Interaction Designer

THE OPPORTUNITY  

As a member of the wider MCR Global family, you will be joining our small, but rapidly expanding team of consultants here in the United Kingdom.   Supporting Disclosure Scotland in Glasgow, the opportunity is for a Senior Interaction Designer to embed within the current Digital Team to design and lead on public and internal services that are accessible to everyone.  Off-Payroll rules do not apply (Outside IR35).

The large proportion of work will be undertaken remotely but when the Glasgow office reopens, it is expected work will follow a hybrid style model (50/50 office/remote), as required. 

THE ROLE 

• Work in a multidisciplinary team, alongside user researchers, service designers, business analysts, content designers, product owners, delivery managers and developers to deliver world-class, user-centred services that help the government transform the way it delivers services, to become more efficient, simpler, faster and easier to use
• Use best practice/standards to design usable and access interactive services
• Work with user researchers to gain a deep understanding of our user
• Work with content/service designers to understand/map user journeys, visualise design problems
• Identify, propose and evaluate design solutions
• Work with multidisciplinary teams in an agile environment
• Demonstrate strong knowledge of interaction design best practice
• Work with technical roles to promote an outcome-led approach to designing services that considers technical feasibility
• Design and validate a range of static/dynamic prototypes to test/ communicate ideas
• Confidently design at low and high fidelity, including HTML and CSS
• Work with minimal support
• Make use of collaborative tooling (Slack, MS Teams, Miro, Confluence and Jira)
• Lead discussions with teams and stakeholders

ESSENTIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Demonstrable confidence in designing and prototyping at low and high fidelity, including HTML and CSS
• Demonstrable experience of working in government/public sector and designing to Digital Scotland Service Standards/GDS standards
• Demonstrable experience of interaction design in cross-functional agile teams
• Demonstrable ability to work closely with others, including user researchers, service and content designers, front-end developers and product and delivery leads
• Demonstrable experience of designing, accessible, responsive user interface
• Must hold the right to live and work within the United Kingdom
• Hold a Baseline Personnel Security Standard (BPSS) check or be willing to undertake a BPSS check

THE COMPANY

MCR, LLC, is the nation’s premier Integrated Program Management firm. Since 1977, we have delivered groundbreaking cost/schedule analysis, acquisition management and program assessment solutions to help government clients success­fully deliver agile and creative programs. MCR’s 400+ professionals provide critical thinking and integrated solutions to customers, enabling them to more rapidly develop complex National Security Space programs.

EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

MCR, LLC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. We will consider you for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.

For more information about MCR, LLC, career opportunities, please visit www.mcri.com.