User Researcher

Description

User Researcher
Contract
Fully remote

SC needed due to the urgent nature of the role

I am currently recruiting for a User Researcher for my client in the public sector.

They support service managers by generating new and useful user insights, and work closely with designers, analysts and developers to iteratively improve services for users.

As a user researcher you will be experienced in using a variety of user research methods to reveal actionable insights.

You will have excellent analytical and problem solving skills, and the ability to quickly develop recommendations based on quantitative and qualitative evidence.

You will need to be confident in explaining user needs and acting as a persuasive advocate for those needs both within the team, the wider organisation.

You will have experience with and be comfortable working with agile development teams. You will be able to introduce user research practices into a team, establish a user centred culture, and continually monitor and improve practices.

Main responsibilities

• Working with lead user researchers and service managers to develop and advocate appropriate research strategies to understand user needs for a service, and to continually test and improve the service
• Fostering a culture of team involvement in user research, team analysis, design rationale and decision making based on user needs
• Planning, designing, preparing and running user research activities to support the design, development and continuous improvement, experience mapping, diary studies, early stage concept and prototype testing, lab based and contextual usability and accessibility testing).
• Designing and running contextual and discovery research to develop a deep understanding of the needs of all users of a service
• Managing the usability and accessibility testing process from recruiting participants, designing test tasks, and preparing discussion guides, to test moderation, analysis and presenting results.
• Designing, executing and analysing quantitative surveys.
• Effectively communicating user research findings to the team and the wider organisation
• Working closely with designers and developers to turn user research findings into stories and actions that lead to valuable product and service features.
• Working closely with analytics colleagues to define user centred KPIs, to create a rich picture of user behaviour to tell the full story of how and why people use our services.
• Planning and carrying out user research, in both Alpha and Beta phases

Skills and experience:

• Demonstrable knowledge, experience in and passion for user centered design practices for web, service or software development.
• Proven experience of understanding user needs for web content, tools and transactional services, especially those with the most complex user journeys.
• Proven experience of designing, facilitating and analysing a wide range of qualitative and quantitative user research methods.
• Strong understanding of strengths and limitations of different research methods.
• Proven experience of presenting user research findings in a wide variety of formats and contexts.
• Proven experience introducing and establishing user research practices in an organisation.
• Proven experience of working in an agile development environment with designers and developers and product managers to create new digital products and services