X2 User Experience Designer

2 weeks ago


Stratford, United Kingdom Cancer Research UK Full time

4,000 professionals, 0 days wasted, 1 incredible purpose. Together we will beat cancer.

X2 User Experience Designer

£35,000-£45,000

Reports to: Lead UX Designer

Department: Chief Operating Office

Contract: 18 month fixed-term contract

Hours: Full time 35 hours per week

We're open to a variety of ways of working, including full time, part time, job share and compressed hours.

Location: Stratford, London. Office-based with high flexibility (1-2 days per week in the office)

Recruitment process: Two competency-based interviews (1st technical skills, 2nd soft skills)

Interview date: From the week commencing 08 May 2023

Application method:
At Cancer Research UK, we exist to beat cancer.

We are professionals with purpose, beating cancer every day. But we need to go much further and much faster. That’s why we’re looking for someone talented, someone who wants to develop their skills, someone like you.

We are creating a new Technology Product team to support Cancer Research UK’s Research & Innovation (R&I) and Policy, Information, and Communications (PIC) teams to deliver their

strategy
- This Product team will partner with our clinicians and scientists to build and enhance a range of technical products (e.g. new CMS, front-end websites) used for external communications and campaigns which will ultimately increase awareness of our life-saving policies, research, and initiatives (e.g.

Cancer Grand Challenges

,

HPV vaccine

,

Smokefree UK

).

This is an opportunity to help shape this team while being part of an ambitious, cross-discipline team delivering exceptional end-to-end work that spans a broad range of user experiences, products, and services. You will collaborate with Technology and business teams to help drive change across the charity. This will involve solving complex problems for users and Cancer Research UK by gathering and analysing insights and combining them with your knowledge of interaction design best practices.

What will I be doing?
- Creating and improving Cancer Research UK’s R&I and SIC external communication and campaign products and services.
- Delivering best-of-breed UX and interaction design solutions that meet the needs of Cancer Research UK and its audiences.
- Working closely with other UX Designers to advise on interaction design best practices and ensure your designs adhere to our Design System and branding guidelines.
- Helping design, develop and coordinate guidance and governance for UX and interaction design practice at Cancer Research UK.
- Contributing to the UX team by staying at the forefront of UX best practices whilst exploring new tools, theories, and techniques.
- Collaborating with other capabilities and business owners in multi-disciplinary product and project teams.
- Influencing, coaching, and upskilling team members across the organisation to help embed user-centred design thinking and approaches.
- Actively participating in the day-to-day operations of the UX team.

What skills are you looking for?
- Demonstrable User Experience background operating within Product teams and Agile methodologies (e.g. working in sprints)
- Strong design history with experience in:

- Prototyping
- Designing for multiple devices and platforms
- Running design workshops
- Usability testing
- Inclusive design and accessibility
- Can clearly communicate UX concepts with strong stakeholder management and influencing skills
- Available for 18 month fixed term contract

What will I gain?

Each and every one of our employees contributes to our progress and is supporting our work to beat cancer. We think that’s impressive.

In return, we make sure you are supported by a generous benefits package, a wide range of career and personal development opportunities and high-quality tools, policies and processes to enable you to do your job well.

Our benefits package includes a substantial retirement plan, a generous and flexible leave allowance, discounts on anything from travel to technology, gym membership, and much more.

We don’t forget people have lives outside of work too and so we actively encourage a flexible working culture.

Our work - from funding cutting-edge research to developing public policy - will change the world. It’s exciting to be part of our team.

For the full job description and more information about working with us

Additional Information

Cancer Research UK’s Technology team is proud to be part of the

Tech Talent Charter

(TTC) for our efforts in driving equality, diversity, and inclusion in the workplace. Our vision is a digital world accessible to all, and we have always sought to draw from a diverse pool of talent and maintain an inclusive working environment.

For more information on this career opportunity please

visit our website

or contact us at



There’s a place for everyone at Cancer Research UK. Our vision is to create a charity where everyone feels like they belong, benefits from and participates in, the work we do. We're


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