Senior statistical publications designer (Content Designer)

Main Duties of the Job

You will:

• Support the development of official statistics products in various digital formats ready for publication on UKHSA’s GOV.UK website
• Create content on Whitehall Publisher: draft reports, landing pages, and collection pages, and submit content for review, ready for publication
• Work collaboratively with statistics product leads and the wider team to develop statistical outputs that are engaging to the user and ensuring content remains aligned with user need
• Maintain the official statistics release calendar for UKHSA outputs on GOV.UK, liaise with product leads to ensure outputs are pre-announced on Whitehall Publisher and published to those timescales (in keeping with the Code of Practice for Statistics)
• Lead on the official statistics publications process end to end, flagging risks, issues or breaches of the Code with the Head of Profession for Statistics or other nominated statistics lead
• Support the release of any ad hoc publications as and when required
• Build and maintain strong working relationships with product leads and digital content teams
• Keep up to date on and use the Government Digital Service (GDS) style guide and other standards to design high quality, accessible content
• Be an active member of the content design community, contributing to knowledge of best practices
• Lead on a project to review our GOV.UK statistical content, focussing on improving user experience
• Lead on other projects to support the longer-term improvement of our individual products, in line with our KPIs and in a way that is cognisant of our stakeholders wider priorities
• Line manage a statistical publications designer (HEO), who will support on the above tasks

We pride ourselves as being an employer of choice, where Everyone Matters promoting equality opportunity to actively encourage applications from everyone, including groups currently underrepresented in our workforce.

UKHSA ethos is to be an inclusive organisation for all our staff and stakeholders. To create, nurture and sustain an inclusive culture, where differences drive innovative solutions to meet the needs of our workforce and wider communities. We do this through celebrating and protecting differences by removing barriers and promoting equity and equality of opportunity for all.

Essential Criteria:

• Educated to degree level in a relevant subject or equivalent level of experience of working at a similar level in content design
• Experience of writing for the web, with experience of planning, creating and publishing website content that is in plain English, accessible and usable, and meets organisational objectives
• Using best practice in writing for the web including following a style guide (ideally GDS style)
• Using a content management system to publish to the web (ideally Whitehall Publisher for GOV.UK publishing)
• Experience supporting the end-to-end publishing process
• Experience in improving user experience of digital content
• Experience of developing strong and supportive relationships with stakeholders, using these relationships to help overcome resistance to change
• Comfortable working to specific timescales and tight deadlines

Desirable Criteria

• Experience of publishing high-profile content at short notice
• Experience of using metrics and user feedback to define and refine content
• Editing complex technical or scientific material into plain English
• Knowledge of health protection issues, such as infectious diseases
• Knowledge of official statistics pre-announcement and publishing requirements

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