Government Digital Service
Senior Service designer
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Location - Bristol, Manchester
Job summary
The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.
Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:
- joining up public sector services
- harnessing the power of AI for the public good
- strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
- elevating leadership and investing in talent
- funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
- committing to transparency and driving accountability
We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UK’s geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.
The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, you’ll be working with some of the world’s most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.
As a designer at GDS you’ll work in multidisciplinary teams, alongside researchers and developers, to deliver world-class, user-centred public services.
You’ll help identify and fix some of the toughest problems in public infrastructure and you will be focusing on design of services at scale. You’ll help the government transform the way it delivers services, so that they’re more efficient, simpler, faster and easier to use.
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Job description
We are recruiting for four Senior Service Designer roles.
Two roles (exclusively in Bristol or Manchester) will join the ‘GOV.UK and Publishing’ programme. One of those roles will involve you working with our content designer colleagues to improve the content publishing process. The other role will be working with the GOV.UK design system team to explore how we might cater for a more multichannel future.
Two roles (exclusively in Manchester) will join the Product and Services programme to work in context of the GOV.UK App.
As a Senior Service Designer you’ll:
- lead and coordinate design work in your team, supporting other designers where necessary
- work effectively in a multidisciplinary, agile environment, adapting quickly to changes in requirements, priorities or user needs
- use research and analytics to understand users' needs, identify service failures and test different designs
- design collaboratively and in the open, engaging your whole team with the design process and adapting it if necessary
- champion accessibility and inclusion, consider the impact of new technologies and ensure that designs meet legal requirements
- collaborate with designers in other teams and departments, reviewing each other's work and developing shared patterns
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Person specification
We’re interested in people who can demonstrate the following skills in their applications:
- experience in designing services and holistic solutions for users in complex environments
- experience of working and negotiating important design decisions with senior stakeholders (internal and external)
- experience in facilitating and engaging with people in a variety of ways (e.g. workshops, co-design activities or documentation)
- experience in making effective decisions with qualitative user research and quantitative data
- an understanding of how to design inclusive, equitable, accessible and sustainable services
- experience of working in an agile, multidisciplinary and collaborative environment
- experience of guiding, supporting and mentoring others.
These skills are based on the ‘Government Digital and Data (GDaD) Profession Capability Framework’ and the relevant ‘Civil Service Behaviours' for this role.
Please read the ‘things you need to know’ section of this job description to understand what the interview and selection process looks like.
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