About the job

Summary

HM Land Registry's services form part of the critical national infrastructure, safeguarding land and property ownership valued at £7 trillion. This enables over £1 trillion worth of personal and commercial lending to be secured against property across England and Wales.

It is an exciting time for HM Land Registry (HMLR) as we continue on a major transformation programme. HMLR's ambition is to become the world’s leading land registry for speed, simplicity and an open approach to data.

We are looking for two Interaction Designers to join our Digital, Data and Technology team to help us achieve this by designing accessible, easy-to-use public services that work across multiple channels, devices, browsers and platforms.

Job description

As an Interaction Designer, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary agile team with other digital and technical experts to deliver one or more digital services. You will work out the best way to allow users to interact with services, in terms of both overall flow and at the level of individual design elements. You will be a confident and competent designer who is able to develop designs based on evidence of user needs and organisational outcomes.

As part of this role, you will:

• Work as part of multidisciplinary agile teams, delivering new services that meet user needs and HM Land Registry policy objectives

• Analyse and interpret user needs and business objectives in highly complex service areas

• Develop and recommend design concepts that help re-imagine how services can be delivered end-to-end and identify potential areas of improvement

• Work with user researchers, business analysts and developers to turn concepts into user-centred services

• Support design workshops and design sprints with the team, senior stakeholders and users

• Create and rapidly iterate low and high-fidelity prototypes to test and communicate ideas with users

• Presenting work back within your agile team, and at community critique and feedback sessions

• Contribute to our design system with support from the team

• Work with the wider project team to ensure that services meet the digital service standard, participating in services assessments as necessary to provide interaction design evidence to support the relevant points

Responsibilities

To meet the requirements of this role, you will have:

• Experience of creating usable, responsive and accessible user interfaces

• Experience of sketching, concept creating and designing prototypes

• An understanding of user needs, participating in research activities and using research to inform design

• A strong grounding and experience in user-centred design, from concept to final delivery.

• Knowledge of what good end-to-end public services look like and how to design in an inclusive, accessible way.

• Experience of making decisions to meet user needs in the government context.

• Experience of producing simple designs to solve problems.

• Experience in creating static HTML and CSS prototypes; coding for different screen sizes, versioning and hosting a prototype.

• You approach prototyping as a team activity, actively soliciting prototypes and testing with others. You can establish design patterns and iterate them. You can use a variety of methods of prototyping and choose the most appropriate ones.

• Experience of working collaboratively in a dynamic agile environment with user researchers, content designers and business analysts to understand and meet user needs.

Where an individual taking up the responsibility will be based in Swansea Office, the ability to speak Welsh is desirable.

For more information about the role, please see the attached candidate pack.

Behaviours

We'll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

• Working Together
• Delivering at Pace
• Changing and Improving
• Making Effective Decisions

Benefits

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/land-registry/about/recruitment#what-hm-land-registry-can-offer-you

Things you need to know

Security

Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check.

People working with government assets must complete basic personnel security standard checks.

Selection process details

This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.

Please cut and paste an anonymous CV into the online application form when prompted and include your qualifications and career history.

The statement of suitability section (in no more than 750 words) must be used to provide details of how you meet the essential experience criteria listed below:

• Experience of creating usable, responsive and accessible user interfaces

• Experience in creating static HTML and CSS prototypes; coding for different screen sizes, versioning and hosting a prototype

• Experience of producing simple designs to solve problems

In the event of a high volume of applications, we may sift on the leading essential experience criteria ‘Experience of creating usable, responsive and accessible user interfaces.'

The sift will take place shortly after the closing date. If successful at the shortlisting stage, you will be invited to attend a virtual, blended interview including a design review exercise which will be conducted as a video interview week commencing 21 March 2022.

The blended interview will test the behaviours and experience listed in the job description, as well as the strengths associated with the role. We want to hear your first, unrehearsed, natural response to strength questions, and so we don’t advertise which strengths are being tested.

Candidates may refer to notes within their video interview but they should be used as a prompt only.

Please review your application form before clicking ‘submit’ – once you have submitted, you will not be able to amend your application. Ensure your application form is received by the closing date for receipt of applications – this is 23:55pm on the advertised date.

HMLR is accredited to the Disability Confidence Scheme, which denotes organisations which have a positive attitude towards disabled people. Disabled applicants who meet the minimum essential criteria at the shortlisting stage are guaranteed an invitation to interview.

If any candidate requires the panel to consider a reasonable adjustment or there is anything else they would like the panel to take into consideration they are asked to notify us of this at application stage where possible or during the process as soon as it becomes a requirement.

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