Lead User Researcher

3 weeks ago

Leeds, United Kingdom Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Full time

**Details**:
**Reference number**:

- 342992**Salary**:

- £51,934-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Grade 7**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- Office For Local Government**Type of role**:

- Digital**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Bristol, Darlington, Leeds, Manchester, WolverhamptonAbout the job

**Job summary**:
Here at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), we work on things that make a real difference to people’s lives.

Whether it's through the homes we live in, the work of our local councils, or the communities we’re all part of, our work is at the top of the political agenda. We have ambitious and far-reaching outcomes to achieve this year and, if you’re thinking of joining us, there’s never been a more exciting time.

We have over 3,500 staff who are based in 20 offices across the UK.

The new Office for Local Government (Oflog) is a key priority of the Secretary of State. Oflog will help to drive improvement in local government - responsible for a wider range of critical and everyday services - in order to improve outcomes for the public. It will do this by providing authoritative and accessible data and analysis about the performance of local government, so that citizen & communities can more effectively challenge their authorities and local leaders can benchmark themselves against their peers.

In particular, Oflog will:

- Inform: by improving access to data Oflog will enable citizens, local government, central government, and civil society to be better informed about the performance of local government - Warn: Oflog will make it easier to spot potential failure before it happens, helping to prevent the significant financial and service implications of failure on local citizens and the taxpayer
- Support: Oflog will support local government to improve performance: championing best practice, improving data capability and rationalising a complex data landscape

Oflog is an office of DLUHC, meaning all staff are DLUHC civil servants. Ministers have agreed that it will have a degree of separation from government, with its own independent Chair and Chief Executive. Oflog is a mixed-discipline team, including policy and local government experts, and analysts from a range of disciplines.

Find out more about what it's like to work in a digital, data and technology role at DLUHC including our culture, ways of working, career progression and staff benefits. You can also read the DLUHC Digital blog to learn about the work we're doing.

**Job description**:
As a Lead User Researcher, you'll:

- Help the organisation better understand it users and their use & need for local authority performance information
- Explore and identify opportunities across Oflog to deploy and maximise the value of user research activities
- Work with teams across Oflog to collate and synthesise a range of evidence (eg customer feedback, performance analytics), and make this easily accessible to others. To develop a range of personas to help decision makers and stakeholders hold the range of users Oflog serves in mind

**Person specification**:
As a Lead User Researcher, you'll have:

- Good knowledge of how and when to implement a range of user research techniques
- Experience in facilitating a variety of user research techniques
- Experience in collating, consolidating and facilitating access to a range of evidence to assist in user-centred design projects
- Experience of advocating for user-centred design approaches with senior colleagues and stakeholders
- Experience of working within multi-disciplinary teams, and an ability to embed user-centred design approaches within teams
- Strong communication skills and an ability to present evidence clearly and succinctly to a range of colleagues

**Behaviours**:
We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

- Working Together
- Leadership
- Changing and Improving

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £51,934, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities contributes £14,022 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- Learning and development tailored to your role
- An environment with flexible working options
- A culture encouraging inclusion and diversity
- A Civil Service pension with an average employer contribution of 27%

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**Selection process details**:

- This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Behaviours and Experience.**We are for everyone**

**We would strongly recommend that applicants get in touch with the vacancy manager to find out more information about this role.**

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