Information Architect - Brighton, East Sussex, United Kingdom - Lorien

Description

Information Architect (Drupal Website) Hybrid (Brighton) - occasional travel into the office

Our public sector client are looking for an Information Architect to join them on an initial 3 month contract.

This role is to support the acceleration and delivery of the Clients Digital and Data Strategy by producing a number of strategic outputs that will support the transformation of the website over the next 2 years.

The role will report to the Digital Customer Programme Manager and work closely with the Digital Content Team Manager, Drupal (CMS Product Owner), and Lead Digital Architect over several months to support the programme.

Experience in information architecture and producing the required outputs of the role in a local authority context
Excellent knowledge of an industry standard Content Management platform, ideally Drupal.
Familiarity with web accessibility standards and guidelines (WCAG 2.

This role is to support the acceleration and delivery of the Clients Digital and Data Strategy by producing the following strategic outputs:

• A new Content Taxonomy and Navigation that aligns to Local Authority and GDS standards.

The Website teams have a high-level design that they are working to that is not written down.

the task is to co-create the new Content Taxonomy and Navigation and produce a design to map existing content to.

• Information Design and User Experience

if required, create standard wireframes to visualise content placement and layout and publish on website or intranet to support greater knowledge sharing of website content services.

with the content team to ensure consistency in typography, labels and visual elements.

• Content Models and Types

create a small library of defined content models (templates) for various content types across the site including existing ones.

(e.g. news articles, service pages short, service pages long, directorate policy information)

support the digital content team and IT&D service in specifying required fields, metadata and relationships between content across the site including Directorate information versus Hubs designed for specific personas.

• Review and support the design of metadata fields (tags. work closely and collaborate effectively with digital and content teams to align content strategy with technical implementation.