Website Designer / Tester

MCR Global ,
Truro, Cornwall

Overview

THE OPPORTUNITY As a member of the wider MCR Global and Federal family, you will be joining our small, but rapidly expanding team of consultants here in the UK. Working on the Digital Cornwall Programme located in Truro to develop the Cornwall Council website in order to allow businesses, residents and visitors to access council services. The current website design is overdue a system refresh and the Council wish to provide a simple, user focused front end providing their users the experience that enables them to transact with the Council. This opportunity is Off-payroll working rules (IR35). THE CANDIDATE We are seeking a pro-active and experienced Website Designer / Tester with recent demonstrable experience of delivering End-user engagement and co-design, iterate after user testing and front-end design. The ideal candidate will also have experience of building responsive and accessible websites, using HTML5, CSS and other supporting code to build content management templates to WCAG2.1AA standards or above. THE ROLE The successful applicant will: Deliver End-user engagement and co-design, iterate after user testing Information Architecture/taxonomy. Responsive front-end design including (but not exclusive to): Home page. Section signposting. News centre pages. Content pages. Delivery of wireframes, taxonomy and HTML style guides in HTML5. MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS Experience of delivering user centred design. Evidence of building responsive and accessible websites to WCAG 2.1 AA standard or above. Evidence of delivery of user journey approach. Experience of engaging with users to test outputs and iterating based on user feedback. Experience in delivering responsive design preferably using Bootstrap V3 and above. Experience in designing aesthetically and engaging templates. Experience in redeveloping Information Architecture for large corporate website. Evidence of delivery within specific time-frames including Agile delivering. Must have the right to work and live within the UK. DESIRABLE REQUIREMENTS Experience of working with Umbraco v8. Demonstrate at least 2 years’ experience of working with a Local Authority or public sector partners. Understanding the use of markup language and its consumption by various other technologies. THE COMPANY At MCR Global, we are a leading Programme Management provider. Since 1977, MCR has delivered planning, cost/schedule analysis, acquisition management and programme assessment solutions to help government and commercial clients success­fully lead their programs. MCR’s 400 professionals provide critical thinking and integrated solutions to acquisition professionals, helping customers become more efficient and effective in running complex programs. EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER MCR, LLC is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, colour, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.