Assist the Welsh Government to fulfil its responsibilities for making, laying, registering and publishing Welsh Statutory Instruments and other subordinate legislation made by or on behalf of the Welsh Ministers.
• Maintain and update Welsh law on the legislation.gov.uk website using The National Archives’ (TNA) editorial system in researching and updating made law.
• Assist with the operation and delivery of the Cyfraith Cymru/Law Wales website, including proof checking, publishing new content, and managing the ongoing relevance of existing content.

Job description

When presenting your evidence please keep in mind the expectations of the grade as set out below in the grade description as well as the main responsibilities that are essential for the role.

Main Duties

Welsh Subordinate Legislation

• coordinating the signature/making process for each item of subordinate legislation made by the Welsh Ministers;
• registering Welsh Statutory Instruments with the SI Registrar at The National Archives;
• registering other subordinate legislation made by the Welsh Ministers on an internal database;
• advising colleagues across all departments of the Welsh Government on the processes and statutory procedures for making subordinate legislation.

Annotating Welsh law on the legislation.gov.uk website

Updating  Welsh Acts and Statutory Instruments on the legislation.gov.uk website.  This will include:

• analysing all new bilingual legislation (both primary and subordinate) made by the Welsh Ministers and Senedd Cymru to log the effects on existing legislation;
• implementing revisions to legislation, and recording the appropriate annotations in both Welsh and English;
• identifying Welsh law for the purposes of organising publication on the website.

Cyfraith Cymru/ Law Wales website

Updating text, articles and other materials on the Cyfraith Cymru website.  This will include:

• editing existing bilingual text on the website with information which has been provided to the post holder by drafters of the material;
• uploading new content comprising text, articles and other materials.

Grade Description

 What the organisation will expect?

• You will be able to work independently on day-to-day issues, providing advice to more senior grades and supporting departmental priorities.
• You will be flexible, pro-active and self-motivated, working across teams when necessary to deliver organisational business objectives; understanding your areas of responsibility and display awareness of the wider impact of your actions.
• You will be adaptable, flexible, open to, and accepting of change affecting you and your area of work and deal with that change efficiently and professionally.

What your team will expect?

• You will be able to manage your own workload and priorities to ensure that objectives are met on time and to a high quality using own initiative and decision making.
• You will invest time in your own development, acting as a role model and supporting the development of others. Providing opportunities and encouragement for individuals to develop, sharing your knowledge and experience
• You will manage/supervise, develop, motivate and support diverse group of staff and colleagues, making best use of staff and other resources. Actively support and include all staff and colleagues, treating them fairly and respecting everyone as individuals.

What your stakeholders will expect?

• You will establish professional relationships with a diverse group of internal and external stakeholders in order to achieve results.
• You will communicate effectively both orally and in writing, using appropriate communication channels.

Person specification

As Welsh language skills are essential for this role, as part of the assessment process applicants are required to submit their applications in Welsh. Interviews will also be conducted in Welsh. 

This advertisement contains the titles of the Behaviour criteria being assessed throughout. For further information on what is required at the application stage, you will need to press apply and view the full details on the application form. At interview, you may be tested on the overall Behaviours listed.

When presenting your evidence please keep in mind the expectations of the grade as set out in the grade description as well as the main responsibilities that are essential for the role.

In the event of a significantly large number of applications, the panel will initially sift against the lead behaviour criterion; Making Effective Decisions.  Those applicants who are not successful at this point will not progress any further, those that are successful at this point will then be sifted on the remainder of their application.

For this recruitment, the top 6 individuals who meet the minimum criteria will progress to interview. 

In the case of more than one candidate scoring the same, the panel has agreed the following criteria will determine merit order:

1. Making Effective Decisions

2. Delivering at Pace

3. Working Together

4. Changing and improving

Benefits

All Welsh Government staff are members of the Civil Service, and as a result are eligible for:

• Civil Service Pension Scheme
• 31 days annual leave (pro-rated for part time)
• training and development opportunities
• Cycle2Work Scheme
• Smart Working flexible working arrangement
• Green Car Scheme (subject to availability)

If you are an active Civil Service Pension member you can continue your membership throughout your employment with us.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours.

Welsh Government, like all other Government Departments use Success Profiles when we recruit. For each role we consider what you will need to demonstrate to be successful. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job. It raises performance and improves diversity and inclusivity.

The selection process and stages are:

Number of Stages:	2 stage process
Stage 1	Application Form
Stage 2	Interview

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

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.