Summary
A lead user researcher is an expert practitioner, leading and aligning user research activities across several teams. At this role level, you will:
ensure that teams take a user-centred, evidence-based approach to service design and delivery
develop and assure good user research practice
Work Activity Components
Title | Details |
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Contribute, plan and drive user research (Level 5) | Plans and drives the user research activities providing expert advice and guidance to support adoption of agreed approaches. |
Collect, analyse and share (Level 5) User research | Leads the collection and analysis of data related to people's behaviours, needs and opinions. |
Involve, synthesise and inform (Level 5) User research | Synthesises findings, develops insights and presents findings to inform decision making and drive actions. |
Collaboration (Level 5) User research | Provides advice to design teams on how to improve services so they are accessible to everyone. |
Behavioural Skills
Title | Details |
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Information Acquisition | Identifying gaps in the available information required to understand a problem or situation and devising a means of resolving them. |
Commercial Orientation | Understanding commercial considerations and ensuring alignment with them when making decisions or recommending actions. |
Attention to Detail | Applying specific quality standards to all tasks undertaken to ensure that deliverables are accurate and complete. |
Interacting with People | Establishing relationships, contributing to an open culture and maintaining contacts with people from a variety of backgrounds and disciplines. Effective, approachable and sensitive communicator in different communities and cultures. Ability to adapt style and approach to meet the needs of different audiences. |
Teamwork | Working collaboratively with others to achieve a common goal. |
Technical Skills
Title | Details | Depth |
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Systems Ergonomics and Iterative Design | Iterative methods and techniques to allocate and optimise the division of functions between the human, machine and organisational elements of IT systems and the functions themselves in terms of ergonomic impact. Systematic and iterative design of the physical and cognitive interfaces to create an effective user experience in a software system, product or service with attention paid to variety of locations and access devices employed by users. | Proficient in |
Other Skills
Title | Details | Depth |
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Presentation Techniques | Methods and techniques for delivering effective and accessible presentations, either face-to-face or online within various contexts and to a variety of audiences. | Familiar with |
Training
Title | Details |
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Information and Data Modelling | Tools and techniques used to investigate, analyse and model the structure, relationships and use of data and information within an organisation. |
Human Factors Techniques | Methods and techniques for understanding human needs and limitations and for designing usable, accessible and ergonomically sound systems. Examples: Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) approaches and iterative design methods and accessibility. Recognising ever evolving user expectations for use of a variety of access devices and locations and opportunities for environmental savings e.g. reducing office space, travel, etc. |
Usability Evaluation Techniques | Methods and techniques for the assessment of IT product usability, accessibility and health and safety throughout the lifecycle of development projects. |
Security Awareness | Tools and techniques to help users and employees understand the role they play in helping to combat information security breaches and for IT and security professionals to prevent and mitigate risk. |
Professional Development Activity (PDA)
Title | Details | PDA Group |
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Deputising | Standing in for supervisor or manager on a temporary basis during periods of absence. | Broadening Activities |
Job Shadowing and Special Assignments | Undertaking temporary periods or secondments in other roles, particularly those that offer a new perspective on own function or exposure to other environments and cultures. | Broadening Activities |
Mentoring | Acting as a mentor, advising those for whom there is no direct responsibility, on matters to do with their job role, career and professional development. | Broadening Activities |
Gaining Knowledge of Broader IT Issues | Increasing and maintaining currency of knowledge of broader IT issues through reading, attending and participating in seminars or conferences, special studies, temporary assignments etc. | Increasing Knowledge |
Gaining Strategic Knowledge of Employing Organisation | Developing a comprehensive understanding of the business environment in which the employing organisation operates and its position, policies and direction in relation to health and care, country and global issues. | Increasing Knowledge |
Participation in Professional Body Affairs | Taking an active part in professional body affairs at branch, specialist group, committee or board level. | Participation in Professional Activities |
Negotiating and Influencing | Undertaking learning and practice of negotiating with and influencing others. | Developing Professional Skills |
Management Development | Undertaking learning and best practice of the skills appropriate to managing all or part of an organisation, including business and financial management, benefits management, people management, management of change and strategic planning. This will require both on and off the job learning and may include participation in an appropriate development programme such as MBA or DMS (Diploma in Management Studies). | Developing Professional Skills |
Qualification Components
Title | Awarding Bodies |
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FEDIP Advanced Practitioner | The Federation for Informatics Professionals |
CDPA - Certified Digital Persuasion Analyst | Human Factors International |
Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework Skills
Skill | Level |
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Agile research practices Agile delivery involves encouraging teams to build incrementally, test and iterate their work based on regular feedback and other useful data. |
Practitioner Agile research practices You can:
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Analysis and synthesis Analysis and insight involves examining, interpreting and analysing data to help make informed decisions. |
Expert Analysis and synthesis You can: help an organisation to adopt a wide range of analysis and synthesis techniques, and to continually assure, improve and innovate their practices to generate clear and valuable findings |
Inclusive research Incident management involves coordinating the response to incident reports, ensuring effective prioritisation, investigation and resolution. |
Practitioner Inclusive research You can: help teams understand the diversity of users of government services effectively include all kinds of users in appropriate research activities advocate inclusive practices and help teams design and deliver accessible services that work for all users |
Research management, leadership and assurance Leadership and guidance involves providing effective leadership and management through team motivation, decision making, risk management, mediation and professional development |
Expert Research management, leadership and assurance You can:
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Stakeholder relationship management Stakeholder relationship management involves managing stakeholder requirements and communications throughout a project, while remaining focused on the user needs. |
Expert Stakeholder relationship management You can:
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User research methods User research involves methods to identify user needs and understand how users interact with a product or service. |
Expert User research methods You can:
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User-centred practice and advocacy User focus involves understanding the user needs to develop a detailed understanding of the problems that need to be solved. |
Practitioner User-centred practice and advocacy You can:
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The Professional Body Responsible for this job family is BCS. This job role profile was created in collaboration with BCS, using Role Model Plus.