UX Designer

at  The University of Manchester

ABOUT THE UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER

The University of Manchester is a truly global institution with a reputation for education and innovation that resonates across The World, offering a wide range of courses and boasting outstanding facilities in the centre of Manchester. With 25 Nobel Prize winners among its current and former staff and students, it has a history of world firsts and brilliant discoveries.
The University is committed to world-class research, outstanding learning and student experience, and social responsibility in everything it does. It is making one of the largest investments in facilities ever seen at a UK university, with £750 million spent so far and a further £1 billion to follow by 2022. Its goal is to become one of the world’s leading Universities.
The University of Manchester is committed to creating an environment where diversity is celebrated and everyone is treated fairly, regardless of gender, gender identity, disability, ethnicity, religion or belief, sexual orientation, marital or transgender status, age, or nationality.

THE TEAM

The UX Service provides support across ITS, for a range of solution design, development, and procurement activities. We provide hands-on services and guidance on accessibility, usability, user research, and design across a range of business-as-usual (BAU) and project-based activity.
As an inclusive organisation, the UXD team work closely with colleagues in ITS and The Equality Diversity and Inclusion Directorate, to ensure that digital systems and services are usable, accessible, and compliant with all relevant UK government legislation and digital standards.
We are a positive and supportive team and are passionate about engaging with the people using our digital systems, services, and workflows. We are always looking for opportunities to improve the user experience for our student, staff, and research communities. We have a wealth of experience across a range of disciplines and sectors including creative agencies, marketing, e-commerce, higher education and user research.

THE PERSON

We are looking for a positive and proactive person who believes in the values of The University and wants to be part of a team that has a passion for improving the user experience for our staff, student, and research communities. We are open to considering those with a background in marketing, digital design, web development, business analysis, or similar roles. We would provide support, and training to the right candidate who shows a passion for user experience design, and a good understanding of the need for usable, accessible, and compliant solutions.
You will be someone who has a natural curiosity into human behaviour, and a drive to improve how things work and can considers the wider experience looking beyond delivering what is asked.
We would like you to bring your whole self to work parent; carer; artist; athlete; introvert whatever it is that makes you the person you are. We can offer the flexibility to make sure you have plenty of time to do the things you need or want to do alongside work, because we understand that is how you can be your best! Therefore, we would be happy to openly discuss any flexible working requests.

To be successful in this role, you will need to

• Possess work experience as a UX Designer or experience in a similar role.
• Be capable of using methods like user-centered design and design thinking to create usable solutions.
• Be knowledgeable of designing for accessibility, especially for people with disabilities.
• Be proficient in using design and collaboration tools like Miro, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.
• Have experience with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), including creating, reviewing, and modifying them.

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As an equal opportunities employer we welcome applicants from all sections of the community regardless of age, sex, gender (or gender identity), ethnicity, disability, sexual orientation and transgender status. All appointments are made on merit.
Our University is positive about flexible working find out more about flexible working.
Hybrid working arrangements may be considered.
Please note that we are unable to respond to enquiries, accept CVs or applications from Recruitment Agencies.
Any recruitment enquiries from recruitment agencies should be directed to people.recruitment@manchester.ac.uk.
Any CV’s submitted by a recruitment agency will be considered a gift.

THE ROLE

As a User Experience Developer/Designer, you will be part of the UX Team helping to support the delivery of solutions across BAU activities, projects, and procurement. You will use a user-centric approach to deliver UX, UI, and interaction designs that impact our communities’ experience in a positive way. You will also contribute to the realisation of The University’s Equality, Diversity and Inclusion goals you will ensure that solutions are compliant with UK government legislation on accessibility, focussing on The Equality Act 2010 and The Public Sector Bodies (Websites and Mobile Applications) Accessibility Regulations 2018 (PSBAR 2018).

To be successful in this role, you will need to

• Possess work experience as a UX Designer or experience in a similar role.
• Be capable of using methods like user-centered design and design thinking to create usable solutions.
• Be knowledgeable of designing for accessibility, especially for people with disabilities.
• Be proficient in using design and collaboration tools like Miro, Figma, Sketch, Adobe Creative Suite, etc.
• Have experience with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) and Cascading Style Sheet (CSS), including creating, reviewing, and modifying them