About the job

Summary

What we’re looking for:

A skilled and passionate Interaction Designer with a strong background in UI/UX to join our Customer Experience Design team.

The Parliamentary Digital Service (PDS) works with teams from the House of Commons, House of Lords and across the organisation to provide the IT and digital services needed to support the work of UK Parliament. We think it's important that everyone can access and understand what's going on in Parliament. Our goal is to bring together the public, Parliamentary Members, and staff to inform, engage, support, and communicate through one, unified digital core.

An ambitious period of transformation is underway to place digital at the heart of Parliament and to deliver excellent services that meet the needs of its customers. This is an exciting opportunity to join a growing team that is helping to shape the future of digital at Parliament.

Job description

The role:

The work that Parliament does is supported by both public facing and internal digital products and services, including those that facilitate Parliamentary procedure, reporting and broadcasting, public engagement, parliament.uk, the development of a new intranet and security and vetting processes to name just a few.

Working at Parliament provides a unique opportunity for designers who are passionate about solving complex and interesting problems for users. You’ll get the chance to work with experts from across Parliament to understand a wide range of subjects and help to translate these into easy and accessible experiences for customers.

The Interaction Design team works in collaboration with research, design, delivery, and technology professions and alongside stakeholders to deliver customer focussed design solutions. This includes the production of design principles, standards, and guidance, and reusable UI/UX solutions that follow best practice, meet accessibility standards and are consistent with the UK Parliament brand.

Responsibilities

To be successful in this role you will need:

Professional experience as an Interaction Designer, UI/UX Designer or similar

A portfolio that shows not only the end product but also the thinking and methods that got you there

A strong understanding of accessible and inclusive design

Experience working with and contributing to design systems

Strong communication skills and the ability to clearly articulate your design decisions

Experience working in an agile, fast-paced environment

Strong prototyping skills and proficiency with tools (Figma, Sketch etc)

Benefits

Benefits

We have an attractive benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes:

30 days annual leave plus 8 Bank Holidays (increasing to 35 after a year’s service)

Civil Service pension Contributory pension scheme

Hybrid working: Trail until 31 December 2022 to promote flexible and remote working

Family-friendly policies including Flexible working

Employee Assistance Programme offers a 24/7 365 day per year confidential helpline to staff and their families. EAP can give practical advice and guidance as well as online, telephone and face to face counselling and support on a broad range of issues

Training, professional development, coaching and mentoring opportunities.

Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket

Discounted membership of the in-house gym

Access to on-site catering services, gym, nursery, hairdressers, post office and much more