London (On-Site)
Permanent, Full time
No DBS check required
£40,000 - £44,999
FULLTIME
Salary: £43,004 - £49,131
Grade: Level 4, Zone 1
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 36, Full Time
Closing Date: Sunday 24th November 2024; 23:55
About Camden
Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. Because we’re not just home to the UK’s fastest-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. And we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all.
What you’ll be doing
As a content designer you will create, plan and edit content across our digital products and services based on user needs gained from insight and improved by data. You will work in the open, collaborating across teams and working across all channels to make sure we can produce and maintain the right content in the right places to enable citizens and teams to find and understand the information they need.
Working as part of a multidisciplinary team and reporting to the Lead Content Designer, the role of Content Designer is to produce clear content in the right formats in the right places to make things easier for people to understand and use. This can involve working on a single piece of content or on the end-to-end journey of a service to help users complete their goal.
You’ll work closely with other design disciplines to thoroughly understand your audience and their needs in order to create accessible, useful signposting and information across products and services. You will help other teams in their creation and maintenance of content, ensuring they understand best practice for content accessibility.
You will take an active and engaged role in the iterative design and development process, providing expertise in content and help to develop and add to a new design system as well as content style guidelines when appropriate.
To view the Job Profile, please click HERE or copy and paste the below URL into your browser: http://camdocs.camden.gov.uk/HPRMWebDrawer/Record/10722538/file/document?inline
All about you
To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories.
You will create content for products and services that makes them easy to use and understand, from menu labels to error messages to information on services. You will understand content formats and how they can be used most effectively to aid user’s understanding.
You will define and create approaches to content design within Camden, including coaching others from across Camden in best practice.
You will understand design and accessibility, adhering to practices and methods to help develop frameworks and principles.
What we offer
At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits including:
Visit www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits for more details.
Inclusion and diversity
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of other ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit www.camdenjobs.co.uk/inclusion-and-diversity.
Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
Asking for Adjustments
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.