Content Designer in Salford

An exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Content Designer to join our team and organisation for a fixed-term of 12 months (Maternity cover). We are committed to fostering an inclusive work environment and we are interested in you as an individual. We are looking for someone with experience in user-centred design for digital products/services, to create high quality, engaging content for the organisation.

Crescent Purchasing Consortium (CPC) is a not-for-profit charity that gives back to the education sector and a one-stop procurement shop, with a vision of being the first-choice procurement services charity that gives back to the education sector. Combining professional support, expert guidance, and resources with FREE training and development opportunities via Crescent Learning.

Each year CPC's Board of Trustees review the level of reserves our charity has and any surpluses are reinvested back into the education sector via the 'Giving Back' initiative. To date over £2 million has been designated for re-investment in the form of various projects with the largest amount being used specifically for awarding non-refundable grants to CPC members supporting SEND learners, wellbeing and absenteeism in colleges, schools, academies, and universities nationwide.

What makes us different? We’re an award-winning organisation recognised and certified as a 'Great place to work'. We offer a collaborative, exciting environment where your ideas are heard and valued. We provide competitive salaries, benefits, and opportunities for career development. We’re making a real difference and you can be a part of it! We aspire to have a diverse and inclusive workplace and strongly encourage suitably qualified applicants from a wide range of backgrounds to apply and join us.

What’s the role? The role is offered as a full-time or part-time position based at our head office in Salford for a fixed term of 12 months (Maternity cover) from 29th June 2026 to 31st July 2027. Being part of the Communications Team, you will lead and deliver continuous improvement to our websites and digital email marketing campaign via Mailchimp to enhance and evolve our Group service offer for the benefit of our members, partners and wider stakeholders.

As a content designer you will be responsible for creating, evaluating, updating and reviewing content at all stages of the end-to-end user journey. You will work collaboratively with other multi-disciplinary team members as well as liaise with internal and external stakeholders. In this role your work may involve the creation of, or change to, a transaction, product or single piece of content that stretches across digital and offline channels. You will be responsible for delivering rich, brand-building content to support our Five-Year Strategic Plan and Communications and Marketing Strategy.

Role responsibilities include conducting thorough research on industry-related topics, generating ideas for new content types and proofreading articles before publication to ensure it is of the highest standard, engaging, meets the brief and aligned to the overall organisational messaging. Your content design skills will also be utilised for Group-wide research, surveys and direct email marketing and will support the wider Communications Team day-to-day business activity.

What are we looking for? We are looking for someone with experience in the following areas:

• The principles of writing for different digital channels, platforms and a wide range of users, including use of different formats.
• User-centred design for digital products and services – including different approaches to content and how best to use them.
• Digital email marketing systems such as Mailchimp and working with marketing lists in a CRM system.
• Pay per click and LinkedIn marketing.
• Email marketing software.
• Understanding of content life-cycle management and evidence-based content design.

Benefits We offer a wide range of benefits including:

• Salary of up to £36,000 FTE per annum depending on experience.
• Generous yearly discretionary bonuses following successful probation.
• Remote working with visits to clients onsite when required.
• Access to a local government pension scheme which includes death-in-service and ill health.
• Opportunities to develop through in-house development programmes and through external learning with full support given to achieve MCIPS.
• 41 days holiday (including three days additional leave for Christmas holiday closure and bank holidays).
• Time off for volunteering opportunities.
• Enhanced leave packages such as paid sickness, carer leave, bereavement and compassionate leave and maternity pay.
• Support for wellbeing with access to 8 mental health first aiders and the opportunity to join an Employee Assistance Programme.
• The chance to get involved in a number of working groups, such as Equality Diversity and Inclusion, Wellbeing and Sustainability.
• The opportunity to join our Women's, Men's and Carer's employee support networks which provide safe spaces for colleagues to share their experiences.
• Social and employee events throughout summer and at Christmas.
• A programme of ‘giving back’ to the communities in which it is based and which it supports.
• Travel expenses paid for any additional required travelling outside of your contracted place of work.

Next Steps The deadline to apply is Sunday 17th May 2026. Following successful application, we will invite selected candidates to meet for an interview with our hiring managers. If you like what you’ve read, please don’t delay in applying as we may close vacancies early where we receive lots of applications. Please note that VISA sponsorship is not offered for this role. We are a disability confident employer so if you need any adjustments made to support your application, for example, if you require information in different formats or if you have any accessibility issues, we’re more than happy to review our processes. Please feel free to get in touch with us at peopledevelopment@thecpc.ac.uk.

As an equal opportunities employer, Crescent Purchasing Consortium is committed to the equal treatment of all current and prospective employees and does not condone discrimination on the basis of age, disability, sex, sexual orientation, pregnancy and maternity, race or ethnicity, religion or belief, gender identity, or marriage and civil partnership.