APS 6 UX UI Designer

Posted 12 April 2024
Salary$600 - $750 per day
LocationCanberra
Job type Full time
DisciplineGovernment FederalGovernment Local
ReferenceJO-2404-492464

Job description

APS 6 UX UI Designer
  • $600 - $750 / Daily rate ex super
  • Deakin, ACT
  • 12-month contract (possible extension)
  • WFH 3 days
About the client
One of our largest clients is now seeking an APS 6 UX UI Designer to join there fast-growing team of talented individuals offering an attractive pay in Deakin.

About the role
The UX/UI designer will contribute to the ongoing improvement of current and future digital product within the Office of the CIO. They will play a pivotal role in growing the Experience Design team’s footprint within the agency and help achieve great outcomes for all our users, participants, and providers.

Duties
  • Gather and evaluate user requirements, in collaboration with product and business owners.
  • Conduct business, provider and participant engagement activities to maximise opportunities to co-design the requirements and outcome of each project. This includes changes to processes, systems, people and information.
  • Illustrate concepts using storyboards, process flows and sitemaps.
  • Design wireframes and prototypes both low and high fidelity (mobile and web).
  • User research including usability testing.
  • Capture and analysis of data related requirements in collaboration with business analysts.
  • Achieve agreement and the formal sign-off of requirements by stakeholders and governance groups as required.
  • Influence project documentation to support the UI/UX requirements definition, e.g. requirements specifications, process maps, service design artefacts, functional and non-functional requirements, change management implications, data and reporting considerations.
  • Assist in the design and implementation of a design system.
  • Produce deliverables in accordance with project schedules.
Desired Experience  
  • Proven Experience in the elicitation of UI/UX requirement techniques such as brainstorming, workshops, prototyping, observation, or interviews, and confirming or reporting on results.
  • Contemporary knowledge of UI/UX Methodologies and experience designing to meet WCAG guidelines.
  • Proven experience building rapport and maintaining stakeholder relationships, communicating confidently and presenting messages in a clear, concise, and articulate manner to senior stakeholders.
  • Comfortable with new ways of thinking about accessibility and enthusiastic about accessible design & development will be highly regarded.                                                                                                   
Application Requirements 
  • Applicants must hold Australian citizenship.
  • Baseline Clearance.
  • National Criminal History Records Check and completion of the Agency’s screening checks.
  • Applications close 25/04/24
If you feel you are a suitable candidate submit your application by hitting ‘Apply for this job’. Alternatively, contact Mishael Solomon on 02 6162 7317 or email via MSolomon@dfp.com.au for further discussion.

DFP welcomes applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people with diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds and people with disability. In addition, DFP will provide reasonable adjustments for individuals with disability throughout the recruitment process. If you identify as a person with disability and require adjustments to the application, recruitment, selection and/or assessment process, please advise via adjustments@dfp.com.au or 1300 337 000 and indicate your preferred method of communication (email, phone, text) so we can keep in touch and meet your accessibility needs.