UX Designer

Job No: CN2072

Location: Newcastle, NSW

Employment Status: Permanent, Full-time

No. of Vacancies: 1

Closing Date: 2 Mar 2020 NZDT

• Great opportunity to cultivate your digital design and UX capabilities.
• Strong focus developing and refining user-customer experience.
• Leading customer experience by driving change
• Permanent Full-time roles - 35 hours per week
• Flexible working with optional 9-day fortnight.

Located 160km north of Sydney, Newcastle is New South Wales’ second largest city, and offers the perfect lifestyle and career environment.

Our City is thriving and rapidly transforming. In recent years Newcastle has experienced a significant increase in development activity, with the 2018-19 Financial Year seeing building approvals top $1.5 billion.

Having just relocated to our exciting new work premises at 12 Stewart Avenue, our new environment creates a great opportunity to further align our people with our organisational vision, values and strategic directions, and leverage the great work CN is already undertaking to support cultural improvement.

City of Newcastle (CN) is looking for an experienced UX Designer that will be accountable for how City of Newcastle (CN) relates to the public and stakeholders through digital technologies.

This role requires you to be able to significantly add valuable human-centric input along the entire design process.

Enthusiastic and scientifically minded you should be willing to collaborate on both the micro and macro level with the team to provide the best experience for our customers.

Making strategic design and user-experience decisions related to core, and new, functions and features will be pivotal in this role to achieve successful outcomes.

At CN our people are valued and have access to a range of benefits that help balance life at work and at home. These include flexible working arrangements, professional development opportunities and health and well-being programs.

To be successful in this job you will have:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, Graphic Design, UX Design or a related qualification, and/or demonstrated capability through past employment experience.
• Demonstrated skills in various design techniques such as sketching prototyping, wire-frames and development of UI assets.
• Experience in UX design across research, strategy, design and agile delivery.
• Experience working in an Agile UX environment.
• Demonstrated ability to understand business requirements and any technical limitations.
• Demonstrated ability to iterate designs and solutions efficiently and intelligently.
• Demonstrated ability to clearly and effectively communicate design processes, ideas, and solutions to teams and clients.
• Ability to work in a multi-disciplined, team environment.
• Demonstrated ability to research and showcase knowledge in the industry’s latest trends and technologies.
• Knowledgeable about Design Thinking and Human Centred Design
• Be passionate about all things digital, UX and other areas of design and innovation.
• Pro-active and ability to change perspectives.
• Proficient in design software (e.g. Sketch, Axure).
• Ability to present a UX Portfolio showcasing previous work or completed projects.
• Demonstrates the values and behaviours that contribute to a constructive, high performance culture.

Desirable

• SCRUM certification.
• Design thinking and human centred design courses.

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City of Newcastle proudly promotes the principles of Equal Employment Opportunity and fosters a culture of diversity to represent the community of our Local Government Area.

All candidates will be assessed against the selection criteria outlined in the position description. Suitable candidates may be placed on an eligibility list for future identical positions for a period of 12 months.

You must have the right to live and work in Australia to apply for this job.

To view the full position description please click here.

Application Closing Date: 1 March 2020.

Remuneration: $$106,032 to $115,575 + 9.5% Superannuation per annum for a 35 hour week.

Contact: Greg Evans, Digital Service Chapter Lead, 02 4974 2518.