At a Glance
- Tasks: Design user-centred content for impactful public sector projects with minimal support.
- Company: Join Made Tech, a design-led company transforming society through technology.
- Benefits: 30 days holiday, flexible working hours, remote options, and paid counselling.
- Other info: Be part of a supportive community focused on user-centred design.
- Why this job: Make a real difference in the public sector while developing your design skills.
- Qualifications: Experience in content design and mentoring less experienced designers.
The predicted salary is between 40000 - 50000 £ per year.
Made Tech wants to positively impact the future of the country by using technology to improve society. We believe being design-led can create positive outcomes in the public sector, through critical services enabled by technology. We are building a community of designers and researchers to support the public sector's growing demand for a design-led approach to digital transformation service delivery.
A Senior Content Designer is an experienced practitioner who works on a complex or large-scale service, with minimal support. They work autonomously, influencing and mentoring others to design user-centred content to a high standard. They work on a multidisciplinary delivery team to design content that’s informed by their experience, best practice and evidence, and meets the client’s objectives as well as user needs.
They are visible contributors to a healthy user-centred design (UCD) community and culture at Made Tech. They report to a Lead Content Designer.
As a Senior Content Designer, you will:
- assure the quality of content delivery within your service team and contribute to Made Tech’s content design standards
- be accountable for the production of high quality, user-centred content
- help delivery teams get a shared understanding of problems to solve and ideas to test
- audit services to identify accessibility issues with content
- have thorough knowledge of the government Service Standard and how to meet it through content design best practice
- demonstrate good habits for sharing and improving content
- demonstrate experience in creating, iterating, managing and overseeing content across multiple channels
- manage less experienced content designers
- support the hiring and onboarding of content designers
- contribute to a safe, supportive, healthy community of practice
- represent content design publicly and internally
Get in touch with our talent team if you’d like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We've recently introduced a flexible benefit platform which includes a Smart Tech scheme, Cycle to work scheme, and an individual benefits allowance which you can invest in a Health care cash plan or Pension plan.
30 days Holiday - we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays
Flexible Working Hours - we are flexible with what hours you work
Flexible Parental Leave - we offer flexible parental leave options
Remote Working - we offer part time remote working for all our staff
Paid counselling - we offer paid counselling as well as financial and legal advice
