Lead Content Designer

We are recruiting for a Lead Content Designer to join our team on a 2-year FTC.

There’s never been a more exciting time to work in Content Marketing at the National Trust. You’ll be joining at the start of an exciting transition for the Content Marketing Team. You’ll be a subject matter expert in creating, managing and evaluating the content on our website to meet our audiences needs and our organisational objectives. You’ll be line managing one of our Assistant Content Designers and supporting the development of future talent in the team. You’ll be supporting our Content Marketing Managers managing the workloads and asks into the team and providing subject matter expertise to our content designers. You’ll ensure the quality of the work produced by the team and lead our biggest campaigns and pieces of work.

We’re an inclusive team and value diversity of thought. We are open to different working options which work for you and us and are happy to consider making adjustments for the right candidate. We actively work to create a culture of inclusion.

We are currently undertaking our pay review process and it is likely that this salary will be increased from 1st April 2024.

We’re bigger than you think, we’re more complicated than we appear and we’re larger scale than you’d imagine. We’ve got passionate people in all our teams, and we’ve got so much more we want to achieve. We’re for ever, for everyone and we really mean that. We don’t want to stop at 5.5 million members and we want everyone to feel welcome and enjoy access to our places, so we need to reach new audiences in ways that are meaningful and relevant to them without losing the hearts and minds of those that are already with us.

Your contractual location will be our head office in Swindon and there will be an expectation for you to attend the office. However, there is flexibility on where you are based at other times. You will be required to work at a National Trust location for 40-60% of your working week. This will be discussed in more detail at interview.

You’ll be spending about half of your time in a management capacity, and half in delivery. You’ll be a line manager as well as providing expertise and quality checking to the wider team. You’ll be acting as air traffic control for the team making sure they have the capacity to deliver and negotiating with stakeholders to ensure we’re prioritising the right things. You’ll be leading on our biggest and most strategically important pieces of work, often working on delivery with other members of the team. You’ll have strong and mutually beneficial relationships across both the communications and marketing directorate and the wider organisation. You’ll be an advocate for maintaining high levels of quality across the whole website and supporting relationships with regional and property web editors.

You can view the full role profile for this role in the document attached, this is just to provide a full picture of what is possible in this role, we’d love to hear from you if you have:

• Subject matter expertise on web content, SEO, accessibility and UX.
• Strong digital editorial and content management skills
• Knowledge of copyright laws and other appropriate legislation.
• Exposure of working with various stakeholders across multiple teams with the ability to influence others effectively.
• The ability to be flexible, adaptable and proactive with a positive mindset
• Have great planning and organisation skills.
• Strong leadership and management skills with an interest in supporting and developing people

The National Trust has the motto ‘For everyone, for ever’ at its heart. We’re working hard to create an inclusive culture, where everyone feels they belong. It’s important that our people reflect and represent the diversity of the communities and audiences we serve. We welcome and value difference, so when we say we’re for everyone, we want everyone to be welcome in our teams too.

• Substantial pension scheme of up to 10% basic salary

• Free entry to National Trust places for you, a guest and your children (under 18)

• Tax-free childcare scheme

• Rental deposit loan scheme

• Season ticket loan

• Perks at work discounts such as gym memberships, shopping discount codes, cinema discounts

• Holiday allowance up to 32 days relating to length of service, plus holiday purchase scheme, subject to meeting minimum criteria.

• Flexible working whenever possible

• Employee assistance programme

• Free parking at most Trust places

• Independent financial advice

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