The public sector client is looking to recruit a Content Designer (Strategist) for a short term contract for 4/5 months (up until the end of March 2023).  The successful candidate will be based in Birmingham – at least 3 days per week in the office.

The successful candidate will have a valid SC Clearance. This assignment sits inside IR35.

You will : Work on a single piece of content or on the end-to-end journey of a service to help users complete their goal. May involve the creation of, or change to, a transaction, product or single piece of content that stretches across digital and offline channels. An expectation that appropriate content is shown to a user in the right place and in the best format; starting from discovery and working closely with user researchers, service designers and interaction designers. Be responsible for creating, evaluating, updating and reviewing content at all stages of the end-to-end user journey. Need to be comfortable using evidence, data and research to make content decisions; build relationships to focus on the needs of the user and to influence stakeholders; contribute to and use the style guides and content patterns.Typical Skills: Understand different prototyping techniques and be able to use them to visualise content in context. Identify important stakeholders and communicate with them clearly and regularly. Contribute to content strategies and policies, and can create content patterns or standards. Can identify tasks that will provide insights into a problem, formulate hypotheses, gain insights from data and user research and make decisions on findings. Design content to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand, presenting the right information in the right format for what users need. Have robust experience of writing, editing and publishing digital content. Understand accessibility requirements and can design content that works with common assistive technologies.

The Client has listed the main duties for this role as below:
• Developing and implementing a UKFIU digital media strategy
• Planning, evaluating and disseminating digital content to reach specific audiences
• Conducting analytics to assess the UKFIU’s online presence and using that to direct future engagement and products.
• Preparing, creating and promoting UKFIU video/audio materials (films, podcasts etc.) across various platforms catering for varied audiences
• Developing, maintaining and building the UKFIU’s own specific brand and look

You will : Work on a single piece of content or on the end-to-end journey of a service to help users complete their goal. May involve the creation of, or change to, a transaction, product or single piece of content that stretches across digital and offline channels. An expectation that appropriate content is shown to a user in the right place and in the best format; starting from discovery and working closely with user researchers, service designers and interaction designers. Be responsible for creating, evaluating, updating and reviewing content at all stages of the end-to-end user journey. Need to be comfortable using evidence, data and research to make content decisions; build relationships to focus on the needs of the user and to influence stakeholders; contribute to and use the style guides and content patterns.Typical Skills: Understand different prototyping techniques and be able to use them to visualise content in context. Identify important stakeholders and communicate with them clearly and regularly. Contribute to content strategies and policies, and can create content patterns or standards. Can identify tasks that will provide insights into a problem, formulate hypotheses, gain insights from data and user research and make decisions on findings. Design content to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand, presenting the right information in the right format for what users need. Have robust experience of writing, editing and publishing digital content. Understand accessibility requirements and can design content that works with common assistive technologies.

|The successful candidate will have a valid SC Clearance.