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Middle-Weight Information Architect, cScape
Oct 26 05
Source: london usability
Contact a.mattsson@cscape.com for more details.
A great opportunity for middle-weight IA to join and build on rapidly growing team.
Established in 1996, cScape is one of the top technical agencies in the UK and is a certified Microsoft Gold Partner. We are a full service agency and internet consultancy that has a reputation for excellence among clients including public sector, financial services, membership and commercial organisations.
Role
The scope of this job is capturing business and user requirements and designing compelling solutions.
The job requires working closely with a wide range of team members including designers, developers, analysts and project managers. The role is client facing with a strong need to communicate with clients at all levels.
Key Responsibilities include
- Contributing to pitches and project work
- Analysis, evaluation and competitive benchmarking
- Working with project teams to deliver on time and within the budget
- Establish audience and business needs including customer scenarios, journeys and business processes
- Identify and manage all content requirements including publishing analysis
- Create and structure the architecture using concept maps, site maps, wireframes to taxonomy schemas
- Establish and continue to review architecture against design and technical development
- Lead and manage client expectation, engaging them with good creative, innovative solutions
Personal qualities
Essential
- Ability to clearly understand and communicate a client's business and audience issues, objectives and needs
- Understand how and why people relate to and use technology, design and content
- Understand how and why site design including structure, interface and content contribute towards a compelling experience
- Familiarity with a variety of information architecture tools, processes and methodologies (e.g. site maps, wire frames and/or content inventories)
- Familiarity with usability and accessibility issues and their impact on information architecture
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, including presentation skills
- Good listening skills
- 3-4 years of experience in the field
Desirable
- Understand implications of usability and accessibility issues
- Familiarity with technologies including content management systems
- Interest in issues, events and authors on information architecture, design and related areas
- Background in design and/or information-based areas
- Commercial acumen
- Degree level qualification
Core competencies
- Creative thinker good at problem solving
- Good at managing own time, as well as meeting deadlines set by others
- Personal management skills
Please send your CV's to Annina Mattsson at a.mattsson@cscape.com