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E Riding RQ349198 Temporary Senior Web Analyst (UX Designer) - Digital Transformation Programme

Overall Purpose of the Job:

• This role will support the council’s digital transformation programme through the improvement of online services, transactions and simplified website content. Adopting the latest user experience techniques and best practice, you will support a range of significant updates and improvements to eastriding.gov.uk.
• Analysing and reviewing current website content and user journeys, the role will liaise directly with services to deliver improvements to information architecture, create engaging web content and simplify complex online processes.
• You will have a strong sense of customer focus and will work closely with services to ensure customers can easily access and understand information, whilst also challenging the organisation's preconceptions of the customer.
• Work will support key digital transformation projects currently taking place within the organisation as the council looks to increase the functionality available to customers within its website. The role will encourage customers to transact online through the delivery of high quality digital transactions that the customer finds easy and convenient to use.

Principal Accountabilities:

• Review and create high quality content for a range of council services
• Generate high quality page structures and efficient website user journeys that enable the customer to easily access a range of council information and transactions through the web
• Take complex information relating to council service delivery and create high quality, customer focussed content and transactions
• Support the delivery of a range of key digital transformation projects, encouraging self-service through the web
• Understand customer needs and ensure digital content and services meets customer expectations
• Provide technical expertise and recommendations of best practice when exploring and implementing new web based systems
• Work with key internal stakeholders, customer services and users to deliver high quality website content and user experiences
• Act as a digital advisor to council service areas seeking to implement digital services
• Keep informed of technological developments and advancements in digital service design and delivery, identify best practice and opportunities for application to digital solutions, supporting the Council’s aims and objectives
• Analyse complex process maps for online forms, providing solutions to improve customer usability by reducing complexity
• Ensure content published on eastriding.gov.uk is of a high written standard, accessible and uses plain English to support customer uptake and engagement
• Support the delivery of high quality online transactions and forms
• Take a data driven approach, identifying poor user journeys and content and to deliver measurable results
• Utilise the latest tools and techniques to review new and existing website content and user journeys, generating insights into user behaviour to guide and inform website development

Pay Rate: £14.63 per hour PAYE

This is a temporary, but possibly long term role.

N.B. – Please quote the Job Title & Vacancy Reference No. in your application, or we will be unable to match your CV to the role being applied for.

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“Essential Requirements” – Please check to ensure that your CV addresses the following items:

• Your address (including post code) and a telephone number so that we can reach you during working hours
• Your recent UK working experience going back at least 5 years, or full employment history if you have been working for fewer years than this.
• Your availability to work either immediately, or at short notice.
• Minimum of 12 months recent experience in a similar role, or context and ideally within a public sector organisation
• The client requires answers to the following [please state within your CV]:
  • What knowledge do you have of website technologies and other digital media?
  • Do you have experience of writing and editing editorial/digital content
  • Do you understand website accessibility standards and have experience implementing them?
  • Do you have excellent writing abilities with good standards of grammar and spelling?
  • What knowledge do you have of user experience best practice and website usability techniques?
• Strong IT skills including Microsoft packages
• ***Qualification details and any other experience/skills relevant to the job role to help support your application (and help us to help you!) – please give full details within your CV document.

Other preferable/desirable details to include on your CV, if applicable:

• Any local authority/public sector experience
• Any relevant qualifications held or being studied for

Client Category: Local Authority

Division(s)/Disciplines involved: Digital Transformation Programme/Senior Web Analyst

Anticipated Length of Assignment: All of our roles are technically temporary, though opening assignments can be and often are, extended by clients on a longer term basis and can sometimes become permanent. This opening assignment is for 2 months.

Hours per week: 37 Monday – Friday, normal working hours

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Job Ref: E Riding RQ349198

Temporary Senior Web Analyst (UX Designer) - Digital Transformation Programme

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Talent international have an exciting opportunity for an enthusiastic and full of flair UI/UX designer to come and work for a rapidly expanding and fantastic company based in Birmingham city centre.

This role will be a for an initial 3-month contract, and you will play an integral role in laying the foundations for this organisation during these exciting times.

Location: Birmingham

Length: 3 months initial

Rate: Market rates £££

You will Responsible for designing and creating user-focussed, engaging and accessible user experiences.

Responsibilities

• Creating personas and user experience maps across delivery channels.
• Conducting usability testing and feedback and feeding these into delivery teams.
• Understanding the target audience for every project by working collaboratively with the wider team to run customer/stakeholder interviews, user testing, card sorting and other research activity.
• Working with product management and developers to improve the performance of our delivery channels through A/B testing.
• Working with stakeholders to create design concepts, translating them into user flows using wireframes, mock-ups and prototypes and story boards.
• Illustrate design ideas via user storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.
• Lead on design enhancements by keeping up-to-date with enhancements and UX principles and present these new ideas to the business with a view to implementing.
• Prototype solutions to understand and define user experiences using appropriate technologies.
• Collaborate within the Agile development team to ensure that user experience designs, and journeys are iterative in nature and deliverable.
• Partner with the Marketing team to develop brand and style guidelines and to determine how to best reach our target markets.
• Ability to collaborate efficiently in cross functional teams, particularly Product Management, developers and QA engineers.
• Take a user-centred design approach and rapidly test and iterate designs.

Requirements

• Experience/knowledge of a range of UX research methods and deliverables (e.g. 1-2-1 labbased testing, Heuristic evaluation, Remote testing, Tree Testing/Card Sorting, surveys, Wireframing/Prototyping, UX/UI Design
• Be familiar with UX related fields including AB/Multivariate testing, Analytics and Accessibility

• High Proficiency in Adobe Creative Suite, Illustrator, Photoshop, Sketch and have a strong understanding of UX, UI principles and producing wireframes, storyboards and personas.

• Working knowledge of HTML and CSS in cross platform design (mobile, tablet, desktop