Senior Interaction Designer - Darlington, United Kingdom - Department of International Trade

Department of International Trade

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Darlington, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

As a Senior Interaction Designer, you will be a key figure in our digital product teams.

DIT's success in international trade depends on our understanding of exporters and investors and building services that meet their needs.

We are looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join our growing profession, so that we are able to deepen our user insight and become stronger advocates for people who need and use DIT's services.

You are a confident and competent designer who is able to develop designs based on evidence of user needs and organisational outcomes.
You can be trusted to make good decisions. You can recognise when to ask for further guidance and support.
You know how to contribute to the development of design concepts.

Job description
You will be an experienced Senior Interaction Designer who can:

Create user-centred design patterns.
Understand user needs and how to design services that meet them.
Create and iterate prototypes to test and communicate ideas.
Work with senior designers, user researchers and frontend developers to turn concepts into usercentred design and explain design decisions and how they were impacted by user research.
Welcome the constructive criticism of your work and be able to constructively review the work of others.
Ensure that design work is consistent, both internally and with the rest of GOV.UK.
Contribute to the wider community of designers in the department and government.
Support and mentor less experienced colleagues in your profession.

Person specification

Essential Skills and Experience

You will have demonstrable skills and experience of:

Championing user research and making decisions that meet user needs.
Using variety methods of prototyping.
Interpreting the needs of technical and business stakeholders and managing their expectations.
Generating multiple solutions to a problem and testing them.

Desirable Skills and Experience
This is not necessary but would be ideal if you:

You have experience of working in agile, including an awareness of agile tools and how to use them.
You can contribute to the work of others and have the ability to motivate teams.

This role is available in three UK locations, including central London, Cardiff, and Darlington's new economic hub. This role can only be worked from within the UK and not overseas.

Most DIT employees will be working a hybrid pattern, spending 2-3 days a week (pro rota) in the office on average.

Changes to these working arrangements are available in certain circumstances, but must be agreed with the vacancy manager and in line with the requirements of the role.

Travel to your primary office location will not be paid for by DIT, but costs for travel to an office which is not your main location will be covered.

Find out about our benefits and practical details like our office locations on the things you need to knowpage. Remember to check out our blog, Digital Tradeand find out more by watching our video

Benefits

Learning and development tailored to your role
An environment with flexible working options
A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
A Civil Service pensionwith an average employer contribution of 27%

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How you'll be assessed

Technical skills

There will be a technical element within the interview where you will be asked questions about your specific professional skills and knowledge relating directly to the job role.

We will assess you against the following technical skills:
Agile working
Communicating between the technical and non-technical
Community collaboration
Digital perspective
Evidence and context-based design
Prototyping
Strategic thinking
User focus
Working within constraints
Detailed explanations of each technical skill can be found on the DDaT Framework.

Behaviours
We will assess you against the following behaviours: Working Together
Developing Self and Others
Managing a Quality Service
Delivering at Pace

Reasonable adjustment

Security Clearance Details
UK criminal records covering both spent and unspent criminal records.
Your credit and financial history with a credit reference agency.
Security Services record.
Location Details.

Security
See our vetting charter.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standardchecks.

Nationality requirements
Further information on nationality requirementsThis job is broadly open to the following groups: UK nationals
nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
nationals of the Republic of Ireland
relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals working in the Civil Service
relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals who have built up the right to work in the Civil Service
certain family members of the relevant EU, EEA, Swiss or Turkish nationals

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