Senior Content Designer

hackajob is collaborating with Made Tech to connect them with exceptional tech professionals for this role. Description 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. Key Responsibilities 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
• have good knowledge of how to make services accessible to everyone
• 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
• encourage teams to review and evaluate the effectiveness of processes and systems, and support them to iterate for improvements
• build relationships with clients, earning their trust and understanding their needs
• identify opportunities for new work
• 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

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise You can find the full job description about the role on our handbook here: At this point, we hope you're feeling excited about Made Tech and the job opportunity. Even if you don't feel that you meet every single requirement, we still encourage you to apply. Get in touch with our talent team if you’d like an informal chat about the role and your suitability before applying. We are hiring for this role directly, so will not respond to any CVs sent via external recruitment agencies. Benefits We are always listening to our growing teams and evolving the benefits available to our people. As we scale, as do our benefits and we are scaling quickly. 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. We’re also big on connection and have an optional social and wellbeing calendar of events for all employees to join should they choose to. Here are some of our most popular benefits listed below: 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 If successful, you will be required to undertake an SC clearance About Made Tech Made Tech is on a mission to use technology to improve society - for everyone. We help organisations transform, deliver and manage world-class digital products and services. Today, you can see our services (and people!) in action, such as the design and build of the Homes for Ukraine service, delivered in 2 weeks. We’re helping local authorities make it easier and quicker for people to log housing repairs online. By digitalising access to NHS services we’re making it more accessible, such as children needing mental health support. All this great experience is enabling us to support new areas, like energy. We’re helping to drive better environmental outcomes by improving network performance through real-time asset monitoring, which means less wasted energy. We were recently named as a finalist in the Raising the Bar for Workplace Transparency Award in the Shift People Awards. This is a recognition of our many great initiatives, such as our open-access employee handbook that we launched 5 years ago.