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Head of Digital Design - Newport
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Job Description
Overview of the Head of Digital Design role
An exciting opportunity as part of the DDaT Extended Leadership Team (ELT) to lead our Digital Design team. An established and high performing team which is integral to the current Transformation programme - an ambitious and high-profile delivery of modern customer centric Services for Intellectual Property. Leading and managing a team of interaction and content designers, coaching and mentoring and helping mature the profession and championing personal development alongside high-quality delivery. We need an engaging leader, with a passion for excellence, with great stakeholder skills who can communicate across a range of technical and non-technical audiences. You will get the most from your team by supporting and challenging them as they work across our Services and change portfolios. You will be able to see and appreciate the bigger picture, and see where the design profession sits as part of the wider UCD profession, DDaT directorate and the IPO to play your part in delivering our strategy.
Person Specification
* Leading and managing technical teams.
* Experience of being part of a leadership team and helping to shape and influence wider decisions across an organisation.
* Extensive experience of user-centred design tools and methodologies within both agile and DevOps environments.
* Demonstratable experience of being a user-centred design practitioner who drives and implements change across a number of delivery teams simultaneously.
* Demonstrable experience of professional development of a community of design practitioners including development of new talent such as graduates and apprentices.
* Experience of large transformational programmes of work and experience of analysis of componentised delivery methods.
* Influencing, both inside a DDaT department, and across the organisation.
* Knowledge or experience of blue-printing, prototyping (including prototyping in code) and story boarding techniques including giving direction on what tools and methods to use.
Working Style
This role will be carried out in-line with IPO Hybrid working arrangements where staff are currently expected to spend at least 20% of their time working onsite from one of our offices. This role is based in our Newport Office.
The requirement for attendance at an office location can vary by role so we would encourage candidates to discuss working arrangements with the recruiting manager to agree a reasonable balance between working from home and the office.
Benefits
* Unlimited Pluralsight video learning access
* Access to Microsoft's ESI training suite
* Hybrid working with no core hours
* Substantial support for career progression
* 25 days annual leave moving to 30 days in annual increments
* You will also get 8 days public leave and 1 day privilege leave.
How To Apply
Click the 'Apply now' button and complete the application form by uploading an anonymised copy of your current CV and completing the personal statement section.
For further information on the sift and interview stages of this recruitment campaign, please head to our 'Things you need to know' section below.
Please note after the sift stage, candidates may be placed on hold due to a high volume of applications.
For further information around the Civil Service recruitment process, please visit our civil service careers page - IPO - Recruitment Support, Civil Service Careers (civil-service-careers.gov.uk)
Behaviours
We will assess you against these behaviours during the selection process:
* Developing Self and Others
* Seeing the Big Picture
* Working Together
* Changing and Improving
Selection process details
This vacancy is using Success Profiles, and will assess your Behaviours, Strengths and Experience.
Additional Details On Security And Vetting
Successful candidates must pass a disclosure and barring security check and if successful you must also hold, or be willing to obtain, a higher Security Clearance.
For meaningful checks to be carried out individuals will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, depending on the level of clearance, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. For this role the successful individual will need to have consistently lived in the UK for a minimum 5 years in order to meet the relevant security clearance.
Nationality Requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
Working for the Civil Service
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We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles.
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
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