UI Designer-APS6_Sept

UX/UI Designer

12-month contract with 6 months extension

Hybrid working arrangement - 3 days per week onsite

Location :- ACT, VIC, NSW

Required Baseline cleared

DFP Recruitment is seeking the UX/ UI Designers for our federal government client. UX/UI Designer, you will apply specialist experience design expertise to help shape and improve digital products and services used by participants, providers and staff.

Responsibilities of the role

• Lead and contribute to UX/UI design activities across discovery, design, validation and implementation.
• Apply human-centred design approaches to understand user needs and create accessible, effective and evidence-based solutions.
• Collaborate with multidisciplinary teams to solve user, business and technical challenges.
• Develop conceptual through to implementation-ready designs, interaction specifications and supporting artefacts.
• Facilitate workshops, design activities and stakeholder engagement sessions.
• Provide specialist advice within your area of expertise.
• Contribute to design system evolution and adoption.
• Support and mentor less experienced practitioners where appropriate.
• Contribute to knowledge sharing, standards and continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills:

• Demonstrated experience applying human-centred design methodologies to deliver user-centred digital products and services, including user research, interaction design, interface design, prototyping, testing and validation.
• Demonstrated ability to translate user needs, research insights and business requirements into practical, accessible and evidence-based design solutions in complex environments.
• Experience collaborating effectively within multidisciplinary teams, working with product managers, business analysts, developers, researchers and stakeholders to deliver successful outcomes.
• Strong stakeholder engagement, communication and facilitation skills, with demonstrated ability to influence decisions and communicate design rationale to both technical and non-technical audiences.
• Experience working within government, public sector or highly regulated environments.
• Experience contributing to or working with design systems, component libraries and design governance frameworks.
• Experience using contemporary UX/UI design and prototyping tools such as Figma, FigJam, Miro or similar.
• Experience supporting digital transformation, service reform or large-scale organisational change initiatives.

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 and indicate your preferred method of communication (email, phone, text) so we can keep in touch and meet your accessibility needs.