Content Designer

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

- 413363

**Salary**:

- £42,614 - £49,906
- Pay for this role in National locations is from £42,614 to £45,081.

Pay for this role in London is from £48,468 to £49,906.
- A Civil Service Pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%

GBP

**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer

**Contract type**:

- Permanent

**Business area**:

- DWP - Digital

**Type of role**:

- Digital
Information Technology

**Working pattern**:

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

**Number of jobs available**:

- 5

**Contents**:

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

**Location**:

- 2 roles will be based in Leeds
- 2 roles will be based in London.
- 1 role will be based in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield.

Commuting to your contractual office base location will be in your own time and at your own expense.

Please find further information on the Corporate hub locations here.

**About the job**:
**Job summary**:
Are you passionate about designing the high-quality content that people need?

We’re looking for enthusiastic and talented content designers to work on services that make a difference to people’s lives.

Putting users' needs at the heart of their work, a content designer makes people's interactions with government as simple as possible.

**Job description**:
A content designer is responsible for creating, evaluating, updating and reviewing content at all stages of the end-to-end user journey. At this role level, you will:

- Create content that's consistent with best practice, including the GOV.UK and DWP style guides and design systems.
- Use analytics and user research findings to design, iterate and explain your content.
- Collaborate with colleagues in other disciplines.
- Work with stakeholders outside your team - this might include fact-checking, pair-writing and explaining your designs using evidence.
- Take part in your local and DWP content design and user-centred design communities, including getting your work reviewed by other content designers and reviewing their work.
- Take a proactive approach to your own growth and learning.

**Person specification**:
See selection process for further details.

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

- Working Together
- Communicating and Influencing
- Delivering at Pace
- Changing and Improving

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

- User-centred content design

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £42,614, Department for Work and Pensions contributes £12,345 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

- Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours.
- Generous annual leave - at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (pro-rata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave.
- Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme.
- Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly).
- Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 year’s continuous service.
- Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes.
- An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Women’s Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more.

This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post.

**Salary Information**

Pay for this role in National locations is from £42,614 to £45,081.

Pay for this role in London is from £48,468 to £49,906.

Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should ma