M4A Foundation
Position: UX/UI Designer Forest Fire, Wildfire Prevention Derivative
M4A Foundation, El Dorado Hills, California, United States, 95762
Position: UX/UI Designer Forest Fire, Wildfire Prevention Derivative
CrowdDoing is a joint initiative of Reframe It Inc. and Match4Action Foundation that is focused on helping address the UN Sustainable Development Goals and beyond through micro-leadership, massively multi-disciplinary collaboration, and service-learning to support social innovation and social enterprise to achieve systemic change.
CrowdDoing works in sustainability, anti-poverty, public health, education, and research. We approach each collective challenge through the lens of operating leverage for systems change via social innovation. This allows us to identify different under-utilized capacities that could make addressing problems in our society more feasible in the future. At CrowdDoing, each of us adopts a dimension of a larger challenge.
We include broad participation by micro-leaders in systemic change through specific social innovations that we can build together.
You can see a 35-minute video on prevention derivatives here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdpHKlZj2c&feature=youtu.be
CrowdDoing’s Catastrophic Wildfire Risk Reduction program provides a framework to address the risks of calamity spreading across a diversity of stakeholders, from companies to insurers to governments and individuals; and outlines a strategy for each stakeholder through the analytical model approach, that offers an innovative and financially self-sustaining model
Job Description:
We are looking for a UX designer who will create satisfying and compelling experiences for users. UX designers need to possess strong creative, technical, and problem-solving skills. Areas of focus may be aging wildfire protection planning, and wildfire mitigation, the research includes environmental situations, homeowners, and community participation.
Responsibilities
Urban/community planning
User Observation and Interviews
Set up Questions and Interview Session - Remote and in-person
Record and Transcribe interviews
Present findings - needs/requirements, etc.
Remote Design Sessions - using Miro Boards
Run design sessions with a diversity of stakeholders - experts, citizens
Journey, Customer and Customer Experience, and Service Maps
Develop maps from research
Summary Recommendations
Summarize findings including needs, experiences, trends, data, stakeholders, opportunities, etc.
Requirements and skills
Bachelor's degree or master's degree in business or related field.
Experienced/ soft starter in Environmental research
Self-Starter
Resourceful
Research-Oriented
Can-Do attitude
Problem solver
Comfortable with complexity and ambiguity
Adaptability
Communication, collaboration, and teamwork
Problem-solving
Design thinking
A user-centric mindset
Attention to detail
Creative and analytical approach
Understanding of interaction design principles
Business know-how: Understanding of business metrics and the ability to translate company goals and objectives into digital experiences
If you have any questions about processes for joining Crowddoing as a volunteer please write to Minakshi.mandal@crowddoing.world
See this brief video about micro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society by collaborating on that area creatively and together through social innovation.
You are also welcome to see more background on CrowdDoing at our Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoL7fai7oa95fBo44FC0gA?sub_confirmation=1).
Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/crowddoing.world/),
Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/CrowdDoing-515295062320613),