User Experience Designer

User Experience Designer
Burnaby, BC

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The User Experience Designer performs a variety of duties in the development of interactive websites and interactive tools. The User Experience Designer applies client based feedback to create highly interactive screen content for web based mediums using a variety of tools including HTML, CSS and Javascript. Works closely with Business Analysts and Developers. Combines best practice knowledge with end user analysis to drive decision making to ensure a highly usable product.

What you’ll do

• Lead the development of product information architecture and visual and interface design, using analytics and metrics to make informed design decisions that ensure a highly usable product.
• Uses a combination of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to build everything a user sees and interacts with on a website—that includes everything from front-end features like fonts, sliders, drop-down menus, and buttons, to the overall manner in which web content like photos, videos, and articles are displayed in the web browser.
• Conduct user research, interviews and surveys, translating them into personas, user journeys, sitemaps, workflows, wireframes, mockups, prototypes and user-testing experiences that are optimized for the web.
• Take a Lean UX user-centered design approach, rapidly testing and iterating designs by analyzing the problem, designing a solution, working with users to learn if the solution is useful and building and implementing the solution.
• Prepare digital assets for the development team.
• Quality assurance testing for the development team.
• Collaborate with other team members and stakeholders.

What you bring

Qualifications

• A level of education, training and experience equivalent to a degree in Design (e.g. interaction, graphic, or visual design), Human Computer Interaction, Computer science, or a related field or equivalent practical experience plus five years of UX design experience completed by a Superior skills in interaction design, information architecture, usability evaluation, and user research.
• Extensive experience using UX design best practices to design solutions.
• Demonstrated experience in crafting usable digital interfaces using UX software such as Adobe Suite, Sketch, or In-Vision is a must.
• Good understanding of HTML5, CSS, JavaScript. JavaScript frameworks like Ember, AngularJS, React, etc, or JS-based build tools like Grunt, Role Description Corporate User Experience Designer, OHS Solutions, IMITS Page 2 of 2 Gulp, and Bower.
• Libraries like jQuery or Backbone.
• Front-end (CSS) frameworks like Foundation or Bootstrap. AJAX. Familiarity with Accessibility standards and how to apply them.

Skills & Knowledge

• Commitment to upholding the shared responsibility of creating lasting and meaningful reconciliation in Canada as per TRC (2015) and BC's Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (2019).
• As a strong asset for consideration, we are looking for our successful candidate to have: Knowledge of social, economic, political and historical realities impacting indigenous communities and familiarity with Indigenous Cultural Safety and anti-racism and accompanying reports (BC DRIPA, TRC, etc.).

What we bring

Every PHSA employee enables the best possible patient care for our patients and their families. Whether you are providing direct care, conducting research, or making it possible for others to do their work, you impact the lives of British Columbians today and in the future. That’s why we’re focused on your care too – offering health, wellness, development programs to support you – at work and at home.

• Join one of BC’s largest employers with province-wide programs, services and operations – offering vast opportunities for growth, development, and recognition programs that honour the commitment and contribution of all employees.
• Access to professional development opportunities through our in-house training programs, including +2,000 courses, such as our San’yas Indigenous Cultural Safety Training course, or Core Linx for Leadership roles.
• PHSA is a remote work friendly employer, welcoming flexible work options to support our people (eligibility may vary, depending on position).
• Access to WorkPerks, a premium discount program offering a wide range of local and national discounts on electronics, entertainment, dining, travel, wellness, apparel, and more.

Job Type: Casual full-time hours (37.5 hours per week)
Wage: $35.00 - $43.00/hour – as a casual employee, total earnings includes an additional 12.6% in lieu of benefits and paid time off. The rate for this position would be determined with consideration of the successful candidate’s relevant education and experience, and would be in alignment with the provincial compensation reference plan.
Location: (include both city and postal code)
Hours of Work: Monday – Friday (37.5 hours per week)
Requisition #TOD7252023

As per the current Public Health Order, full vaccination against COVID-19 is a condition of employment with PHSA as of October 26, 2021.

What we do

The Provincial Health Services Authority (PHSA) plans, manages and evaluates specialized health services with the BC health authorities to provide equitable and cost-effective health care for people throughout the province. Our values reflect our commitment to excellence and include: Respect people – Be compassionate – Dare to innovate – Cultivate partnerships – Serve with purpose.

Learn more about PHSA and our programs: jobs.phsa.ca/programs-and-services

PHSA is committed to employment equity, encouraging all qualified individuals to apply. We recognize that our ability to provide the best care for our diverse patient populations relies on a rich diversity of skills, knowledge, background and experience, and value a safe, inclusive and welcoming environment.

Reconciliation is an ongoing process and a shared responsibility for all of us. The BC Governments’ unanimous passage of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act was a significant step forward in this journey—one that all health authorities are expected to support as we work in cooperation with Indigenous Peoples to establish a clear and sustainable path to lasting reconciliation. True reconciliation will take time and ongoing commitment to work with Indigenous Peoples as they move toward self-determination. Guiding these efforts Crown agencies must remain focused on creating opportunities that implement the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Mandate.

This position is part of PHSA Talent on Demand – an in-house recruitment service providing talent to PHSA and other health authorities. We manage a robust talent pool of service-minded professionals who are available to start work immediately. Talent on Demand creates a gateway for those who wish to achieve their career goals. Successful candidates will gain significant health care experience and can transition into long-term, permanent roles within PHSA. For more information, visit talentondemand@phsa.ca.

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