Content Designer - Bristol, United Kingdom - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Verified Company

Bristol, United Kingdom

2 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Job description
Content designers help to identify and match users' needs to the right kind of content.

They use language and other tools to help people find and do what they need to, in the way they need to.

Content designers are comfortable using data and user research to make the right content decisions.

They make sure users' goals are met and that a service or other product meets policy intent.

Person specification

Responsibilities

As a content designer, you'll:

Create new content and iteratively improve existing content across digital channels to meet user needs and departmental objectives
Evaluate content based on user research and analytics data
Use the style guide and other standards to design high quality content
Take part in user research and be able to work with multidisciplinary, Agile teams to contribute to an overall user experience
Build relationships and work closely with policy, legal and other expert colleagues to ensure content is accurate and consistent
Be an active member of the content design community, contributing to knowledge of best practices
Promote usercentred content design within the department and beyond

Skills and experience
To be considered for this role, you'll need to:

Have editorial experience of working on digital content
Have worked in an Agile or similar multidisciplinary environment
Know how to create content in a usercentred way
Know how to use analytics data and user research to make content design decisions
Be able to write and edit using a style guide and plain English
Be able to explain content decisions in a way that nonexperts understand
Be able to handle constructive criticism of your work and to constructively review other people's work
Be able to manage more junior content designers