Senior Content Designer

5 months ago


Birmingham, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

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

- 344960**Salary**:

- £51,934-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Elections**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Birmingham, Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Here at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), we work on things that make a real difference to people’s lives.

Whether it's through the homes we live in, the work of our local councils, or the communities we’re all part of, our work is at the top of the political agenda. We have ambitious and far-reaching outcomes to achieve this year and, if you’re thinking of joining us, there’s never been a more exciting time.

We have over 3,500 staff who are based in 20 offices across the UK.

The Senior Content Designer will be part of our Elections Digital team at DLUHC. It’s an exciting time to improve and expand the electoral services in Public Beta to meet users’ needs better. This includes:

- Register to vote
- Vote in UK elections ‘step by step’

We need to improve the understanding of the users and their needs, assess the users’ experience of our services and test design ideas, focusing on people with disabilities and people who don’t have access to the internet or lack the skills or confidence to use it. Your work will benefit millions of people use our services each year to vote in the UK.

Find out more about what it's like to work in a digital, data and technology role at DLUHC including our culture, ways of working, career progression and staff benefits. You can also read the DLUHC Digital blog to learn about the work we're doing.

**Job description**:
Content Designers are key figures in our team. They help us make complex information and processes easy to understand and follow. Their skills helps our team design services that meet user needs and achieve their intended outcomes.

As Senior Content Designer, you will:

- write clear and easy to understand content in plain English that meets user needs and achieves the right outcomes
- review, editing and evaluate content
- follow the GOV.UK Style Guide, the Service Manual and the GOV.UK Design system
- have a deep understanding of the content patterns in the different services
- design inclusive services that meet a range of access needs
- use research and data to develop, test and iterate multiple design ideas
- work closely with researchers, designers, and other stakeholders
- give, receive, and encourage constructive criticism

**Person specification**:
We will use the essential criteria below to evaluate you during the recruitment process. Make sure your CV, cover letter and interview answers explain how you meet the criteria. We recommend using the STAR technique (situation, task, action, result) and first-singular pronouns (‘I’, ‘me’, ‘my’ and ‘mine’ instead of ‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’, ‘ours’).

We are looking for someone who has extensive experience:

- writing clear and easy to understand content in plain English that meets user needs and achieves the right outcomes
- reviewing, editing and evaluating content
- following the GOV.UK Style guide, the Service Manual and the GOV.UK Design System
- using research and data to develop, test and iterate multiple design ideas
- designing inclusive services that meet a wide range of access needs
- working closely and negotiating with stakeholders
- giving, receiving, and encouraging constructive criticism

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £51,934, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £14,022 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Ability and Experience.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

We are for everyone

**CV and Cover Letter Declaration**

We recruit based on your knowledge and skills, and not background, gender or ethnicity - this is called name blind recruitment.

Please remove references to your:

- name/title
- educational institutions
- age
- gender
- postal address
- phone number
- nationality/immigration status

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