Content Strategy Consultant (Temporary W2)

Anthro-Tech is hiring a content strategy consultant to advise and coach clients and lead content and information architecture planning development and implementation. This is a temporary remote W-2 position offering part-time to full-time support on an as-needed basis through June 30th 2025.

In this role youll work with an interdisciplinary team of designers researchers accessibility experts and change management consultants. Youll collaborate on purposeful user-centered design solutionsfrom improving content usefulness usability accessibility and findability to designing entire digital experiences from the ground up. And youll help clients to sustain the work we do for them through content governance and measurement planning and workshops and training.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES

1. LEAD AND SUPPORT PROJECTS FROM A CONTENT AND INFORMATION ARCHITECTURE (IA) PERSPECTIVE

• Identify opportunities for content based on content strategy activitiessuch as content audits comparative analysis content templates and user research and content testingand make actionable recommendations
• Define content goals priorities and success metrics based on stakeholder user and content research
• Structure and organize content for usability and findability including designing information architectures content models and taxonomies
• Educate clients on content strategy activities and their role in the process

2. DEVELOP GOVERNANCE FOR LASTING CHANGE

• Prepare clients to sustain the work we do for them through education and guidance on content governance and measurementincluding roles and responsibilities and content workflowas well as developing content guides and tools to support content governance
• Collaborate with client teams and the Anthro-Tech organizational change manager to implement proposed roles and responsibilities and content workflows
• Give and receive feedback gracefully

3. CREATE HIGH-QUALITY CONTENT AND USER-CENTERED EXPERIENCES

• Be familiar with popular content management systems (such as Drupal WordPress and SharePoint) and related content requirements
• Develop content requirements for designers and developers in formats that are easy for them to understand and use
• Plan for and create usable and accessible content and information architectures
• User research to inform your work including collaborating with researchers on research planning activities
• Gather and act on continuous feedback from stakeholders users and peers throughout projects to iterate ad improve on your work
• Be a fierce advocate for clear useful usable and sustainable content throughout the user-centered design process

QUALIFICATIONS & ATTITUDE

• 4 years of experience leading content workstreams coaching clients and facilitating workshops and training.
• A bachelors degree or higher in Communications Human-Centered Design or a related field; or equivalent relevant work experience
• Experienced with content planning writing editing and publishing digital content
• You have developed content strategies governance plans and information architectures for information-rich websites
• You know how to collaborate with stakeholders and work on interdisciplinary teams to accomplish shared goals
• Youre ready to help scope a new project respond to an RFP help build our content strategy practice and write thought leadership content
• You enjoy listening to the latest Anthro-Tech crowd-sourced Spotify playlist and hearing the occasional dog and cat stories from your coworkers (or at least be willing to humor them)

SCHEDULING & TRAVEL

This is a temporary remote W-2 position offering part-time to full-time support on an as-needed basis starting as soon as possible through June 30th 2025.

Youll be assigned to specific projects with estimated weekly hours (040) provided in advance to support planning. We aim to confirm your schedule at least one week ahead.

Team collaboration typically occurs between 8:00 AM and 2:00 PM Pacific Time. Outside those hours your schedule is flexible and can be arranged with your manager.

COMPENSATION AND BENEFITS

Anthro-Tech offers competitive compensation and limited benefits for this role including:

• Paid Time Off (PTO) - youll accrue PTO for each hour you work. Full-time team members accrue approximately 15 PTO days per year

Actual compensation is influenced by a wide range of factors including but not limited to skill set level of experience and responsibility. The range of starting pay for this role of Content Strategist (Temporary W2) is $43 - $59 per hour Benefits.

APPLICATIONS SHOULD INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

• Cover letter stating your background salary requirements and reason for interest in working with Anthro-Tech
• Resume and a short write-up describing your most significant Content Strategy engagement. Were looking for a track record of experience and dedication.

Thank you for your interest!

ABOUT ANTHRO-TECH

Anthro-Tech is a human-centered design consultancy focused on government agencies nonprofits and enterprises with a social impact mission. We help organizations gain a deep understanding of their customers through research to design products and services that are usable useful and make a positive impact on peoples everyday lives.

Over the past 20 years weve partnered with many organizations to transform how they engage their customers including dozens of county state and federal government organizations Goodwill Meta The Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Anthro-Tech was founded in 1997. We are a woman-owned business with offices and user experience labs in Olympia and Seattle Washington.

We are driven by our purpose to build a great business that makes things better for people.

Our values:

1. Help others succeed
2. Set the bar high
3. Be optimistic AND face the brutal facts
4. Continually learn and grow expertise
5. Passionate about making an impact