Midweight UX / UI Designer
| Posting date: | 23 June 2025 |
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| Salary: | £39,205.00 to £41,856.00 per year |
| Additional salary information: | 39205 - 41856 |
| Hours: | Full time |
| Closing date: | 07 July 2025 |
| Location: | Flexible in UK, SG192DL |
| Company: | Vacancy Filler |
| Job type: | Permanent |
| Job reference: | JUN20251742 |
Summary
The RSPB’s digital estate is vital to our mission to give nature a home - from rallying people together to speak up for nature, to inspiring a love of wildlife, to raising the income that pays for our conservation work in the UK and around the world.Working together with our Senior UX Designer, in a wider team of Service Designers, Solutions Architects and Business Analysts (as part of probably the biggest tech team in conservation) you’ll play a key role in shaping our digital experiences and evangelising a user-centred approach throughout the organisation.Together we’ll develop a deeper understanding of our users’ needs, motivations, and pains, explore a range of creative solutions, and deliver desirable, engaging experiences. On a day to day basis you'll be working closely with our web team, designing new templates and interpreting data from our testing software to enhance and optimise our web product. You'll use your excellent design skills to support the wider service design team by co-designing new concepts and services and providing advice on best practice.Essential skills, knowledge and experience:You’ll be collaborative, fun and friendly, adept at engaging stakeholders and users in testing and general chat. You’ll be a passionate advocate for design thinking and have excellent soft skills.You’ll have a passion for engaging with users, identifying, and challenging assumptions, validating hypotheses, and testing concepts and solutions with a mix of qualitative and quantitative data.You’re able to interpret user behaviour data collected through website tools and use this to influence your decision making. You’ll bring a sound knowledge of design principles and practices that underpin your excellent visual design skills and ability to create seamless interactions, helping us deliver experiences that delight our users and guide them effortlessly to their goals.You’ve got excellent people skills, recognise the importance of getting feedback early and often from peers and users, and always look for opportunities to collaborate and share. You’ll have experience of validating your design work with users so that you can iterate and improve the end solution. You’re confident owning the delivery of designs and experiences, and you'll instil confidence in our work by pragmatically balancing the needs of users with the goals of the organisation.Ultimately, you’ll be an excellent Designer with experience working on a variety of different projects. Good news! You can work from anywhere in the UK. We’ll provide you with all the tech and software to help you do your job from home and, with our wide network of reserves and offices, you’ll never be far from an opportunity for hot desking. You’ll also need to be prepared to travel occasionally for meet ups with the rest of our awesome team, to get involved in workshops and so you can get a better understanding of our vast and diverse organisation. Please note that we are actively recruiting for this post and reserve the right to close this vacancy when sufficient applications are received. If you’d like to find out more about the role or arrange a chat, please contact victoria.beall@rspb.org.ukThis is a Permanent, Full Time role.As part of this application you will be asked to provide a copy of your CV and complete a short form. If you wish to provide a cover letter with your application, please include this at the end of your CV document upload.We are committed to developing an inclusive and diverse RSPB, in which everyone feels supported, valued, and able to be their full selves. To achieve our vision of creating a world richer in nature, we need more people, and more diverse people, on nature’s side. People of colour and disabled people are currently underrepresented across the environment, climate, sustainability, and conservation sector. If you identify as a person of colour and/or disabled, we are particularly interested in receiving your application. Contact us to discuss any additional support you may need to complete your application.The RSPB is an equal opportunities employer. This role is covered by the Rehabilitation of Offenders Act 1974.This role is not eligible for UK Visa Sponsorship - the successful applicant will need to have a pre-existing Right to Work in the UK in order to be offered an employment contract.Before applying for this role, we recommend reading through the candidate guidance notes attached to the top of this advert.