Job Description
Venesky-Brown’s client, a public sector organisation in Stirling, is currently looking to recruit a Content Officer for a contract until 6th August 2026 on a rate of £17.65/hour (PAYE).
Responsibilities:
- Provide leadership as a line manager and content expert. Line management of a grade 2 role within the Content Team.
- Deliver and publish multimedia content that champions knowledge, skills, and materials as being key to sustaining Assets.
- Editing, design and publishing of outputs from projects, research, learning and guidance. This will include the design of accessible PDF documents.
- Responsibility for content quality and ensuring that content developed is consistent with brand guidelines, editorial guidelines and accessibility standards.
- Activity lead in the production and commissioning of printed signage and interpretation for the projects.
- Management of Content Team exhibitions and equipment kept in storage.
- Deliver sector audience engagement with editorial content. This will involve a range of content development across the blog, website, newsletter and social media channels.
- Operational management and strategic planning of the newsletter.
- Develop user needs statements, user stories, and work with personas to develop and deliver new content across the website and blog.
- Support the technical development and management of the Virtual Learning Environment (VLE).
- Support VLE content development, plus identify and implement processes, documentation and guidelines that will lead to effective online course design.
- Support Technical Conservation (TC) to deliver a broad range of projects across the TC work programme.
- Support management of budgets associated with projects.
- Develop and use your understanding, and associated sectors to coordinate wider external communications to support key projects or subject areas.
- Manage relationships with internal colleagues and external contractors such as designers, researchers, printers, illustrators, and filmmakers.
- Required to travel intermittently, to accommodate activities such as filming on location, meeting contractors at a site to specify interpretation work, or visiting a site to inform project work.
Essential Skills:
- Professional experience in delivering content for newsletters, blogs, websites or social media.
- Experience of following brand, editorial or accessibility guidelines to create accessible PDF publications.
- Experience in managing the creative production process for films and/or interpretation.
- Ability to use elements of the Adobe Suite to create and edit outputs, such as publications using InDesign and visual assets in Photoshop.
- Excellent planning skills, ability to respond to concurrent priorities and demonstrable experience of managing projects to a deadline.
- Experience in working collaboratively in project teams with a wide range of stakeholders.
- Ability to use Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office packages.
Desirable Skills:
- Demonstrable CPD and/or accredited qualifications in accessibility, copyediting or content design.
- Ability to use a VLE software, such as Moodle, to manage learning content.
- Experience of working in a large organisation or public body.
- Experience of liaising between stakeholders and suppliers, managing expectations around feedback and deliverables.
- Awareness of user experience (UX) design principles, and ability to inform content decisions for online platforms.
If you would like to hear more about this opportunity please get in touch.