Content Designer

Capita plc; United Kingdom; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 45,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading outsourcing firm in the UK is looking for a Content Designer to craft user-focused content solutions. The role involves collaboration with multidisciplinary teams to enhance customer experiences while adhering to best practices. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in content design, agile methodologies, and effective communication skills. This is a fixed-term contract until May 31st, 2026, with comprehensive perks and development opportunities.

Benefits

23 days' holiday pro rata

Company matched pension

Paid maternity and paternity leave

Paid volunteering day

Access to Employee Network Groups

Learning Academy for career development

Qualifications

• Proven track record as a committed content designer.
• Experience working in local or central government or with complex systems.
• Familiarity with GDS principles and accessibility.

Responsibilities

• Craft content solutions to guide and assist users.
• Collaborate with researchers and designers to meet user needs.
• Share findings engagingly with the team.

Skills

Content design best practices

Agile methodologies

User-centered design

Strong communication skills

User research

Design thinking

Job description

As a Content Designer at Capita you will be responsible for taking a user need and present it in the right context, at the right time, in the right format.

You will demonstrate your expertise by crafting content solutions to help guide and assist users, ensuring that the content is clear, consistent and accessible to all. Please note that this is a fixed term contract until 31st May 2026

What you'll be doing:

• Work with user researchers and designers to uncover user needs and ensure content is iterated and simplified to enhance the customer experience
• Collaborate with subject matter experts to define specific content requirements.
• Review designs or existing services and ensure that content guidelines are followed, and where needed standardised and developed within the rest of the team
• Ensure the importance of content framed around user needs is evangelised throughout the team, develop content that is accessible by default
• Share your findings with the wider team in an engaging and collaborative way, choosing the right content type where needed (for example copy, infographics, charts or visual whiteboarding)
• Suggest where improved content can be integrated throughout the service, including UI copy, error messages, guidance help text, menu items, microcopy, supporting documentation and any other user touchpoints
• Work within a multidisciplinary team to ensure that user-driven design and development is conducted throughout, and collaborating with SMEs to define specific content requirements, as well as participating in internal design crits and providing peer feedback
• Present clear findings that clients/colleagues can understand and use.
• Suggest how research can be integrated through the development lifecycle and making recommendations on research strategies which follow best practices
• Effectively work within a multidisciplinary team to ensure that user-driven design and development is conducted throughout.
• Align content design activities to inform decision making and action.
• Demonstrate some knowledge of the technologies used to build and operate digital services.
• Demonstrate good interpersonal skills and presentation skills to communicate with clients / project teams clearly and eloquently.

What we are looking for:

• Committed content designer with a proven track record, preferably working within local or central government or experience with complex systems
• Contributes to the selection of the content design approaches for projects and initiatives. Supports the adoption of agreed approaches.
• Familiarity of GDS principles, design thinking, accessibility and user research
• Experience working as part of a wider design team and within a multidisciplinary squad
• Experience in receiving and giving feedback in an internal collaborative environment who take critique well as a chance to iterate and improve
• Experience working with agile methodologies and within an agile team and user centered design and research practices and how to integrate them into the agile process
• Strong understanding of content design best practices, and know when to challenge or simplify an approach, or challenge a known constraint
• Strong communicator with a high level of confidence managing both internal and external stakeholders at all levels of seniority, and can bridge the gap between technical and non-technical discussions
• Driven and possess the skills to perform effectively both as an individual contributor and collaboratively in a group setting.

About Capita

Capita is an outsourcer, helping clients across the public and private sectors run complex business processes more efficiently, creating better consumer experiences.

Operating across 8 countries, Capita's 34,000 colleagues support primarily UK and European clients with people-based services underpinned by market-leading technology.

We're a vital support service for our clients, enabling the everyday interactions that we expect to run seamlessly, to run seamlessly.

Check out our website www.capita.com for more information

What's in it for you?

• 23 days' holiday pro rata with the opportunity to buy extra leave
• company matched pension, life assurance, 15 weeks' fully paid maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, paternity pay of two weeks...and plenty more
• volunteering for our charity partners or a cause of your choice - opportunity to take a paid day out of the office
• access to our Employee Network Groups, which represent every strand of diversity and allow colleagues to connect and learn from each other on an open, inclusive platform
• opportunity to gain additional qualifications through our Learning Academy or apprenticeships to help develop your career

Unlock Your Potential with Capita

At Capita, your career can take you wherever your ambition leads. You'll become part of a diverse network of talented, forward-thinking professionals working across a wide range of disciplines and sectors. We're committed to your growth - offering endless opportunities to expand your skills, explore new paths, and advance your career.

Join us and discover a career with purpose. #CareersWithPurpose

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What we hope you'll do next:

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