Company Name Government Digital Service
Company Location London, United Kingdom
Who we are
GDS is helping to redefine how a modern government should serve its citizens. Our work is cutting-edge and award-winning. It is improving the lives of millions of people.
Find out more at the GDS Blog.
What you’ll do
Content designers make things easier for people to understand and use. They make sure government services and information are as helpful as possible.
This can involve writing a single piece of content or designing a complete user journey through a process. They put the right information in the best place for users.
Content designers put the needs of users first.
Your impact
As a Senior Content Designer you’ll:
- identify and build strong relationships with stakeholders across large-scale and high-profile projects, influencing and collaborating with them to improve content quality
- create and iterate user-centred content efficiently and to a high standard
- use analytics data, user feedback and user research to identify user needs, map user journeys and inform content strategy
- review and provide direction on the work of other content designers and experts from other disciplines
- manage relationships between your team and other teams in GDS to ensure consistency and share good practice
- contribute to guidance for government, including content principles and patterns
- contribute to the GDS content design community and cross-government content design community
- help colleagues and stakeholders from other disciplines understand what content design is, why it’s important and how to work with content designers
For further information about the role and how to apply please click on the link below
Some of the benefits people at GDS love!
- civil Service pension schemes which ranges between 24-30%
- 25 days + 1 special days leave for the Queen’s birthday. An additional days leave is accrued for every year of service up-to 30 days.
- flexible working and a brilliant work life balance
- working on things that affect the lives of every UK citizen
- working in modern development environments and with modern agile delivery principles
**For more information about the role, salary and benefits please follow the “Apply” link.**