Digital Content and User Experience Industrial Placement

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Met Office on a 12-month Year in Industry placement, commencing at the start of July 2027. You will develop your skills and knowledge and gain the most value possible from your experience.

You will have the opportunity to network with our cohort of Industrial Placements all over the Met Office and understand what career opportunities are on offer after you graduate.

We’re looking for a Digital Content and User Experience Industrial Placement to help us make a difference to our planet.

This role may be suitable for hybrid working, where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. The location advertised will be your contractual place of work. As an Industrial Placement, we would expect you to attend the office once a week as a minimum.

This is a full-time opportunity, 37 hours per week.

Your World of Expertise

Our Industrial Placement scheme offers ambitious and capable undergraduates the opportunity to gain valuable experience working alongside diverse and highly skilled experts in their field. You’ll be working on projects that really matter and will make a difference.

You will have the opportunity to gain hands-on experience with our industry-leading digital teams. You will work closely with our skilled designers, developers, and digital experts to contribute to projects that help shape the way users interact with our digital platforms and engage with our content. You will be part of a collaborative team that values creativity, innovation, and fresh perspectives.

Your Key Duties

• Manage and deliver keyword research as well as supporting ad-hoc content and SEO projects.
• Act as product specialist for the website CMS.
• Support the development of a website content strategy and governance design.
• Support the SEO and Digital Content Manager to design and deliver CMS and accessibility training, promoting best practice across the organisation.
• Support Digital Product Managers in delivering value to the users of the Met Office App and Website.
• Support the User Experience Manager gaining insights from our users to feed development.

Why Join Us

Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified and has been featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ lists for multiple years, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ list.

Your Package Includes

• Salary: £27,170
• Annual Leave starting at 27.5 days
• Access to discounted shopping, inclusive of retail, leisure and lifestyle brands

Whilst this is a temporary position until July 2028, there may be an opportunity to apply for our Graduate Development scheme upon completion of your university studies. This is not guaranteed and would be subject to programme availability and a successful application.

Essential Criteria, Skills and Experience

• Studying for an undergraduate degree with a significant marketing or digital marketing focus.
• Demonstrate interest in digital content, user experience, and search engine optimisation (SEO).
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Pro-actively manage multiple projects or tasks and work well under pressure.
• Ability to work effectively in a team, building and maintaining strong working relationships.

How to Apply

Click apply to begin your application. Please complete your career history and provide evidence against each of the essential criteria in the supporting statement questionnaire. We recommend candidates use the CARL method (Context, Action, Result and Learning) for presenting evidence of experience and skills. Please also look at the Early Careers Programmes Application Guidance at the bottom of this advert.

Closing Date

8th November 2026 at 23:59.

Interviews

Interviews will be completed by 16th December 2026.

Security Clearance

We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK. We require Security clearance without caveats and/or restrictions for this role, for which you need to have resided in the UK for at least 3 of the last 5 years to be eligible, 2 of these years must be immediately preceding the point of your application.