Content Designer

• Content Designer - Central Government
• 3-month contract (initially)
• Remote-Working (+ onsite in Scotland)
• Outside-IR35
• Market Rates (c£450 to £500 per day)

The Opportunity:

We are looking to attract an experienced Content Designer to support a central government client's major programme of work designed to modernise agricultural support and transition the farming and land-use sector as they move towards sustainable and regenerative practices.

Working alongside Service Design and programme teams, you will help establish a joined-up, user-centred approach to content and communications across services supporting farmers, crofters and agricultural staff, assessing the existing content landscape, identifying gaps and inefficiencies to help develop recommendations for future content strategy, governance and operational practices.

Skills and Experience:

• Proven Content Design experience within complex digital transformation or service improvement programmes.
• Experience conducting large-scale content audits, discovery and content assessments.
• Strong knowledge of content strategy, governance and content operations.
• Understanding of user-centred design principles, accessibility and content standards.
• Excellent stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation and communication skills.
• Experience working within multidisciplinary Agile delivery teams.
• Previous public-sector, central government or GOV.UK experience across the GDS (Government Digital Services platform), particularly within large-scale transformation programmes is very desirable.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Conduct comprehensive content audits, assessing existing content, ownership, duplication and inconsistencies.
• Identify opportunities to improve content structure, navigation, accessibility and usability.
• Develop a user-centred content strategy aligned with programme objectives and user needs.
• Define content governance, ownership models, workflows and version-control processes.
• Establish content standards and operating practices to improve consistency across digital and non-digital communications.
• Work collaboratively with Service Designers, User Researchers and wider multidisciplinary teams.

N.B. Candidates will have or be willing to undergo a basic level of security clearance prior to starting the role.

Applications:

To learn more about this newly created opportunity consulting as a Content Designer for an initial 3-month temporary contract engagement, consulting on a remote-working basis with an ad-hoc requirement to be onsite at the client in Scotland as and when required; please call and speak with Edward Laing here at ISR or please send through a copy of your latest online profile and/or CV see below for an immediate call back in the strictest confidence.

Please contact Edward here at ISR to learn more about our client leading the way in developing the next-generation of solutions for the future of the UK's agricultural and farming sectors through innovation and transformational technology?