Senior Content Designer

Basis: Permanent, Full time 36 hours per week

A £312 tax-free working from home allowance is also payable annually.

Location: Belfast, Cardiff or Edinburgh (Hybrid – min. 2 days in office) or Remote (UK)

Benefits: Outstanding benefits including Civil Service Pension Scheme, flexible working, 28+ days holiday, and more.

About the Electoral Commission

The Electoral Commission is the UK’s independent body overseeing elections and regulating political finance. Everything we do is about ensuring trust, participation, and integrity in the democratic process.

As we enter a bold new chapter under our five-year Corporate Plan, we are increasing our workforce and transforming how we plan and deliver core services. This post plays a central role in that journey.

About the role

We are looking for a skilled content designer to play an important role in improving the content on our website, making it clearer, more consistent and easier for people to use.

You will design content that enables everyone to take part in democracy, ensuring it is user‑centred, accessible and inclusive.

A key part of your role will be redesigning content and user journeys as part of our website improvement project. This will involve reviewing, redesigning and restructuring content so it’s based on evidence, user needs and data.

Working closely with the content team, subject-matter experts and external partners, you will help to modernise how content is created, managed and governed across the website.

You will:

• Lead the design, testing and iteration of high‑quality website content
• Use analytics, research and user insight to guide content decisions
• Collaborate with teams across the Commission to improve complex information
• Help establish content standards, patterns and governance for the website
• Mentor colleagues and champion user‑centred content design across the organisation

This is an exciting and high‑impact role where your expertise will directly shape how millions of people access trusted, democratic information.

About the team

You will join our Digital Communications team; a collaborative and forward-thinking group committed to delivering user-centred digital services. We value creativity, inclusivity, and continuous improvement.

You’ll also be working alongside the Commission’s first in house digital service delivery team, who are building our postcode lookup service. This is a fantastic opportunity collaborate, share skills and learn as part of a multidisciplinary team working on a service used by over 40 million people.

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

How to apply

We are committed to fair and inclusive recruitment. To help reduce unconscious bias and ensure all applicants are assessed solely on their skills, knowledge and experience, we use an anonymous recruitment process.

When applying, please provide an anonymised CV which omits your protected characteristics and any personally identifiable information:

Do not include:

• Your name, address, phone number, email or other contact details
• Your date of birth or age
• Gender, ethnicity, nationality or other personal identifiers
• A photo of yourself
• Educational dates (as these indicate age)
• Primary education details

Do include:

• Your employment history including employers and dates of employment
• Explanation for gaps in your history
• Your duties, responsibilities and achievements

If your CV contains personal details (such as your name or contact information), we will be unable to consider your application. Please double-check your documents before submitting, including the file name you use to save and upload your CV.

Supporting disabled applicants

The Electoral Commission is proud to be a Level 2 Disability Confident Employer. As part of this commitment, we aim to prioritise interviews for disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria listed in the job description.

There may, however, be occasions where it is not practicable or appropriate to interview all disabled applicants who meet the essential criteria. For example, during periods of exceptionally high application volumes or seasonal recruitment activity, the Commission may need to limit the overall number of interviews offered to both disabled and non-disabled applicants.

If you have a disability and would like to be considered under this commitment, please indicate this when you apply. We also welcome requests for reasonable adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process or within the workplace.

Key dates

• Application deadline: 2nd November (23:59)
• Interviews (1st stage): Week commencing 16th November 2026
• Interviews (2nd stage): Week commencing TBC
• Anticipated start date: January 2027

Interviews may be conducted virtually via Microsoft Teams.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.