About us

We are Britain’s national equality regulator and a United Nations accredited ‘A status’ national human rights institution.

We uphold people’s rights without fear or favour. We use the full force of our legal powers to defend people from unfair or unequal treatment and to challenge breaches of the law. We advise on developing laws and provide guidance, training and support to enable compliance.

We bring people together to create change. We work with employers, governments and a wide range of organisations, to promote understanding of equality and human rights and we support them to make improvements in practice.

Our new strategy for 2022-25 gives us a strong platform to show that we will use our powers to protect and promote equality and human rights, and that we have identified the main challenges in society where we can make a difference in our role as a regulator.

Overview of the role and responsibilities

Working as a content designer at the Equality and Human Rights Commission, you will write, develop and optimise content for a range of digital channels, ensuring it’s clear, engaging, creative and accessible.

You will need to be able to take complex language and content and make them simple to understand, make the case for user-focused design and be able to explain your decisions clearly. You will manage relationships with stakeholders and subject matter experts to produce content that is accurate, timely and high quality.

Working with the senior content designers, you will make sure user journeys are the best they can be and produce content based on insight and outputs of user testing.

Passionate about accessibility, you will apply accessibility best-practice and stand ready with neat solutions for accessible content, so we can always lead by example.

You will also be working with external suppliers and creative agencies.

The Content and Channels team

This is a key role within the Communications Directorate of the Equality and Human Rights Commission, working across delivery teams and in close partnership with colleagues throughout the organisation. As part of the Content and Channels team, you will apply best practice in first-class digital content and user-centred content. 

You will work with the other content designers, in a creative environment helping ensure our content is relevant, optimised and fully accessible. The team will be striving to keep on top of digital trends and developments, so our content is constantly improving.

Benefits

In addition to a competitive salary, we offer a range of benefits including flexible working patterns, 30 days annual leave plus 8 bank holidays (full time FTE), access to the Civil Service Pension Scheme and partnership pension schemes, and enhanced parental leave benefits. More information can be found in the candidate pack.

How to apply

If this sounds like the role for you, please review the attached Candidate Pack or more information and submit your application today!

For all queries related to this role, please contact Emily Bloomfield, Head of Content and Channels: Emily.Bloomfield@equalityhumanrights.com

If you encounter any problems with Applied or have a question about the recruitment process, please contact Becky Roberts, HR and Resourcing Officer: Becky.Roberts@equalityhumanrights.com

Disability Confident Leader

As a Disability Confident Leader, the Equality and Human Rights Commission offers an interview for people with disabilities (as defined by the Equality Act 2010 and The Disability Discrimination Act 1995 (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004) and who meet the minimum criteria for this appointment.

Where high numbers of applications are received, the candidates that best meet the minimum criteria for the role may only be invited to interview. If you wish to apply for consideration under this scheme, please complete the appropriate section on the online application form. This will enable us to make the appropriate arrangements, if necessary.

If you require an alternative accessible version of the application form or wish to discuss your application or reasonable adjustment – please contact us by email at Peoplehelpdesk@equalityhumanrights.com or by telephone on 0161 829 8100

Diversity in our workforce

At the Commission, we are proud of our respectful workplace that values the contribution of all our staff, whatever their background.  We do not tolerate discrimination or harassment. Our recruitment decisions are based on fair, open competition, with appointment on merit. We welcome applications from everyone to ensure we achieve a balanced representation in our workforce in all grades.