Design and Content Industrial Placement 2027
Summary
A 12-month paid industrial placement (Year in Industry, starting July 2027) with the UK Met Office in Exeter, creating graphics, animations, videos and social media content that communicate weather and climate science to a broad audience. Day-to-day hands-on design and editing work using Adobe Creative Suite; £27,170 with office attendance at least weekly.
- Job grade: Industrial
- Contract type: Temporary
- Length of employment: 12 months
- Type of role: Communications / Marketing
- Working pattern: Full-time
- Number of jobs available: 1
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About the job
Job summary
The Met Office is delighted to open our advertising for Industrial Placements 2027.
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, developing your skills and knowledge and ensuring you gain the most value possible from your experience with us.
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 at the Met Office after you graduate.
We’re looking for Design and Content Industrial Placement 2027 to help us make a difference to our planet.
As our Design and Content Industrial Placement 2027, the job may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in the office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and 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.
Our opportunity is full time, 37 hours per week. Our people are at the heart of what we do and we'll do our best to agree a working pattern that works for everyone.
World changing work
From science to technology, from meteorology to management, and from planning to communication, our expertise helps us stand out as the authority on weather accuracy and climate prediction. We help individuals, industries and government to make better decisions to stay safe and thrive. This is the Met Office. This is who we are.
- We’re a force for good - focusing on our environmental and social impact
- We’re experts by nature - always learning and developing to do things better
- We live and breathe it - putting our purpose at the heart of decision-making
- We’re better together - understanding partnerships and inclusivity make us greater
- We keep evolving - pushing boundaries to make tomorrow better for our customers
Job description
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 be helping to communicate complex weather and climate information in an engaging way to a broad audience. You’ll be working with our award-winning team to produce graphics, animations and videos to help keep people informed and safe. This role is hands-on, fast-paced and in a team that values ideas and innovation.
Your key duties
- Create engaging content for a range of channels.
- Be proactive, seizing the opportunity to get involved and try new things.
- Be keen to develop your design, camera and editing skills taking on a range of briefs.
- Work with a range of people across the organisation to make engaging science communication.
- Stay up to date with the latest trends across social media.
Person specification
Essential Criteria, skills and experience:
- Lead Criteria - You’ll truly live and breathe design and social media, with the desire to stay up to date with who is creating amazing content
- You'll have a strong portfolio of multi-channel work with experience using Adobe Creative Suite.
- You’ll be eager to keep evolving, with examples of trying new things / learning new skills.
- You’ll work well in a team, demonstrating excellent communication and project management skills.
The panel may perform a preliminary sift of the lead criteria as indicated above.
Benefits
Our work is life-changing, often life-saving and always life-enhancing. The Met Office is Great Place to Work UK certified. We are also featured on their ‘Best Workplaces in Tech’ 2023, 2024, 2025 and 2026 lists, as well as their ’54 Best Workplaces for Women’ 2023 list.
Your package includes:
- Your salary will be £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. However, this is not guaranteed and would be subject to programme availability and a successful application.
Things you need to know
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Selection process details
How to apply
If you share our values, we’d love to hear from you! 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: 23:59 on 8th November 2026. Please note we often receive a high volume of applications, but we will contact everyone who applies once the closing date has passed.
Interviews will be completed by 16th December 2026.
Using AI in your application
We welcome applications that use AI tools for support in drafting or refining, as long as they accurately reflect your own skills and experience. All hiring decisions at the Met Office are made by people, not AI. For more details, visit our approach to recruitment.
How we can help
If you have any questions or would like to discuss this opportunity further, please contact us at careers@metoffice.gov.uk.
If you’re considering applying and need support to do so, please get in touch. You can request adjustments either within your application or by contacting us. Should you be offered an interview, please be aware there may be a selection exercise which could include a presentation, written test or a scenario-based activity. You can select in your application to be considered under the Disability Confident Scheme. To be invited to interview/assessment under this scheme, your application must meet the essential criteria for the role.
We understand that great minds don’t always think alike and as an equal opportunities employer we welcome applications from those with all protected characteristics. We recruit on merit, fairness, and open competition in line with the Civil Service Code.
We can only accept applications from those eligible to live and work in the UK - please refer to GOV.UK for information. 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.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
See our vetting charter (opens in a new window).
Medical
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
Working for the Civil Service
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).
Diversity and Inclusion
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Contact point for applicants
Job contact :
- Name : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
- Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
Recruitment team
- Email : careers@metoffice.gov.uk
Further information
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