Content Designer

**Location**:

- Brighton, UK**Hours**:**Salary**:

- Grade 6 starting at £34,132 to £38,249 per annum, pro rata if part time.**Contract Type**:

- Fixed Term ContractAbout the role

Sussex is mid-way through a digital transformation programme that includes a new website and content operating model. It’s a significant change for the organisation. For the next six months, we’re looking for a proactive and flexible person to join our content strategy team and help us move content from an old CMS into a new CMS.

Our skilled content designers create, design and manage user-focused digital content that aligns with our brand and web standards. You’ll champion user needs while helping different parts of the University achieve their business goals across our online estate.

Your expertise in user-focused content design, decision-making based on analytics and skills in building trust and confidence with stakeholders will be critical to your success in this role.

The post-holder will advocate for content approaches that support SEO and web best practices, being proactive in improving content where necessary.

About you

You can actively listen and ask questions to understand problems, but you're able to get the job done. You're aware of your strengths and weaknesses, but can make recommendations. You can see other people’s point of view while working towards solutions. These are crucial behaviours, as it has become clear that digital transformation is as much about understanding people as it is about understanding systems or being creative.

You’re able to think about organisations from the outside in, viewing content and processes from the perspective of the people trying to interact with services and access information. You’ll naturally have a high attention to detail as well as good writing and editing skills, meaning you can switch between being detail-orientated and thinking more generally about what our audiences are trying to do on our website and other platforms and also what we want to tell them about Sussex.

About our Division

The CEA division is vital in contributing towards the success of Sussex. We work closely in partnership our academic schools and other learning institutions in the UK, and, Internationally to attract the very best students we can.

Our ideas matter, that is why we work and advise on Institutional Growth Strategies to support the University in achieving positive outcomes. The life-long relationships with our global alumni and friends enable many of the gifts which allow Sussex’s research to flourish.

Why work here

Our university is situated off the A27, next to the beautiful South Downs where you will enjoy everything that our 150-acre campus has to offer. We are accessible by public transport; Falmer train station is a five-minute walk to campus and several bus stops are located within campus. We also have dedicated cycling paths and encourage our staff to use these with our offering of a cycle to work scheme.

Sussex is a renowned, multi-accredited, research-led International University and this is only possible because of the people that work here. Whether you are a member of Faculty, part of a Professional Services team or a Student, it’s our people that make us great and we want you to be part of that.

Find out about our equality, diversity and inclusion

Further Key Information

The University of Sussex values the diversity of its staff and students, and we welcome applicants from all backgrounds.

The University requires that work undertaken for the University is performed in the UK.
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- August 4, 2025 5:59 PM

**Expected Interview Date**:

- Week commencing 11th of August, in-person on the Falmer campus.

**Expected Start Date**:

- As soon as possible

**Fixed Term Contract Duration**:

- Fixed term until 31st January 2026