Senior Interaction Designer Department for Work & Pensions
Reference
43879
Location
Manchester, Leeds, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
Salary
£47,971 — up to £58,135
Work hours
37
Employment type
Permanent
Job benefits
A brilliant Civil Service pension with employer contributions circa 27%, generous annual leave, flexible working, great work life balance and lots more.
Closing date
31 March 2020
Job description
DWP. Digital with Purpose.
We’re looking for a talented Senior Interaction Designer to join our growing community of experts. DWP is leading a once in a generation programme of welfare reform and you’ll help drive forward a key part of one of the biggest and highest-profile digital transformation programmes in the world.
DWP currently has an enormously ambitious and challenging agenda, often working in partnership with the private and voluntary sector. We provide services and support to over 20 million people, are responsible for over 730 million benefit payment transactions each year.
At the heart of this massive agenda is the digital transformation of the services that DWP provides, which will radically improve how government interacts with people. We’ll make our services easier and swifter to access; the time taken to develop new services will be decreased and the cost of delivery will be reduced significantly.
Duties. Work. Projects.
You and your role:
As a Senior Interaction Designer you are at a stage of your career where you can share your specialist knowledge, insight and experience with your team and across our Product Design communities. You’ll help us build capability and deliver DWP services, products and tools which fulfil the needs of our needs.
As well as hands on Interaction Design, you will manage other designers’ work, support senior level discussions and assist with recruitment activity as we grow our community.
You’ll create and iterate prototypes to test and communicate ideas to the wider team as we learn about user needs. Our designers works as part of multi-disciplinary agile teams, where we collaborate to turn concepts into user-centred designs.
We want to embed consistency and quality, and you’ll ensure that design of services is consistent across multiple work streams. You’ll also be comfortable building relationships and managing stakeholder needs, across a big organisation, with a focus on supporting discussions and driving outcomes at senior departmental level.
What skills, knowledge and experience are we looking for?
- Experience of sketching, prototyping and iterative design.
- Experience of working in a multidisciplinary team.
- Experience of using a user-centred design approach.
- Experience of working at pace in an agile environment.
- Experience of putting forward the case for design to senior stakeholders and product owners.
- Experience in leading workshops.
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Where will you work?
We’re the UK’s biggest government department with over 80,000 diverse and brilliant people on our team. We are an equal opportunity employer and we welcome applications regardless of age, gender, race or sexuality.
Details. Wages. Perks.
In return for your skills we offer competitive salary up to £58,135, a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions circa 27%, and a generous leave package. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:
- Flexible working and family friendly policies
- Volunteering and charitable giving
- Discounts and savings on shopping, holidays, insurance, healthcare, events, fun days out and more
- Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it’s even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference
- Sports and social activities
- Learning and development, including coaching, mentoring, progression opportunities and guaranteed 5-days formal learning per year.
- And lots more
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If you have any questions or you want to discuss the role before you apply get in touch via gavin.elliott@dwp.gov.uk