Senior Service Designer - Bristol, United Kingdom - Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

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Bristol, United Kingdom

3 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

Defra is the UK government department accountable for safeguarding our natural environment, helping our world-leading food & farming industry, and sustaining a thriving rural economy.

Our broad remit means we play a major role in people's day-to-day life, from the food we eat, and the air we breathe, to the water we drink.

Our approach puts user needs at the heart of digital development.

We design and build user centred public services that help our superb food, farming and fisheries industries, enhance our beautiful rural environment, and better protect against flooding, disease and other natural threats.

Defra's design team is part of a wider user-centred design group as well as the wider community of over 800 designers working in the UK government.

As a Senior Service Designer, your job will be to design accessible public and internal services that are simple for everyone to use.

You will be excited by the challenge of understanding user needs and policy goals to support strategy and decision making, and experienced at visualising whole services - both end-to-end and front-to-back, across business areas and government departments, to reduce or remove issues and problems.

You will work in a multidisciplinary team, alongside user researchers, interaction designers, business analysts, content designers, product owners, delivery managers and developers to deliver world-class, user-centred services that help the government transform the way it delivers services so they are more efficient, simpler, faster and easier to use.

If you would like to know more about the role, join us virtually for a question and answer session on 26th February 2024, from midday to 12:30pm.

See the advert on Civil Service jobs for the Microsoft Teams link.

Responsibilities

Align communication with service managers, product owners and policy colleagues to define user journeys and articulate the vision for products and services
Identify opportunities for service improvement and cost reduction and improvement within existing services
Understand user needs and track interactions across departmental and organisational boundaries
Create as is user journeys, highlighting pain points, dependencies, areas for improvements and hypothesis to test
Design the interactions and building blocks that make up the service
Create service prototypes to test ideas and assumptions
Influence performance reporting so we measure and target improvements to things that matter to users
Ensure that interactions and user journeys across a service are rational and consistent
Act as an authority on service design, training and mentoring other service designers and actively contributing to the design community within Defra and across government

Skills and experience

Experience of understanding user needs and designing services that support those needs
Experience of analysing pain points within services and communicating and sharing design solutions that fulfil user needs and business outcomes
Experience of working with user research and business analysis to inform design decisions
Experience of leading workshops and collaborating with senior stakeholders
Evidence of driving awareness of service performance and improvement needs which have resulted in successful service outcomes
Working at times from mínimal evidence and responding positively to changing requirements