UI Designer

Full Time, Fixed Term for 12 months

Help us design digital services that work for everyone

We're looking for a talented UI Designer to join our Digital Services team and help shape how Bristol City Council's digital services look, feel and work.

You'll design clear, accessible and consistent user interfaces across our digital estate, including websites, online forms, tools and transactional services. You'll take designs from early concepts and wireframes through to polished, production-ready interfaces that developers can confidently build from.

You'll work alongside UX and service designers, user researchers, content designers and developers, translating user needs and research insight into intuitive digital interfaces.

What you'll be doing

You'll:

• Design accessible, responsive user interfaces, from early concepts and wireframes through to high-fidelity designs and interactive prototypes.

• Translate user needs and research insight into clear, intuitive and visually coherent digital experiences.

• Design intuitive, responsive interfaces that provide a clear and consistent experience across different devices and user journeys

• Apply accessibility principles from the outset, designing digital experiences that meet WCAG requirements and relevant accessibility legislation.

• Develop and contribute to design systems, patterns, reusable components and visual standards.

• Work closely with developers to ensure designs are technically achievable, clearly specified and implemented effectively.

• Test and iterate your designs in response to user research, feedback, data and technical constraints.

• Clearly communicate your design decisions and rationale to colleagues and stakeholders.

• Work collaboratively as part of a multidisciplinary, user-centred team.

About you

We're looking for someone who is passionate about good interface design and understands that great UI needs to be both visually strong and easy for everyone to use.

You'll be able to demonstrate:

• A strong UI design portfolio showing your design process and examples of high-quality digital interfaces you have designed.

• Experience creating wireframes, high-fidelity interface designs and interactive prototypes.

• A strong understanding of visual hierarchy, typography, spacing, colour, interaction and responsive design.

• Experience working with or contributing to design systems, pattern libraries and reusable components.

• A good working knowledge of WCAG and experience applying accessibility principles in your design work.

• Confidence using professional design and prototyping tools such as Figma, UXPin or equivalent.

• Experience working closely with developers and producing designs that can be confidently taken into development.

• The ability to explain and communicate design decisions clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences.

• The ability to work effectively with user researchers, UX/service designers, content designers and developers as part of a multidisciplinary team.

Right to work

You must have valid right to work in the UK for the duration of your employment.

Please make sure you can meet this requirement before applying.

Bristol City Council are not offering sponsorship for this role.

Where you'll work

We support flexible and hybrid working, but this isn't a fully remote role.

You'll need to work regularly from our central Bristol office, collaborating face-to-face with colleagues and multidisciplinary teams. There may also be occasions when you need to attend workshops, research sessions or other activities elsewhere in Bristol.

Why join us?

This is an opportunity to use your UI design skills on digital services that make a real difference to people in Bristol.

You'll be part of a multidisciplinary Digital Services environment where accessibility, user-centred design and evidence are central to how we work. You'll have the opportunity not only to improve individual services, but also to influence the patterns, components and standards that shape the wider council digital experience.

At Bristol City Council, we go that extra mile for our people; we offer a work environment which is fast moving and supportive, giving you the chance to use your skills and develop new ones within a high-profile organisation. For the majority of our roles hybrid working arrangements are available, giving teams the opportunity to work in a way that suits them, balancing service need and individual choice - mixing both home and office working.

Join us and you'll receive an excellent rewards package including flexible working and flexitime, membership of the Local Government Pension scheme, and a generous annual leave allowance. In addition, you'll be working in a supportive environment where you'll have the chance to make Bristol a better place and contribute to its future.

How do I apply?

If you share our values and are ready to be part of our exciting journey please select the apply button below.

To be shortlisted for interview you'll need to demonstrate how you meet each of the essential criteria in the Person Specification within the Further Information section of your application. On occasion we will receive high numbers of applications, we may then shortlist against the desirable criteria along with the essential criteria, so if you can, please demonstrate how you meet this in your application.

Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and we reserve the right to close this vacancy early. We therefore encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

For permanent Bristol City Council employees, this post will be a secondment.

For employees who are currently on a fixed term contract with Bristol City Council, the secondment must not extend beyond the end of the fixed term period to ensure there is a substantive post to return to.

If you are currently a casual worker or a member of an employment agency (currently working with Bristol City Council) this post will be a fixed term contract.

We're a Disability Confident employer which means we value recruiting and retaining disabled people. Any job applicants who consider themselves to be disabled and meet the essential criteria in the Person Specification are guaranteed an interview. We'll make reasonable adjustments throughout the interview process and provide continued workplace support throughout your career.

For further information, please refer to the Job Description and Person Specification or alternatively, please contact timea.wilson@bristol.gov.uk

Bristol City Council strives to have a workforce that reflects the communities it serves, we are therefore committed to ensuring diversity in our hiring process. We welcome, develop and promote people from all sections of the community. Appointments will be made on merit.

The personal information section (including your name) you'll complete as part of the application form will not be visible to hiring managers, but is used confidentially to make sure that everyone is treated fairly.