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Save the Children has an exciting opportunity for a champion of user centred experience design to join us as a Senior Digital Product Designer. You'll be able to use your skills to help create digital experiences that inspire people to support our cause. You'll have access to best-in-class Adobe Marketing stack, a skilled development team as well as a corporate culture that puts employees' well-being at the forefront of our work.

About Us

Save the Children UK believes every child deserves a future. In the UK and around the world, we work every day to give children a healthy start in life, the opportunity to learn and protection from harm. When crisis strikes, and children are most vulnerable, we are always among the first to respond and the last to leave. We ensure children's unique needs are met and their voices are heard. We deliver lasting results for millions of children, including those hardest to reach.

About you

Our successful candidate will play a key role in our drive to offer cutting edge digital-first experiences to deepen our engagement with existing supporters and win new ones to our cause. You will work within in multi-disciplinary teams, and spot opportunities that meet business goals and user needs and collaborate with other specialists to make them a reality. You will also help launch test propositions and know how to harness learnings and rapidly iterate. You'll also be up for being a champion of user centred design thinking and approaches that can add value across our work.

In this role, you will:

• Drive the delivery of innovative and user-centric digital products and features, to solve complexities, reduce risks and find best solutions to project objectives.
• Lead and develop concept and experience design on test and existing propositions: user research, UX flows, wireframes, prototypes, visual interface, and general visual aesthetics.
• Lead experience design for new features on existing products such as our main website and e-commerce site
• Inspire and set expectations, share best practice, manage, monitor, coach and help design capabilities within the organisation.
• Monitor and keep up to date with content and user experience approaches, tactics and strategies relevant for Save the Children.
• Ensure that Save the Children digital experiences are accessible and compliant with latest legislation and best practice.

To be successful, it is important that you have:

• Proven experience of user centred experience design and iterative product testing.

• Proven experience in articulating ideas and shaping key product decisions.
• Experience in user research and testing, wire framing and prototyping (hi-fidelity).
• Understanding of interdependency between data systems and product design.
• Experience of working with developers using common tools and methodologies.
• Attention to detail and proven experience of crafting high quality design.
• Self-motivation with strong analytical skills.
• Innovation and the ability to adapt to changing situations
• Great communication skills, with the ability to inspire commitment from others, and build strong internal and external networks.

What we offer you:

Working for a charity provides one of the best benefits there is – a sense of purpose and reward for helping others. However, we understand the importance of giving back to our employees to ensure a happy and healthy working environment and work/life balance.

To have the best (and happiest) employees we focus on flexibility, inclusion, collaboration, health, and wellbeing both in and outside of work.

We provide a wide range of benefits which will reward your hard work, motivate you, and inspire you to work to improve the lives of children every day.
You can find is our employment offer here.

To learn more about the position, please review the Job Description in the attached Documents.

Please note that we will be reviewing applications on a rolling basis and may schedule interviews before the closing date.

Close date: 07/March/2023

Please note:

To avoid disappointment, you are advised to submit your application as soon as possible as we reserve the right to close the vacancy early if a high volume of applications are received. This is to ensure that we can manage application levels whilst maintaining a positive candidate experience. Unfortunately once a vacancy has closed, we are unable to consider further applications.

Ways of Working:

Remote First – The majority of our roles can be performed remotely, however you may work from the office as often as you wish. Whilst you will be predominantly working from home, we may at times require you to come to your contracted office (up to 2-4 days per month or 6-8 days per quarter). Note: This will be agreed with your Line Manager and team. This is intended to be time spent on collaborating with colleagues and relationship building.

On-site – There are certain roles that cannot be performed remotely and so your role will be based in an office location and you may occasionally be able to work from home.

Flexible Working - We are happy to discuss flexible working options at interview.

Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion:

Save the Children UK believes in a world that is fair, inclusive and equitable where all children have the opportunity to change their world. We apply this to our workforce and we are committed to developing and supporting a diverse, equitable, and inclusive organisation where all employees have a sense of belonging and feel that they can be "Free to Be Me". We are not looking for just one type of person - we want to recruit people who can add fresh perspectives, innovative ideas or challenge that disrupts the risk of group think.

We are especially interested in people whose childhood experiences - of life on a low income, of migration, of being in a racialised community, of the care system, of being LGBT+ or in an LGBT+ family or living with (or with someone with) a disability - help us to see things we might otherwise miss. Whatever your story is we want to hear it because we know that different voices, ideas, perspectives and knowledge, working together will enable us to better the lives of children around the world. This is the reason why we are all here.

To see our full statement please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/our-policies/diversity/

Salary Structure:

Save the Children is committed to paying staff in a fair and equitable way and will benchmark all salary offers in line with the pay of existing staff. To see our full offer please visit this link: https://jobs.savethechildren.org.uk/what-we-offer/

Interview Expenses:

Candidates should note that unfortunately it is not our policy to reimburse expenses accrued when attending interviews at Save the Children UK unless you are requested to attend an interview in an alternative location to where the role is based.

Pre-employment Checks:

Any Employment with Save the Children UK will be subject to the following checks prior to your start date:

• a satisfactory police record check to include a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check and/or an International Criminal Record Check (If applicable)
• receipt of satisfactory references
• proof of eligibility to work in the national location for this role

If you have any questions, we have an FAQ section. For anything else you can email us on: [email protected]