Senior Interaction Designer

Job summary

We are currently looking for a Senior Interaction Designer to join our Digital and Service Design Function within the Digital and Technology group. This is a full-time opportunity, on a permanent basis. The role will be based in 7/8 Wellington Place, Leeds, LS1 4AP.

Qualifications

• as well as the necessary
• as well as Civil Service nationality rules.
• Further information on whether you are able to apply is available here .
• Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check as well as animal rights and pro-life activism checks.
• People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks .
• Certain roles within the MHRA will require post holders to have vaccinations, and in some circumstances, routine health surveillance.
• These roles include:
• Laboratory-based roles working directly with known pathogens
• Maintenance roles, particularly those required to work in laboratory settings
• Roles that involve visiting other establishments where vaccination is required
• Roles required to travel overseas where specific vaccination may be required.
• Applicants who are successful at interview will be, as part of pre-employment screening subject to a check on the Internal Fraud Database (IFD).

Responsibilities

• Provide design leadership and hands-on interaction design for complex projects and portfolios of work;
• Use best practice and standards consistent with the rest of government;
• Advise and support software engineers in the development of designs, and iterate gov.uk patterns and components
• Who are we looking for?
• Our successful candidate will:
• Clarify your own understanding and stakeholder needs and expectations using evidence, before making decisions.
• Analyse and accurately interpret data from various sources to support decisions.
• Find the best option by identifying positives, negatives, risks and implications.
• Present reasonable conclusions from a wide range of complex and sometimes incomplete evidence.
• Communicate with others in a clear, honest and enthusiastic way in order to build trust.
• Explain complex issues in a way that is easy to understand.
• Demonstrate positive customer service by understanding the complexity and diversity of customer needs and expectations with emphasis on the importance of considering the different needs and contexts of end users.

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