Why this role stands out
This remote Service Designer role offers a fantastic opportunity to drive significant impact on large-scale public services, working within a collaborative, multi-disciplinary team. If you have a strong background in UK Government service design and thrive in complex, evolving environments, you'll find this role incredibly rewarding and a chance to further develop your expertise. Apply now to contribute to a vital national program!
Quick overview
Job description
Service Designer Central Government
Location: Remote
Rate: Up to 569 per day (Inside IR35)
Contract Length: 6 Months+
Clearance: SC Clearance
The Opportunity
We're supporting a major Central Government organisation undertaking a large-scale digital transformation programme and are looking for an experienced Service Designer to join a high-performing multidisciplinary team.
This programme is transforming critical public services, offering the opportunity to work on complex, high-impact user journeys at national scale. You'll play a key role in shaping services that directly impact citizens while collaborating with experienced design and delivery professionals across government.
Key Responsibilities
- Lead service design activities across discovery, alpha, beta and live phases.
- Design and improve end-to-end services, ensuring they meet user and business needs.
- Develop service blueprints, user journeys and service maps to identify opportunities for improvement.
- Work closely with Product Managers, Delivery Managers, Policy teams and Technical Architects.
- Advocate for User-Centred Design and service design best practice across stakeholders of varying levels of design maturity.
- Support teams in making evidence-based design decisions through research and service analysis.
- Contribute to the continuous improvement of government services in line with GDS standards.
Essential Experience
- Strong and recent experience delivering GDS-aligned Service Design within UK Government or the wider public sector.
- Proven experience working as a dedicated Service Designer within multidisciplinary teams.
- Experience designing and improving complex end-to-end services.
- Strong understanding of the Government Digital Service (GDS) Service Standard and UCD practices.
- Excellent stakeholder management and facilitation skills.
- Demonstrable experience creating:
- Service Blueprints
- User Journeys
- Service Maps
- End-to-End Service Designs
- Experience working within complex policy-led environments.
- Experience transforming citizen-facing services at scale.
- Strong understanding of accessibility, inclusive design and designing for diverse user needs.
- Experience overcoming organisational, technical or policy challenges to deliver service improvements.
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