User Researcher - Government client

Job Title: User Researcher
Location: Remote
Salary/Rate: Up to £387 per day (Inside IR35)
Start Date: November 2025
Job Type: 12 month contract

Company Introduction
We are looking for an experienced User researcher with Agile Qualitative research experience to join our Government sector client.

Job Responsibilities/Objectives:

• Lead on research projects, working with a wider team of Designers, Analysts and Developers to help define and deliver the best methodology to address the specific needs in producing a responsive digital service
• Familiarise yourself with the project's user research work to date and devise a strategy of moving the work forward
• Plan, design and conduct user research sessions, including guerrilla testing, user testing, focus groups and workshops, persona creation and card sorting on a regular basis, testing both high-level concepts, and aspects of the service as it is designed and developed, and developing and maintaining a picture of the users
• Collaboratively analyse the findings of user research to identify common themes and points of user contention and provide actionable recommendations to the relevant team members.
• Apply knowledge in human factors, ethnography, and the user-centred design process to product and service design in an iterative development environment
• Use findings of user data to work closely with designers and analysts to iterate the developing service
• Manage business relations with usability and market research agencies to support necessary research processes
• Support the learning and development of less experienced and trainee User Researchers within the team
• Thrive working in an agile environment, using your own creativity, resourcefulness and initiative to maximise the quality of user research and its impact on the service development
• Be visible within the team and be able to engage, build trust and energise a team culture that is responsive to the findings of user research.

Required Skills/Experience:
The ideal candidate will have the following:

• Extensive experience of qualitative research methodologies, in terms of design, execution and analysis
• Experience in taking a lead User Researcher role within a team, setting research direction and mentoring junior research colleagues
• Experience of working within an agile project environment, and maintaining effective performance in difficult and challenging circumstances:
• Practical experience of quantitative research methodologies
• An understanding of service design, visual design, frontend development and agile methodologies.
• Proven experience of gathering user requirements for web based services.
• Proven experience of managing, executing and analysing usability test and research sessions.
• Proven experience of working in an agile development environment with User Experience teams, designers and developers to create new digital products and services.
• Experience of audience modelling and developing design personas.
• An in- depth understanding of the available research methodologies.
• Demonstrable experience working closely with Service Design and Data Science teams

If you are interested in this opportunity, please apply now with your updated CV in Microsoft Word/PDF format.

Disclaimer
Notwithstanding any guidelines given to level of experience sought, we will consider candidates from outside this range if they can demonstrate the necessary competencies.
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