AMS PSR

On behalf of The Met Office, we are looking for an Interaction Designer (Inside IR35) for a 12 month contract based largely REMOTE with visits to the Exeter office 2 times per month.

SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be willing & eligible to undergo checks. Please note, due to the exceptional requirements of this position (short-term nature of this role and speed at which we require a postholder in situ) preference may be given to candidates who meet all of the essential criteria and hold active security clearance.

The Met Office is looking for an Interaction Designer to support our data delivery programme. We aim to get our world-class weather data in the hands of users who can use it to help people stay safe and thrive. Met Office data is available through a range of internal and third-party systems, the Interaction Designer will support in the mapping and designing of Met Office data services end-to-end. You will be an experienced designer who works with minimal support and can influence and mentor others.

This role will be embedded in a multidisciplinary team. As an Interaction Designer, you will be responsible for designing prototypes and solutions of the service for acquiring data from the Met Office. The service should be designed to help users complete their goal of acquiring the data they need and deliver the Met Office’s goal of our data being used to create social value and economic benefits. In this role, your work will involve the creation of, or change to, products, data, content, and transactions across digital channels provided by internal and external systems. The role will form part of the Met Office dedicated User-Centred Design team, championing user-centred best practice within projects to help build a user focused culture.

As an Interaction Designer, you will:

•Current active SC Security Clearance

•Be expected to work independently on a team

•Create low and high-fidelity prototypes and designs based on evidence of user needs and organisational outcomes

•Create design concepts in collaboration with product teams

•Work collaboratively with agile development teams to ensure the quality of design

•Interpret evidence-based research and incorporate this into your work

•Present designs and insights to stakeholders, teams and users to help align and inform decision-making

•Utilise user-centred design practices and represent the user in a multidisciplinary team

•Be an active member of the UX practice to support a user-centred culture across the organisation

•Think strategically to respond to changes in technology and evolving user needs

•Translate user stories and propose design approaches or services to meet these needs

•Work closely with developers and communicate between the technical and non-technical to create solutions that are technically feasible and meet user needs

Please be aware that this role can only be worked within the UK and not Overseas.

Disability Confident 

As a member of the Disability Confident Scheme, Met Office guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group. This scheme encourages candidates with a disability and/or neurodivergence to apply.

In applying for this role, you acknowledge the following "this role falls in scope of the Off Payroll Working in the Public Sector legislation. Any rates of payment quoted will reflect the gross rate per day for the assignment and will be subject to appropriate taxes and statutory costs. As such the payment to the intermediary and your income resulting from this contract will be different".