About The Organisation
Public Health Scotland launched 1st April 2020 as a national health board, employing around 1200 people, and with an annual budget of around £101 million. Public Health Scotland wants to see a Scotland where everybody thrives, a Scotland where life expectancy improves and the difference in life expectancy between our poorest and wealthiest areas gets smaller.
Public Health Scotland is a young organisation, set up to improve the lives of people in Scotland, to reduce health inequalities that persist in many of our communities.
The Post
Do you want to play a pivotal role in shaping how a national organisation delivers its content? At Public Health Scotland, we're dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of our communities, and we're looking for an experienced Content Strategist.
As our Content Strategist, you'll be at the forefront of developing and implementing a comprehensive content strategy that aligns with our mission and goals. You'll lead a large in-house team of talented content professionals, ensuring that our content is engaging, informative, impactful and user-focused/audience specific.
As a Content Strategist You Will
1. Lead the creation, implementation and evaluation of a content strategy for the organisation across its multiple channels.
2. Oversee the development of creative, user-centred, quality assured, highly accessible and measurable content for our own and partner channels.
3. Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure all content communicates effectively with target audiences and contributes to PHS’s objective to create a Scotland where everybody thrives.
4. Provide professional leadership support and advice to the in-house content team.
5. Stay up to date with industry trends and best practices in content strategy and digital communications.
The Candidate
You will have:
1. Masters level or equivalent level of experience in a relevant field (communications, publishing, journalism, user experience or information and knowledge management).
2. Senior and recent significant demonstrable experience of managing the successful development and delivery of complex content strategies, information architecture, and taxonomy design.
3. Senior and significant experience of working within a user-centred content creation environment producing a variety of types of products across multiple platforms.
4. Proven skills in leading and motivating a team of staff to achieve results and provide an excellent customer-focused service.
5. Formal line management experience including 1:1 coaching, annual appraisal, objective setting and personal development planning.
Location and Working Pattern:
The post is based in either Gyle Square, Edinburgh or Central Quay, Glasgow. We are currently hybrid working; therefore, you will be expected to spend time in both PHS offices as well as the option to work at home.
Please note that PHS will be relocating from Central Quay, Glasgow to Bothwell Street, Glasgow in 2025.
Monday to Friday, 37 hours per week.
PHS is a flexible employer, and we are happy to discuss requests for alternative working patterns.
During times of public health emergency, or other urgent business need, you may be required on a temporary basis to work your normal contracted working hours over 7 days including weekends, in order to meet the needs of the service.
It is a condition of this employment that you must live and remain a resident within the UK for the post in which you will be employed with PHS.
Benefits
Our benefits package includes pension scheme, comprehensive range of work life balance policies, occupational health services, learning resource centres and discounted leisure, financial and shopping benefits. Click here to view the full range of the PHS Employee Benefits.
Further Information
For an informal discussion on the post, please contact Linsey Jonsson, User-centred design and delivery Service Manager via email linsey.jonsson@phs.scot.
Closing date for completed applications is Friday 14th March 2025.
Further information on PHS is available from: www.publichealthscotland.scot.
Please note that the majority of correspondence is sent by e-mail only, so please check your e-mail regularly (including junk folders).
Public Health Scotland is an equal opportunities employer and as such guarantees to interview all disabled applicants who meet the minimum criteria for our vacancies.
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