Senior UX Designer

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Description & Requirements

On behalf of the Department for Education, we are looking for a Senior UX Interaction Designer Inside IR35 for a 6 months contract based remote.

As a Senior UX interaction Designer, your main responsibilities will be:

Essential:

• Communicate and influence design decisions: Clearly explain complex ideas, document decisions and risks, challenge assumptions, and build stakeholder consensus.
• Design inclusive, accessible, and ethical services: Ensure WCAG 2.2 AA compliance while considering diverse user needs, contexts, and sustainability.
• Apply strategic, user-centred design thinking: Align design with organisational goals, shape solutions using constraints, and contribute to design patterns.
• Collaborate and lead within teams: Facilitate workshops, work across disciplines, manage stakeholders, and lead design activities while supporting others.
• Use evidence-driven, iterative design practices: Analyse research and data, prototype and test ideas, and continuously improve designs in agile environments.
• Plan and conduct user research effectively: Select appropriate methods, include diverse users, synthesise findings, embed insights into delivery, and manage research quality independently.

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, DFE 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 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".