Aps6 User Experience Designer

APS Level 6
- Canberra, ACT
- $94,332 - $103,731

**About the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations**
We enable access to quality skills, training and employment services to support Australians find secure work in fair, productive and safe workplaces - supporting individuals and our nation to prosper.

**About the Division**
The Digital Solutions Division (DSD) designs, builds, maintains, and supports large-scale (enterprise) specialised software systems used by departmental staff and businesses to provide quality services to job seekers and employers; respond to national future skills needs through access to VET graduates with the right skills; reduce barriers to undertaking quality VET; administer and implement programs and services related to Workplace Support.

**The Role**
As a **User Experience Designer**, you will work with, or as part of, one or multiple delivery teams responsible for building enterprise class systems for the department.

In a predominantly Microsoft and Azure technology environment, you will work in an agile based environment with Service Designers, Digital Accessibility Officers, Business and System Analysts, Software Designers and Developers, SCRUM Teams, Product Owners, Product Managers, and System Users to advocate for, design, review, and assess User Experience outcomes.

You will understand digital diversity and have a passion for User Experience with the necessary people skills to understand user needs and the relevant technical skills to design and prototype user interfaces in line with user needs and business objectives.

The successful applicant will receive the necessary training, mentoring, and guidance to perform the key responsibilities of the role and to advance their careers in the Australian Public Service (APS).

**Duties and Responsibilities**
Responsibilities of the **APS6** Level may include:

- Work under limited supervision.
- Participate in agile ceremonies.
- Participate in design, planning, and estimation sessions.
- Conduct UX research and user testing.
- Analyse information to develop user-centred, user interface designs including wireframes, low-fidelity and high-fidelity prototypes.
- Facilitate stakeholder workshops.
- Provide design guidance and solutions to delivery teams throughout project and sustainment life cycles.
- Monitor the team’s workload and delegate tasks as appropriate.
- If required, travel within Australia to undertake workshops with stakeholders.

**Qualifications and Education**
**Mandatory**
- There are no mandatory knowledge requirements for this position.

**Desirable**
- Qualifications in graphic/visual design or another related field
- Understanding of the Digital Service Standard and the DTA Service Design and Delivery Standard.

**How to Apply**
Applicants are required to provide up to a one-page summary (no more than **500 **words) that outlines skills, knowledge, and experience and why you should be considered for this vacancy. You should take into consideration the position overview (including any detailed position specific requirements) when drafting your response. Where possible include specific relevant examples of your work.

The APS work level standards accommodate the diversity of roles across the APS and are structured to clearly differentiate between the work expected (i.e. responsibilities and duties) at each classification level.

In the eRecruit (the department’s online recruitment system) you will also need to:

- upload a Curriculum Vitae
- provide contact details for 2 Referees.

**Eligibility**

**Citizenship** - to be eligible for employment with the Department, you must be an Australian Citizen or, in limited circumstances, in the process of obtaining it.

**Please refer to the Job Information Pack for more information about the role.**

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