UX Designer
Recruiter
Gambling Commission
Listed on
18th March 2022
Location
Birmingham
Salary/Rate
Upto £40000
Type
Permanent
Start Date
ASAP
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UX DesignerBirmingham, West Midlands (with hybrid working)
About Us
Set up under the Gambling Act 2005, the Gambling Commission is committed to safeguarding the public against any detrimental impact brought about by gambling. We do this by keeping crime out, protecting children and vulnerable people and ensuring the commercial gambling industry is run fairly and openly. We work with the legal system, the public health system, community groups and the industry itself to understand how we can protect the interests of as many people as possible, as effectively as possible.
We are currently looking for a UX Designer to join our team on a full-time, permanent basis.
The Benefits
- Salary of c£40,000 per annum
- Civil service pension
- Flexible working
- 26 days' holiday
- Option to buy up to five days' extra annual leave
- Additional benefits
Joining us means joining a dynamic, high profile sector and being at the cutting edge of regulation, where the work you do has a real impact on people's lives.
It also means joining an inclusive organisation that respects work-life balance and is completely dedicated to helping you achieve your full potential. Whether that's through flexible working, really understanding how you work best or exposing you to real opportunities to challenge yourself, if you're passionate about making your mark on the industry and society, then we will help you do that.
The Role
As a UX Designer, you will be responsible for developing the end to end design of various software projects.
Working across all stages of the user journey and throughout the project lifecycle, you will be involved in everything from prototyping through to finished designs, ensuring user needs are met.
Delivering digital user-centred solutions, you will seek to understand and champion user needs, develop design recommendations, create design patterns and systems and iterate designs based on feedback.
Your role will also involve:
- Ensuring design patterns and standards are based on research and evidence
- Acting as the bridge between the technical and non-technical elements of the Digital Team
- Engaging with designers across the organisation and wider public sector sphere to share UX knowledge and understanding
About You
To be considered as a UX Designer, you will need:
- A proven track record of UX design, including working on digital services from concept to final delivery
- Experience of managing stakeholder expectations, setting direction and navigating difficult discussions within the team or with diverse senior stakeholders
- Experience working collaboratively in a dynamic agile environment with user researchers, designers, developers and business analysts to understand and meet user needs
- Experience of creating static HTML and CSS prototypes, coding for different screen sizes, versioning and hosting a prototype
- Experience in working on online transactional services
- Experience of using a variety of prototyping methods, choosing the most appropriate one and testing with others
Experience of government digital service standards and service manuals would be beneficial to your application. Experience of regulatory and legislative issues around service design, including accessibility and GDPR, would also be desirable. Experience of using the gov.uk prototype kit would also be advantageous.
The closing date for applications is the 30 March 2022.
We reserve the right to change the closing date depending on the number of responses received. Please submit your application as soon as possible to ensure it is considered in the selection process.
As the regulator of the National Lottery, there are some roles within the Commission that are prohibited from playing the National Lottery. This does not affect your family playing. We will let you know at interview if the role you have applied for is on the Prohibited List.
Other organisations may call this role UI Designer, User Experience Designer, UX Developer, UX Service Designer, Digital Product Designer, or User Interface Designer.
Webrecruit and the Gambling Commission are equal opportunities employers, value diversity and are strongly committed to providing equal employment opportunities for all employees and all applicants for employment. Equal opportunities are the only acceptable way to conduct business and we believe that the more inclusive our environments are, the better our work will be.
So, if you want to express your design acuity and creative flair as a UX Designer, please apply via the button shown. This vacancy is being advertised by Webrecruit. The services advertised by Webrecruit are those of an Employment Agency.
