Digital UX Designer

Duration : 6 months

Clearance: Must be SC Eligible (must not have lived outside of the uk in the past 5 years)

Minimum Requirement: Previous government agile Experience, Experience of delivering user experience design to Government Digital Service (GDS) Standards.

As a Digital UX Designer you will have:

• Significant experience of leading user interaction and design to develop end-to-end government services through a variety of channels that are simple and straightforward to use and accessible

• Experience of using a range of tools and methodologies to design complex, inter-dependent and inter-related services that are ‘end-to-end’ and ‘front-to-back’.

• Experience solving design and research challenges through collaboration and user participation.

• Demonstrate successful experience of taking products through an GDS service assessment

• Experience introducing service design and agile ways of working practices, teams or organisations, including engaging with stakeholders of all levels of seniority

• User focus. You know how to collaborate with user researchers and can represent users internally. You understand the difference between user needs and the desires of the user. You can champion user research to focus on all users. You can prioritise and define approaches to understand the user story, guiding others in doing so. You can offer recommendations on the best tools and methods to be used. (Relevant skill level: expert)

• Prototyping. You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones. (Relevant skill level: expert)

• Prototyping in code. You can create static HTML and CSS prototypes. You know how to code for different screen sizes. You can version and host a prototype. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

• Evidence- and context-based design. You can absorb large amounts of conflicting information and use it to produce simple designs. (Relevant skill level: expert)

• Communication skills. You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them in a way that is clear for both audiences. You know how to manage stakeholder expectations. You can be flexible and you are capable of proactive and reactive communication. You know how to facilitate difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

• Community collaboration. You know how to work collaboratively within a group, actively networking with others and varying feedback for the appropriate time to ensure the discussion sticks. You can use your initiative to identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. You can pull out issues through agile health-checks with the team to provoke the right responses. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

• Agile working. You have experience of working in agile, including an awareness of agile tools and how to use them. You can advise colleagues on how and why agile methods are used and be able to provide a clear, open and transparent framework in which teams can deliver. You can adapt and reflect and be resilient. You have the ability to see outside of the process. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)

If you feel you have the skills and experience needed for this role; please do apply now.