Midweight Public Sector Service Designer Job at frog (London)

Job Description

The Service Designer will be part of a skilled multidisciplinary team leading on the strategic design, prototyping and build of excellent public services. You’ll collaboratively build cross-government services that are user-centred, equitable, sustainable and accessible, helping to identify and solve population scale problems, focussing on the design of services at scale. In frog we’re building a new capability to work at the cutting edge of policy design. We need strategic service designers that understand the policy lifecycle and how to: test iterate and improve policy in the same way you would a digital service.

Job Responsibility

Zooming out on the wider context, focus on policy outcomes and zoom in on what people need
Designing in a user-centred way, understanding user needs and advocating for people in the design process
Agile ways of working, working in multidisciplinary teams and being able to work to GDS standards are a hygiene factor
Working towards justice, equity and inclusion in the teams you work with and the services you help deliver
Working towards environmental sustainability of government and its services
Leading the design of services and supporting the wider organisational objectives and strategic priorities
Working with other specialists to design and create organisational, policy and financial structures that support service delivery of good services
Using reflective and critical thinking
challenging assumptions and asking questions
to support government to do better and deliver better services
Using evidence from research and data to inform design and management decisions, and use evidence to engage with senior stakeholders
Analysing failure within services and identify root causes for that failure
find opportunities for reducing complexity and reducing cost
Designing collaboratively and in the open, engaging stakeholders in the design process in a variety of ways, including workshops, design sprints and other co-design methods
Visualising and mapping services, sketch and prototype ideas
Guiding, supporting and mentoring other designers and colleagues
Educating colleagues in user-centred design and service design when necessary
Contributing to, and helping maintain and grow the design community, sharing patterns and approaches with others

Requirements

Previous experience working with Public Sector and proven experience with GDS
Comfort leading sessions with senior clients
Comfort reflecting on your individual performance and behaviours and, together with feedback from others, you will actively seek to continuously improve
Passion about helping to create an environment where people can do great work
To be successfully appointed to this role, it is a requirement to obtain Security Check (SC) clearance
To obtain SC clearance, the successful applicant must have resided continuously within the United Kingdom for the last 5 years

What we offer

We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people
All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements
Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation
We have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas
We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy

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