Interaction Designer

Apply before 11:55pm on Tuesday 30th July 2024

About this Role

We are looking for an interaction designer to join our fantastic community of interaction and content designers who are playing a vital role in supporting our digital transformation programme. This is a chance to work on services that matter, at a huge scale, with people who value design. Find out more about what it’s like designing in government on our Design in Government blog.

As a designer within the Intellectual Property Office you’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, alongside researchers and developers, to deliver world-class, user centred public services that meet the Government Design Principles. You’ll help identify and fix some of the toughest problems in public infrastructure and you will be focussing on the design of services at scale. You’ll help the government transform the way it delivers services, so that they’re more efficient, simpler, faster and easier to use.

Person Specification

• have experience in making effective decisions with user research data.
• work effectively in a multidisciplinary, agile environment, adapting quickly to changes in requirements, priorities, or user needs.
• have experience of working with senior stakeholders and ability to negotiate important design decisions.
• Experience of user-centred design deliverables, for example user journeys, screen flows or site maps
• design collaboratively and in the open, have experience of engaging with people in a variety of ways (for example, workshops or co-design activities).
• Understand new technologies and on how to use them to create inclusive and accessible services.
• have experience of making decisions to meet user needs in the government context.
• have experience of a variety of prototype tools and methods, including Adobe XD (or similar) and GOV.UK Prototype Kit.
• create static HTML and CSS prototypes that consider different screen sizes, and versioning and hosting a prototype.

You must be able to demonstrate sound judgment whilst providing accurate, expert and professional advice. You will need excellent presentation and communication skills, across a variety of situations and levels of stakeholders. We are looking for enthusiastic people who are committed to delivering change and providing excellent services for our customers. Building strong working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders at all levels, demonstrating good leadership and collaborative working skills.

Working Style

This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport office.

The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.

Benefits

• Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
• Access to Microsoft’s ESI training suite
• Pension: 28.97% employer contributions
• Hybrid working with no core hours
• Substantial support for career progression
• 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
• You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave

Job Types: Full-time, Part-time

Pay: £34,210.00-£43,725.00 per year

Expected hours: 37 per week

Benefits:

• Company pension
• Free parking
• Health & wellbeing programme
• On-site gym
• On-site parking
• Sick pay
• Work from home

Schedule:

• Flexitime
• Monday to Friday
• No weekends

Supplemental Pay:

• Yearly bonus

Work Location: Hybrid remote in South Wales, NP10 8QQ

Reference ID: 361163