At a Glance
- Tasks: Create user-focused content for digital projects in healthcare and government.
- Company: Join Difrent, a forward-thinking company delivering cutting-edge digital services.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, dynamic work environment, and opportunity to make a real impact.
- Other info: Exciting role with potential for growth in a vibrant Newcastle development centre.
- Why this job: Be part of an agile team transforming digital services and enhancing user experiences.
- Qualifications: Experience in web content design, user needs analysis, and agile project environments.
The predicted salary is between 54000 - 66000 £ per year.
At Difrent, we have an ambitious growth plan that will see us delivering cutting edge digital services to our Healthcare, Government and Corporate clients. Due to our on-going success, we're now looking for a proactive and experienced Content Designer ideally with previous experience of working in the government digital service space, to join us at our fantastic new development centre in Newcastle. In this role, you'll interact with our clients on one or more agile projects, typically to help deliver a specific product via a multidisciplinary, highly skilled digital team. You'll be adept at working within complex digital projects.
Duration: 3 months
Location: Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Rate: up to £450 per day
Responsibilities:
- User needs analysis: Observing, working and analysing user needs from existing content, write and manage user needs, propose changes where necessary.
- Transition phase: identify content gaps and overlaps based on user needs analysis, identify the appropriate content format for a topic area, for example flat page, tool, service etc. Be able to discuss and defend content decisions.
- Ensure a high-quality user-focused approach: Ensuring content is relevant to the audience, easily understood and SEO optimised, review the work of other content designers to make sure consistency and excellence is maintained across the site.
Required Skills:
- Work in an agile environment with rapidly changing deadlines, workloads and goals.
- Be able to judge a good/bad user need.
- Turn user needs into easy to understand content.
- Write with the user in mind.
- Take complex language and processes and make them simple to understand.
- Judge the quality of medical source material.
- Build and manage relationships with non-digital people.
Experience required:
- Extensive experience of writing for the web, with proven ability of creating content that is accessible and usable.
- Exceptional skills in convincing people that user needs and a usable approach is the only way to present information.
- Proven experience in using metrics and user feedback to define/refine content.
- Proven experience of working within a web application development environment, proficient in writing Markdown, picture sourcing and editing.
- Experience in choosing the best format for displaying information to the user.
- Experience in working with content publishing systems.
- Experience of working to the Government Digital Service (GDS) guidelines.
Please note that candidates will need a minimum of a DBS/criminal record check for this contract.
CONTENT DESIGNER – Digital Transformation - Outside IR35 in Newcastle upon Tyne employer: Difrent
At Difrent, we pride ourselves on being an excellent employer, offering a collaborative work culture that values innovation and employee growth. Located in the vibrant city of Blackpool, our team enjoys competitive rates and the opportunity to work on meaningful projects within the public sector, ensuring that your contributions make a real difference in the community.
