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Content Designer for the build of the Transfer Digital Records (TDR) Service (CD)

Closing date for applications: 03/12/2020
OVERVIEW OF ROLE
Specialist role
 Content designer
Summary of the work
 Creating/designing GDS compliant content that communicates information to users with differing needs, ensuring the product adheres to accessibility standards. The CD will work closely with the Service Owner, and Product team, to ensure users can find, understand and navigate the information they need and create help, guidance and training.
Latest start date
 31/01/2021
Expected contract length
 6 weeks
Location
 No specific location, for example they can work remotely
Organisation the work is for
 The National Archives
Maximum day rate
 £220
ABOUT THE WORK
Early market engagement
 The specialist will work with the ‘Transfer Digital Records’ product team. The team are building a product which will enable the secure transfer of selected born digital public records to The National Archives. The service offers tools for content upload, validation and transfer of ownership to the Archive. The primary users of TDR will be transferring public record bodies.The TDR team have completed in-house Discovery and Alpha prototyping phases to determine the scope of the proposed service and are currently over midway in the Beta build of the product. The product is due to go live in private Beta by the end of March 2021.We require a content designer to work on the end-to-end journey of this web based service designing, creating and reviewing content that will help users complete their goal, making sure appropriate content and notifications are shown to a user in the right place and in the best format.
Who the specialist will work with
 The specialist will work with the Digital Selection and Transfer Service Owner and the ‘Transfer Digital Records’ product team at The National Archives, in particular the user researchers, designers and developers to challenge assumptions and test ideas, writing content which meets user needs as clearly, simply and quickly as possible.. The specialist in addition will need to engage with stakeholders and users to present work, demonstrate designs, and seek feedback as the work progresses.
What the specialist will work on
 • Web editing, copywriting and content design for accessibility• Content strategy• Take user needs and present them in the most effective format• Avoid duplication and ensure content can be found easily• Create training guidance, help and manuals• Work within GDS compliant style guides• UX content writing• Tone and voice
WORK SETUP
Address where the work will take place
 Remote working is possible for this position.
Working arrangements
 Embedded into a multi-disciplinary agile product team. Normal office hours are 9am to 5pm, but flexible working is available including part applications for part time workers.We expect to interview on 13 January 2021.
Security clearance
 Baseline
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Additional terms and conditions
EVALUATION CRITERIA
How many specialists to evaluate
 3
Cultural fit criteria
 -Work closely with our organisation and other suppliers -Communicate openly, demonstrate progress and discuss findings regularly -Be transparent and collaborative -Be comfortable standing up for their discipline -Have a no-blame culture and take responsibility for their work -Be able to work and make progress independently to deliver work to a deadline
Assessment methods
Evaluation weighting
 Technical competence 65% Cultural fit 15% Price 20%
EXPERIENCE
Essential skills and experience
  • Extensive experience of writing for the web, with proven ability to create usable and accessible content for different platforms and devices
  • Have experience of working within accessibility standards and best practice
  • Excellent skills in convincing people to take a user-needs approach to content creation
  • Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team in an agile development environment
  • Demonstrable knowledge and passion for user centred design practices for public facing and internal services and applications
  • Experience of using metrics and user feedback to define and iterate content
Nice-to-have skills and experience
  • An understanding of a progressive enhancement approach to design and build
  • Have experience of working within GDS standards and best practice
  • Creating content across devices, tools and transactional services, especially those with complex user journeys
  • Experience in a web application development environment, and be proficient in Markdown, picture sourcing and editing
  • Experience in content publishing systems and processes
EXPRESS INTEREST
Closing date for applications: 03/12/2020

Content Designer for the build of the Transfer Digital Records (TDR) Service (CD)

Closing date for applications: 03/12/2020


Specialist role:

Content designer

Location:

No specific location, for example they can work remotely

Organisation:

The National Archives

Maximum day rate:

£220
FULL DETAILS / EXPRESS INTEREST HERE
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