About the job

Job summary

This is a Nationally based role

Job description

We encourage applications from people from all backgrounds and aim to have a workforce that represents the wider society that we serve. We pride ourselves on being an employer of choice. We champion diversity, inclusion and wellbeing and aim to create a workplace where everyone feels valued and a sense of belonging. To find out more about how we do this visit: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-justice/about/equality-and-diversity.

Senior Interaction Designer

Location: National*

Interviews: Expected w/c 3rd June

Grade: G7

(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)

Salary:

London: £58,847 - £66,670 which may include an allowance of up to £4,828 National: £54,358 - £61,585 which may include an allowance of up to £2,517

Working pattern: Full time, Part Time, Flexible Working

Contract Type: Permanent

Vacancy number: 86896

*We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP

The Role

We’re recruiting a Senior Interaction Designer to join our friendly and diverse MoJ Design System team here at Justice Digital.

This role aligns against ‘Senior Interaction Designer’ role from the Government Digital and Data Framework

You will work on the MoJ Design System, designing and building accessible components, patterns and pages. You’ll make sure we design things the right way, keeping up with the latest technologies and trends while delivering working software early and often.

Working in a multidisciplinary team with user researchers, content designers and developers, you’ll help transform government for the future.

To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025

Key Responsibilities:

You will be working in the MoJ Design System team with the aim of helping Justice Digital to deliver consistent, usable, and accessible products and services.

The MoJ Design System team’s approach is to:

• provide high quality building blocks for reuse across Justice Digital,
• help teams across Justice Digital to reduce duplication across products and services, and
• encourage people to use the MoJ Design

You will:

• Work with product, development, content and research colleagues to create new components and patterns in the design system.
• Identify, plan and implement improvements to components used by hundreds of products across the Ministry of Justice and wider Government.
• Design and test component prototypes with
• Maintain the design system to work across MoJ Frontend, the GOV prototyping kit, and also Figma.
• Lead on design workshops with the team, senior stakeholders and
• Help keep on top of maintenance tasks such as updating the MoJ Figma Kit, raising awareness of maintainability issues, and working with the rest of the team to release updates that are to be adopted by products.
• Share knowledge of tools and techniques with the wider team, stakeholders, and communities.

Person Specification

You should have:

• Experience working on a design system to support multiple product teams, as well as experience maintaining large and far reaching UI libraries in Figma.
• Knowledge and good understanding of accessibility, as well as experience building accessible user interfaces.
• Experience in rapid You can confidently work with developers and understand security, accessibility, version control and hosting.
• You can listen to the needs of technical and business stakeholders, and interpret them in a way that is clear for both You know how to manage stakeholder expectations, set direction and navigate difficult discussions.
• You create high-quality, compelling design concepts and artefacts such as personas, wireframes, and prototypes.
• You are a strong team player who knows how to work with and get the best out of a multidisciplinary agile delivery team.

Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance.

We welcome the unique contribution diverse applicants bring and do not discriminate based on culture, ethnicity, race, nationality or national origin, age, sex, gender identity or expression, religion or belief, disability status, sexual orientation, educational or social background or any other factor.

Our values are Purpose, Humanity Openness and Together. Find out more here about how we celebrate diversity and an inclusive culture in our workplace.

Terms & Conditions

Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact recruitment@digital.justice.gov.uk

Person specification

Please refer to attached Job Description

Benefits

Alongside your salary of £54,358, Ministry of Justice contributes £15,165 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.

Things you need to know

Selection process details

How to Apply

Candidates must submit CV and statement of suitability (max 750 words). Failure to provide both documents will result in a rejection of your application. Also, if the statement is too long, we won’t read past the first 750 words.

The statement of suitability should outline your experience, against the following points of the essential criteria list above, under ’Person Specification’

• Experience working on a design system to support multiple product teams, as well as experience maintaining large and far reaching UI libraries in Figma
• You are a strong team player who knows how to work with and get the best out of a multidisciplinary agile delivery team.

*Should we receive a high volume of applications, a pre-sift based on ‘Experience working on a design system to support multiple product teams, as well as experience maintaining large and far reaching UI libraries in Figma’ will be conducted before the panel sift.

In Justice Digital, we recruit using a combination of the Government Digital and Data Profession Capability and Success Profiles Frameworks. We will assess your Experience, Technical Skills and the following Behaviours during the assessment process:

• Working Together
• Communicating & Influencing

Your application will be reviewed against the Person Specification above by a diverse panel.

Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a

90-minute panel interview held via video conference, to be completed as part of the interview.

Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application

A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check. People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

Nationality requirements

This job is broadly open to the following groups:

• UK nationals
• nationals of the Republic of Ireland
• nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS) (opens in a new window)
• nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
• individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
• Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window). The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.