Senior Content Designer

6 months ago

London, United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office Full time

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

- 301260**Salary**:

- £41,449- The total package for this role at SEO is £41,449 per annum (non-negotiable). This figure includes a non-pensionable, non-consolidated Location Allowance of £2,000.- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

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

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- LondonAbout the job

**Job summary**:

- The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office pursues our national interests and projects the UK’s role in the world.
- We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK's security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.**Job description**:
Read about working for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office

This role sits in our Consular Services Department. We take responsibility for services that British people abroad can access directly. For example:

- digital services (such as our emergency travel document service, notarial and document services, assistance services, and registration service)
- consular content on GOV.UK (such as travel advice)

We want you to help us create the best possible services for our users.

You will create, and be an advocate for, high-quality content that meets Government Digital Service (GDS) standards, working in multidisciplinary teams to bring content design skills to our digital services.

You will work with digital colleagues, contractors, and colleagues across FCDO.

There may be opportunities for travel, like visiting our emergency travel document centre in Madrid.

Examples of projects FCDO content designers are currently working on include:

- improving FCDO’s foreign travel advice
- creating new guidance for British people who need help when they’re abroad

In this role, you will:

- work on new content and continuous improvement of live content
- take responsibility for content quality on projects
- mentor a junior content colleague and contribute to the growing FCDO content community of practice
- review the work of junior content designers and other colleagues
- take an active role in user research activities, for example writing and mapping user stories
- understand the different user-centred design disciplines, (eg service design and user research) and how content design fits into this

For more information on what senior content designers in government do, read the role description on GOV.UK

**Person specification**:
**Minimum Criteria**
- creating clear, simple, and accessible content for a range of formats and audiences
- identifying user needs and creating content to meet those needs
- advocating for content design across an organisation and training non-content designers to create better digital content
- working with colleagues, including senior stakeholders, to inform and persuade on the best content design approaches
- agile working in multidisciplinary teams (for example, with service designers, user researchers and product managers)
- monitoring the performance of content, for example through research or analytics, and identifying ways to improve the service

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Communicating and Influencing
- Working Together
- Changing and Improving
- Making Effective Decisions

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- Content design approach - Presentation at interview stage

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £41,449, Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office contributes £11,191 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- A Civil Service Pension.
- 25 days Annual Leave per annum.
- 9 days Public and Privilege holidays per annum.
- Learning and Development tailored to your role.

Things you need to know

**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours, Experience and Technical skills.Please see the ‘Hints and Tips’ that are provided for your information about how to prepare Behaviour examples at the Interview stage.

**Application stage**

**Interview stage**

At interview stage, we will assess you against these Behaviours:
Communicating & Influencing
Working Together
Changing & Improving
Making Effective Decisions

**Reasonable adjustments**

If a person with disabilities is put at a substantial disadvantage compared to a non-disabled person, we have a duty to make reasonable changes to our processes.

**Further Information**

A reserve list may be held for a period of 12 months from which further appointments can be made.

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