Digital Content Specialist

Job description

No candidate will meet every single desired qualification / criteria. If your experience looks a little different from what we've identified and you think you can bring value to the role, we'd love to learn more about you!

Salary: £31,142 - £33,197 per annum

Hours per week: 37 hours

Working pattern: Thursday 7.5 hours & Friday 7 hours

Weeks per Annum: 52 weeks per annum

Location: Abingdon

Contract type: Fixed-term until December 2027

Help Guide Our Digital Content Transformation

We're looking for a talented Digital Content Specialist to play a key role in a major digital transformation project at Abingdon & Witney College. As we launch a new SharePoint-based staff intranet and embrace AI-powered tools such as Microsoft Copilot, you'll help create a trusted source of information for colleagues across the organisation.

This is a unique opportunity to influence how hundreds of staff access, use and manage information every day while supporting the delivery of the College's Digital Strategy.

What You'll Do

• Lead the review, redesign and migration of content into a new SharePoint intranet.
• Create engaging, accessible and user-focused content.
• Improve information structure, searchability and user experience.
• Work with colleagues across the College to ensure content is accurate, consistent and up to date.
• Support digital-first ways of working and the effective use of AI-enabled tools.

About You

Essential:

• Experience creating and managing digital content.
• Excellent written communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder engagement skills.
• Experience using Microsoft 365 applications.
• The ability to work independently and manage competing priorities.

Desirable:

• SharePoint, intranet or website content management experience.
• Internal communications experience.
• Knowledge of content strategy, information architecture or digital transformation projects.

Why Work with Us

Excellent benefits for our employees including generous pension and holiday schemes (with potential Christmas closure days), continued professional development, flexible working options, corporate gym membership, cycle/tech scheme and much more.

*Abingdon and Witney College reserve the right to close all applications before posted closing date.

AWC values diversity and encourages applications from all sections of the community. We are committed to safeguarding and expect all our employees and volunteers to share this commitment. We are exempt from the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974 and all appointments are subject to satisfactory clearances including enhanced DBS checks.

Abingdon and Witney College are committed to safer recruitment practices. In addition to our pre-employment checks, we will conduct an online search. This includes checking Google main results feed as well as the 'News' and 'Images' tab. We will be checking for any publicly available information that suggests the applicant may not be suitable to work with children or young/vulnerable people or content that could potentially damage Abingdon and Witney College 's reputation. This may include inappropriate posts, comments or images displaying evidence of offensive or inappropriate behaviour, jokes or language, discriminatory comments, inappropriate photos, drug or alcohol misuse.

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