Senior Content Designer

Public Sector Resourcing; Corsham; Hybrid; GBP 80,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A government department is seeking a Senior Content Designer for a 4-month remote contract with occasional visits to Corsham. The candidate will be responsible for ensuring content quality, mentoring junior designers, and ensuring compliance with GDS standards. Essential qualifications include proven experience in similar environments, strong GDS knowledge, and the ability to manage stakeholders. SC Clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Proven experience as a Senior Content Designer in government or similar environments.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and influence at senior levels.
• Experience of writing inclusive and accessibility content for all users.

Responsibilities

• Take responsibility for content quality across projects.
• Write and map user stories to support service design.
• Mentor and manage small teams of junior content designers.

Skills

GDS standards knowledge

User-centred design

Mentoring skills

Agile working

Strategic thinking

Stakeholder management

Job description

On behalf of the MOD, we are looking for a Senior Content Designer (Inside IR35) for a 4 month contract based Remotely with occasional visits to Corsham.

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is seeking an experienced Senior Content Designer to create clear, user-focused content for digital services. You'll take responsibility for content quality, mentor colleagues and ensure alignment with Government Digital Service (GDS) standards.

As a Senior Content Designer your main responsibilities will be to:

• Take responsibility for content quality across projects.
• Write and map user stories to support service design.
• Review the work of others to assure quality.
• Mentor and manage small teams of junior content designers.
• Lead and contribute to cross-government content projects and community.
• Ensure compliance with accessibility standards and regulations.
• Apply GDS principles and champion user-centred design.

Essential:

• Proven experience as a Senior Content Designer in government or similar environments.
• Strong knowledge of GDS standards and user-centred design.
• Ability to manage stakeholders and influence at senior levels.
• Experience mentoring or guiding other content designers.
• Experience in Agile working and iterative delivery.
• Strategic thinking and leadership capability.
• Experience of writing inclusive and accessibility content for all users.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active SV clearance.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, the MOD guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

Armed Forces Covenant

The MOD guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.