Interaction Designer

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

- 326802**Salary**:

- £41,600 - £44,512-
- 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**Number of jobs available**:

- 1Contents

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About the job

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

**Job summary**:
The first duty of the government is to keep citizens safe and the country secure. The Home Office has been at the front line of this effort since 1782. As such, we play a fundamental role in maintaining the security and economic prosperity of the UK.

The Home Office leads on immigration and passports, refugee protection, counter-terrorism, policing, fire services, and crime and drugs policy.

This is an exciting time to be at the Home Office. You’ll have a chance to shape the future and support our mission to deliver exceptional public services that work for everyone.

Our work is guided by these principles:

- We put user needs first
- We value delivery and outcomes over process
- We work in the open

Our flexible working policy ensures a healthy work-life balance. We also nurture talent and offer a broad range of learning and development opportunities that will help you flourish in your role.

We work hard to maintain a positive working culture and are committed to helping you fulfil your potential. We value diversity and provide an open, inclusive and supportive environment to help you do your best work.

**Job description**:
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.

This role is to work in our central User-Centred Design Operations team which supports the User-Centred Design community across the organisation to do their jobs better and quicker, so that they can help deliver some of the most impactful services that government offers. We do this by providing guidance, tools, specialised services, training and facilitating a collaborative and supportive community.

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;
- By looking at our design system.

Interaction Designers are responsible for designing the flow of user interactions services as well as the right components and layout.

You will have an understanding of 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.

**Person specification**:
Your main day-to-day responsibilities will include:

- Coordinating the work around our Home Office Design System ensuring that delivery teams contribute, managing our working group and making improvements to the website;
- Helping continuously improve UCD Ops’ services to the UCD community by delivering improvements to standards, guidance, training and support we provide;
- Providing expert Interaction Design support and consultation to delivery teams with a focus on accessibility;
- Developing 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;
- Supporting and mentoring 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.

**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