Content Designer – Consultant

Opencast | B Corp™

. Design content that helps users complete their goals .

Posted 9/22/2026full-timeUnited KingdomMid-LevelSenior💰 £44,001 - £51,000 per yearWebsite

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Core Competencies

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Demonstrates expertise in content design that meets user needs, ensuring inclusivity and accessibility while applying best practices and style guides. Capable of collaborating with user researchers and designers to create clear, user-centered content and solve complex problems.

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Content DesignUser ResearchInclusive DesignAgile DeliveryActive Security Check (SC) Clearance

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Hard Skills

Content PlanningContent WritingUser-Centered DesignInformation ArchitecturePrototyping Tools

Soft Skills

Methodical Problem SolvingTask PlanningRespectful Challenge

Industry Keywords

UK Government Service StandardsGovernment Digital Service AssessmentQuality ComplianceEnvironmental ComplianceInformation Security Compliance

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Design content that helps users complete their goals
Work with user researchers, interaction designers, and other user-centred design specialists to solve complex client problems
Create content based on user research insights and data
Apply best-practice content design principles
Make complex ideas and processes easy to understand
Ensure work complies with Opencast’s quality, environmental, and information security policies and procedures
Ensure compliance with applicable customer policies, standards, and procedures while working on client engagements
Present a relevant piece of work during the interview

Requirements

What you’ll need

Experience designing content to meet user needs
Experience using content design to make complex ideas and processes easy to understand
Experience planning and writing content to meet evidenced user needs
Experience ensuring work is inclusive and accessible
Experience taking a supportive role in user research to test content
Experience applying a style guide
Methodical and considered approach to solving content problems
Ability to plan own tasks to achieve project objectives
Ability to respectfully challenge decisions or solutions
Active Security Check (SC) clearance, or eligibility and willingness to undergo the clearance process
Typically, UK citizenship and continuous residence in the UK for at least the past five years, with no single absence exceeding 28 consecutive days, for SC vetting eligibility
Ability to work weekly on-site and travel regularly to client locations across the UK
Ability to travel to offices and client sites across the UK as part of normal working arrangements
Desirable: experience designing to UK government service standards
Desirable: experience with the Government Digital Service assessment process
Desirable: experience using prototyping tools
Desirable: experience working in agile delivery teams
Desirable: information architecture experience
Desirable: experience planning and facilitating workshops
Ability to present a piece of work demonstrating relevant experience during the interview

Benefits

Comp & perks

7% employer pension contribution
Share options
Discretionary bonus
25 days’ holiday
3 annual “life happens” days
Wellbeing support
Ongoing professional development
Volunteering opportunities
Supportive team environment
Ability to work from home
Interview adjustments to support candidate needs