User Experience and User Interface (UX/UI) Designer

Department of Employment and Workplace Relations; Sydney; On-site; AUD 105,000 - 116,000; Full time

Job summary

The Department of Employment and Workplace Relations is seeking a User Experience and User Interface Designer to work across delivery teams building enterprise-class systems in a predominantly Microsoft/Azure environment. You will advocate for user needs, design interfaces, and prototype outcomes aligned with business objectives, supported by training and mentoring to advance your APS career.

The successful candidate will work in an agile setting with cross-functional teams, participate in

Qualifications

• Experience designing UX/UI for enterprise-level systems.
• Ability to translate user needs into wireframes and interactive prototypes.
• Strong collaboration with stakeholders and product teams.

Responsibilities

• Work under limited supervision.
• Participate in agile ceremonies.
• Conduct design, planning and estimation sessions.
• Perform user-centred UX/UI design including wireframes and prototypes.
• Collaborate with stakeholders to ensure designs meet business objectives.
• Facilitate stakeholder workshops to refine requirements.
• Provide design guidance to delivery teams throughout project life cycles.
• Travel within Australia to undertake workshops if required.

Skills

UX/UI design

Wireframes

Prototyping

Agile ceremonies

Job description

• Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW; Brisbane, QLD.

• APS Level 6
• Canberra, ACT; Melbourne, VIC; Sydney, NSW; Brisbane, QLD.
• $105,295 - $115,786

About The Department Of Employment And Workplace Relations

We are committed to empowering futures, ensuring rights and enriching lives. We support people to have safe, secure and well-paid work with the skills for a sustainable future as we ourselves strive to be a model employer.

We provide the framework for fair and productive relationships between employers and employees. We also oversee skills development and training initiatives to support those entering the workforce or re‑training to take advantage of emerging employment opportunities.

With us, your work directly contributes to shaping the employment landscape. Whether you are engaging in policy development, program implementation, or direct support services, your efforts will have a tangible impact on job seekers, employees and the economy by giving them a framework to build a future anchored and realised through employment.

It is our ambition to do things differently, to create the ‘department of great jobs’– where our people reflect our purpose.

The Role

As a User Experience and User Interface (UX/UI) 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

• Work under limited supervision
• Participate in agile ceremonies
• Participate in design, planning, and estimation sessions
• Conduct user‑centred UX/UI design
• Analyse information to develop user‑centred, user interface designs including wireframes, low‑fidelity and high‑fidelity prototypes
• Work closely with stakeholders and subject matter experts while developing and refining designs to ensure designs meet business objectives
• 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

Eligibility

At DEWR we are dedicated to building a diverse and inclusive workforce and seek to recruit staff with a wide range of backgrounds, skill levels, disciplines and working styles. If this role resonates with you and you are excited about making an impact, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly, we encourage you to apply anyway.

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.

Security Clearance

our successful candidate is required to hold, or have the ability to obtain, and maintain a Baseline security clearance.

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