Content Designer

Homes England is looking for a Content Designer to create, evaluate, update and review content across the end-to-end user journey on GOV.UK and other digital platforms.

You will join the User Centred Design team, a passionate and highly skilled group dedicated to improving how Homes England delivers content on GOV.UK, within a fast-growing national organisation with a strong social purpose.

This is a hands-on content design role that combines technical skill with a strong user-centred approach, ensuring that everything we publish is clear, accessible and effective in helping people understand and act on our services and policies. Working with key stakeholders, policy teams and regional teams, you will help ensure publications are efficient, consistent and effective, meeting accessibility and Government Digital Service standards and supporting Homes England’s wider commitment to inclusive communications. You will apply content standards and style guidelines consistently and contribute to the wider cross-government content community.

You will support the design and delivery of key strategic projects, including the National Housing Bank, the Social and Affordable Homes Programme, the Cladding Safety Scheme and the Capital Funding Guide. This is a role focussed on developing guidance and organisational information content as opposed to service screens.

You’ll be comfortable supporting the agency with complex publishing issues, and committed to making content available in an easy-to-understand, plain English and accessible way.

You’ll be proficient in the principles of content design, confident using evidence, data and research to inform content decisions, and skilled at building relationships across the agency with a focus on user needs. You’ll also engage with and contribute to the wider cross-government content community.

Delivering on a mission as bold as ours isn’t always easy, so you’ll be resilient and comfortable managing stakeholders, with a good understanding of the operational impact of what we do as a Communications Team. You’ll enjoy working in an innovative, fun and engaging way, and be confident negotiating and persuading others.

As an experienced content design professional, you’ll know how to guide and support colleagues, and demonstrate that you can work with others as part of a team in a collaborative, inclusive way.

As well as a competitive salary and 33 days annual leave, we are committed to 50/50 hybrid working. We’ll support you, wherever possible, so that you don’t miss out on what matters to you.

Membership of the Homes and Communities Agency Pension Scheme, which is a contributory defined benefit scheme with the amount you receive on retirement based on your salary and years worked at the Agency.

Internal applicants: please note that if you are successful, the salary you are offered will be in accordance with our pay policy. You can find details on the HR Hub SharePoint site.

If you ever need a bit of extra help, we have a great employee assistance programme, a wide range of healthcare plans, financial wellbeing support and access to many great discounts with leading high street names.

Our range of network groups are also there to support you to be yourself at work and play a key role in helping shape our future.

If you are a member of a professional body, we’ll pay for your membership and once you get your digital kit, you’ll be good to go.

Homes England: The Housing and Regeneration Agency

We believe that affordable, quality homes in well-designed places are key to improving people’s lives. As the government’s housing and regeneration agency, we create thriving new places and transform urban areas, combining the full breadth of our powers, expertise, land, capital and influence to bring investment to communities and get more homes built.

How? We form long-term partnerships that bridge the gap between the public and private sector to meet local needs and aspirations. We use our influence to champion the creation of sustainable homes, communities and places that are brilliantly designed for the people that live there now, and in the future. And we use our funding and support to build a more resilient, diverse and innovative housing sector, helping new entrants in the market, encouraging modern methods of construction and design, and promoting the utmost attention to building safety.

Together with our partners, we’re accelerating the pace of house building, remediation and regeneration across the country, as we seek to deliver ever more affordable homes in places people are proud to call home for generations to come., Homes England are a geographically diverse community. We work to a 50/50 office/ home based model. Moving back into our office environments has enabled us to utilise our space and time together in the most collaborative way.

We would encourage all applicants to apply as soon as possible as we may close vacancies early should we receive a high number of applications.

We also encourage you to apply using the full application option as opposed to quick apply, this is especially important if you would like to indicate to us that you would like to be considered under the disability confident scheme.

We’re a diverse team of more than 1,000 professionals spanning 17 professions, helping Homes England to be effective, efficient and deliver for communities.