Content Designer (Contract)

Project overview

Content Designer

Contract rate-280-300 Inside IR35

Clearance: BPSS

We are looking for a Content Designer to create clear, user-centred content for public sector digital services. You will work at pace in an agile team, using research and data to shape content that people understand first time.

Responsibilities

What you will bring

Desirable

• Design and write content for digital services using plain English and a style guide.
• Take a user-centred approach, basing content decisions on user needs.
• Plan user research and use research findings and data to inform content design.
• Share content ideas quickly through sketching and prototyping.
• Explain your design decisions clearly to colleagues and stakeholders.
• Work at pace as part of a multidisciplinary agile team.
• Proven experience as a Content Designer on digital services.
• Exemplary spelling, grammar and editing skills.
• Experience writing to a style guide in plain English.
• Experience planning user research and using data to inform content.
• Ability to sketch or prototype content ideas quickly.
• Confidence explaining design decisions to people from different backgrounds.
• Experience on UK government services and knowledge of the GOV.UK style guide.
• Understanding of accessibility standards (WCAG).

Project details

• Start: ASAP
• Location: Newcastle, Tyne & Wear, UK, GB
• Languages: English