Senior Interaction Designer

The National Archives collects and secures the future of the public record, preserving it for the nation and making it as accessible and available as possible. Our collection is one of the largest in the world, containing over 11 million historical records from medieval parchment to modern papers, digital documents, datasets, and tweets. The records we collect are increasingly created, managed, and transferred to us digitally.

Working as a Senior Interaction Designer at The National Archives, you will provide user-centred design direction and leadership within the Digital Selection and Transfer team in Digital Archiving. In this senior role, you will create intuitive, innovative and engaging interface designs that reflect our coding and style guidelines and are built with re-use in mind. You will look for opportunities to continuously improve our approach to interaction design, keeping abreast of developments and initiatives in the cross-government design community and the wider public sector. You will help grow our design culture and community, coaching junior members of the team and will take responsibility for ensuring this critical area is positively led and visible. You will work in an open, transparent and collaborative environment and maintain strong relationships with stakeholders to ensure their needs are represented alongside those of our users.

This is a full time post. However, requests for part-time working, flexible working and job share will be considered, taking into account at all times the operational needs of the Department. A combination of onsite and home working is available and applicants should be able to regularly travel to our Kew site for a minimum of 60% of their work time.

Person specification

You are seeking to develop a career in a world leading institution using your skills and experience to meet the challenges presented by digital records. You are enthusiastic, organised and an excellent communicator.

You enjoy the challenge of finding solutions to complex problems to help meet our ambitions and will frequently look for opportunities to do things better. You love to learn and to share knowledge with others.