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Role Title: Content Designer
TPR Grade & Pay Group: Grade 10 Associate
Directorate: Market Oversight
Salary: from £35,375 dependant on skills and experience
Contract: Permanent
Location: Brighton/hybrid 6 days per month in the office
The role and responsibilities:
Content designers make things easier for people to understand and use. This can involve working on a single piece of content, such as a web page or form, or on the end-to-end journey of a service to help users complete their goal and The Pensions Regulator to deliver its objectives.
You will work with subject and legal experts, user researchers and interaction designers to deliver content that helps to protect people’s pensions.
In this role you will:
- develop content that meets our users’ needs as well as the needs of the business
- use evidence, data and research to make your content design decisions
- create and maintain effective content for our digital channels including guidance, forms, communications that prompt a user to visit the website, and digital service content
- work with people across the organisation to promote user-led content development
- contribute to and use the style guide and design patterns
This role is ideal for someone who:
- is curious with strong problem-solving and analytical skills
- pays attention to detail and accuracy
- has strong communication skills
- is proactive and flexible
- enjoys collaborating as part of multi-disciplinary teams
We’re interested in people with skills in:
- writing and editing clear, user-focused content for digital channels and experience in using content management systems and content production processes to publish content
- using analytics, user feedback, user research and other sources of information to make decisions about content and how to improve it
- collaborating in multi-disciplinary teams and using agile working practices, including working in a fast-paced, evolving environment on multiple projects and adapting to changing priorities
- working with stakeholders to understand their issues, tailoring your communication to stakeholders’ needs and using evidence to explain decisions you've made
- developing and helping to implement content strategies and policies, as well as helping to improve processes and quality
- working to tight deadlines and under pressure while ensuring attention to detail
The Team
Content Designers sit in a content team in a wider Marketing and Engagement function. The team works closely with colleagues across the organisation including the Digital, Data and Technology directorate.
TPR Offers:
- Genuine opportunities for learning and development.
- A values-led, inclusive environment.
- Hybrid working and flexible shift patterns.
- A vibrant workplace with employee networks (Disability, Family, LGBT+, Minority Ethnic, Mental Health, Women’s).
Reward and Benefits
We offer 25 days annual leave plus bank holidays, a hybrid working model, 35 hour working week (full-time), flexible working patterns, and flexitime. We also provide competitive parental leave, as well as a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%. Our dedicated benefits portal (Edenred) offers retail, gym, tech and restaurant discounts, and a cycle to work scheme.
Our Culture
TPR strives to be a high-performing organisation, and we prioritise our people's growth and well-being. We offer various learning, secondment and development opportunities, support flexible working, and foster a diverse and inclusive environment.
Equality, diversity and inclusion is very important to us and we strive to make sure everyone has an equal opportunity to succeed. Our modern Brighton offices are in Telecom House overlooking Preston Park, they are over two floors of a shared building facility and when designed in 2023 we followed the government’s workplace design guide to ensure accessibility by design was achieved for our section.
We're proud to have a range of networks and opportunities to bring people together with supportive and safe spaces to connect with one another.
About The Pensions Regulator
With a career at TPR, you’ll be joining an organisation with real purpose and who are proud of their diverse range of skills and experience that positively impact on millions of people. Everyone at TPR plays an important role in helping to keep more than £2trn of savings safe.
Our Corporate Strategy outlines a bold and challenging vision of how pensions regulation should continue to evolve to keep pace with a change in the scale and nature of the pensions landscape. We believe diversity and inclusion are vital to good decision-making for positive saver outcomes. We’re committed to creating a supportive, inclusive, and dynamic work environment where everyone can thrive; understanding the link between the work we do and its positive impact on society.
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Applications
To avoid disappointment, we would invite you to submit your application as soon as possible, as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can continue to provide a positive candidate experience, with each application being reviewed and considered. Unfortunately, once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.
Current TPR employees who want to apply for this vacancy should first contact their line manager to discuss their application.
We welcome applications on a part time and job share basis.
Please note that TPR is unable to offer visa sponsorship. All applicants must already hold Right to Work in the UK for the duration of their employment. For more information on Right to Work, please visit Prove your right to work to an employer: Overview - GOV.UK.
Selection and Interview
If you are shortlisted for interview, we’ll be in contact with you shortly after the closing date. We aim to respond to every application however due to the large volume of applications this is not always possible. If you have not heard from us within 21 days of submitting your application, please assume you have been unsuccessful on this occasion.
As a Disability Confident Employer, we’re committed to the recruitment, employment, retention, and development of people with disabilities, and to improving their employment opportunities. Candidates who declare that they have a disability and who meet the essential criteria will be an offered an interview. Please note that if we receive a high volume of Disability Confident applicants, we reserve the right to offer an interview to those who best meet the essential criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
TPR is committed to promoting diversity, inclusion and equality in the workplace, creating an environment where everyone is encouraged to be themselves, enabling our people to feel supported, represented and do their best work.
We encourage applicants from all backgrounds and with different identities and experiences to apply for roles with TPR.
Further Information
Please visit our website to find out what it is like to work at TPR, our culture, interview process and our commitment to our employees.
If you have any queries about this role, or if you have a disability and wish to request a reasonable adjustment at any stage of the recruitment process, please email [email protected].
