We’re here to create and harness knowledge, to deliver opportunity for everyone.

About the Role

As Content Designer in the Website Content Team, you’ll be responsible for coordinating website content updates for a wide range of audiences. You’ll be familiar with managing complex website content projects, working collaboratively with colleagues in IT Services and others in academic and support functions to deliver audience-led developments. You will also be familiar with creating, updating, optimising, reviewing and evaluating website content for a wide range of audiences. You’ll use evidence, analytics data and research to inform decisions about content hierarchy and information architecture. You’ll be comfortable with creating user stories, scoping ideas for research and may have taken part in pair working too. You’ll use software and tools to quality assure content published on the website, addressing broken links and inaccessible content and implementing our writing guide. You’ll have a good understanding of SEO to identify gaps in our content and to implement different optimisation strategies. You’ll also be familiar with user-centred content design principles, including web usability and user experience (UX) design.

 For informal enquiries about this vacancy, you may wish to contact: Mike Claridge, Senior Website Content Manager at claridgm@edgehill.ac.uk.

About You

 As Content Designer you will have:

• Experience of managing website content and coordinating complex website projects and developments.
• Experience of creating, updating, optimising, reviewing and evaluating website content.
• A thorough, detail-oriented and proactive approach to work, with good listening skills and the ability to present ideas clearly.

At Edge Hill University we value the benefits a rich and diverse workforce brings to our community and therefore welcome applications from all sections of society.

Rewards & Benefits

• A minimum of 36 days annual leave per annum (inclusive of bank holiday and University closure days)
• Free foreign language evening classes
• Discounted membership to our onsite state-of-the-art sport and leisure facilities
• Staff benefits scheme, which provides you with discounts across the high street, supermarket shopping, cinema tickets, dining out and more.
• Employee assistance programme with access to free confidential counselling sessions, legal & financial advice, and as health & wellbeing resources
• A wide range of development programmes to enhance your career
• Beautiful award-winning on-campus working environment.
• Automatic enrolment into the Local Government Pension Scheme with our employer contribution of 17.8%

About Us

At Edge Hill University we believe in the life changing opportunities knowledge can create. Since 1885, we’ve been creating access to knowledge for those who may not have had the opportunity to before. 

Today, the effect we have has a far-reaching impact, not just for those who come to study here but for those who work, invest in, and live in our local communities too. So, if you’ve ever wondered if one person can make a difference, simply speak to our alumni, students, and award-winning staff.

Because for us education isn’t about how much you take in. It’s about what you take out into the world. 

Inspiring minds and changing futures since 1885, Edge Hill University is “A great success story… an institution that improves and impresses year after year” – Times Higher Education.