At a Glance
- Tasks: Lead user experience design and research, engaging with senior stakeholders to enhance user needs.
- Company: Join a dynamic team focused on impactful projects in the public sector.
- Benefits: Competitive daily rate, hybrid working, and opportunities for professional growth.
- Other info: Work remotely with occasional travel, and enjoy a collaborative environment.
- Why this job: Make a difference by improving user experiences for vital public sector applications.
- Qualifications: Experience in user research, design tools like Figma, and Agile methodologies.
The predicted salary is between 55000 - 65000 £ per year.
Duration: contract to run until 30/12/2026 Location: Hybrid working.
Predominantly remote, but some travel to Client site will be required (estimated 2 days per week to London and/or the South).
Rate: up to £736 p/d Umbrellainside IR35 Clearance required: Active SC (DV Preferred) and Sole UK National You are to be the lead User Experience Consultant Designer and User Researcher, working within a Project Team proactively engaging with the Client’s broad array of Senior military and civilian senior stakeholders and end User representatives, gain understanding of user needs based on different personas, capturing and turning that into designs that can be agreed with the Users and implemented into the application by the developers.
You will have experience of working with users in Public Sector (ideally Defence specifically), of various user research techniques, including conducting User interviews, creating personas, mapping user journeys and pain points, designing wireframes and prototypes, conducting usability testing to iterate and improve the User Experience.
You will be comfortable using the supporting tools for Agile product delivery such as JIRA (User Story / Defect / Task Management), Confluence (Documentation / Comms), and Slack (collaboration / comms).
Key Responsibilities Conduct user research using interviews, workshops, and usability testing with Senior stakeholders and end users.
Create and maintain personas, user journeys, and experience maps to inform design decisions.
Design wireframes, interactive prototypes, and high-fidelity mock-ups using Figma.
Define and maintain a design system aligned with accessibility and performance standards.
Collaborate with developers to ensure design-to-code alignment for React (Type Script) components.
Document research findings, design decisions, and UX guidelines in Confluence.
Advocate for inclusive design and compliance with WCAG accessibility standards.
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