JOB SUMMARY

The DCMS Content Design team manages all the policy content that DCMS publishes on GOV.UK.
We’re a small but committed team that is involved in every part of DCMS’s portfolio covering culture, media and sport, and offer a range of services to our policy teams - from GOV.UK page creation and design, right up to authoring content for public facing services.
We’re one of the newer content design teams in government and pride ourselves on coming up with new and creative approaches to developing content that is designed for our users and accessible to everyone.
Our aim is to support DCMS to become one of the most forward-thinking and accessible GOV.UK publishing government departments.

JOB DESCRIPTION

As a Senior Content Designer, you’ll be at the heart of everything that DCMS publishes on GOV.UK - covering government policy, guidance and research on culture, media and sport, such as reviews of broadcasters, strategies on key policy areas and guidance for members of public attending ceremonial events.
You’ll lead and manage a diverse range of content projects, working with policy teams to understand their digital requirements and then coming up with approaches on how to best showcase their work. You’ll then manage the process of bringing that to publication, ensuring that what is published meets GOV.UK style, building and testing GOV.UK pages, and sharing metrics and discussing improvements after publication.
You’ll also be involved in audits of each team’s content, supporting our network of GOV.UK publishers within DCMS along with digital specialists working for suppliers, and promoting content design best practices.

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

To apply for this vacancy, you will need to submit the following documents which will assessed against the experience success profile:

• A CV setting out your career history, with key responsibilities and achievements. Please ensure you provide employment history that relates to the essential and desirable criteria, and that any gaps in employment history within the last 2 years are explained. The CV should not exceed more than 2 x A4 pages and you should insert your CV into the “Job History” section on Civil Service Jobs on the Civil Service Jobs application form.
• A Statement of Suitability (max 500 words) explaining how you consider your personal skills, qualities and experience provide evidence of your suitability for the role in reference to the essential requirements highlighted. You may also choose to reference the desirable skills listed however these will not be considered in the assessment of your application except in circumstances where there are a high number and calibre of candidates