Content Team Leader

Scottish Government OGD Recruitment; City of Edinburgh; Presencial; GBP 55.000 - 75.000; Jornada completa

Descripción de la vacante

Scottish Government OGD Recruitment is seeking a Gov.scot Content Team Leader to head the Digital Communications publishing team. This role drives content quality, accessibility, and consistency with Scottish Government brand and style.

You will line manage eight staff including three senior content managers and four content managers, and participate in an on-call rota for out-of-hours support. The role focuses on citizen-centred content design and HTML-first publishing.

Responsabilidades

• Lead and manage the gov.scot Content Team to ensure high-quality, accessible content publishing.
• Oversee content design in line with plain language standards and SG brand/style.
• Coordinate with policy teams and use user research, search data and analytics to guide content decisions.
• Support the shift from PDFs to accessible HTML-first publishing.
• Line manage eight staff across three senior content managers, four content managers and one content assistant.
• Participate in an on-call rota to provide urgent out-of-hours support for the website.

Descripción del empleo

We are seeking a gov.scot Content Team Leader to join the team within Digital Communications responsible for publishing to gov.scot.

The gov.scot Content Team is a small but busy team providing a business-critical service to the organisation. This team owns the quality, integrity and accessibility of content published on gov.scot. Working closely with policy teams across government, they advise on content design, apply plain language standards, ensure compliance with accessibility requirements, and maintain consistency with Scottish Government brand and style.

The team acts as a centre of expertise and quality assurance, ensuring that everything we publish genuinely serves citizens. Content decisions are driven by user research, search data and analytics, and the team champions the shift from PDFs to accessible HTML-first publishing.

The Team Leader will head up this team, ensuring that we provide a high quality, responsive and professional service to the organisation whilst championing the principles of excellent user-focused content design.

The Team Leader will line manage a team of eight comprising of three senior content managers, four content managers and one content assistant.

The role carries a requirement to be part of an on-call rota that ensures we can provide urgent out-of-hours support for the website.