Overview

Position Title:Senior Service Designer

Company:Department for Education

Location:Greater Manchester, UK

Job Description:

Evidence- and context-based design. You know how to design systems for use across multiple services and can identify the simplest approach out of a variety of approaches.Leadership and guidance. You can change organisational structures to fixable and sustainable designs. You know how to lead on the strategy for the whole organisation, marrying business needs with innovative analysis. You can make and justify decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity. You know how to build consensus between organisations (private or public) or highly independent and diverse stakeholders. You can solve and unblock issues between teams or departments at the highest level. You understand the psychology of a team and have strong mediation skills.

Responsibilities:

  • Evidence- and context-based design. You know how to design systems for use across multiple
  • services and can identify the simplest approach out of a variety of approaches.
  • Leadership and guidance. You can change organisational structures to fixable and sustainable
  • designs. You know how to lead on the strategy for the whole organisation, marrying business
  • needs with innovative analysis. You can make and justify decisions characterised by high levels of risk, impact and complexity. You know how to build consensus between organisations (private or
  • public) or highly independent and diverse stakeholders. You can solve and unblock issues between
  • teams or departments at the highest level. You understand the psychology of a team and have
  • strong mediation skills.

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