JOB SUMMARY

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University students are invited to enhance their employability through a unique learning experience at HMRC. Develop highly sought-after skills applicable to both public and private sector careers.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As an Associate Content Designer industrial placement, you will earn while you learn to work on content design projects that have a real impact for millions of taxpayers.
Joining the Government Digital and Data profession, you’ll work closely with more senior content designers, helping to design inclusive and accessible content, making sure appropriate content is shown to users in the right place and in the best format, and developing your knowledge and skills. You will work closely with other user-centred design professionals, policy and process experts, product managers and technology experts.

In this role you will learn to:

• Define user needs and contribute to the gathering and analysis of data and user feedback to support content design decisions
• Design content to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand
• Work collaboratively and understand the importance of managing stakeholder relationships, and what evidence is important and relevant to them
• Build an awareness of the strategic context of your work and understand why it is important

PERSON SPECIFICATION

We are looking for a student who:

• Has a keen interest in creating clear content tailored to the needs of the audience
• Strong communicator, possessing excellent writing skills

ESSENTIAL CRITERIA:

We are looking for a student who:

• Has a keen interest in creating clear content tailored to the needs of the audience
• Strong communicator, possessing excellent writing skills

NATIONALITY REQUIREMENTS

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

In this role you will learn to:

• Define user needs and contribute to the gathering and analysis of data and user feedback to support content design decisions
• Design content to meet user needs and make complex language and processes easy to understand
• Work collaboratively and understand the importance of managing stakeholder relationships, and what evidence is important and relevant to them
• Build an awareness of the strategic context of your work and understand why it is importan