Assure the successful design and delivery of public services by applying a holistic Service Design lens across technology, policy, process, and organisation.
Build service design maturity, facilitating the design process, communicating complex service decisions to teams, and setting strategic expectations with senior stakeholders.
Design, prototype and test seamless (online and offline) services, ensuring all organisational, service, and user outcomes are aligned.
Championing the practice across Made Tech through CoP participation, development and delivery of training/briefings, providing coaching and mentoring support, etc
Build trust with clients by demonstrating the value of a Service Design approach and understanding their strategic needs for service improvement.
Support the commercial team to win new work by contributing strategic Service Design thinking and reviewing bids related to service transformation and user-centred design (UCD).
Represent and advocate for user-centred Service Design publicly and internally through talks, blogs, and case studies, contributing to the definition of Made Tech's Service Design principles.
Take an active role in the Service Design community, leading on developing and sharing good practice, and actively supporting the hiring and retention of expert Service Designers.
Requirements
An expert in using core Service Design tools, including but not limited to Service Blueprints, Ecosystem Maps, and Stakeholder Maps, as well as prototyping tools like Figma and the GOV.UK prototyping kit.
Experience of championing the value and practice of Service Design internally and externally, influencing clients, partners, and peers on its contribution.
Able to coach and mentor other designers, defining and setting the Service Design standards which others will apply across our engagements.
Lead activities to map the existing service landscape, identify user and business needs, and create a shared, cross-organisational understanding of the problems to solve.
Map and prototype end-to-end service experiences, clearly articulating user journeys, touchpoints (digital and non-digital), front-stage interactions, and back-stage processes using Service Blueprints.
Make public services simple to explain, understand, and use by removing unnecessary complexity and keeping designs focused on creating positive outcomes for people and society (internal and external users).
Ensure designs consider the entire service system, understanding the relationship between digital interfaces, policy, operations, and the overall client organisational requirements.
Benefits
30 days Holiday
we offer 30 days of paid annual leave plus bank holidays
Flexible Working Hours
we are flexible with what hours you work
Flexible Parental Leave
we offer flexible parental leave options
Remote Working
we offer part time remote working for all our staff
Paid counseling
we offer paid counseling as well as financial and legal advice