Senior Content Designer - Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom - The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames

The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
Verified Company
Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

Tom O´Connor

Posted by:

Tom O´Connor

beBee Recruiter
Description

Employer
Kingston Council


Location(s)
Kingston, Sutton


Contract Type
Permanent


Working Hours
Full Time


Grade
J


Hours Per Week
36


Salary Range
£47,805 - £52,929


Salary Basis
Per annum


Leave Entitlement
29 days


Application Deadline
05/03/2023, 23:55


Anticipated Interview Date(s)
Week Commencing 20th March 2023


About the Borough
Joining us, you get to work for not just one high performing London Borough, but two.


Sutton and Kingston councils have a number of shared services serving both authorities, with some teams and roles more focussed on one Council than the other, but the majority are shared across both, meaning you get multiple opportunities to learn from a wider pool of activities and two different political bodies.


We work flexibly in both Sutton and Kingston offices, and support working at home or flexible working patterns that enable you to tailor your working life to everything else in your life.

We provide the equipment and tools to enable you to work flexibly, and in return ask you to use that flexibility to be creative and ambitious in the services we deliver.

There are some really exciting things happening in both Sutton and Kingston.

We are developing the London Cancer Hub, a world leading cancer research and treatment hub that will bring together professionals from across different sectors to identify and test new treatments and therapies.

We are undertaking the largest housing regeneration programme ever delivered in Kingston, building new energy efficient housing that will transform some of our oldest Council owned housing.

Both boroughs have publicly committed to doing what they can to tackle the climate emergency and are investing in new technologies and societal change that will help bring carbon emissions down and improve our climate impact.


We work flexibly in both Sutton and Kingston offices, providing the equipment and tools to support hybrid working patterns that enable your working life; in return we ask you to use this to be creative and ambitious in the services we deliver.

You should choose Sutton and Kingston if you are looking for an opportunity that will challenge you to deliver more, support you to achieve personal ambitions, and expect you to put borough residents at the heart of what you do.


Sutton is a well connected attractive part of London that has a reputation for excellent schools, green and leafy open spaces, and a history that drives a thriving heritage and culture offer through our museums and libraries.

The Council is controlled by a long established Liberal Democrat Administration and has high ambitions set out in its corporate plan "Ambitious for Sutton", that will ensure Sutton remains a great place to live, work and raise a family.

The Council plays a leading role in a number of local partnerships and places great emphasis on engaging effectively with its residents, listening to local voices and making their message heard across London Government.


Kingston is a beautiful Royal borough with a historic setting on the banks of the Thames with excellent schools and a bustling retail centre, all surrounded by open green spaces such as RIchmond Park and Bushey Park, former recreation grounds for Tudor kings and queens.

The Council is controlled by a Liberal Democrat Administration and has a corporate plan "Making Kingston Better Together" that sets out a vision to be a vibrant, diverse and inclusive borough where residents are active, empowered, engaged and able to remain independent and resilient.

The Council engages with residents through a number of forums and events through the year, and like Sutton plays a leading role in developing the South West Region of London.


About the Role
We are currently looking for a Senior Content Designer to plan and lead the Content Design discipline.

This role is part of the design community in our digital delivery team, which consists of content designers, interaction designers and service designers.

The role reports directly to the Head of Design.


The postholder will also lead content design processes within larger agile, multi-disciplinary teams, and on our more complex services to help deliver content that makes it easier for a user to understand and access our services.


As a Senior Content Designer, you will:

  • Set the content strategy for our websites and transactional services.
  • Set content standards and be responsible for improving content quality on our websites.
  • Work in a multidisciplinary team to design, write and iterate content to meet user needs.
  • Write and map user stories.

About the work

In 2023 you will:

  • Set and publish our content principles and guidelines.
  • Lead a content refresh of Kingston's website.
  • Lead a quality review of all our transactional services.
  • Support product teams as they design and write content.
We are a hybrid working organisation and for this role, you will be able to work from home most o
More jobs from The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames
See all jobs of The Royal Borough of Kingston upon Thames