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SalaryContent Designer
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DWP. Digital with purpose.
- Are you a Content Designer with a detail focus
- Are you passionate about high-quality content that is easy to understand and drives the right outcomes
- Do you want to make DWP services work better for millions of people
DWP Digital is transforming the way government works. We're hiring the best digital talent to work in agile, multidisciplinary teams and deliver better public products and services.
We're looking for talented, purpose-driven Content Designers to work on GOV.UK, and on services that make a difference to people's lives.
If you want to be part of our expert community, click apply now to start an application.
Design. Words. People.
In DWP Digital our Content Designers focus on meeting user needs:
- We make complex information and processes easy to understand and follow, and
- We help DWP products and services achieve their intended outcomes - helping people find work, access benefits and get support.
Content designers meet user needs with content. They help people complete essential tasks and access the support they need.
As our new Content Designer you'll be responsible for creating, updating and reviewing content for end-to-end user journeys. You'll get the most appropriate content to users in the right place and in the right format.
DWP Content Designers are comfortable using evidence, data and research to make the right content decisions. You'll make sure user needs and goals are met, and that our services and products meets policy intent.
We are looking for a Content Designer who can work within a multidisciplinary team across digital and non-digital channels. Our designers contribute to and use style guides and design patterns to produce consistent content.
Your essential skills and experience:
- Experience working at pace within an agile digital environment
- Experience using style guides to produce plain English content with exemplary spelling and grammar.
- Able to take a user-centred approach to content design and explain design decisions in a way that other people understand.
- Able to put forward the case for content design to senior stakeholders and product owners.
- Experience of using data and user research to inform content decisions.
- Able to handle constructive criticism of your work and to constructively review other people's work.
- Know how your work fits into the wider context of the team and department.
Details. Wages. Perks.
You'll be based in our brilliant digital hub in London.
We also have all the tools and tech to work flexibly. We work a hybrid model - some time at home some time in the office.
We offer competitive pay of up to £47,986 per annum.
You'll be eligible for a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 27.9%, worth up to £13,388 a year.
You'll get a generous leave package starting at 26 days, rising to 31 over time.
Plus all the usual bank holidays, and the option to take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi leave.
We have a benefits package built around your work-life balance, which includes:
- Flexible working, flexi hours and flexi days
- Hybrid working: some time in a hub with the team, some time at home
- Family-friendly policies
- Time off for volunteering and charitable giving
- Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP'
- Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket
- Working in an award-winning environment and culture
- Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities
Click 'Apply' for more information and to start an application on Civil Service Jobs
