Interaction Designer

On behalf of UK Research and Innovation we are looking for an Interaction Designer for a 7 Month, Inside IR35, Hybrid contract with team visits to Bristol

As an interaction designer you will plan, design and participate in research activities with users that helps the teams gain a deep understanding of the people using UKRI services. In this case for the REF29 systems.

You will:

. Design services which promote quality and best practice as well as ongoing improvements.

. Drives the user experience process and its implementation across the digital service

. Generate the feedback and insight to build a clear picture of the service users and deliver solutions that they need.

. Support product owners by generating new and useful user insights and translating it into features and actions that will allow them to iteratively improve their service for users.

. Oversee the work of or collaborate with team members to align UX activities with wider plans to inform service proposition.

. Ensure designs are intuitive, compliant and accessible.

Key Responsibilities and Accountabilities:

Agile working:

. identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.

. help the team to decide the best approach.

. manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and adhere to agreed minimum viable product (MVP), priorities and scope.

Communicating between the technical and non-technical:

. listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders and interpret them.

. manage stakeholder expectations.

. manage active and reactive communication.

. support or host difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders.

Community collaboration:

. work collaboratively in a group, actively networking with others. Adapt feedback to ensure it's effective and lasting.

Digital perspective:

. apply a digital understanding to work. Identify and implement solutions for assisted digital users.

Evidence and context-based design.

. design systems for use across multiple services and identify the simplest of a variety of approaches.

Prototyping:

. Use a variety of prototyping methods.

. Share best practice and coach others. You can look at strategic service design end to end.

. Prototyping in code. You can create and validate a dynamic prototype.

Strategic thinking:

. Define strategies and policies, providing guidance to others on working in the strategic context.

. Evaluate current strategies to ensure business requirements are being met and exceeded where possible.

User focus:

. Give direction on which tools or methods to use.

. Demonstrate experience in meeting the needs of users across a variety of channels. Bring insight and expertise in how user needs have changed over time to ensure they're met by the business.

. Apply strategic thinking to provide the best service for the end user.

Working within constraints:

. Identify, communicate and work within constraints.

. Challenge the validity of constraints.

. Ensure standards are being met.

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, UKRI guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply. In exceptional circumstances, we may also need to apply the desirable criteria in our shortlisting process which may include holding active security clearance.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".