designer Edinburgh, Scotland
Job description
UE05: £25,285 - £28,929 Per Annum
Information Services Group / Learning, Teaching and Web Services / Website and Communications
Fixed Term Contract: 12 months, September 2023 - September 2024
Full Time - 35 Hours Per Week
Number of posts: 2
We are looking for two motivated individuals to support our web publishing community and help them use our new platform for the creation of digital content. This is a great opportunity for early-career digital content professionals to practice content design, empower others in user-centred practices and learn in a supportive environment in the central Website and Communications team.
This post is advertised as full-time (35 hours per week). We are open to considering requests for hybrid working (on a non-contractual basis) that combines a mix of remote and regular on-campus working.
The Opportunity:
If you’re an advocate for human-centred design, passionate about plain language and motivated to support others to create content for great user experiences, this role is for you. It’s an exciting time to join Website and Communications as we roll out a new Web Publishing Platform, signalling a change to the way the University publishes content. These roles offer the chance to collaborate with colleagues from across the University, get stuck in with designing and improving content and reinvigorating our community about what content design is and what it can achieve.
Your skills and attributes for success:
- Motivated to help improve our University websites, making the content as user-centred as possible
- Care about creating content that is high quality and supports the many audiences of the collection of the websites in the University estate
- Excited to work with our valued web publishing community to help them through the transition to the new platform while instilling a sense of reassurance and empowerment
- Take a pride in helping to create great content that speaks to the needs of the people visiting the University websites and helps them complete their tasks
- Enjoy encouraging staff and colleagues to work in a human-centred way
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As a valued member of our team you can expect:
An exciting, positive, creative, challenging and rewarding place to work. We give you support, nurture your talent and reward success. You will benefit from a competitive reward package and a wide range of staff benefits, which includes a generous holiday entitlement, a defined benefits pension scheme , staff discounts, family friendly initiatives , flexible working and much more. Access our staff benefits page for further information and use our reward calculator to find out the total value of pay and benefits provided.
The University of Edinburgh holds a Silver Athena SWAN award in recognition of our commitment to advance gender equality in higher education. We are members of the Race Equality Charter and we are also Stonewall Scotland Diversity Champions, actively promoting LGBT equality.
Prior to any employment commencing with the University you will be required to evidence your right to work in the UK. Further information is available on our right to work webpages (opens new browser tab).
The University is able to sponsor the employment of international workers in this role. If successful, an international applicant requiring sponsorship to work in the UK will need to satisfy the UK Home Office’s English Language requirements and apply for and secure a Skilled Worker Visa.
Key dates to note
Unless stated otherwise the closing time for applications is 11:59pm GMT. If you are applying outside the UK the closing time on our adverts automatically adjusts to your browsers local time zone.
Interviews will be held week commencing Monday 14 August 2023.
