Senior Service Designer

Posted 21 June by Lorien
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SENIOR SERVICE DESIGNER - 4 DAYS PER WEEK - INSIDE IR35

Loriens leading Public sector client is looking for a highly experienced Senior Service Designer to join their team on a 4 day per week basis across an initial 3 month contract.

Essential skills

* Experience in a senior service designer role, designing and delivering a wide range of service design activities including: support team members to understand the value of design, negotiating design briefs and service developments, leading service design activates, and delivering service outcomes based on user, staff and organisational needs.
* Ability to choose and apply appropriate user-centred design methods (from data gathering, idea & concept generation, co-creation and prototyping) for different design life cycle phases and situations.
* Ability to communicate design approaches and insights effectively in such a way as to stimulate conversation and collaboration.
* Knowledge of other user centred design practices and experience of collaborating with them for service delivery.
* Promote the value of iterative design based on user feedback
* Enable the design process through the visual communication of idea

Main duties include:

* Support the design and implementation of services, strategies, and policies to ensure business requirements and user needs are being met.
* Advocate for inclusive, collaborative, user centred service design practices and embed them into service design and delivery.
* Advise on which service design tools and methods to use.
* Work with user researchers to understand and meet the needs of users across a variety of channels.
* Work with Interaction Design, Content Design and Digital Accessibility disciplines to create holistic patterns and service features
* Champion design for users for whom assisted digital and / or accessibility technologies are required to access a service.
* Facilitate co-design with design teams, citizens services users, and other stakeholders.
* Prototype and validate proposed design solutions using a variety of tools - including non-digital approaches.
* Identify and understand constraints, communicate these and work within them (including challenging the validity of constraints where appropriate whilst ensuring standards are being met.)
* Make and guide on design decisions and communicate how decisions have been reached.

Carbon60, Lorien & SRG - The Impellam Group STEM Portfolio are acting as an Employment Business in relation to this vacancy.

Reference: 52923363

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