Content Designer

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

- 429523

**Salary**:

- £42,893 - £50,220
- £46,725 - £50,220 (London) / £42,893 - £45,653 (National) Based on capability. The base salary of this grade is £46,169 for London and £42,382 for other locations. Offers made above this will be made up with a specialist pay allowance.

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- GDS - Office of the Chief Technology Officer

**Type of role**:

- Digital
Information Technology

**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

**Number of jobs available**:

- 1

**Contents**:

- Location
- About the job
- Benefits
- Things you need to know

**Location**:

- Bristol, London, Manchester

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government. Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

- joining up public sector services
- harnessing the power of AI for the public good
- strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
- elevating leadership and investing in talent
- funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
- committing to transparency and driving accountability

We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.

We’re part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology (DSIT) and employ more than 1,000 people all over the UK, with hubs in Manchester, London and Bristol.

The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.

Join us for rewarding work that makes a difference across the UK. You'll solve some of the nation’s highest-priority digital challenges, helping millions of people access services they need.

The Office of Chief Technology Officer (OCTO) in GDS leads the whole of the UK public sector to _do technology well_ by providing know-how and tools to technologists and foster digital communities. A strong priority of the overall digital and technology vision is to keep our digital services resilient to cyber security and technology risks and their consequences.

**Job description**:
As a content designer you will:

- create, improve and manage user-centered content using analytics, user feedback, user research and other sources of information
- contribute to and help develop domains-related guidance to publish on GOV.UK and security.gov.uk
- work on a variety of security content for our cross-government services
- identify the needs of users, write user stories, design content plans, create and publish content
- identity and collaborate effectively with stakeholders, making sure appropriate policy and legal checks happen within other departments of government
- contribute to the cross-government and GDS content community

**Person specification**:
We’re interested in people with strong interpersonal skills who enjoy working in a delivery focused, agile environment. It is essential that you have:

- experience creating, improving and publishing user-centred content for UK Public facing digital projects
- experience in using content management systems and content production processes to publish content
- the experience and ability to manage and prioritise different pieces of work and adapt to changing circumstances across several services
- an understanding of cyber security risk and government cyber security best practices
- experience designing services in line with the GOV.UK Service Manual, translating user stories into content that meets user needs, proposing suitable design approaches, and using qualitative and quantitative data to turn user insights into outcomes

**Benefits**:
There are many benefits of working at GDS, including:

- flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours
- a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
- 25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days
- an extra day off for the King’s birthday
- an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance
- career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development
- paid volunteering leave
- a focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme
- job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK
- advances on pay, including for travel season tickets
- death in service benefits
- cycle to work scheme and facilities