Service Designer - Senior Consultant
Farsight Consulting, United Kingdom
Job Description
As we continue to grow, we are looking to hire permanent Service Designers.
You will have experience of working collaboratively in multi-disciplinary agile teams, be familiar with GDS methodology and standards, a good communicator and skilled in using a range of tools and approaches.
Some key responsibilities
- Delivery of high-quality design assets that articulate customer insights, journeys and experiences.
- Collaborate with team members on delivering quality, asking critical questions and sharing thoughts, ideas and reservations openly.
- Communicate complex information by using visual methods and storytelling that is engaging for audiences.
- Identify and promote opportunities for process improvements, experiment with ideas and review outcomes to deliver the best possible solutions.
- Support and/or lead the development and delivery of client and internal communications (written, spoken or visual).
- Design and present ideas and concepts that meet the brief.
- Build deep knowledge and understanding of service spaces. Understand the wider landscape and where a product or service sits within it. Facilitate service review workshops.
- Apply an understanding of client needs to identify critical outcomes, barriers to success and changes in expectations or scope.
- Unify team and service vision(s). Work with the service teams and stakeholders to define mission(s), goals and objectives.
- Working with teams to define and refine KPIs and metrics for services.
Typical projects
You will work on a range of high-profile digital transformation projects, which could be in a range of sectors including education, training, social care or the criminal justice system. Examples of the projects you could be working on include developing new services to:
- Enable people in prison to receive sensitive legal correspondence securely.
- Help local authorities carry on skills assessments on social workers.
- Share sensitive information about children between multiple agencies.
- Support teachers with their professional development.
- Support vulnerable families.
As a service designer, there may be opportunities to get exposure to different phases of a projects at different points. For example:
Pre-Discovery - helping teams evidence the need for a product or service discovery
Discovery - helping teams understand the problem space, work collaboratively with a team and identify business amp; service users to generate measurable opportunities for change.
Alpha - Working with a team to test hypotheses. Ensure the service user needs and business requirements are met. Work with a team to test the riskiest assumptions/how they have tested this through their design deliverables.
Beta - Working with a team to support iterations in the new service. Seek opportunities to connect the service to the wider service landscape. Helping teams scale up.
Portfolio Strategy - Take a holistic view across the service area and find out where opportunities exist for improvement.
Requirements
You are open, curious, enjoy solving problems and motivated about making a difference during this exciting period of growth. Some of the things we look for include:
- Experience of working in agile: You have an awareness of agile tools and approaches, and how to use them.
- Digital perspective: You understand how the digital economy is changing user behaviour and the government landscape.
- Communicating information: You can communicate effectively across organisational, technical and political boundaries, understanding the context.
- Evidence- and context-based design: You can visualise, articulate and solve complex problems and concepts, and make disciplined decisions based on available information and research evidence.
- User focus: You understand users and can identify who they are and what their needs are, based on evidence.
- Design Community collaboration: You can contribute to the work of the community, building successful teams through understanding team styles and influencing as well as motivating team members.
- Accessibility: understanding of accessibility and its principles.
Benefits
What we can offer your career:
Developing our people is at the heart of everything that we do.
Our environment is friendly, supportive and collaborative. We offer a learning and development programme that is tailored to you. New ideas are encouraged and there’s plenty of opportunities to innovate and make an impact. We can p