Legislation Data Assistant

The Legislation Services team require an ongoing Temporary Legislation Data Assistant to support the Legislation Services Data Team in carrying out data clean-up, basic data entry, and in correcting historic data so that it is in a fit state to be published.

You will also provide admin support to the wider Legislation Service Team as required, including providing administrative support as required to the Official Publishing Manager.

Responsibilities:

Support the Legislation Services’ Data Team

· You will quality check XML and PDF documents for publication.

· You will carry out data entry for legislation metadata.

· You will carry out testing for data related activity, as directed by the Data Manager or the Data

· You will carry out XML data corrections.

Essential criteria:

· Exceptional attention to detail and accuracy If data is not correct, services don’t work effectively and users are impacted. You must therefore demonstrate and evidence exceptional attention to detail and accuracy in your work.

· Organised and methodical When you are testing or checking your work or the work of others you will need to be organised and methodical to ensure nothing is missed and accurate records are kept.

You must have experience of administrative work and be able to evidence that you work in a rigorous and methodical way.

· Able to work to deadlines Project work might involve working to tight deadlines, some of the work relates to statutory obligations to publish legislation.

· IT skills

You will have experience in working with XML and PDFs, expertise in Excel and Word and have an aptitude for picking up new IT skills quickly.

Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm