Hybrid Content Designer

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About the role

  • Senior Content Designer working on user-centered design solutions for public sector projects at GAIN Experience. Collaborating with multidisciplinary teams to enhance content strategy and delivery.

Responsibilities

  • Work closely with user researchers, interaction designers and other user-centred design practitioners to deliver excellent products and services
  • Responsible for ensuring all content is clear, accurate, meets user needs and adheres to style guides and content patterns
  • Make complex language and processes easy to understand and use data and research to inform your decisions
  • Lead on content-focussed elements of projects such as writing, audits and reviews
  • Support research activities, for example, observing user interviews
  • Coach and mentor other practitioners in content design
  • Contribute to sales opportunities, for example, writing proposals
  • Plan, write and edit marketing content such as case studies, blogs and email campaigns

Requirements

  • A qualification in English, humanities or social sciences can be an advantage but is not essential
  • Evidence of building your content design and user-centred design understanding beyond on-the-job learning is beneficial. For example, qualifications, courses, events, reading, mentoring and networking.
  • Solid experience creating content using user-centred design methodologies. This could be as a content designer or in a similar role where you’ve applied this way of working
  • Excellent writing, editing and proofreading skills
  • Varied experience creating content for different audiences, formats and channels
  • Knowledge of user research methodologies and the ability to advise on which methods would be most appropriate to achieve project goals
  • Knowledge of agile ways of working and skilled at working in a multidisciplinary team to create content that meets user needs
  • Knowledge of working to Government Digital Service standards
  • Solid experience creating content that meets accessibility regulations
  • Varied experience creating inclusive content
  • Understanding of how to create SEO-optimised content
  • Ability to mentor or coach more junior members of the team
  • Experience using different content management systems and collaborative tools (such as Figma and Miro)
  • Experience using Whitehall publisher is an advantage
  • Experience or an interest in using AI in content design is an advantage
  • Excellent attention to detail combined with big picture thinking when needed
  • Proactive, flexible and curious, with an appetite to learn and share knowledge
  • Comfortable adapting to changing priorities and deadlines
  • Excellent communication skills – written, verbal, listening and presenting
  • Genuine empathy with users and a desire to put users at the heart of your work
  • Ability to work with different people at different levels of seniority, both colleagues and clients
  • Skilled at explaining content decisions to stakeholders and advocating for content design
  • Creative in approach to activities, as well as problem solving and good at identifying different options and recommending solutions
  • Understands client needs and the commercial impact of requirements for GAIN Experience
  • Open to giving and receiving constructive feedback on design work

Benefits

  • Private Medical Insurance
  • BUPA Life Assurance
  • Income protection
  • Employee Assistance Programme
  • Cycle to Work salary sacrifice scheme
  • Tech & Wearables salary sacrifice scheme
  • Octopus EV Scheme
  • Discounts and deals on a range of items from hotels, holidays and hormone testing to cinema, gyms and will writing

Job title

Content Designer

Job type

Experience level

Mid levelSenior

Salary

Not specified

Degree requirement

Bachelor's Degree

Location requirements

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