Olive Jar Digital

Content Marketing Manager

• Design and maintain content for teacher recruitment services, ensuring clarity, accessibility, and alignment with user needs.
• Conduct content audits and user research to identify gaps and inform improvements.
• Collaborate with designers, researchers, and technical teams to develop prototypes and service touchpoints (e.g., transactional content, guidance, emails).
• Communicate design intent clearly to technical colleagues to ensure accurate implementation.
• Maintain and update content design histories, documenting decisions and rationale.
• Support accessibility audits and help achieve WCAG 2.2 AA conformance for services.
• Engage with wider professional communities to share knowledge and best practices.

Content Designer

• Support a high-impact project for a public sector client focused on improving teaching quality.
• Clarify, improve and communicate changes to the Assessment Only (AO) route.
• Present proposed changes to ensure guidance is clear while maintaining provider confidence.
• Work closely with policy specialists, researchers and delivery teams to co-design content.

User Researcher

• Conduct research to understand how proposed changes to the 2-school rule are understood by providers, and how they can be communicated clearly while maintaining confidence in the route’s robustness.
• Explore how providers in SEND settings interpret AO guidance and identify where clarity or improvements are needed.
• Use qualitative and quantitative methods to gather insights from teachers, training providers, schools and stakeholders across the education sector.
• Work closely with policy colleagues, content designers, service designers and analysts to translate research findings into actionable recommendations.
• Support co-design sessions, discovery activities and iterative testing to shape updated criteria and guidance documents.
• Ensure research is inclusive, ethical and reflective of diverse user groups—including those in mainstream and SEND environments.

• Improved clarity and usability of guidance for stakeholders across the education sector.
• Present proposed changes to the 2-school rule so the policy intent is clear.
• Improve guidance for AO in SEND settings.
• Support schools, teacher training providers and wider stakeholders to understand updated criteria and guidance.

Content Designer – FTC

User Researcher – FTC

• Conduct user research to support new policies, identify unmet needs, and test improvements
• Create a user research plan with key goals, methods, and participant criteria
• Recruit a diverse range of participants
• Collaborate with design and development teams to design, test, and refine prototypes
• Work with stakeholders to prioritise and design service improvements

Senior User Researcher – Fixed-Term Contract

Scrum Master

• Facilitate daily stand-ups, sprint planning, retrospectives, and reviews, ensuring teams stay focused on goals and delivery outcomes.
• Remove blockers and manage dependencies to help teams maintain steady progress.
• Support the Product Manager and Delivery Manager in prioritising and managing the backlog.
• Promote agile best practices and help teams continuously improve processes and collaboration.
• Foster a culture of transparency, accountability, and open communication across teams and stakeholders.
• Monitor delivery progress and provide accurate reporting on sprint outcomes, risks, and dependencies.
• Coach team members on agile methodologies and support the adoption of agile values across the organisation.
• Ensure delivery aligns with organisational objectives, quality standards, and user needs.
• Facilitate workshops, sprint reviews, and cross-team sessions to build understanding and alignment.

Full-stack Engineer

• Lead and manage the software delivery across a programme of work for our central government client.
• Provide strong leadership and hands-on guidance to the development teams.
• Support the teams with sprint planning, backlog management, prioritisation, and maintaining transparency of work.

Head of Software Engineering

Manager

• Own and manage delivery plans, ensuring objectives, milestones, and outputs are achieved to schedule.
• Develop and maintain engagement plans, coordinating workshops, interviews, and discovery sessions with senior stakeholders.
• Oversee the creation of frameworks and toolkits that enable effective delivery and align with organisational strategies.
• Coordinate assessments of business needs, capabilities, and readiness, translating findings into actionable recommendations.
• Support the development of governance and operating models, ensuring alignment with existing processes.
• Manage the delivery of strategic recommendations, including briefing materials for senior leadership.
• Ensure all outputs, methodologies, and lessons learned are documented and transferred before project closure.
• Act as the key point of contact for stakeholders, ensuring risks, dependencies, and issues are tracked and managed.
• Produce regular delivery reporting, including progress updates against milestones and acceptance criteria.

Delivery Manager

Data Engineer

• Design, build, and optimise data pipelines for ingestion, transformation, and delivery across structured and unstructured sources.
• Develop and maintain metadata capture processes to support data cataloguing and lineage.
• Implement and document data quality rules, retention policies, and data optimisation processes.
• Support large-scale deployment and configuration of Microsoft Purview.
• Establish automated scanning and metadata ingestion for source systems.
• Configure data lineage, glossary, and metadata structures to align with governance and compliance standards (UK GDPR, ISO 27001).
• Assess current data platform performance; identify and resolve bottlenecks across ingestion, processing, query, and reporting layers.
• Conduct benchmarking (e.g., latency, throughput, cost efficiency) and implement storage/DQ optimisations.
• Develop and apply storage tiering and retention strategies.
• Collaborate with Data Governance and Data Quality teams to ensure consistency, accuracy, and compliance.
• Contribute to documentation and knowledge transfer for data engineering and digital services teams.
• Participate in agile delivery ceremonies, workshops, and technical review sessions.