Job Description

On behalf of UKRI, we are looking for a Digital Content Designer (Inside IR35) for a 6 month contract based Remote (Occasional travel to Swindon Office).



You'll be working in a multidisciplinary agile team, where you'll be leading on the planning and delivery of content design activities for the team. You'll have a lot of autonomy and support from the team, as well as the UCD Lead. The team uses Confluence, Jira, Slack and Miro to collaborate with teams. Design Operations is maturing with our Design System (a spin off GOVUK Design System) and we use Figma.



As a Digital Content Designer your main responsibilities will be to:

Provide content design, practices, tools and techniques across UKRI to ensure user needs are met simply and intuitively. Design clear, accessible content for digital services. Collaborate with colleagues across disciplines in a fast-moving environment with evolving user needs. Work with subject-matter experts (SMEs) to promote user-centred content design. Apply a variety of user experience design techniques and methodologies. Ensure that the team/project/programme takes a user centred, evidenced based approach to content design. Identify gaps in content design skills and capability and help teams grow and develop. Contribute to UKRI's internal content design community of practice, sharing expertise and standard approaches to content design across all UKRI digital services.

Essential:

Experience of working in agile delivery teams. Experience designing content for large or complex projects/programmes using a range of user experience techniques. Proven ability to drive content design practices, tools and techniques. Experience planning and delivering designs well ahead of the development pipeline in agile software teams. Extensive experience creating, iterating, managing and overseeing content across multiple channels. Experience of iterating a live digital service - working with business stakeholders on content reviews.

Desirable:

Experience of working standard design toolkits and tools, ideally with the GDS Design system and prototype kit.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.



Disability Confident



As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.



Armed Forces Commitment



UKRI guarantees to interview?veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we?will interview the best candidates from within that group. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.



In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".