JOB
Experience Designer
Apply before 6PM (AEDT) on: Monday, April 26, 2021
Australian Capital Territory
Agency / Department
Department of Education, Skills and Employment
Experience Level
Senior
Employment Type
Contract
Expected Rate (inc. Super)
$75 per hour***
Overview and Responsibilities
The Web Services team in the Communication Branch of the Department of Education, Skills and Employment needs a skilled experience designer to help liaise between business areas, the developers and the design team to fine-tune the dese.gov.au experience.
As a secondary objective, they will help to analyse and suggest changes and updates to many of the other sites we manage. The applicant will have a keen eye for detail, will understand the fundamentals of how Drupal works and how it can be used, and will have a strong understanding of user experience and user-centred design principles.
They will have experience working closely with developers and business areas to negotiate suitable solutions that are both effective and beautiful.
Essential Criteria
- Proven skills to generate mockups and layouts to help describe a solution to business areas and to provide specifications and guidance to developers.
- Problem solving experience to understand business requirements and craft solutions that satisfy their requirements using established patterns, or new re-usable patterns that can be used by others
- Experience designing and refining website interfaces and providing specifications to developers to implement
Desired Criteria
- Ability to generate CSS, HTML and Javascript that can be passed directly to developers for implementation
Security Clearance
Ability to obtain baseline clearance
Contract Extensions
Contract extensions may be considered