Senior User Researcher - REMOTE - Inside IR35

Shropshire  ‐ Onsite
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Description

Our client, a leading Consultancy giant, is looking to hire a Senior User Researcher to join a well-established team working remotely, for an initial 3-6-month contract. Please note that we would ideally be looking for prior experience in Central Government, working to GDS/Gov.uk guidelines.
Our client love to hire people with a passion for learning and self-improvement, and teamed with their innovative technologies this offers you an opportunity to grow and be part of the bigger picture long-term. You will be working in a team of fantastic people who want to push themselves too. This is an ideal role for those looking to make a positive impact within your area of expertise, embrace the chance to learn and develop with a view to becoming an expert in your field.
Role & requirements:

A User Researcher is an expert practitioner, leading and aligning user research activities across several teams.

At this level, you will be expected to:
ensure that teams take a user-centred, evidence-based approach to service design and delivery
develop and assure good user research practice
Skills needed:
Analysis and synthesis. You can help an organisation adopt a wide range of analysis and synthesis techniques. You know how to help an organisation continually assure, improve and innovate their practices to generate clear and valuable findings.
Inclusive research. You can help teams understand the diversity of users of government services. You know how to include all kinds of users in appropriate research activities. You can advocate for inclusive practices and help teams design and deliver accessible services that work for all users.
Research skills. You can help an organisation adopt a wide range of user research methods. You can lead a community of practice to help an organisation continually assure, improve and innovate their user research.
Society and technology. You can help teams understand the ways that digital technology is changing user behaviour, and the challenges and opportunities for design and delivery of government services.
Strategic insight. You understand organisational goals and challenges. You can align research activities across teams to inform policy and proposition. (Relevant skill level: practitioner)
Technical understanding. You know about the technologies used to build and operate digital services. You can collaborate closely with colleagues in different digital disciplines.
User-centred and agile practices. You understand and have experience of a range of user-centred practices. You can help inexperienced teams adopt user-centred practices and embed them into their agile workflow. You can advocate for user research and engage sceptical colleagues and stakeholders.
Next Steps:
If you are interested please forward me your CV so that we can get in contact. Applicants should submit their CV at the first instance.

Start date
ASAP
Duration
3-6-months initial
From
Jumar Solutions Ltd
Published at
10.09.2021
Project ID:
2202633
Contract type
Freelance
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