Lead Content Designer

3 weeks ago


Milton Keynes, United Kingdom The Open University UK Full time

**Unit**: Digital Services
**Salary**: £57,696 to £64,914
**Location**: Milton Keynes
**Please quote reference**: 21332
Permanent, Full Time post
**Closing Date**: 15 December, 2023 - 12:00

**Change your career, change lives**

The Open University is the UK’s largest university, a world leader in flexible part-time education combining a mission to widen access to higher education with research excellence, transforming lives through education.

**The role**

We have an exciting opportunity for a Lead Content Designer who will be based within Digital Services. Digital Services brings trusted design, data, and technology know-how to the delivery of lifelong learning and is aligned with the Digital, Data and Design Profession which provides for communities of practice which supports professional development.

The initial focus of this role will be to support the Student Services Portfolio whose ambition it is to ensure services and products are highly user-centric and designed with the user (whether student or colleague) in mind ensuring best possible outcomes. The Portfolio is looking to champion new ways to deliver value as well as generating income, with a focus on making our services easier for all that use them. These roles all require experience of working with agile methodology, of leading, coaching and bringing out the best in your people.

We are looking for someone with extensive experience of using insights to design, improve and publish user-centred content. You will have experience of developing content strategies across services and across channels. You will also have experience leading and coaching other designers and bringing out the best in your people.

The full summary of duties and skills required for the role can be found within the Job Description here.

**What you get in return**

We have a strong commitment to providing training and development in and beyond your current role. This includes thorough induction into the organisation and regular reviews of your training and development needs.

We also offer a great range of benefits that support our employees and their families for the long term. Staff Benefits include an attractive pension proposition and 33 days holiday per annum pro rata, plus Bank Holidays and Christmas closure days.

**How to apply**

Access details for disabled applicants are available from the Resourcing Hub, telephone: 01908 655544, quoting the vacancy reference above.
- **CV**:

- **Personal statement, **_up to 500 words_**, you should set out in your statement why you’re interested in this role and provide examples of where your skills and experience meet the required competencies for this role as detailed in the job and person specification.**:

- **You can also provide URLs to examples or case studies of your work. These URLs can be included in your CV or personal statement.**

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