Senior Interaction Designer at HM Land Registry, UK Office, 6 Months, £Contract Rate

We are now looking for Senior Interaction Designers to join our Design Practice, to help us to achieve this by designing accessible public services that are simple enough for everyone to use that work across multiple channels, devices, browsers and platforms.

As a Senior Interaction Designer you will be the senior designer in one or more multidisciplinary agile teams with other digital and technical experts to deliver multiple digital services. You will be responsible for managing and organizing design work between yourself and other designers in the team, and adept at switching between being a practitioner and senior design decision maker in a variety of projects.

• As a practitioner you will work out the best way to allow users to interact with services, in terms of both overall flow and at the level of individual design elements. You will be a confident and competent designer who is able to develop designs based on evidence of user needs and organisational outcomes.
• As a senior decision maker leading the design work in an agile team you will understand who is best placed to take on design work, given the team capacity, the type of work required and individual designers development needs.
• As a senior member of the team you will positively impact design maturity at HM Land Registry, the skills and development of designers, and cost/time savings from well-designed services for both the organisation and customers.

Main duties 

You will:

• manage and direct interaction design solutions as part of several multidisciplinary agile teams, delivering new and existing services that meet user needs and HM Land Registry policy objectives
• manage a backlog of project design work for designers to work on in agile teams, make decisions on who does that work
• analyse and interpret user needs and business objectives in highly complex service areas to make expert decisions that balance the needs and outcomes of both parties
• challenge ways of working within the team that are not compatible with user centred design best practice and legacy, paper-era processes where user research suggests a more user-focused way to achieve business outcomes and policy intent.
• develop and recommend design concepts that help re-imagine how services can be delivered end-to-end and identify potential areas of improvement
• work with user researchers, business analysts and developers to turn concepts into user-centred services
• run design workshops and design sprints with the team, senior stakeholders and users
• create and rapidly iterate low and high-fidelity prototypes to test and communicate ideas with users
• contribute to our design system; develop and maintain design standards and a pattern library, ensuring patterns and components are consistent, accessible, and easy to use across our digital products and services
• work with the wider project team to ensure that services meet the digital service standard, participating in services assessments as necessary to provide interaction design evidence to support the relevant points
• collaborate with designers across government to identify and design scalable, cross-government design patterns and standards

Skills and Experience

Essential

• Creating usable, responsive and accessible user interfaces
• Sketching, concept creating and designing prototypes
• Understanding senior stakeholder needs, and using design to inform and persuade these audiences

Desirable

• using the GOV.UK prototype kit
• experience in planning and facilitating workshops

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, Land Registry 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.