Lead UX Designer
- Employer
- Birmingham City Council
- Location
- 10 Woodcock Street
- Salary
- £45,648 - £57,056
- Closing date
- 14 Sep 2022
- Reference
- BCC002961
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- Sector
- Local Councils
- Job Type
- Information technology
- Contract Type
- Permanent
- Working Pattern
- Standard
- Hours
- Full-Time
Job Details
Job title: Lead UX Designer
Salary: £45,648 - £57,056
Location: Hybrid Working, 10 Woodcock Street
Hours: 36.5
Working pattern: Full-time
As a Lead UX Designer you will be joining 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.
This is an exciting time to be joining the Digital and Customer Service team of Birmingham City Council, Europe’s largest local authority.
With unprecedented investment in people and digital, an exciting strategy and empowering leadership to get behind, we are building new digital services centred on the needs of our citizens, business and communities to fulfil Birmingham’s bold ambitions for the city of today and tomorrow. Read this blog post from James, our Head of Delivery to learn more about what the team does.
What you will do
As Lead UX Designer you will
- work with service managers and programme directors to develop design concepts
- set direction and assure the quality of design delivery across teams
- lead multiple or highly complex services
Who are you
Experience of coaching and leading teams in Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project.
This is a multi-skilled role requiring
- You have the ability to apply a digital understanding to your work
- You know how to design systems for use across multiple services and can identify the simplest approach out of a variety of approaches.
- You can work with and challenge senior stakeholders. You know how to prioritise and mitigate constraints and can turn them into an advantage.
- You know how to create and validate a dynamic prototype and you are experienced in using a variety of methods of prototyping.
- You can lead the design and implementation of strategy
- Experience of coaching and leading teams in Agile and Lean practices, determining the right approach for the team to take and evaluating this through the life of a project.
You’ll have the opportunity to
- Develop your career, gain new skills and experience across a breadth of 250 services
- Share and learn from others including from a range of specialists and innovation partners
- Help build up communities of practice in your area of expertise
- Shape, be bold and take responsibilities as we transform as a truly digital, user-centred enterprise
We’ll support you with
- An environment that values curiosity, autonomy and working in the open
- An engaged and supportive leadership with a clear vision
- Training & development opportunities to help you progress
- An inclusive workplace committed to reflecting the public we serve
- A benefit package designed to promote a great work/life balance
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Interviews for this post will take place virtually via video conferencing. Shortlisted candidates will be provided with further information.
For informal enquires please contact James Gregory via email james.e.gregory@birmingham.gov.uk
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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. Non-UK applicants (excluding Ireland) may need to apply for a visa from the UK Visas and Immigration (UKVI) and may require a Certificate of Sponsorship from Birmingham City Council for a skilled worker visa (if the job is eligible).
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Job Description and Person Specification
Company
Working for Birmingham City Council is more than just a job; it's about making life better for the 1 million plus people who live and work in the city.
We welcome people from diverse and underrepresented communities and encourage applications from, those with caring responsibilities, Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic, neurodivergent, disabled and LGBT+ people. As part of our commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion, we are committed to promoting and supporting the physical and mental health of all our staff and removing barriers to improve inclusion. We are making significant strides to understand and continuously improve our employees’ experience and we are committed to implementing progressive diversity talent management.
Information for applicants with a disability
We are a proud Disability Confident Employer. We encourage applicants to disclose disabilities, so we can support them fully during our recruitment process and make any necessary reasonable adjustments. Please contact: 0121 675 7070 option 3 (lines open between 8.45am to 5.15pm Monday to Friday).
If you require an application in an alternative format, such as Braille or you are unable to complete an application form via WMJOBS, please contact bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk. When you have completed your application form this can be returned to bccHR@birmingham.gov.uk or for Braille applications these can be posted to, Recruitment Team, 2nd Floor, 10 Woodcock Street, B7 4BG.
The Council is a fantastic place to work. You will find an organisation that is both challenging and supportive; with a leadership impatiently adventurous in its pursuit of excellence.
There is a clear vision which is ensuring that the Council is working for communities today and building for tomorrow, we focus our resources on five key priorities:
- A Prosperous Birmingham: through a focus on inclusive economic growth, tackling unemployment, attracting inward investment, and maximising the benefits of the Commonwealth Games.
- An Inclusive Birmingham: through a focus on tackling poverty and inequality, empowering citizens, promoting diversity and civic pride, and supporting and enabling all children and young people to thrive.
- A Safe Birmingham: through a focus on making the city safer, safeguarding vulnerable citizens, increasing affordable housing, and tackling homelessness.
- A Healthy Birmingham: through a focus on tackling health inequalities, encouraging physical activity and healthy living, supporting mental health, and improving outcomes for adults with disabilities and older people.
- A Green Birmingham: through a focus on street cleanliness, improving air quality, continuing the route to net zero, and becoming a city of nature.
We see the Council’s role as providing strategic leadership – that’s being able to visualise a new future for the city and equipping others to share our vision. We want to ensure the provision of services for all, so we can support those least able to support themselves by working with partners and putting citizens and neighbourhoods at the heart of our decision-making.
We are always looking for people who put the customer at the centre of their approach, with a commitment to excellence to help us achieve our vision. We will support you to develop and thrive in your role, building a pathway for long-term success, with lots of development opportunities, such as apprenticeships.
In return, we offer you excellent terms and conditions, generous annual leave, a great pension scheme, well-being support, annual travel passes and discounts at a number of city centre establishments.
Birmingham City Council is a Foundation Living wage employer - known as the Birmingham Living Wage. The Birmingham Living Wage, is determined by the Living Wage Foundation on an annual basis by the Centre of Research in Society Polity at Loughborough University. The current rate can be found at: www.livingwage.org.uk.
For the awards and support for our employees, please follow https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/homepage/169/job_vacancies
- Website
- http://birmingham.gov.uk/
- Telephone
- 0121 675 7070
- Location
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Birmingham City Council
Birmingham
West Midlands
B2 2XU
United Kingdom
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