Head of Content Design
3 days ago
**2097522CD**
The base salary for this role is up to £51,805, any offer made above this will be made up with a market supplement allowance up to £5,000 depending on the successful applicant’s qualifications and experience.
**About the role**
This is a hugely exciting opportunity for a **Head of Content Design **who can manage a team of content designers and uphold the principles of evidence based, user-centred content design and content strategy.
This role is new. We need someone to be accountable for the content and to be the go-to person for creating content that’s compelling, easy to understand, concise and helps users get what they need.
This position is being offered on a full-time, permanent basis.
**Your responsibilities**
You’ll need to:
- share responsibility with Heads of User Research, UX and product for the development of simple, clear and strategic digital products and the information that helps our users interact with them
- build good relationships with stakeholder groups from across the organisation
- support and enable content designers to create user-centred content using data and evidence, ensuring we’re always using the right language at the right time and in the best format
- represent user-centred design within a senior leadership team
- work closely with other tech and UX teams to understand how content can work in the best possible way for users across digital products and services
**Your skills and experience**
You’ll need to have experience working at a senior level in user-centred design, with either the skills needed for or some experience in:
- creating outstanding, impactful content for user interfaces on web and mobile by using data
- scoping, writing, editing and managing user-centred content to make sure it’s accurate, timely, relevant, accessible and written to style
- using analytics, user research and feedback to identify user needs and inform content decisions
- convincing stakeholders and team members about the benefits of adopting an accessible, user-centred design approach
- working autonomously while managing tight deadlines under pressure
- managing and mentoring team members, and providing them with guidance, training and constructive feedback
This is an exciting time for the University of Southampton and we would love you to join us
The University of Southampton promotes a healthy work life balance with generous holiday allowance, flexi-time and flexible working. For more information on our benefits, please visit the HR pages. To read more about the team and its ethos, visit our blog.
**How to apply**
- You will also need to attach a statement of suitability/covering letter (2 pages maximum) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities, and experience relevant for this role.
If you want to talk first, please contact Ayala Gordon, Associate Director - Digital User Experience.**Further details**:
- Job Description and Person Specification
We believe equality, diversity and inclusion are fundamental to making the University of Southampton a welcoming, vibrant and successful organisation. Having a diverse workforce, inclusive of people of all ages and beliefs, from different racial, educational and social backgrounds opens up a wealth of possibilities, makes us more creative and accelerates our impact on society. We welcome applicants that value the diversity of our community and are willing to play their part in supporting the mission of inclusivity.
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