Bristol City Council: Senior Content and UX Designer x3

UX Designer is needed in Bristol, United Kingdom, United Kingdom.

Client: Bristol City Council

Location: Bristol, United Kingdom

Contract: Part Time, Full Time, Other

Full Time

• 37 hours per week
• Permanent x2

Part Time

• 24 hours per week
• Permanent

About the Role

This is an exciting opportunity to join the Digital Services team at Bristol City Council. With a newly reimagined service, we are dedicated to building digital services that prioritise the needs of our citizens, businesses and communities.

The Senior Content and UX Designer will join our User-Centred Design team to create innovative, easy to use digital experiences aligning with the needs and preferences of our users, while meeting business objectives.

Responsibilities include

• Lead content design projects
• Research and identify users’ needs and evidence decisions, using a variety of sources such as analytics and user research, and UX methods such as user journeys and stories.
• Create, iterate and manage engaging, usable, accessible user-centred content and services for our website and intranet, following a content design approach and our style and standards.
• Create wireframes and prototypes.
• Work with stakeholders, building relationships and communicating clearly.
• Champion user-centred content design and be an advocate for our users and our approach to content design and be passionate about providing the best user experience.

Skills required

• Experience of working in content design, UX, web editing or another relevant role or a relevant degree or qualification.
• Experience of writing for the web and creating accessible and usable content, sometimes from complex language and processes.
• Be familiar with the Government Digital Service (GDS) approach and accessibility standards.
• Have strong communication skills.
• Be a problem solver.
• Have an enquiring mind and be happy to push back and challenge the current situation.

Why Bristol City Council?

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you’ll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you’ll be working in a supportive environment where you’ll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you’ll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

Important Dates

Shortlisting: 13th - 15th November.

Interviews: 22nd - 24th November which will be held at City Hall.

At Bristol City Council, we value having a workforce as diverse as the city we serve. We therefore welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.