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Junior Graphic Designer

Government Digital Service
Manchester, GBR
Full-time
Onsite
Discovered 1 weeks ago
Graphic designVisual designIllustrationInfographicsPrototypingUser-centred design

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About GDS and the role

The Government Digital Service leads the vision and delivery of modern digital government.

GDS works on joining up public services, AI for public good, digital and data infrastructure, leadership, procurement, transparency, and accountability.

GDS is part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology and has hubs in Manchester, London, and Bristol.

The role is a junior graphic designer position supporting government digital services.

What you will do

  • Understand user needs and design services that meet them.
  • Create user-supporting visuals, illustrations, and infographics, and prototype ideas for testing and communication.
  • Collaborate with user researchers, data analysts, and front-end developers to create user-centred graphics.
  • Maintain consistency with GOV.UK brand and contribute to cross-government design patterns and standards.
  • Visually communicate complex data insights and identify common service activities that could be developed into products.

Person specification

  • Show design aptitude through work, study, volunteering, personal projects, or other experience, and use creative thinking to improve clarity, accessibility, inclusion, or usability.
  • Be interested in understanding problems before proposing solutions and use data and testing results, with support, to inform user-centred design decisions.
  • Be able to make ideas tangible through examples such as sketches, diagrams, prototypes, journey maps, layouts, or visual designs.
  • Explain ideas and design decisions clearly to different audiences; be collaborative, curious, reflective, and open to feedback and learning.
  • Have awareness of agile working and contribute positively to colleagues, the design community, and the team.

Location and working pattern

  • The role is based in Manchester.
  • The benefits information describes flexible hybrid working, with flexi-time and options for part-time or condensed hours.
  • The working pattern lists full-time, part-time, job share, flexible working, and compressed hours.

Benefits

  • Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension with a stated employer contribution of 28.97%.
  • Benefits include flexible working and annual leave; the supplied description is truncated during the annual-leave details.

Organisational context

The recruitment campaign notes that roles may be affected by machinery-of-government changes and may ultimately move to new departments.

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