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Senior Service Designer

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

Driver and Vehicle Standards Agency

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  • LocationUK flagBirmingham, United Kingdom
  • RemoteNo
  • Work Styleonsite
  • SenioritySenior
  • Experience6+ years
  • TypeFull Time
  • Salary£39k – £43k
  • IndustryGovernment
  • Departmentdvsa
  • Posted161w ago
  • ExpiresSeptember 11, 2023
Skills
service designjourney mappingprototypingux designworkshop facilitationstakeholder management
Cross-Functional Partners
business stakeholders
◆Salary X-Ray?Indicative range based on survey data, not a guarantee for this role.£60k
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Job description

The senior service designer is an experienced designer who works with minimal support and can influence and mentor others.

You will:

  • Design services which meet the Government Service Standard
  • Ensure services meet public sector accessibility regulations
  • Carry out a wide range of service design activities from problem framing, journey mapping, prototyping and workshop facilitation
  • Design and implement strategies to ensure services are efficient, scalable and robust
  • Develop user-facing features ensuring technical feasibility of UI/UX designs in line with the GDS Design System
  • Prototype website designs and UI elements as required
  • Embed and continually improve ways of working across delivery teams.

Person specification

  • We’re looking for someone confident in creating collaborative environments, giving people a safe space to contribute to the solving of problems and development of new ideas.
  • You’re curious about understanding our users and what drives their behaviour, helping us to pinpoint the change we need to deliver to keep Britain’s roads safe.
  • You have a proactive mindset with a strong ability to influence decisions and strategies to achieve the right outcomes for our users.
  • You’re skilled at problem solving in a landscape made up of complex services that can span internal departments and external organisations.
  • You’re comfortable with navigating ambiguity, whilst contributing to defining the user centred design approach for DVSA.
  • You have strong stakeholder management skills, effective in communicating with a wide range of people from senior management to members of the general public.

Behaviours

We’ll assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:

  • Delivering at Pace

Technical skills

We’ll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process:

  • DDaT – Senior Service Designer – Evidence- and context-based design – (Skill level: Expert) – Click Here.
  • DDaT – Senior Service Designer – Prototyping in code – (Skill level: Practitioner) – Click Here.
  • DDaT – Senior Service Designer – User Focus – (Skill level: Expert) – Click Here.