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Established over 30 years ago and UK-based, we apply our skills in transformation, delivery, and collaboration from across the Methods Group, to create end-to-end business and technical solutions that are people-centred, safe, and designed for the future.\nOur human touch sets us apart from other consultancies, system integrators and software houses - with people, technology, and data at the heart of who we are, we believe in creating value and sustainability through everything we do for our clients, staff, communities, and the planet.\nWe support our clients in the success of their projects while working collaboratively to share skill sets and solve problems. At Methods we have fun while working hard; we are not afraid of making mistakes and learning from them.\nPredominantly focused on the public-sector, Methods is now building a significant private sector client portfolio.\nMethods was acquired by the Alten Group in early 2022.\nRequirements\nYour role\nWe are recruiting for a permanent senior content designer. You will have a passion for making things easier for people to understand and helping users complete their goal. You will have experience of working in a public sector environment, with a working knowledge of standards and principles, such as the Service Standard.\nYour responsibilities will include:\nplanning, writing and managing usable and accessible content in line with GDS/GOV.UK Content Design guidelines and standards \nproducing content that is accurate, timely, relevant, easy to understand, search engine optimised and meets style guidelines \nmanaging stakeholders and building successful relationships with them, including explaining content decisions \nusing analytical and problem-solving skills to help the team solve design problems and challenge assumptions \nchampioning user-centred design practices for digital products and services. \nadvocating for accessible digital products and services \nbeing an active part of the Content Design Community of Practice, including sharing ideas, best practice and proactively offering help and support \ntaking responsibility for content quality, including coaching and mentoring content designers \nsupporting the lead content designer including with: \ntraining and development plans \nproject planning \nrecruitment activities \nsales and marketing activities \nhelping create a welcoming, safe and inclusive team environment - encouraging mutual peer-to-peer support, and helping individuals achieve a good work-life balance \nThe role will be based remotely, but there may be a need for some UK travel requiring you to stay away from home.\nSkills we are looking for\nProducing user-centred content: experience of evidence-based content design that meets GDS/GOV.UK standards, including a deep understanding of end-to-end journeys and experience of identifying where journey fixes or content improvements need to be made. \nWorking as a content designer in an agile environment: you understand agile approaches, advocate for the role of content design in multidisciplinary teams, and encourage healthy working relationships with other disciplines. \nStrong communication and interpersonal skills: communicate a range of information to a variety of audiences. For example, talking about digital products and the GDS Service Standard in a way that stakeholders understand. \nStakeholder relationship management: effectively negotiate and influence stakeholders, manage relationships, build strategic relationships, communicate regularly and remove blockers, while keeping the focus on user needs. \nStrategic thinking: able to help to lead the design and implementation of strategies, and evaluate their impact and progress to make sure business objectives and user needs are being met \nUnderstanding user needs: work closely and collaboratively with user researchers to gain insights and make decisions based on findings. \nAccessibility: put accessibility at the heart of approaches to designing content and encouraging others to do the same. \nEnsuring quality: make sure content is regularly reviewed and evaluated, contributing to continuous improvements and iterations. \nWe know not everyone will have all of the skills we are looking for. We are happy to support you to grow your skill set and experience through our training budget, working with our experienced teams and mentoring.\nAdditional skills and behaviours\nSkills that would also be useful in this role include:\nProactive approach to addressing environmental issues, embedding environmental responsibility in practices and standards, and encouraging clients to consider innovative solutions within the scope of work. \nProactive approach to diversity, equality and inclusion, internally and with clients. \nExperience in creating and updating prototypes, from paper sketches to coded prototypes (for example, using the GOV.UK Prototype Kit). \nBenefits\nMethods is passionate about its people; we want our colleagues to develop the things they are good at and enjoy.\n\nBy joining us you can expect\nAutonomy to develop and grow your skills and experience\nBe part of exciting project work that is making a difference in society\nStrong, inspiring and thought-provoking leadership\nA supportive and collaborative environment\nDevelopment - 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