Content Strategists and Content Designers (freelance opportunities)
Today, Australia
Job Description
We’re looking for content strategists and content designers who bring 3+ years of experience in content strategy and content design for websites and digital product design.
About Today
We are Australia’s most awarded social impact agency and are recognised as one of the most creative places to work in the world.
We use design and technology to make impact happen.
In the next decade, we’ll be tackling society's biggest challenges and delivering impact on a global scale.
Over the past decade, we’re proud to have delivered hundreds of impact projects. We’re deeply grateful to the communities we’ve designed alongside and the client organisations that have entrusted us with this work.
In the last 12 months, we’ve designed and built Australia’s first online family violence intervention order, established a new approach to co-design for the Victorian mental health sector, built a peer-to-peer product that helps people learn Auslan, and launched a campaign to shift mainstream perceptions of climate changeplus many more.
We nurture our organisation's culture of play, collaboration and learning as key conditions for our people to do the best impact work of their lives.
We’re chuffed to be recognised in the Best Place to Work list in 2021.
Join us
On a contract, we’ll value your expertise, collaborate with you as a member of our team, and support you to have an exceptional experience working with us.
We embrace the opportunity to work with new folks on a contracting basis as a way to connect with talented, purpose-driven people, and to scale up our team during busy periods.
If you’re exploring the next step in your career, contracting with us will allow you to get under the hood of Today if you’d like to explore a permanent role. Or, if you chase an endless summer, you could become a friend for life by working with us in the colder months each year.
Your expertise will be valued in sectors like:
- arts, culture and public spaces
- children, youth and families
- cities, transport and housing
- climate, nature and energy
- education
- financial wellbeing
- First Nations
- health, wellbeing and care
- justice
- public service
- rural and regional communities, and
- sustainable economy
We are mostly based in ngar-go (Fitzroy, Melbourne) and we welcome applications from all lands and backgrounds. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, people with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex (LGBTIQA+) people.
What you'll be doing
- Developing practical and actionable content strategies for clients
- Workshop design and facilitation using remote tools for large stakeholder groups
- Conducting content inventories and audits
- Developing user-centred information architectures
- Writing and editing highly engaging and actionable copy
- Uploading content to content management systems for clients
- Developing personas, design principles, and user stories
- Collaborating with designers and developers to create meaningful experiences for users
- Conducting research with users to understand their content requirements
- Developing content models, content prototypes and microcopy
- Developing governance and workflow processes
- Developing measurement strategies for clients
- Developing CMS guidelines and conducting CMS training with clients
- Contribute to the content team and help to build its capability and processes
- Become a trusted advisor to our clients, contributing to Today’s thought leadership efforts at events and generally in the community
Requirements
We’re looking for content strategists and content designers who bring 3+ years of experience in content strategy and content design for websites and digital product design.
You'll be part of making sure the products we put into the world are as beautiful, innovative and delightful as they can possibly be. You’ll blend best-practice design-system thinking with a great eye for copy, information architecture, and strategic thinking to design experiences that make people’s lives better with technology, beyond the browser.
You will work hand-in-hand with service designers, other strategists, other designers and developers to ensure that products meet the needs of users, our clients and the strategic impact we want to have.
Benefits
Our people
In our organisation you’ll work alongside sixty passionate thinkers and do-ers that care deeply about design and technology for impact. We come from diverse backgrounds with diverse skill