- Pay Rate:
Up to £600 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
- Hours per Week:
37
Anticipated 12 months
- Croydon
Interim Digital UX Designer - Remote Working – PSR 1JP00065535 *Re-opened*
Pay Rate: Up to £600 per day pay range subject to IR35 status
Location: Remote working with one or two days, in the office (based in Croydon), a month.
Contract: Anticipated 12 months.
Existing security clearance is not a prerequisite but will always help.
JOB INFO:
A Digital UX Designer is needed on a contract basis for approximately 12 months to work in a multidisciplinary team, alongside researchers and developers, to deliver word-class, user-centred services for the organisation.
You will be an expert user of the GDS Prototyping kit, with the ability to design and build components to share into the design library and build interactive prototypes. Prototyping experience is essential.
Existing security clearance is not a prerequisite but will always help
Minimum Requirement:
- Knowledge of government design
- GDS Design
- Experience of working in an agile space
What you’ll do:
- Design accessible services that are simple enough for everyone to use.
- As an experience designer, you’ll determine the best way for users to interact with services, the overall flow and individual design elements.
- Mentor and train other designers, supporting the growth and development of the interaction design team.
- You will have an understanding of the way the internet works, experience of designing in an agile environment and be driven to help government transform the way it delivers services so that they are simpler, faster and easier to use.
- Identifying, developing and using best practice and standards to design service
- Supporting and mentoring Interaction Designers, allocating tasks and providing them with guidance, training and constructive feedback
- Advocating for users and understanding user needs to design simple, effective and accessible services
- Creating prototypes and concepts to communicate and test ideas with users and improving with evidence
- Mapping user journeys, processes and visualising design problems
- Collaborating within a multidisciplinary team on large, complex services by facilitating the design process, participating in research activities, workshops and communicating design decisions to the team and stakeholders
Who you are:
- Emerging Technology Monitoring (EMRG) – level 3
- Development and Implementation, experience of Systems Development and Prototyping
- Previous experience of User Experience Design (HCEV) – LEVEL 4
- Interaction Design- Level 4
- Inclusion- Level 3
Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.
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- Our clients are generally seeking applicants who are reasonably local, not that they would exclude candidates willing to travel/relocate, so on that basis we would ideally like you to supply us with your address (or at least your post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours
- Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
- Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
- Qualifications and experience relevant to the job role – please give full details within your CV document
Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:
- Any local authority/public sector experience
- Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for
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