- Pay Rate:
£23.50 per hour PAYE
- Hours per Week:
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 6 months
- SOUTHWARK, LONDON,
SE1 0LL
Interim Content Editor/Designer
Reference no: GLX TCL 0007 9136 / 1
Pay Rate: £23.50 per hour PAYE
37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours
This opening assignment is for 2-3 months
City: SOUTHWARK, LONDON
Hybrid working - Candidates are expected to bring their own laptop and equipment
Basic DBS dsclosure required
To provide day-to-day content creation and support for london.gov.uk, associated sites and other digital channels. In conjunction with the Digital Content Manager, the Content Designer ensures london.gov.uk delivers relevant and engaging user-centric content to Londoners
Key Responsibilities:
- Work collaboratively with stakeholders and content owners to plan, create and develop usable and accessible content for our digital channels, ensuring efficient user journeys between digital platforms.
- Provide best practice and technical support to stakeholders and content owners to publish different content types. Contribute to the development and use of the style guides and content patterns. Help align activity and ensure brand consistency in content and approach.
- Provide hands-on content design for complex projects, including page mapping, audience identification and information architecture, to ensure user-friendly navigation.
- Ensure the organisation’s web content meets best practice and accessibility standards, including monitoring, quality checking, testing and optimising to maintain high standards.
- Communicate and champion digital content and solutions across the digital estate, internally and externally.
- Provide GDPR and technical support for data and integration management on internal and external platforms.
- Work in an agile environment. Bring together user and stakeholder needs, plan and communicate design decisions to key stakeholders. Build upon iterative feedback to continuously improve content quality.
- Use data and insights to assess the effectiveness of digital content to improve usability, accessibility and search engine optimisation (SEO).
- Upskill staff, deliver Content Management System (CMS) training and give advice on best practice to content owners. Ensure staff can upload and maintain compelling content on their pages.
- Realise the benefits of a flexible approach to work in undertaking the duties and responsibilities of this job, and participating in multi-disciplinary, cross-department and cross-organisational groups and project teams
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If you are successful in securing this role, please note that for the entire duration of this contract, regardless of extension you will be working this role at the PAYE rate that has been advertised. For absolute clarity, we only work on a PAYE basis, rather than entertaining umbrella pay terms, we do not offer Ltd/umbrella or outside IR35 rates. If you wish to understand PAYE vs Umbrella more, please let us know and we can send you some additional information for clarity.
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
Other “Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:
Knowledge:
- Strong working knowledge of proofing, web copy editing and writing in keeping with SEO, usability and user experience best practice.
- Good working knowledge of information architecture and wireframing techniques to visualise content and present to stakeholders.
- Excellent knowledge of web accessibility standards (WCAG 2.1 AA).
- Working knowledge of content management systems.
- Awareness of the Government Digital Service’s principles set out in their Service Manual
Experience:
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams in a fast-paced organisation.
- Experience of managing large data sets.
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