Id Job: 3176784
Associate UX/Content Designer
Permanent
Grade 3 - £23,194 - £29,438
Working 36.5 hours per week
Job Overview
As an Associate UX/Content Designer, you will help to shape and deliver exceptional products and services. You will support the design of user interactions, products and services and be passionate about promoting working standards, practices and style patterns.
As an associate UX/Content Designer, you will learn how to shape and deliver exceptional products and services. Supported by senior team members, you’ll create, update and review user experience and content to make our council services more usable, seamless and accessible.
What we are about
You will be joining the growing and exciting user centred design team in one of the largest digital teams in local government. We are passionate about user centred design, critical thinking, problem solving and designing amazing digital services and products.
We build and maintain common platforms, products and tools spanning over 250 services to create great public services that are accessible, inclusive and easy to use. This requires us to be brave in our approach, challenging the status quo, sharing learning and being creative to innovate new solutions.
Our teams are organised around delivering on our priorities. These are:
What you will do
This role will offer you the opportunity to work as part of an exciting new Product function, designed to challenge how the City of Birmingham designs services for residents, and be innovative and creative in our approach for designing the right internet age technology to support our citizens and colleagues.
Who you will be
If you are interested in a career that combines skilful writing and editing skills, great customer service and redesigning services so that they work effortlessly for the people that use them, then this is the job for you.
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About us
This is an exciting time to be joining Birmingham City Council’s Digital and Technology Services Department. We are Europe’s largest local authority, and with unprecedented investment in people and digital, a solid strategy, empowering leadership and a newly redesigned service to get behind, we are building digital services centred on the needs of our citizens, business and communities that will deliver on Birmingham’s bold ambitions for the city of today and tomorrow.
We are a multidisciplinary team at the heart of transforming public services for the UK’s second largest city. We create, develop, deliver and operate an exceptionally diverse range of services that have a direct impact on improving the lives of 1.2m residents every day.
We are embracing and promoting a truly digital, human centred approach for the whole organisation, underpinned by collaboration, openness and innovation. We take advantage of unparalleled access to data, doing things at scale and using technology creatively to re-imagine the way services are delivered and build the digital council of the future.
You must upload a Supporting Statement and CV via the attachments part of your application. This is required for shortlisting; you need to describe how your experience and skills fit the essential criteria for the role as specified in the Person Specification. If you do not attach your Supporting Statement, and CV, your application will not be considered.
Closing date 13th July 2023 at 23.59
Interviews for this post will take place virtually via video conferencing. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further information.
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For informal enquires please contact Annie Heath (annie.heath@birmingham.gov.uk)
We welcome applications from people with caring responsibilities and flexible working options will be considered.
Proof of Right to work in the UK will be required for all applicants in accordance with UK Home Office requirements , before any employment offer can be confirmed.
Job Description and Person Specification
