Senior Content Designer

1 week ago

Bristol, United Kingdom Research England Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 339626**Salary**:

- £43,116 - £47,076- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer- UKRI Band E**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- RE - Technology**Type of role**:

- Analytical
- Business Management and Improvement
- Digital
- Information Technology
- Intelligence
- Knowledge and Information Management
- Operational Delivery
- Statistics
- Other**Working pattern**:

- Full-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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- Bristol (hybrid working)About the job

**Job summary**:
**Senior Content Designer**

**Salary**:£43,116 - £47,076 per annum

**Hours**:Full time.

**Contract Type**:Permanent (Fixed Term to Dec 2029 then redeployed within the organization)

**Location**:Bristol (hybrid working)

**Closing Date**:18 Feb 24

**Job Purpose**

The Research Excellence Framework (REF) is the system for assessing the quality of research in UK higher education institutions, with the most recent exercise concluding in 2021. It is a peer review assessment process involving submissions from higher education institutions across the UK. Research England delivered REF 2021 on behalf of the four UK funding bodies and the results have driven the annual distribution of approximately £2 billion of research funding to UK universities.

**Purpose of the role**

An exciting opportunity to lead and shape the design, development, and delivery of the UK’s next research assessment exercise. We require systems to be delivered to support:

- Administration of the exercise
- The submission of large volumes of research data from all participating HEIs
- The dissemination and assessment of all elements of the research data submitted.

You will provide content design expertise on all digital services and REF publications where content design is a key part of the scope, using a variety of user experience design techniques and methodologies.

In addition to content design you will also prepare and deliver training and user guidance required to support the running of the exercise. You can contribute to a user centred design internal community of practice to share expertise and standard approaches to content design within UKRI.

**Job description**:
**Accountability**

**Agile working (content design)**. You can understand the role of content in multidisciplinary teams and can articulate and advocate it. You can work collaboratively with colleagues from other disciplines in multidisciplinary teams.

**Content concepts and prototyping**. You can build and create a variety of different prototypes, from paper sketches to coded prototypes. You can choose the most appropriate option to visualise content in context for different audiences.

**Stakeholder relationship management (content design)**. You can negotiate with and influence stakeholders, and manage relationships effectively. You can influence decisions, deal with challenging situations and remove blockers.

**Strategic thinking (content design)**. You can help lead the design and implementation of strategies, evaluating their impact and progress to ensure business objectives and the needs of users are being met.

**User focus (content design)**. You can collaborate with user researchers and performance analysts to advocate effectively for users. You can understand the different types of user research, evidence and data.

**User-centred content design**. You can show a deep understanding of end-to-end journeys and how content is affected within these journeys. You can identify where journey fixes or content improvements need to be made.

**Person specification**:
**Shortlisting**
- Experience of working in agile delivery teams
- Experience of content designing large or sophisticated projects/programmes using a variety of user experience design techniques
- Experience of driving content design practices, tools and techniques
- Experience of working in an agile software delivery team: planning, conducting and delivering designs well ahead of the development pipeline
- Experience in developing and rolling out training across a diverse user community

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £43,116, Research England contributes £11,641 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Flexible Working
- 30 days annual leave + Public Holidays
- Access to Civil Service Pension Scheme
- Various everyday discounts through our dedicated provider

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**Selection process details**:

- For more information and to apply, please visit our Careers Pages.
- Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.**Security**:
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