Head of Digital Design - IPO - G7

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’ll get the most from your team by supporting and challenging them as they work across our Services and change portfolios. You’ll 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 an 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

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Please note after the sift stage, candidates may be placed on hold due to a high volume of applications.

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Person specification

For a thorough understanding of the role and general day to day duties, please refer to the attached Role Profile.

Alternatively, If you require job-specific information, please contact Dominic Read.
E-mail: dominic.read@ipo.gov.uk
Telephone: 01633 433189