Digital UX Designer

England  ‐ Remote
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Keywords

User Experience (UX) Coaching and Mentoring Research Communication Critical Thinking Design Elements and Principles Interaction Design Prototyping Stakeholder Management Recruitment Multidisciplinary Approach Operations Management Visualization User-Centered Design User Research Team-working

Description

Job Title: SC Clear Digital UX Designer
Location: Remote - Occasional visits to Croydon x2/month
Salary/Rate: £600/day - Inside IR35
Start Date: 27.02.23
Job Type: 19 Month Contract

We have an exciting opportunity now available with one of our high-profile Government clients! They are currently looking for a skilled SC Cleared UX Designer to join their team for a 19 month contract.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives

  • 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 consistent with the rest of government
  • 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
  • Required Skills/Experience

  • Coaching and mentoring other Interaction Designers, growing skills, and providing constructive feedback on work
  • Talking about, and advocating for user-centred design to various audiences and stakeholders, in a way that other people understand
  • Using your extensive knowledge of visual and interaction design to create usable, accessible and responsive user interfaces
  • Running workshops, leading discussions and facilitating the design of the service through collaboration with other professions
  • Understanding user needs, participating in research activities and interpreting user research to inform design
  • Sketching, concept creation and designing prototypes at different levels of fidelity
  • If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

    Disclaimer
    Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.

    Square One is acting as both an employment agency and an employment business, and is an equal opportunities recruitment business. Square One embraces diversity and will treat everyone equally. Please see our website for our full diversity statement.

    Start date
    27.02.23
    Duration
    76 weeks
    From
    Square One Resources
    Published at
    09.02.2023
    Project ID:
    2545554
    Contract type
    Freelance
    Workplace
    100 % remote
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