Interaction Designer

3 months ago

Sheffield, United Kingdom Home Office Full time

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

- 303500**Salary**:

- £39,000 - £47,300-
- A Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 27%**Job grade**:

- Senior Executive Officer**Contract type**:

- Permanent**Business area**:

- HO - Digital Data and Technology - User Centred Design**Type of role**:

- Digital
- Information Technology**Working pattern**:

- Flexible working, Full-time, Part-time, Compressed Hours**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

**Benefits**:
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Location
- Croydon, Manchester, SheffieldAbout the job

**Job summary**:
We’re looking for** **an** Interaction Designer **who wants to make a lasting impact on how the Home Office delivers user-centred products and services.

You’ll work in an agile, multi-disciplinary team in Centre for Digital Design, part of the Police & Public Protection Technology Team on some of the most exciting and impactful services that government delivers for the public, as well as internal systems for more than 35,000 staff across the department.

Some of the projects you could work on include:

- Building systems for prison and law enforcement staff to search for and identify high risk persons quickly and efficiently;
- Continuously improving some of our live law enforcement products using data, analytics and user research to inform your designs;
You can learn more about design and research in the Home Office on our blog:

- Making our design system a useful tool for teams;
- A product-centric approach to the EU Settlement Scheme;
- How inclusive services help us to deliver effectively;
- and by looking at our design system.

As an Interaction Designer you’ll design the flow of user interactions over a service as well as the right components and layout.

You will understand the way the internet works, experience of designing in an agile environment and want to help government transform the way it delivers services.

We’re looking for people who are collaborative, inclusive, open to their work being critiqued and who are empathetic towards their colleagues and users. A healthy balance of determinism and pragmatism will be needed on our complex services and products.

**Job description**:
**Responsibilities**

Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include:

- Creating concepts and interactive prototypes to communicate and test ideas with users and stakeholders;
- Helping facilitate the design process on your team by participating in workshops, actively seeking feedback, mapping processes and visualising design problems;
- Developing an understanding of users’ needs, as well as the organisations requirements, to design simple, effective and accessible services;
- Designing services consistent with Home Office and cross Government standards, contributing to best practice;
- Supporting and mentor more inexperienced Interaction Designers, allocating tasks and providing them with guidance and constructive feedback;
- Being an active part of the user-centred design community, sharing your knowledge and experience.

**Person specification**:
**Essential skills**

You’ll have a demonstrable passion for user-centred design, with the following skills or some experience in:

- Visual and interaction design to create usable, accessible and responsive user interfaces
- Communicating ideas through sketching, concept creation and designing prototypes at different levels of fidelity
- Coding HTML and CSS for the purposes of creating interactive prototypes
- User-centred methodology including understanding user needs, taking part in research activities and interpreting user research to inform design
- Working and collaborating in an agile team, using test and learn methods to iterate designs
- Facilitating the design process on a team, by running workshops and inviting collaboration with other professions
- Advocating for user-centred design to a range of audiences and talking about your ideas in a way that other people understand

Our skills align with the cross gov DDaT Capability Framework

**Desirable skills**

Ideally, you will also have the following skills or some experience in:

- Understanding how the internet works and the technology constraints that may need to be considered in design
- Understanding of access needs and assistive technology

**Technical skills**:
We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

- User focus
- Prototyping

**Benefits**:

- Alongside your salary of £39,000, Home Office contributes £10,530 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.- **You’ll be set-up for hybrid working from day one**
We provide you with an up-to-date MacBook, Office 365 licence as well as access to Sketch, Screen flow, Mural and code editing tools. We work a minimum of 40% if our week in an office (two-days if you are full-time, pro-rata for part-timers) and remote

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