Interaction Designer - Consultant (12 month FTC)
Posted 4 days ago by Opencast | B Corp™
£63,000 Per year
Fixed-Term
Hybrid
Birmingham, England, United Kingdom
Summary: The role of Consultant Interaction Designer at Opencast involves designing user journeys and interactions to help users achieve their goals, requiring collaboration with other design roles. This position is a 12-month fixed-term contract and necessitates eligibility for SC Clearance. The ideal candidate will have experience in user-centered design, creating accessible solutions, and documenting design decisions. The role offers a competitive salary and a supportive work environment focused on diversity and inclusion.
Key Responsibilities:
- Design user journeys and interactions based on user research and data.
- Collaborate with User Researchers and Content Designers to solve complex problems.
- Create designs that simplify complex processes and ensure accessibility.
- Document design decisions and articulate rationale clearly.
- Support user research efforts to test designs.
- Plan and manage tasks to achieve project aims.
- Respectfully challenge decisions or solutions when necessary.
Key Skills:
- Experience in user-centered design and creating prototypes.
- Ability to design inclusive and accessible solutions.
- Methodical approach to problem-solving.
- Experience with the Government Digital Service (GDS) assessment process (desirable).
- Proficiency in prototyping tools, HTML, and CSS (desirable).
- Experience working in Agile delivery teams (desirable).
- Planning and facilitating workshops (desirable).
Salary (Rate): £63,000 yearly
City: Birmingham
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: hybrid
IR35 Status: fixed-term
Seniority Level: Mid-Level
Industry: IT
Ready for a new challenge? This is a 12 month fixed term contract and you must have eligibility for SC Clearance. Are you looking for work that makes a difference? Do you want to work with people who learn and grow together? If so, Opencast could be the place for you. We’re a growing tech consultancy that creates user-centred solutions with purpose for our clients in government and business.
The role
As a Consultant Interaction Designer, you’ll design journeys and interactions which helps users complete their goals. You’ll work closely with other user-centred design roles, such as User Researchers and Content Designers, to solve complex and interesting problems for our clients. You’ll create designs based on insights from user research and data, apply best practice design principles, and make complex processes easy to use.
Essential Experience
To succeed in this role, you need experience of designing to meet user needs. You don’t need to have previously held the job title ‘interaction designer’. In your CV and the interview, please show how you have:
- created designs and prototypes based on insights from user research and data
- designed solutions to make complex processes easy to understand
- ensure your work is inclusive and accessible
- placed accessible design practices at the heart of your process
- clearly documented design decisions and articulated your rationale
- taken a supportive role in user research to test your designs
- designed to government service standards
In addition to interaction design skills, there are essential core skills you’ll need to work effectively as a consultant. In the interview, please show how you have:
- taken a methodical and considered approach to solving problems
- planned your own tasks, to achieve the aims of your project
- respectfully challenged decisions or solutions you didn’t agree with
In your interview we’ll ask you to present a piece of work which demonstrates these topics. We’ll also ask you questions based around these topics.
Desirable experience
There are some areas of experience which are not essential, but they are relevant to this role. If you don’t have this experience please do still apply, as we can coach you in these areas when you join us:
- the Government Digital Service (GDS) assessment process
- using prototyping tools
- HTML and CSS
- experience working in Agile delivery teams
- planning and facilitating workshops
If you have any of this experience, please show them on your CV and talk about them in the interview.
Salary
Consultant salary range: £45,000 - £63,000
What our offer includes
A competitive pension, health cash plan, share options and discretionary bonus. Flexible hours and 25 days' holiday. Generous training budget. People to support you every step of the way.
Where you’ll work
Your working time at Opencast will be split between multiple locations, including from our HQ and hub locations, client site or home. Travel is part of life at Opencast, and takes in account requirements of your work, our clients and your team.
We include you
We welcome candidates from all identities, attributes, ways of thinking and backgrounds to thrive in a career at Opencast. Our aim is for the diversity of our people to be reflected in the solutions we deliver, to help create a fairer society for all.
Interview
Job interviews are on Microsoft Teams. We’ll make any adjustments to help you.
Want to know more? Visit our website or email careers@opencastsoftware.com. We are not working with recruitment agencies on this vacancy. If you are interested in this position, please apply directly with Opencast.