Senior Content Designer

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.


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
  
  

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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.