Content Designer

Role Purpose

• This Content Designer role will sit within the Future of Operational Meteorology Tools & Systems project. The project mission is to deliver up-to-date tools that utilise advances from Science and the new Supercomputer output, to best support Operational Meteorologists in providing insight to customers, so they can stay safe and thrive.
• The Content Designer will create, evaluate, edit and update content to support the delivery of Met Office products and services. This can range from creating micro-copy to appear on a user interface, to single pieces of distinct content, to providing the content for the end-to-end journey of a service.

• Work collaboratively with agile teams to create content to be included in and promote digital products and apply an agile mindset to their work
• Identify important stakeholders and communicate with them clearly and regularly, tailoring the communication to suit the audience
• Present content and insights to stakeholders, teams and users to help align and inform decision-making
• Engage with the Met Office Communications team and contribute to the cross-government content community
• Use a range of tools and platforms to plan and manage their work
• Contribute to office-wide content strategies and policies and communicate these with the team
• Champion user-centred design practices and represent the user in a multidisciplinary team
• Be an active member of the UX practice to help embed and grow a user-centred culture across the organisation
• Be expected to work independently in agile delivery teams, or on solo work, creating content to meet user needs and make complex information easy to understand
• Formulate hypotheses, gain insights and use evidence, data and research to create, evaluate, update and review content at all stages of the end-to-end user journey
• Choose the best options to make content understandable to different audiences, writing in plain English in a way that users understand and that meets accessibility requirements

• We are looking for a confident and competent editor who will write and review written content, and use multimedia effectively, to ensure the appropriate content is shown to users.
• The Content Designer will work closely with User Researchers to ensure their content is based on evidenced user needs.
• As a Content Designer  you will need to evidence Content Designer skill levels applicable to your post

• Monday to Friday 9am to 5pm 
• The successful candidate will be expected to travel into the office at least once a month or as required to attend meetings, workshops and user testing
• PAYE via Umbrella 
• Initial 3 month contract with the opportunity to extend