User Experience Designer

**Role Purpose**

The User Experience Designer plays a crucial role in crafting innovative and cutting-edge digital experiences, with a strong emphasis on human-centered design and continuous improvement. This position is essential in ensuring that the National Museum of Australia delivers outstanding digital experiences through thoughtful feature design, engaging content, and a commitment to ongoing delivery, all while adhering to modern accessibility best practices.

As part of our dynamic Digital team, the User Experience Designer will actively contribute to the enhancement of existing digital services and support the execution of various projects and programs. They will be responsible for designing, testing, and evaluating solutions to ensure that both stakeholder and agency requirements are met. By interpreting evidence-based research, the User Experience Designer will integrate valuable insights into their work, ensuring high-quality design outcomes.

**Key accountabilities**
- Use evidence-based approaches to assist in the creation of accessible solutions centred on users’ needs, aims and behaviour that meet agency standards and guidelines.
- Identify user needs, business requirements and undertake rapid and iterative prototyping using agency prototyping tools.
- Design assets such as user flows, prototypes, wireframes and other assets for proof of concept and usability testing.
- Design across a range of outputs including the web and museum interfaces.
- Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships to achieve strategic objectives.
- Presentation Skills: Proficiency in presenting design concepts and rationale to various audiences, including team members and stakeholders.
- Staying Current: Commitment to keeping up with design trends, tools, and best practices to ensure the design system remains relevant and effective.

**Skills, experience and qualifications**

Essential:

- Proven experience in Wireframing, Prototyping and Interactive Design
- Demonstrated experience to leading and supporting quantitative research activities with internal and external users.
- Demonstrated ability to work well with others in a multidisciplinary team in the development and implementation of high-quality digital products. Demonstrated high-level communication skills, including the ability to write for a range of audiences, and to negotiate successfully with diverse stakeholders.
- Demonstrated experience working with design Tools and proficiency in design software.

Desirable:

- Experience developing design systems

**Eligibility**
- be an Australian citizen
- undergo pre-employment checks, including a police record check.
- hold or be eligible to hold a security clearance at the level specified in the position description.

**To apply**

Applicants must include a 1-page pitch addressing their suitability for the role against the essential and desirable Skills, experience and qualifications. Applicants must also provide a resume and contact details for 2 referees.

**Applications close 11.59pm Sunday 1 June 2025.