Content Designer

Job summary

Homes England is looking for a Content Designer to create, evaluate, update and review content across the end-to-end user journey on GOV.UK and other digital platforms.

You will join the User Centred Design team, a passionate and highly skilled group dedicated to improving how Homes England delivers content on GOV.UK, within a fast-growing national organisation with a strong social purpose.

Job description

This is a hands-on content design role that combines technical skill with a strong user-centred approach, ensuring that everything we publish is clear, accessible and effective in helping people understand and act on our services and policies. Working with key stakeholders, policy teams and regional teams, you will help ensure publications are efficient, consistent and effective, meeting accessibility and Government Digital Service standards and supporting Homes England's wider commitment to inclusive communications. You will apply content standards and style guidelines consistently and contribute to the wider cross-government content community.

You will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects, including the National Housing Bank, the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, the Cladding Safety Scheme and the Capital Funding Guide. This is a role focussed on developing guidance and organisational information content as opposed to service screens and requires experience working in Whitehall Publisher CMS.

Please review the full job description in the supporting documents before applying for the role.

Person specification

You'll be comfortable supporting the agency with complex publishing issues, and committed to making content available in an easy-to-understand, plain English and accessible way.

You'll be proficient in the principles of content design, confident using evidence, data and research to inform content decisions, and skilled at building relationships across the agency with a focus on user needs. You'll also engage with and contribute to the wider cross-government content community.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn't always easy, so you'll be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders, with a good understanding of the operational impact of what we do as a Communications Team. You'll enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way, and be confident negotiating and persuading others.

As an experienced content design professional, you'll know how to guide and support colleagues, and demonstrate that you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

Benefits

Homes England is an executive non-departmental public body with its own terms and conditions, benefits and pension scheme. We are a government agency working in partnership with the private sector and want to employ and retain great people. In return we offer a range of excellent benefits, some of the key benefits include:

Holiday - Homes England offers all staff 33 days annual leave per year in addition to 8 statutory bank holidays.

Working Flexibly - At Homes England we have a strong culture of flexible working and encourage all employees to have a healthy work/life balance. We offer a wide range of potential working patterns, including part time, job share and compressed hours.

Health and Wellbeing - We offer health screening with Nuffield Proactive Health Clinics, a free Employee Assistance Programme which offers confidential support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week as well as access to Occupational Health.

Professional Development - At Homes England we are committed to your continued professional and personal development with learning as one of our core values. We pay for one job-related professional membership subscription per year for our employees.

We also offer an excellent range of family friendly benefits, for example, maternity, paternity, shared parental leave.

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

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Selection process details

How to apply?

To apply please follow the links to our careers page.

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

Selection process details

For more information on the role, please see the attached Job Description.

Successful applicants will be advised of the outcome of their application and interviews held as soon as practical after the closing date. Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for your interest in this role and Homes England.

Please note – Homes England has a responsibility to ensure compliance with HMG Baseline Personnel Security Standard to address the potential problems of identity fraud, illegal working and deception generally. To ensure compliance we will carry out a pre-employment Personal Identity and Vetting Report through Experian to meet the standard and you will therefore be asked to provide certain information in order that the verification check can be carried out if you are successful in your application.

Homes England are an equal opportunities employer and positively encourages applications from suitably qualified and eligible candidates. We are proud to be an equal opportunities employer that values and respects the people who work for us. Our aim is to be an employer of choice, enabling everyone to reach their full potential.

Homes England is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. For further information please refer to our Privacy Notice which can be viewed here:

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/homes-england/about/personal-information-charter

Nationality requirements

Open to UK, Commonwealth and