Content Designer – Contract

We’re looking for a content designer to help us set the standards for content design across the public sector. You’ll work as part of our first digital delivery team, helping the team to design and build simple, clean, understandable, inclusive and modern interfaces. 

You’ll be working as part of a multidisciplinary digital delivery team to turn complex processes into clear, helpful information. This is a chance to shape the voice of digital government from day one, in an environment where you’ll need to guide others, win buy-in, and leave behind patterns that can be reused and scaled.

Prior experience writing content for government or similar complex digital services in an accessible, reusable way is essential. As is the ability to coach and inspire others, share, and talk about the work you're doing. Experience in writing content for design systems and reusable patterns would be a benefit.

What you do

• Create simple, clear and user-centred content across digital services
• Collaborate with researchers, designers, developers and policy experts
• Make complex language accessible and inclusive
• Leave behind content patterns and documentation for future teams

What you’ll bring

• Proven experience of working in large-scale digital transformation for government or similar organisations 
• Demonstrated ability to simplify complex topics
• Experience working with multidisciplinary teams
• Experience and interest and opinion about the use of AI in your work and how AI can be used to benefit digital delivery
• Degree or training in communications, journalism, English, or content design

What you’ll deliver

• Live service content (web, email, forms)
• Content strategy and pattern documentation
• Upskilling and sharing knowledge with other members of the team

Contract details

• Contract role, 3–6 months, 3-4 days a week, with potential to extend
• Day rates are dependent on SFIA experience levels
• Level 4 - Enable: USD $400–600
• Level 5 - Ensure, advise: USD $600–850
• Level 6 - Initiate, influence: USD $850–1200
• Remote-first, with occasional expense-reimbursable in-person sessions in Barbados

Reporting to

Mark Boyce, CEO, GovTech Barbados

Terms of Reference

Terms of Reference for this contract are available on request from recruitment@govtech.bb

Closing date for applications Friday 18th July