Designer - London, United Kingdom - Nesta

Nesta

Verified Company

London, United Kingdom

4 weeks ago

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Tom O´Connor

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Description

We are recruiting for a
Designer

This role is part of Nesta's Design & Technology community of practice - which will provide peer support, professional development and line management - and be seconded into the The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) which is part of the Nesta Group.

This means the majority of time for this role will be spent supporting BIT's project work for clients, including helping to shape and win client work that makes impactful use of design approaches.

With the remainder focused on developing BIT's design capabilities and being part of a Nesta-wide community of designers and technologists and furthering Nesta's missions.

About Nesta
We are Nesta, the UK's innovation agency for social good. We design, test and scale solutions to society's biggest problems.

Our three missions are to give every child a fair start, help people live healthy lives, and create a sustainable future where the economy works for both people and the planet.

For over 20 years, we have worked to support, encourage and inspire innovation.

We work in three roles:

as an innovation partner working with frontline organisations to design and test new solutions, as a venture builder supporting new and early stage businesses, and as a system shaper creating the conditions for innovation.

Harnessing the rigour of science and the creativity of design, we work relentlessly to change millions of lives for the better.

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About The Behavioural Insights Team

We design and rigorously test new ideas across a range of areas such as health, crime and education, to establish what works and what doesn't.

We have helped Tuberculosis patients take their medicine; reduced police susceptibility to cyberattacks; and helped organisations close their gender pay gap.

Examples of projects you may work on:

Working with employers to prototype solutions to decrease age bias against older workers in recruitment. As well as supporting an overarching design process you would be expected to play a key role in prototyping and UX and digital design of an employer-friendly toolkit and other potential solutions.
Supporting the Gambling Unit to research, design and test different strategies to identify risky play, alternatives to dark patterns and more.
Advise and support projects around the world with designing and testing a range of different artefacts and touchpoints, from the redesign of waste bins through to variations on COVID communications, and more.

Your role

A Designer is a confident and competent practitioner who can work across the entire design process to develop solutions that meet people's needs and can have a positive social impact.

This role is part of Nesta's Design & Technology community of practice - which will provide peer support, professional development and line management - and be seconded into BIT.

You will primarily work to support projects and people across BIT to grow their design capabilities and integrate design principles, practices and skills into their work.

This role is for someone who has used design principles, practices and skills to meet the needs of end users and stakeholders and supported non-designers to valuably integrate these approaches into their work.

As a Designer, your work will involve using your expertise to:

Work with and support colleagues and partners to integrate design principles, practices and skills into their work with clients and partners.
Plan, undertake and support user research to inform strategic decisions and the design of potential solutions.
Design, develop and test potential solutions with end users, as well as encouraging and supporting others to do so.
Facilitate workshops and design sprints to rapidly design, test and iterate prototypes.
Produce design iterations from low fidelity sketches to functional prototypes.
Support the endtoend design of interventions often involving multiple channels, touchpoints and partners.
Work with colleagues to develop an internal and external pipeline of work that makes impactful use of design approaches this may involve scoping, developing bids and pitching.
Ensure BIT, Nesta and our partners balance the needs of end users with stakeholder needs and social objectives.
Work with multidisciplinary teams to design, prototype and test solutions to social challenges.
Facilitate and participate in collaboration, including codesign or multidisciplinary working.
Contribute to the identification, development and pitching of new work.
Contribute to improving BIT's and Nesta's approach to design and integration of design into our project methodologies.
Support the overall delivery of projects, ensuring they are on time and on budget.

Minimum qualifications

Experience of guiding nondesigners through a design process and building the capabilities of people new to design to help them integrate design approaches into their work.
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