Content Executive (Accessibility) at AHDB - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board | Coventry, UK | £29K/yr – £32K/yr

AHDB - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

Content Executive (Accessibility)

Coventry, UK (Hybrid)

£29K/yr – £32K/yrEntry LevelContract

Posted 6 weeks ago

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Job Summary

Own accessibility driven content management across AHDB by updating CMS content, guiding authors, and driving search optimization with a focus on inclusive UX.

Accessibility remediation: identify, fix, and retest issues using audit findings and user feedback to close tickets effectively.
Content collaboration and guidance: advise authors, develop intranet authoring guidance, and ensure accessibility is embedded in workshops.
Measurement and strategy support: partner with the Senior Digital Content and Publications Manager to measure content performance and shape engagement plans with accessibility in mind.

Job Description

Responsibilities

Use excellent editing and copywriting skills, considering accessibility for users, to create digital content that is optimised for search, encourages engagement and improves the user experience
Update corporate websites using a CMS
Support identification and remediation of website accessibility issues across AHDB websites, working from audit findings, user feedback and internal checks
Log, track and manage accessibility issues through to closure, maintaining clear documentation and evidence
Retest fixes and confirm issues are resolved; escalate where issues persist or require technical changes
Work with colleagues to prioritise fixes and meet agreed timelines
Offer advice and support to content authors and subject matter experts
Optimise content for search based on SEO research provided by commissioned agencies
Create and commission authoring guidance for our intranet, ensuring that all aspects of accessibility are covered
Represent the digital content offering in creative workshops for content authors, ensuring that accessibility is included
Support the Senior Digital Content and Publications Manager in formulating engagement strategies and measuring content performance, ensuring accessibility

Requirements

Significant experience in copyediting and copywriting for digital channels, along with a working knowledge of how modern audiences consume digital content
Experience in creating and optimising content to drive organic search traffic
Experience in using a CMS
Proven ability to take a creative brief and deliver great, audience-centric digital content
A good understanding of effective ways to create a broad range of digital content types
Experience in working with analytic tools to inform creative executions
Excellent organisational skills and a strong attention to detail, with good interpersonal and communications skills
Familiarity with WCAG and/or accessibility testing tools (any level)
Understanding of HTML basics and common accessibility issues (helpful but not required)

Benefits

35 hours per week, Monday-Friday, to include hybrid working
33 days of annual leave plus one privilege day (inclusive of bank holidays)
Life assurance cover (4x salary)
A market-leading defined contribution pension scheme with Legal & General
Enhanced pay of 20 weeks for maternity, adoption and shared parental leave, subject to length of service
A paid day each year to volunteer and make a difference in your community
Comprehensive Employee Assistance Programme
Excellent training and development opportunities and an agreed development plan
Recognition awards throughout the year
Reward Gateway membership - this gives you a huge number of online discounts and savings

AHDB - Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board

4.2 Glassdoor

The Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (AHDB) is a statutory levy board, funded by farmers, growers and others in the supply chain to help the industry succeed in a rapidly changing world. We want to create a world-class food and farming industry, inspired by and competing with the best.Our purpose is to make our agriculture and horticulture industries more competitive and sustainable through factual, evidence-based advice, information and activity:• We manage extensive research and development programmes which are delivering scientifically robust and commercially useful outcomes for our levy payers• We undertake efficient farm-level knowledge transfer programmes based on evidence, both from third-party science and our own R&D, aimed at improving efficiency, productivity and sustainability • We provide unbiased, high-quality market information that helps business decision making and improves supply chain transparency • We carry out export market development work and also domestic marketing activity to inspire and inform consumers in order to assist the economic viability of sectors which require this • We raise awareness of food and where it comes from among school children and we help ensure the agriculture and horticulture industries are able to develop and attract workers with the skills they need• We also ensure that proper account is taken of Government priorities for agriculture and the agri-food industry, where appropriate.

Founded in 2008

Coventry, England, GBR

558 employees (64 in marketing)

www.ahdb.org.uk

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