UX Designer - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

UX Designer - Strand, London, WC2R 2LS

About us:

​​King’s College London is a leading UK university renowned for its worldclass teaching, research excellence and strong commitment to public service. Its IT department underpins this mission by delivering robust, secure and innovative digital services that support the University’s staff, students and wider community.

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​The role sits within Digital Build, who are responsible for the development, enhancement and ongoing support of the University’s website estate and selected partner sites. Based at the Lavington Street office in Southwark, the team plays a central role in enabling highquality digital experiences that reflect King’s strategic objectives and meet modern standards in accessibility, performance and usability.

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About the role:

This fixedterm maternity cover role offers an opportunity for an experienced UX Designer to lead usercentred design across Digital Solutions, ensuring that digital products and journeys are shaped by evidence, bestpractice UX principles, and ongoing user testing. The post holder will collaborate closely with crossfunctional teams and marketing colleagues to review, design and enhance digital experiences, while also supporting the wider team through training, guidance and shared project work.

As the UX Designer, you will lead usercentred design activity across a broad portfolio of digital products, ensuring that design decisions are informed by robust user research, bestpractice UX principles and an understanding of audience needs. You will work closely with designers, developers, product owners, business analysts, and marketing colleagues to create coherent, accessible and userfocussed experiences. A core part of the role involves maintaining a strategic view of why functions, features or journeys exist, how they should work, and how value and impact will be measured.

The role requires planning and running user testing workshops with key audience groups, including prospective students, current students, academics, researchers and funders;to validate assumptions and optimise journeys. You will deliver clear, actionable insights that shape decisionmaking and ensure our products genuinely meet user expectations. You will also provide expert UX review across all Digital Solutions outputs, promoting best practice and championing usability, accessibility and consistency.

As an advocate for usercentricity, you will help embed a mature and sustainable UX culture within the department. This includes training colleagues on UX methods, tools and approaches, contributing to crossfunctional project work, and supporting the team to apply design thinking from initial brief through to delivery. You will also work closely with marketing teams, offering guidance on layout, structure and user experience across website content and campaign materials.

The role is suited to someone who is passionate about creating highquality digital experiences and confident in engaging with diverse stakeholders. You will be expected to work both independently and collaboratively, contributing expertise to your own projects as well as shared initiatives across the wider Digital Solutions portfolio. Above all, you will ensure that the needs, behaviours and expectations of our users remain at the heart of everything we design and deliver.

This is a full time / part time post 35 hours a week and you will be offered an ​a fixed term​ contract for 10 months

About you:

​​To be successful in this role, we are looking for candidates to have the following skills and experience:

​ Essential criteria

1. ​UX/UI tools (Figma, Axure)
2. ​Creation of wireframes
3. ​Liaising and presenting to stakeholders
4. ​Creation of user journeys
5. ​Adopt a user centric approach
6. ​Elicit user needs

​Desirable criteria

1. ​Competitor reviews
2. ​Best practice reviews
3. ​Leading UX persona workshops
4. ​Information architecture / digital strategy
5. ​Experience/knowledge of working with large, complex information rich websites / network of sites

​Downloading a copy of our Job Description

​Full details of the role and the skills, knowledge and experience required can be found in the Job Description document, provided at the bottom of the page. This document will provide information of what criteria will be assessed at each stage of the recruitment process. ​

​​At King’s, we believe that the diversity of our community and a culture that is welcoming, open, inclusive and collaborative, are great strengths of the university.

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​The Equality Act of 2010 protects the rights of our students and staff and provides a framework to fulfil our duties to eliminate unlawful discrimination, harassment and victimisation and in addition, to advance equality of opportunity and foster good relations between those who share a protected characteristic and those who do not. At times, this will include balancing rights and beliefs that can feel in tension.

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​We are committed to free speech and to academic freedom, believing that our foundational purpose as a university, is to create spaces where a wide range of ideas, including ideas that are controversial, can be discussed and debated, and where members of our community can express lawful views without fear of intimidation, harassment or discrimination.

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​When engaging in the robust exchange of ideas, we ask that our community is mindful of our Dignity at King’s guidance.

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​We ask all candidates to submit a copy of their CV, and a supporting statement, detailing how they meet the essential criteria listed in the person specification section of the job description. If we receive a strong field of candidates, we may use the desirable criteria to choose our final shortlist, so please include your evidence against these where possible.

​We reserve the right to close adverts early due to the volume of applications we receive. While the closing date may change, all adverts will close at 23:59 to allow sufficient time for applications to be submitted on that day.

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​We encourage you to apply at the earliest opportunity to avoid disappointment as once we have closed a vacancy you will be unable to submit your application.

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