DfE Teaching Vacancies
Clients
Department for Education, UKEmployer
dxwRole in project
Interaction DesignerActivities and tools
Prototyping Interaction design GOV.UK Design System GOV.UK protoyping kit MiroYear
2018-2019We are creating a national search and listing service for teaching jobs
We created a service that can reduce the time and cost for schools publishing teaching jobs.

DfE Teaching Vacancies homepage

DfE Teaching Vacancies job details page
Project goals
- create a national search and listing service for teaching jobs
- reduce the time and cost for schools publishing teaching jobs
- develop a service that meets the needs of both schools and jobseekers
- improve the quality of job listings and make it easy for them to be widely shared
- make job listing data freely available to other organisations so they can use it to build new products
- provide DfE with real-time actionable data and insights
Design iterations
This was my first public sector project at dxw, and the service was already in public beta. My primary responsibility was managing design iterations and continuous improvement for the project. Here are some of the tasks I worked on:
- Job post lifecycle and duplicate job function
I led the review of the job lifecycle for the team and developed a flow that covered all use cases, allowing us to determine the optimal timing and placement for displaying the duplicate job option.

Job post lifecycle flowchart

Job post lifecycle timelines

Admin side - job duplication function

Admin side - job duplication function on the listing page
- Expired job status
I helped create a section for listing all expired jobs on the individual school admin page.

Expired job status

Job post published
- Job seeker alert
I added the job seeker alert function to the public-facing interface and integrated it with GOV.UK Notify to create the email templates.

Job seeker alert sign up

Job seeker alert newsletter
- Newly qualified teacher (NQT) flag
I led the review of the job publishing process and implemented UI changes to indicate whether a job is suitable for newly qualified teachers (NQTs).

NQT flag internal interface
