13742 - Senior Interaction Designer
Interviews will be skill based, and competencies are not required
Are you passionate about understanding how users behave? Do you have a knack for designing simple interactions and intuitive products?
This is a chance to work on services that matter, with people who value design and create work you’re proud to share with others. If you’re a designer who looks to the future while designing for the now, immerses yourself in trends and constantly challenges the status quo, we might be just the right fit for you.
At the Ministry of Justice, you’ll be welcomed into a large family of interaction, visual and service designers. We work alongside researchers, content designers, product owners, delivery managers and developers to deliver word-class, user-centred services.
As a Senior Interaction Designer, you will be responsible for leading the design of patterns and interactions that meets the needs of the users and government. You will apply user centred design methods to the problems and challenges of our services throughout their life cycle.
You will work along side researchers, product & delivery managers, technical architects, developers and business analysts delivering both digital and non-digital services, ensuring consistency and value exchange between them.
You will also be expected to play an active part the design community both internally and across the government.
Is this role right for you?
As a Senior Interaction Designer you will:
- Work with the team to capture the entire perspective of your entire service area, set the vision and build a roadmap for the future
Understand user needs and track interactions across departmental and organisational boundaries
Arrange all interactions into rational user journeys with an awareness how they affect/can be reused across services
Create and rapidly iterate digital service prototypes
Utilise, iterate and introduce interaction patterns and standards that scale
Lead our contribution to the cross government design community – collaborate across other departments
Measure recently released product features to establish benchmarks and to identify potential areas of improvement.
Make positive contributions to internal community and cross government design meets
Welcome constructive criticism and be able to constructively review the work of others
Be excited about the future and bring new trends and technology into our services
Skills and experience we’re looking for
The ideal candidates will be able to demonstrate the following:
- Show an active interest in and be up to speed with the latest interaction design trends
Have a design related degree and/or 5+ years relevant industry experience
Show a strong portfolio of interaction design and prototype output that demonstrates effective user-centred design
Demonstrate how they use data and research to influence their design thinking
Show how they have validated & iterated prototypes
Experience of building & maintaining interaction pattern libraries
Strong abilities in design tools like Sketch, Illustrator, Invision, Photoshop or similar
Ability to mentor younger interaction designers, contribute to staff training
A curios attitude & a creative flair for designing compelling experiences that delight users
Working here is great! You’ll get:
Truly flexible working. Whether it’s working from home or remotely, working part time, job sharing, or working compressed hours, we have people doing it, and are happy to discuss options with you.
Lots of training and development opportunities.
A civil service pension with an average employer contribution of 22%.
25 days annual leave (plus bank holidays), and an extra day off for the Queen’s birthday. No promises you’ll be invited to her party, though.
Great maternity, adoption, and shared parental leave, with up to 26 weeks leave at full pay, 13 weeks with partial pay, and 13 weeks further leave. And maternity support/paternity leave at full pay for 2 weeks, too!
Bike loans and secure bike parking (subject to availability and location)
Season ticket loans, childcare vouchers, and eye-care vouchers
Working Arrangements & Further Information
Some of MoJ’s terms and conditions of service are changing as part of Civil Service reform. The changes will apply to staff joining MoJ who are new to the Civil Service. Staff joining MoJ from other civil service employers will transfer onto the new MoJ terms if they are already on 'modernised' terms in their current post or onto 'unmodernised' MoJ terms if they are on 'unmodernised' terms at their current post. Details will be available if an offer is made.
Flexible working hours
The Ministry of Justice offers a flexible working system in many offices.
Benefits
The MoJ offers a range of benefits:
Annual Leave
Generous allowances for paid holiday starting at 25 days per year, and rising as your service increases. There is also a scheme to allow qualifying staff to buy or sell up to three days leave each year. Additional paid time off for public holidays and 1 privilege day. Leave for part-time and job share posts will be calculated on a pro-rata basis.
Pension
The Civil Service offers a choice of pension schemes, giving you the flexibility to choose the pension that suits you best.
Training
The Ministry of Justice is committed to staff development and offers an extensive range of training and development opportunities.
Support
A range of ‘Family Friendly’ policies such as opportunities to work reduced hours or job share.
Access to flexible benefits such as salary sacrifice arrangements for childcare vouchers, and voluntary benefits such as retail vouchers and discounts on a range of goods and services.
Paid paternity, adoption and maternity leave.
Free annual sight tests for employees who use computer screens.
Networks
The opportunity to join employee-run networks that have been established to provide advice and support and to enable the views of employees from minority groups to be expressed direct to senior management. There are currently networks for employees of minority ethnic origin, employees with disabilities, employees with caring responsibilities, women employees, and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender employees.
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equality of opportunity.
There is a guaranteed interview scheme (GIS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
31/10/2017, 23:55 hours.
Closing date: 31st October 2017 at 23:55 hours
If you require any assistance please call 0845 241 5359 (Monday to Friday 8am - 6pm) or e mail Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@sscl.gse.gov.uk Please quote the job reference 13742
To apply for roles in MOJ you will need to confirm your employment history for at least 3 years prior to the date of application so that pre-employment checks (BPSS) can be undertaken. If you have spent significant time abroad (a total of 6 months in the past 3 years) you would be required to give a reasonable account of the reasons why.
For some roles you will be required to successfully complete National Security Vetting at Counter Terrorism (CTC), Security Clearance (SC) or Developed Vetting (DV) level as a condition of appointment. To meet CTC/SC/DV requirements you will normally need to have been resident in the UK for at least 3/5/10 years prior to the date of application (The level of checks that are required are stated in the advert).
If you do not meet the above requirements, you may still be considered if, for example:
- You've been serving overseas with HM Forces or in some other official capacity as a representative of HM Government
- You were studying abroad
- You were living overseas with parents
In such cases you will need to be able to provide referee cover for the period(s) of residence overseas. The duration of overseas residence and the country of abode will also be taken into account.
We have provided detail of the assessment stages and areas being assessed to help you prepare for completing your application form, and to advise of what will be assessed following this, if you successfully pass the application stage.
Application form stage assessments
Interview stage assessments
A Great Place to Work for Veterans
The "Making the Civil Service a Great Place to work for veterans" initiative includes a guaranteed interview scheme to those who meet the minimum criteria to provide eligible former members of the Armed Forces with opportunities to secure rewarding jobs. Allowing veterans to continue to serve their country, and to bring highly skilled individuals with a broad range of experience into the Civil Service in an environment, which recognises and values your previous service in the Armed Forces.
For further details about the initiative and eligibility requirements visit : https://www.gov.uk/government/news/making-the-civil-service-a-great-place-to-work-for-veterans
Redeployment Interview Scheme
Civil Service departments are expected to explore redeployment opportunities before making an individual redundant. The MoJ are committed, as part of the Redeployment Interview Scheme, to providing opportunities to those who are 'at risk of redundancy'.
MoJ are able to offer an interview to eligible candidates who meet the minimum selection criteria, except in a limited number of campaigns. Candidate's will not be eligible for the Redeployment Interview Scheme if they are applying on promotion.
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
· UK nationals
· nationals of the Republic of Ireland
· nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/settled-status-eu-citizens-families
· nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
· individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
· Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window) https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/nationality-rules
This Vacancy is closed to applications.