3 of 3 Contract User Research Jobs in the Midlands

Job summary In this role you will lead the user research community in the HRA's journey to develop its digital services. The Digital Directorate is modernising and transforming the business, ensuring the user is at the heart of everything; including the delivery of business solutions using agile methods in a continuous delivery environment. You will be … information, you will transform this to ensure it is understandable for others to work with. Engaging with stakeholders, you will facilitate collaborative approaches to prioritise requirements and deliver key user insights to constantly improve the design of services; demonstrating a proactive approach to alignment with Government service standards, so that optimum outputs and solutions are delivered to meet user needs, organisational objectives and policy intent. Main duties of the job The post holder will: Develop and assure good user research practices. Identify, capture and implement user needs. Implement service strategy with sound research to enable excellent service design. Provide guidance across projects on user research methodologies and GDS standards. Represent user More ❯

Job summary 1. The service and interaction design lead is a key part of the user centred design team within the digital directorate, an expert practitioner responsible for providing professional leadership to ensure the most appropriate service design and interaction design decisions are taken for service users. In this role, you will be responsible for: 2. leading our design … community, demonstrating a range of leadership and management skills, guidance and supportive approaches for the activities required in the HRA's journey to develop its digital services for the research community 3. working with the Head of User Centred Design and the product team undertake strategic planning through service design responsible for ensuring the team takes a user … evidence based approach to service design and delivery 4. considering the impact of new technologies and ensuring that designs meet legal requirements and government guidelines 5. blue-printing, prototyping, user journey flows and story boarding 6. Communicating the importance of inclusive, equitable, accessible and sustainable public services. The role sits within the HRA digital directorate which is responsible for More ❯

a successful way of collaborating, but on occasion you will be asked to attend other locations in the UK for short periods. What you’ll do Work collaboratively with user researchers, content designers, service designers and performance analysts as well as with software developers, policy and legal teams • develop designs based on evidence of user needs and organisational … outcomes. • Ensuring that the interface is easy to use and navigate. • interpret evidence-based research and incorporate this into your work -Work with the product manager, digital service manager, business analysts and user researchers To refine the services in light of external factors such as changes To policy, legislation, technology or user requirements What you’ll need … A solid understanding of UCD • Ability to build relationships and work effectively within an agile delivery model with colleagues and external providers, for example user researchers and business analysts -Ability to communicate credibly with a wide range of digital delivery disciplines and talent both internally and externally -Keenness to support our ever-expanding team of passionate and skilled junior More ❯