Senior Content Designer
About this role
With responsibility for creating, updating and reviewing web and app content and user experience journey to meet user and university needs, ensuring content is well structured, accurate and easy to find with a consistent look and feel that aligns to University brand identity and content strategy, following user centred design and content as a service principle.
Working collaboratively, to create a consistent and coherent experience that brings insights, data, and research to continually and incrementally deliver business and user benefits, championing agile ways of working and mindset.
About you
As a key member of our team, you will design and create web and app content that is user-focused, well-structured, and aligned with the University’s brand identity. You will play a crucial role in ensuring a consistent and seamless user experience by contributing to and using style guides, brand identity, and information architectures.Your deep understanding of users and their needs, informed by research and testing, will enable you to craft content that is accessible, usable, and well-organised.
You will also draw on your experience in marketing campaigns to analyse user behaviour, measure performance, and provide valuable insights to improve user journeys and campaign effectiveness. Collaborating closely with stakeholders, you will identify, analyse, and recommend evidence-based solutions that meet user needs.
As an active participant in the content design community, you will share your knowledge of best practices, promote user-centred design, and agile principles. Additionally, you will mentor team members, contribute to the annual website calendar, and participate in content audits.Your role will also involve drafting reports, delivering presentations, and adhering to the University’s policies on equal opportunities and health and safety.
Where is this role based?This post is based at our lively Frenchay campus where we have invested in the latest facilities and resources to give both our staff and students access to everything they need to succeed.
Why UWE Bristol?We are one of the largest providers of Higher Education in the South West with 38,000 students and 4,000 staff from right across the globe. Based in Bristol, one of the UK’s most exciting and forward-thinking cities, we are regionally embedded and globally connected, with an established network of employer and academic partners.
We offer a wide range of employee benefits including progressive pay rates, generous annual leave and career average pension schemes as well as retail savings, onsite nursery and opportunities for training and personal development.
Add your individuality to oursUWE Bristol recognises the power of a truly diverse university community.
We are proud to be part of a vibrant, multicultural city that celebrates diversity, we’re always looking for talented people from all backgrounds to join us. Our people are our strength, and diversity enhances our creativity and leads to better decision-making and problem-solving.Bring your talent and ambition to our growing community and find yourself in a stimulating and supportive environment where you’ll thrive.
We particularly encourage applications from Black, Asian or racially minoritised female candidates as we are currently under-represented in this area of the organisation, however all appointments are made strictly on individual merit.
As a Disability Confident employer, we welcome applications from those who identify as having a disability.
Further informationIf you would like to speak to us to find out more about this role, please contact Will Andrews on 0117 328 5650 or email: will.andrews@uwe.ac.uk
Interviews are scheduled to take place remotely on Microsoft Teams.
This is a full-time, permanent post, working 37 hours per week.
UWE Bristol is a campus-based University and it is vital to our success and the delivery of an outstanding experience for our students that our campuses are dynamic and vibrant places to learn and spend time. This role is therefore campus based for 2 days per week with the opportunity to work from home on the remaining days.
To ensure fairness and equity all salary offers will be made in line with the University's salary assessment guidelines and will be based on your relevant skills and experience.
We are unable to provide sponsorship for this role under the Home Office Skilled Worker visa route. As we are unable to sponsor anyone requiring a visa for this role candidates must therefore be able to provide their own right to work in the UK.
Should you be shortlisted you will be asked to provide your right to work documents at your interview. Please refer to the Home Office Right to Work Checklist which provides details of which documents are acceptable.
Please note that UWE does not cover any visa or health surcharge costs.
Advice to applicants
We’d love to hear from you - if you are excited about joining us at UWE please complete our application form as soon as possible.
Tell us about how your skills and experience relate to the requirements of this role by describing how you meet each of the essential and desirable criteria listed in the Person Specification section of the Job Description, and include specific examples wherever possible.
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