User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) Developer #00038

Title: User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) Developer #00038

State Role Title:Info Technology Specialist II

Hiring Range: Up to $100,000

Pay Band: 5

Agency: Department of Elections

Location:Department of Elections

Agency Website:;br>
Recruitment Type: General Public - G

Job Duties

About the Agency
The Department of Elections promotes and supports accurate, fair, open, and secure elections for the citizens of the Commonwealth. ELECT ensures the proper administration of election laws, campaign finance disclosure compliance, and voter registration processes in the state by promulgating rules, regulations, issuing instructions, and providing
information to local Electoral Boards and general registrars.

The Department of Elections envisions a highly modern, efficient, and professional electoral process that is trustworthy and accountable at all levels and engages Virginia's diverse citizenry in the most fundamental right in a democratic society: the right to vote.

About the Position
The User Experience/User Interface (UX/UI) Developer ensures compliance with the VITA web application standards and procedures. Maintains agency web presence. Supports and develops UX/UI with development team. Supports UX with quality assurance team. Provides graphic design services for agency web and print needs. Assists in managing agency brand. Develops detailed knowledge and functional area expertise of business processes; participates in teams and maintains positive, professional relationships with colleagues and customers; demonstrates initiative, timeliness, strong oral and written communications skills. Will train and assist content editors and users who have authorized access for website content management to ensure they can complete required content management tasks.

Minimum Qualifications

Proficiency with programming languages such as HTML, SCSS/CSS, Handlebars, and JavaScript.
Expert knowledge and experience with development, configuration, and maintenance of Terminal Four or other Content Management Systems.
Skilled in Adobe Creative Suite, specifically Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and Acrobat.
Proficiency in analysis, testing, and development of UX/UI.
Knowledge and experience with accessibility standards and testing.
Ability to create professionally written deliverables that document systems, tasks, and processes.
Demonstrable ability to communicate effectively using oral, written, and interpersonal skills; must be able to collaborate with cross-functional teams and explain technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders.
Demonstrable experience managing time and multiple assignments efficiently and effectively.
Knowledge of best practices for implementing security measures.
Ability to quickly identify and resolve technical issues, broken links, or site errors efficiently.
Ability to monitor trends and be willing to update skills and knowledge of website design and development.
Ability to provide information analysis proactively and interactively with business staff.
Ability to use logic and reasoning to identify strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions, and approaches to problems.
Must be able to stay current with rapidly evolving web technologies, industry trends and best practices.

Additional Considerations

Certification in Graphic Design, UX Design, or Information Systems or appropriate experience may substitute.
Experience with HTML, CSS, JavaScript, Terminal Four or other Content Management Systems, and Adobe Creative Suite is desired.

Special Instructions

You will be provided a confirmation of receipt when your application and/or rsum is submitted successfully. Please refer to "Your Application" in your account to check the status of your application for this position.

State employees who have been affected by Policy 1.3 Layoff and possess a valid Interagency Placement Screening Form (Yellow Card) or a Preferential Hiring Form (Blue Card) must submit the card BEFORE the closing date for this position. The card may be scanned and attached to the application or faxed to . Please include your name and the position number of the fax cover sheet. A criminal background investigation prior to employment is required for the successful candidate.

Reasonable accommodations are available to individuals with disabilities during the application and/or interview processes per the Americans with Disabilities Act. AMERICORPS, PEACE CORPS, AND OTHER NATIONAL SERVICE ALUMNI ARE ENCOURAGED TO APPLY. Please call for assistance.

Equal Opportunity Employer

Contact Information

Name: Kimberly Crutchfield

Phone:

Email:

In support of the Commonwealth's commitment to inclusion, we are encouraging individuals with disabilities to apply through the Commonwealth Alternative Hiring Process. To be considered for this opportunity, applicants will need to provide their AHP Letter (formerly COD) provided by the Department for Aging & Rehabilitative Services (DARS), or the Department for the Blind & Vision Impaired (DBVI). Service-Connected Veterans are encouraged to answer Veteran status questions and submit their disability documentation, if applicable, to DARS/DBVI to get their AHP Letter. Requesting an AHP Letter can be found at AHP Letter or by calling DARS at .

Note: Applicants who received a Certificate of Disability from DARS or DBVI dated between April 1, 2022- February 29, 2024, can still use that COD as applicable documentation for the Alternative Hiring Process.