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Senior Interaction Designer - Inside IR35

Contract Term: 12 Months

Contracting Authority: DWP

Location: Hybrid / Birmingham / Manchester/ Leeds/ Sheffield / Newcastle / Blackpool

Interaction Designers work to understand user journeys and use prototypes to deliver services, products and tools which fulfil user needs. They work alongside other Designers, Front-end Developers, Researchers and Software Engineers to deliver services designed for the people who use them.

Summary of the Role and key responsibilities:

• You will support the Lead Interaction Designer and work with designers across the DWP’s Health Transformation programme.

This will involve:

• setting up processes and standards to support designer’s ways of working, for example documenting design decisions and design debt.
• coordinating a design and accessibility audit across the end-to-end service, to identify inconsistencies and design debt.
• identifying and documenting common patterns, including writing design guidance specific to Health Transformation programme and working with the DWP Design System team
• supporting designers to solve problems together to enable consistent design.
• providing interaction design support to teams
• being an active member of the design community
• demonstrating best practice in user centered design and prototyping
• understanding and helping others work towards the Health Transformation programme service vision.

Technical Skills required:

We’re looking for a Senior Interaction Designer who can demonstrate skills and experience in the following:

• User focus

Work with User Researchers to plan and develop research activities that help teams to better understand users.

• Evidence and context based design.

Lead the design of solutions that are based on evidence and help identify any gaps in knowledge.

• Prototyping

Use a variety of prototyping tools and methodologies, advising others on prototyping best practice.

• Communication

Present your work and explain ideas in a way that people understand. Actively listen to other people’s input and facilitate discussions.

• Accessibility

Promote the importance of inclusive design and how to design with accessibility in mind. You need to be familiar with the WCAG 2.1 guidelines and able to design to meet AA standards.

• Collaboration

Work in the open, engaging others in the design process. Offer advice on improving working practices, leading to better collaboration across teams.

Knowledge and Experience required:

• Experience of working as an interaction designer on UK government transactional services
• Experience of working with the GOV.UK Design System and GOV.UK Service Manual

If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with mark.salmon@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk

Disability confident

As a member of the disability confident scheme, DWP guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.

Armed Forces Covenant  

DWP is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group

If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.

We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.

Should you require reasonable adjustments at any point during the recruitment process or if there is a more accessible way for us to communicate, please do let me know.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following, this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.