Senior Content Designer
Department: Strategy & Design
Employment Type: Permanent
Location: Any UK Office Hub (Bristol / London / Manchester / Swansea)
Compensation: £50,000 - £60,000 / year
Description
Made Tech wants to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society. We believe being design‑led can create positive outcomes in the public sector, through critical services enabled by technology. We are building a community of designers and researchers to support the public sector’s growing demand for a design‑led approach to digital transformation service delivery.
A Senior Content Designer is an experienced practitioner who works on a complex or large‑scale service, with minimal support. They work autonomously, influencing and mentoring others to design user‑centred content to a high standard.
They work on a multidisciplinary delivery team to design content that’s informed by their experience, best practice and evidence, and meets the client’s objectives as well as user needs.
They are visible contributors to a healthy user‑centred design (UCD) community and culture at Made Tech. They report to a Lead Content Designer.
Key Responsibilities
- Assure the quality of content delivery within the service team and contribute to Made Tech’s content design standards
- Be accountable for the production of high quality, user‑centred content
- Help delivery teams get a shared understanding of problems to solve and ideas to test
- Have good knowledge of how to make services accessible to everyone
- Audit services to identify accessibility issues with content
- Have thorough knowledge of the government Service Standard and how to meet it through content design best practice
- Demonstrate good habits for sharing and improving contentDemonstrate experience in creating, iterating, managing and overseeing content across multiple channels
- Encourage teams to review and evaluate the effectiveness of processes and systems, and support them to iterate for improvements
- Build relationships with clients, earning their trust and understanding their needs
- Identify opportunities for new work
- Manage less‑experienced content designers
- Support the hiring and onboarding of content designers
- Contribute to a safe, supportive, healthy community of practice
- Represent content design publicly and internally
Skills, Knowledge and Expertise
Requirements to consider a strong candidate include:
- Experience in content design for public or large‑scale services
- Strong knowledge of accessibility and inclusivity best practices
- Understanding of the UK Government Service Standard
- Excellent written communication and editing skills
- Ability to collaborate across multidisciplinary teams
- Experience managing or mentoring other content designers
- Knowledge of content strategy and content governance
Benefits
We offer a flexible benefit platform that includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, optional health care cash plan or pension plan, and an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events. Additional benefits:
- 30 days holiday, plus bank holidays
- Flexible working hours
- Flexible parental leave
- Remote working options – part‑time remote for all staff
- Paid counselling, financial and legal advice
Applicants will be required to undergo an SC clearance.
#J-18808-Ljbffr