Senior Content Designer

Overview

You will be responsible for creating, updating and reviewing web content and user experience journeys to ensure content is well structured, accurate and easy to find. Your content will have a consistent look and feel that aligns with the University’s brand identity and content strategy, following user centred design as a service principle.

Working collaboratively, with an agile mindset, you will use your skills and expertise in content design to create a consistent and coherent experience that brings together insights, data, and research to continually deliver business and user needs.

You will design and create web content that is user-focused, well-structured, and aligned with the University’s brand identity. You will play a crucial role in ensuring a consistent and seamless user experience for current and prospective students by contributing to and using style guides, brand identity, and information architectures. Your deep understanding of users and their needs, informed by research and testing, will enable you to craft content that is clear, accessible, and effective.

You will be joining a dynamic cross-functional team, working closely with web developers, UX designers, marketing managers and subject matter experts to curate content. You will draw on your experience in marketing campaigns to analyse user behaviour, measure performance, and provide valuable insights to improve campaign effectiveness. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, you will identify, analyse, and recommend evidence-based solutions that meet user needs.

Your role will also involve sharing your knowledge of best practices, promoting user-centred design, and agile principles and adhering to the University’s policies on equal opportunities and health and safety.

Location

Where is this role based?

This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.

Why UWE Bristol?

We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in vibrant Bristol, our ambitions are to make a positive difference to our planet, transforming futures through actions and solving real world challenges.

We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, very generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.

Add your individuality to ours

UWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community. We are proud to be part of a dynamic, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving. Bring your talent and ambition to our stimulating and supportive community where we’ll help you thrive.

We particularly encourage applications from global majority and female candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.

As a Disability Confident employer we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.

Further information

If you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role please contact Jess Harris on 0117 328 2931 or email: jess.harris@uwe.ac.uk.

Interviews are scheduled to take place at our Frenchay campus on a date still to be confirmed.

This is a full time, permanent post, working 37 hours per week.

UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based for 2 days per week, with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days.

To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University\’s salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.

The University has a legal responsibility to ensure that all employees are eligible to work in the UK. You will therefore be required to provide evidence of this right, please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist for information on which documents are acceptable.

Advice to applicants

We’d love to hear from you – if you are excited about this opportunity please complete our application form as soon as possible.

Tell us how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role by describing how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the Job Description, and include specific examples wherever possible.

Once we have completed shortlisting we will let you know the outcome of your application by email, so please check your inbox for updates.