UX Designer
Salary: £48,969
Grade: Level 4, Zone 2
Location: 5 Pancras Square, London N1C 4AG
Contract Type: Permanent
Hours: 36, Full Time
Closing Date: Monday 9th December 2024, 23:55
About Camden
Camden is building somewhere everyone can thrive, by making our borough the best place to live, work, study and visit. Because we’re not just home to UK’s fast-growing economy. We’re home to the most important conversations happening today. And we’re making radical social change a reality, so that nobody gets left behind. Here’s where you can help decide a better future for us all.
What You’ll Be Doing / How You’ll Be Involved
Working as part of a multidisciplinary teams and reporting to the Lead UX Designer, the role of the User Experience Designer is to discover new opportunities and contribute to efficient solutions that improve user’s experience at Camden.
You’ll understand user needs and business expectations to create design solutions that meet and exceed both. You’ll become an expert in testing, iterating and improving digital products and services. As a user experience designer at Camden, you will work with many different communities, carrying out research and understanding what will best serve our users.
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All About You
To find out more about what it is like to work at Camden, meet some of our People by visiting 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/our-stories'.
As a User Experience Designer, you’ll be a creative problem solver with abilities in user experience, interaction design and user-centred design principles to create consistent insight driven experiences.
Skills and Abilities
· Evidence based approach to design
· Analytical and logical
· Ability to present a problem to a team and effectively advocate for a solution
· Ability to work collaboratively within a multidisciplinary team
· Ability to influence stakeholders and relentlessly advocate for Camden citizens and service users
· Effectively communicate and receive feedback to improve designs and products
What We Offer
At Camden, you’ll receive a host of benefits. From flexible working to 27 days annual leave (+ bank holidays!). We also know that a work life balance is extremely important so we also offer family leave, loan schemes and access to our incredible staff networks. We also have an incredible pensions scheme.
Visit 'www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.
Inclusion and Diversity
We want Camden Council to be a great place to work and to ensure that our communities are represented across our workforce. A vital part of this is ensuring we are a truly inclusive organisation that encourages diversity in all respects, including diversity of thinking. We particularly welcome applications from Black, Asian and those of Other Ethnicities, LGBT+, disabled and neurodiverse communities to make a real difference to our residents so that equalities and justice remains at the heart of everything we do.
To discover more about Camden and our commitment towards diversity, equality and safeguarding, please visit www.camdenjobs.co.uk/staff-benefits' for more details.
Anonymised Application – in keeping with Camden’s commitment to inclusion the recruitment to this role is anonymised and supports the objective of reducing the impact of unconscious bias.
Asking for Adjustments
Camden is committed to making our recruitment practices barrier-free and as accessible as possible for everyone. This includes making adjustments or changes for disabled people, neurodiverse people or people with long-term health conditions. If you would like us to do anything differently during the application, interview or assessment process, including providing information in an alternative format, please contact us on 020 7974 6655, at resourcing@camden.gov.uk or post to 5 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG.