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DAC-042 - C9014 - User Researcher PRAU DE and Assurance services

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10 SME, 2 large

Specialist role: User researcher
Summary of the work: To work in the data analytics competency centre on a number of products providing services to Home Office customers. The User Researcher will form part of a core product team.
Latest start date: Monday 30 October 2017
Expected contract length: 6 Months with the opportunity to extend for a further period up to a maximum of 6 months.
Location: London
Organisation the work is for: Home Office
Maximum day rate: £650

Early market engagement
Who the specialist will work with: A multi-disciplinary agile team including UX designer, front-end developer, back-end developer, content designer, dev ops, infrastructure, architecture, product manager and application manager.
What the specialist will work on: • Working with developers, engineers and product leads to understand front-end, system-to-system and API based users needs
• Development and analysis of User Surveys
• For existing services, review feedback and perform iterative user research
• Perform Discovery research with new user groups
• Perform access needs research

Address where the work will take place: Based in Croydon with occasional travel to headquarters in central London and various stakeholder teams in the UK.
Working arrangements: Travel to regional sites to be agreed, expenses incurred from travel outside of the M25/Greater London will be subject to Home Office Travel and Subsistence Policy.
Security clearance: All staff must be SC cleared. We will ask bidders for details of key personnel, if successful the bidder will be asked for confirmation of security clearance or we will initiate clearance process.

Buyers will use the essential and nice-to-have skills and experience to help them evaluate suppliers’ technical competence.

Essential skills and experience: Demonstrable experience of planning, organising and conducting research with internal government employees, including within secure environments – 12%

Demonstrable experience of assessing user needs for software services, system-to-system integrations and APIs. Not only experience with User Interface/frontend products and services – 12%

Demonstrable strong interpersonal skills and leadership experience in a complex agile environment, knows how to make projects succeed – 10%

Have a degree in the relevant field combined with demonstrable experience. Degrees in HCI, psychology, anthropology, design research or similar are relevant – 10%

Knowledge of how complex applications can comply with W3C WAI standards, experience of evaluating compliance and research with users with access needs -10%

Full understanding and demonstrable experience of research methodologies. Capability to select best technique. E.g. Qualitative: in-depth interview, usability testing, and contextual enquiry. Quantitative: benchmarking survey, web analytics – 6%.

Comfortable with ad-hoc research request from other teams and providing support when possible – 5%
Nice-to-have skills and experience: Experience of the Government Digital Service’s Design Principles and Digital Service Standard and its application to internal products and services

How many specialists to evaluate

Cultural fit criteria

Experience advocating user-centred design and delivering research in a technology-lead culture – 5%

Assessment methods

Evaluation weighting

Technical competence

65%

Cultural fit

Price

30%

1. When would you communicate the final decision?: The final decision should be communicated with 10 working days of this opportunity closing
2. Can the authority please confirm whether this role will be inside or outside IR35?: This role is considered outside IR35
3. What is the IR35 status on this role?: This role is considered outside IR35