Content Designer CGEMJP00361816

Experis (Austria); United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 121,000 - 159,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Active SC Clearance desirable

Job summary

Experis (Austria) is seeking a Content Designer for a remote contract role, with potential travel to client sites. The role emphasizes evidence-based content decisions and collaboration across government teams to meet user needs.

You will work with style guides, content patterns and cross-government communities to ensure accessible, sustainable content across the end-to-end user journey.

Qualifications

• Experience designing content using evidence and research.
• Ability to explain design decisions clearly to stakeholders.
• Experience following accessibility and content standards.

Responsibilities

• Use evidence, data and research to inform content decisions.
• Collaborate with government teams to focus on user needs.
• Contribute to and apply content style guides and patterns.
• Engage with cross-government content community and best practices.

Skills

Content architecture

Evidence-based design

Iterative design

Leading design

Design collaboration

Tools

Content management systems

Job description

Role Title:

Content Designer

Duration:

contract to run until 06/04/2027

Location:

Remote with potential for occasional travel to client site

Rate:

up to £760.84 p/d Umbrella inside IR35

Clearance required:

Active SC Clearance is desired. SC Eligibility is required

Role purpose / summary

A content designer is responsible for creating, evaluating, updating and reviewing content at all stages of the end-to-end user journey.

At this role level, you will:

• Be comfortable using evidence, data and research to make content decisions
• Build relationships across government to focus on the needs of the user and to influence stakeholders
• Contribute to and use the style guides and content patterns
• Engage with and contribute to the cross-government content community

Skills

Content management and architecture

• Document information that enables effective content life cycle management, for example metadata
• Organise complex information to support understanding and navigation using existing standards and systems for structure and hierarchy
• Use tools to manage and publish content, for example content management systems

Design communication

• Clearly explain problems and design ideas to others
• Clearly explain design decisions to others using appropriate tools and methods

Designing for everyone

• Design and deliver inclusive, accessible and environmentally sustainable content or services that meet the needs of all users, working with others
• Ensure your design work meets appropriate standards and guidance, for example accessibility regulations, with support

Designing strategically

• Align your design work to both the goals and vision of your team and the strategic objectives of your organisation
• Identify potential risks and use design to mitigate them
• Identify opportunities and use design to take advantage of them
• Contribute to the development of design patterns and components

Designing together

• Effectively plan and run a design session with your team, users or stakeholders
• Identify and engage the right people throughout the design process
• Give and receive constructive design feedback

Evidence-based design

• Work with researchers and analysts to draw together, analyse and clearly explain commonly available evidence relevant to users or a service, for example, web analytics data
• Use evidence to inform, develop and test a design idea, with support

Iterative design

• Apply iterative design principles and techniques and agile methodologies to your work
• Create material to test ideas and hypotheses at an appropriate fidelity, for example mockups or drafts
• Iterate and improve a design based on successive rounds of research
• Use and iterate design patterns and components

Leading design

• Lead and coordinate design work in your team, with support
• Communicate the value of user-centred design to your team or others in your organisation
• Support other designers
• Work with digital and data leaders in your organisation, when needed

All profiles will be reviewed against the required skills and experience. Due to the high number of applications we will only be able to respond to successful applicants in the first instance. We thank you for your interest and the time taken to apply!