Job description
Looking for a challenge? Excitement? Ready to own your career and make an impact from day one?
At CGI, we offer Early Careers opportunities that empower you to take ownership of your work and your future. Join us, and you’ll be part of the next generation of leaders and innovators, working to solve complex challenges and drive the digital transformation of industries.
The role
As a User Experience Graduate you will join CGI on the Graduate programme where you’ll step into a role where creativity and ownership are at the core. You will be joining a User Research and Design team within our Government and Justice business area where you’ll have the opportunity to be part of meaningful projects that matter.
Our graduates are trusted with responsibility from day one, contributing to some of the UK’s most exciting industries. CGI is a place where your ideas and solutions are not just welcomed, but essential. You’ll collaborate with colleagues and clients, combining your creativity with our global expertise to develop innovative solutions that solve real-world problems.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
- Empowerment through Innovation: From the very start, you’ll play a key role in project delivery, helping shape the future of businesses across a range of industries.
- Collaborate and Create: Apply your insights to consult on and develop solutions that drive real value for clients, all while collaborating with CGI Partners to overcome complex challenges.
- Learn and Develop: As a CGI Early Careers Partner you will benefit from additional business, technical and soft skills training, helping you accelerate in your career from day one.
As a User Experience Graduate at CGI, you'll play a critical role in uncovering deep insights about users' needs, behaviours, and experiences. Your findings will inform and shape crucial public services. You'll work closely with researchers and designers and others to ensure services are designed with the user at the heart of the process. In this role, you will be responsible for understanding users' needs and behaviours, analysing evidence, and translating findings into actionable insights.
Your work will ensure that research activities include diverse user groups to make services accessible and inclusive. Working in our Government and Justice business areas, you will begin your role within User Research / User Centred Design.
What we are looking for
- We’re seeking individuals who are ready to take ownership of their career and are passionate about making a difference through technology and business. Whatever your degree subject if you’re eager to learn, collaborate, and innovate, we want to hear from you.
- Candidates with psychology or other research-intensive degrees may be particularly well-suited for this role.
- Minimum 2:2 degree (some roles may require a 2:1 depending on the business unit)
- Flexibility to travel and work on different projects across the UK
- Enthusiasm for working in a fast-paced, project-based environment
- Due to the security clearance requirements of this particular role UK nationality is required.
- As CGI is a consultancy, you may be required to work in different locations, so flexibility and a willingness to travel are key.
Desired skills
- Communication, Interpersonal, and Teamwork Skills
- Strong presentation skills
- Resilience
- Digital Awareness - Basic understanding of digital channels, including the opportunities and limitations they may present.
- User focus: -Ability to empathise with users and their circumstances, potential barriers and requirements in a digital environment.
- Design thinking: - A basic understanding of design approaches based on understanding users' needs.
- Accessibility and inclusive design - Basic awareness that there are accessibility standards and assistive technologies.
- Agile UX: - Basic understanding that iteration and adaptation will lead your activities, and the importance of taking a minimum viable product (MVP) mindset.
- Negotiation and compromise - Capacity to balance thorough research with practical project requirements, ensuring both the needs of the business and project objectives are met.
- Prioritisation skills - Ability to prioritize tasks in a fast-paced environment, ensuring essential tasks are completed first. Digital skills - an awareness of product development cycle
- Understanding of User-Centred Design (UCD) or Human-Centred Design (HCD) - Foundational knowledge of UCD or HCD principles is beneficial, with additional training provided as part of the graduate scheme.
- Awareness of different analysis techniques - Basic awareness of techniques for analysing and interpreting raw data, particularly relevant for user research roles.
Accepted degree subjects
Any
Additional job details
- Location
- Bridgend
- London
- Manchester
- Newcastle upon Tyne
- Solihull
- Salary
- Competitive salary
- Contract, dates and working times
Full-time
How to apply
Click Apply to start your application now. This job will be available on Prospects until 8 December 2025
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Closing date: Continuous recruitment