Content Designer (KW11121)

Job title Content Designer

Department Marketing

Salary Starting from £29,605, rising to £36,024

Grade Grade 6

SOC Code - Visa Requirements 3412

This role is sponsorable

Placed on Wednesday 08 November 2023

Closing date Sunday 26 November 2023

Interview date See advert

Reference KW11121

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Are you seeking an opportunity to join a multi-skilled environment, working alongside Developers, UX Designers, and Content Designers ? Do you put the user at the heart of everything you do?

We're looking for a Content Designer with good UX and accessibility experience to join our Content team in creating high-quality, engaging content for online and print materials.

About you

Working on a day-to-day basis with the team's Content Designers, you will identify user needs, write and map user stories and translate these into content. You'll have:

excellent attention to detail and the ability to see beyond line editing to more significant issues with content

a proven ability to make complicated information easy to understand

a solid understanding of UX and digital content best practices and principles

knowledge and experience of creating content that meets accessibility legislation following the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG)

With experience using data to inform strategies on existing digital experiences, you will create, iterate, monitor, and manage user-centred content using analytics, user feedback, user research, and other sources of information.

Ideally, you will also have experience of writing different types of content for a range of audiences, including:

marketing copy

case studies

events

guides

information-led content

product UI copy

microcopy

We require good attention to detail, so your grammar and spelling must be faultless. You must also be comfortable with your work being edited and be open to suggestions and improvements.

In this role you will be contributing to the content community, supporting other Content Designers through content crits, proofing content for the department, and sharing knowledge of best practices in content design. It's important that you understand stakeholder needs and make sure our teams develop solutions and content with accessibility in mind.

About us

As a Marketing department, we help deliver the University strategy by understanding the needs of the audiences we serve and demonstrating how the University's expertise and capabilities can meet those needs. By developing and delivering innovative initiatives and activities with which our audiences will engage, we can help to build an enduring connection with the University community in line with its mission to deliver research and teaching excellence.

The Content team sits within the central Marketing Department at the University. We work in a busy environment as a multi-disciplinary Agile team and you will be working closely with other content professionals, developers, and UX designers to support us in continuously improving our in-house designed and built Content Management System and the design and content of the website.

Further information

For an informal discussion about the role please contact Rhian Griggs, Head of Content Strategy by email at [email protected].

Interviews will be held on Wednesday 6 December or Thursday 7 December.

What we can offer you

a very generous employer contributory pension scheme

generous annual leave allowance with an additional 5 discretionary days so that you can enjoy a positive work life balance

we are a family-friendly University and with an increasingly agile workforce, are open to flexible working arrangements

an excellent reward package that recognises the talents of our diverse workforce

a wide range of personal and professional development opportunities

a number of support options available for new and existing staff to help with the cost of some immigration expenses which you may be eligible for: Relocation allowance, Visa Reimbursement, Interest-Free Loan.

We aim to be an inclusive university, where difference is celebrated, respected and encouraged. We have an excellent international reputation with staff from over 60 different nations and have made a positive commitment towards gender equality and intersectionality receiving a Silver Athena SWAN award. We truly believe that diversity of experience, perspectives, and backgrounds will lead to a better environment for our employees and students, so we encourage applications from all genders, backgrounds, and communities, particularly from under-represented groups, and value the positive impact that will have on our teams.

We are very proud to be an autism friendly university and are an accredited Disability Confident Leader; committed to building disability confidence and supporting disabled staff.

Find out from our staff what makes the University of Bath a great place to work. Follow us @UniofBath and @UniofBathJobs on Twitter for more information.

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We are constantly seeking to reduce the unconscious bias that enters any assessment process, with the goal of creating an inclusive and equal assessment process. To support this, personal details will be removed from application forms at the initial shortlisting stage.