We are now recruiting for a UX Designer to join our Brand team, on a 12-month fixed-term contract, working part-time at our Swindon offices located on key transport links in the town centre.
About the role
The UX Designer is responsible for designing intuitive, user-centred digital experiences that meet user needs and business goals. The role spans the UX product design lifecycle from research to high-fidelity design, conducting user research, creating lo and hi-fi wireframes, prototyping, and supporting development teams to bring your design concepts to life.
The UX Designer will collaborate closely with cross-functional teams to ensure the seamless execution of design solutions, representing the user at all times and advocating best practices in UX design, contributing to the continuous improvement of our digital products and services.
Key responsibilities:
- User research:
Plan and conduct moderated and unmoderated user research selecting appropriate techniques to meet research goals. Facilitate interviews, surveys, and usability testing to understand and identify user needs, behaviours, pain points, and opportunities, turning research into actionable outputs and recommendations e.g., reports / personas. - Usability testing and expert reviews:
Conduct expert reviews using usability heuristics or plan and conduct usability tests to validate design assumptions. Champion user feedback and use it to iteratively improve designs. - Collaboration:
Work closely with stakeholders and professionals from across the business to capture requirements and represent user needs. Act as the voice of the user at all times and communicate and champion user needs and your designs. - Wireframing and prototyping:
Create wireframes, prototypes, and high-fidelity mock-ups to visualise design concepts and workflows, basing designs off requirements, jobs to be done, and personas. - UI & Interactive Design:
Design intuitive, attractive, and user-friendly interfaces that align with brand identity and user needs whilst ensuring designs meet accessibility guidelines and follow the BCS design system. - Design system:
Work closely with the Lead UX Designer to ensure the design system, guidelines, and best practices are maintained to ensure design consistency. - Continuous Improvement:
Stay updated with the latest industry trends, tools, and technologies, and incorporate them into the design process.
Flexibility is required of all job holders to adjust responsibilities as required from time to time by their Line Manager/Divisional Director. Strive to live the BCS’ values and support our purpose. Continually looking at ways to make improvements to systems, processes, and procedures.
BCS is dedicated to providing training and development to help all staff realise their potential and also offers a generous benefit package.
BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT, is committed to promoting equality at every opportunity as an employer. This statement and our policies are designed to ensure our recruitment and employment practices and procedures actively promote equality of opportunity and value diversity.
All applicants must be eligible to work in the UK upon application.
PLEASE NOTE: This vacancy may be removed before any listed closing date once a sufficient amount of applications have been received.
In the event that we receive a high number of applications for this vacancy, we may be unable to provide an individual response to every candidate; therefore, if you haven’t heard back from us within 4 weeks of the closing date, please consider your application unsuccessful on this occasion.
What BCS offers in return
Remuneration
£15,960 per annum
Benefits and perks
From Day One (pre-probation):
- 23 days holiday per year increasing to a maximum of 27 days with length of service.
- A day off on or during the month of your birthday.
- Up to 3 extra paid days off during shutdown between Christmas and New Year.
- Free BCS membership giving you invaluable membership resources.
- The Social Club – events and subsidised trips open to all employees.
- Refer a Friend – If you ‘refer a friend’ for a role at BCS and they are successful, you would receive £750 after 6 months and a further £750 after 12 months (conditions apply).
- Life Insurance paid at four times base salary from day one.
- Group Income Protection Insurance – an insurance which will pay a percentage of your salary for up to 3 years in the event of a long-term illness preventing you from working. This benefit is subject to a claim assessment and only payable if certain conditions are met.
- BCS Stars – the internal recognition scheme based on the company values. Employees can be nominated across the business to earn points to spend on an online shopping platform.
- EAP – Employee Assistance Programme (Counselling, financial and legal advice).
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