Location: Rockville, MD
URL: www.lockheedmartin.com
Under the general direction of the creative director of NCI OTSA, the Information Architect (IA) is a vital member of the NCI OTSA User Experience (UX) design team. The IA must be able to take the lead on UX design strategy and approach for NCI projects that include small initiative or departmental sites, social media initiatives such as blogs, forums and media sharing, very large scale and multi-faceted sites such as Cancer.gov, and simple to complex web applications. The IA will also team and collaborate effectively with UX visual designers and front-end programmers, as well as client contacts and other project team members as well. The IA needs to be a self-starter, and a wide degree of independent decision making and responsibility is expected.
Specific project related activities and responsibilities will include:
Coordinate with clients, subject matter experts, content owners, and project managers/account liaisons as appropriate to assess scope and organizational requirements, balancing the needs of the sponsoring organization and the needs of its audiences. This includes some updates ad redesign as well as new design project work.
Define, characterize and prioritize the audiences that a project is meant to reach.
Based on client requirements, audience factors and analysis, determines content and user interaction strategy and approach.
Partnering with an online content producer, conduct content gap analysis against content indexes and make initial recommendations to project team and clients for consolidation of redundant or outdated content or information and additions of new content.
Work closely with assigned online content producer to direct them in related IA support.
Specifies how users will find information in the site or use an application by defining its content hierarchical structure, navigation, labeling, and searching systems.
Maps out how the site will accommodate change and growth over time.
Create user flows, schematic drawings and documentation to illustrate the structure and functionality of a project
Organize and spearhead usability testing and other forms of user research.
Responsible for assessing availability and schedule to meet all project demands and providing periodic status reports to project management leads and the creative director.
Minimum Requirements for the IA include:
Bachelor’s degree Information Architecture or in a related field such as Communications, Interactive Media, Visual Design or Library Sciences with 2-3 years of experience, or an equivalent of 5 years or more of related work experience.
Experience working on both large and small to medium scale informational, preferably health issues based, Web sites.
Experience with the content analysis and strategy development processes of a Web site design/redesign including content inventory/indexing, gap analysis and documenting content strategy/recommendations for all sections of a site.
Ability to develop user and comparative research plans, surveys and documents, and provide brief but detailed findings and recommendations in a report form.
Intermediate to advanced user experience and interaction design skills.
Excellent diagramming skills for creation of site maps and wireframes.
Prefer experience in the health information services domain.
To apply: Go to: http://www.lockheedjobs.com/jobsearch_all.asp Click on "Search Openings" search by keyword "NCI" and apply to 82315BR