Content Designer

• Rate: -790 per day
• Location: Remote, with potential occasional travel to client site
• Working arrangement: Remote
• Clearance: SC clearance required. Candidates who are not currently SC cleared must be SC eligible. At least 5 years'' provable UK residency is typically required.
• Sector: Public Sector

Your new company

You''ll be working on a Public Sector assignment, delivering content design in line with the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.Your new roleAs a Content Designer, you''ll create, evaluate, update and review content across the end-to-end user journey.You''ll use evidence, data and research to make content decisions, build relationships across government to champion user needs and influence stakeholders, contribute to style guides and content patterns, and engage with the cross-government content community.

Key responsibilities

• Document information that supports effective content lifecycle management, including metadata.
• Organise complex information to improve understanding and navigation using established structures, standards and hierarchies.
• Use content management systems and other tools to manage and publish content.
• Clearly communicate problems, design ideas and design decisions to stakeholders.
• Design inclusive, accessible and environmentally sustainable content and services.
• Ensure design work meets relevant standards and guidance, including accessibility requirements.
• Align design work with team goals and wider organisational objectives.
• Identify design risks and opportunities and contribute to design patterns and components.
• Plan and facilitate design sessions with teams, users and stakeholders.
• Identify and engage the right people throughout the design process.
• Give and receive constructive design feedback.
• Work with researchers and analysts to understand evidence such as web analytics.
• Use evidence to develop and test design ideas.
• Apply iterative design principles and agile methodologies.
• Produce appropriate materials, including drafts and mock-ups, to test ideas and hypotheses.
• Improve designs through successive rounds of research.
• Lead and coordinate design work within the team, with support.
• Communicate the value of user-centred design and support other designers.

What you''ll need to succeedEssential skills and experience
You''ll need to demonstrate capability across:

• Content management and architecture: Information lifecycle management, metadata, information structure and hierarchy, and content management/publishing tools.
• Design communication: Ability to articulate problems, concepts and design decisions clearly using appropriate methods.
• Designing for everyone: Inclusive and accessible content or service design, applying appropriate accessibility standards and guidance.
• Strategic design: Aligning design activity to organisational objectives, identifying risks and opportunities, and contributing to design patterns and components.
• Collaborative design: Planning and running design sessions, stakeholder engagement and constructive design feedback.
• Evidence-based design: Working alongside researchers and analysts, interpreting evidence such as web analytics and using findings to inform design.
• Iterative design: Agile and iterative methods, creating drafts or mock-ups for testing and improving designs based on research.
• Leading design: Coordinating design activity, promoting user-centred design and supporting other designers.
• Confidence using evidence, data and research to make content decisions.
• Ability to build relationships and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to contribute to style guides, content patterns and the wider content design community.
• SC clearance or eligibility to obtain SC clearance.

What you''ll get in return

• -790 per day
• Inside IR35
• Remote working, with potential occasional travel to client site
• Opportunity to deliver content design within a Public Sector environment

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