About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About the role

Reporting to the Design Manager the Experience Designer will define user-centred solutions to problems and customer needs. This is a permanent full time role that can be based from any of our offices with flexibility to work from home.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop a deep understanding of business problems, user needs, and technological constraints
• Discover new ideas and create concepts to analyse and validate with customers and the business
• Design, facilitate and analyse tests of our products through appropriate methods
• Work within, contribute to, and improve a cohesive design system

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in experience design or a related field
• Experience working on software development projects / products
• Demonstrated experience facilitating groups of complex stakeholders to agreement
• Experience creating design documentation to support software development
• Expertise in design software (for example Sketch, Adobe, Invision, and Flinto)
• Strong understanding of Agile tools and techniques such as Lean, Scrum and Design Thinking

Successful candidates will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Play a key role in transforming our organisation  
• Excellent tax benefits and salary sacrifice options

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Debra Neil at [email protected], using the subject line: Experience Designer - Flexible Location enquiry via EthicalJobs.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA.