Mid-level Service Designer

Permanent

Hours: 35 hours per week (flexible options considered).

Salary: £38,390.76 per annum (National) or £41,189.64 (London Weighting if applicable)

Location: Remote (within the UK) or based at one of our regional offices

The Children's Society (TCS) has been helping children and young people for over 140 years. Everything we do is to create positive change in young people's lives, from our Service Delivery to our Research, Policy, and Campaigns- plus much more! Our annual Good Childhood Report has shown that children and young people's wellbeing is declining. It's our organisational goal to reverse this decline by 2030.

Service Design is a key function to help us on this journey. Our Service Design team work alongside young people, their families and those in the systems around them to ensure that what we deliver works for them. Using design research and creative methods the Design team supports TCS to innovate, working with services to test and learn from what works (and what doesn't!), so we can grow our offer in line with young people's changing needs and circumstances.

We have an exciting opportunity for a new Mid-level Service Designer to join the team to help us to continue to strengthen our design offer and achieve our organisational aims.This role will be instrumental in supporting the team to continue to deepen and widen design across TCS. Working with the Service Design Lead and Senior Designer to deliver on a wide range of design projects, spanning our strategic themes of wellbeing, risk and exploitation and systemic change. Our design approach centres equity and participation, to create genuine impact for the young people we work with.

We are looking for a Mid-level Designer who is deeply motivated by improving the lives of children and young people. To thrive in this role you will be relational, curious and will bring care, attention, and a commitment to ethical practice to your work. In order to be considered for this post you will have to demonstrate that you have:

-Minimum of 3 years of experience working in a Service Design, or related role

-A working understanding of Service Design and its potential for social change, including confidence and experience with a range of methods and tools

-A deep focus on accessibility, equity, and inclusion

-Experience working with and advocating for young people, or other user groups with Protected Characteristics, through design

-Ability to build and maintain meaningful relationships and bring stakeholders on the journey of a design project

-Ability to work autonomously and prioritise project and personal workload

We welcome applications from people who don't have a formal design qualification but have transferable skills and experience, including lived experiences.

What we can offer you:

-The opportunity to grow your own Design practice and support us to grow as a team

-The chance to work in a small, supportive, team on projects with a big impact

-Space to bring creative ideas and approaches to how we engage and design with others

-Flexible and remote working from anywhere within the UK

-Enhanced Annual Leave 28 days-length of service extra 2 after 2, 5 and 7 goes up to 36 days.

-Family-friendly policies: Including enhanced Maternity, Paternity and Adoption Leave.

-Pension: Stakeholder pension scheme with company-matched employee contributions of up to 8%

-Free confidential counselling service

We view diversity and inclusion as fundamental to achieving social change. To tackle the complex issues facing young people, we need access to diverse talent, perspectives, experiences and working practices. Applications from diverse backgrounds and communities are encouraged and we have policies to support flexible, inclusive and accessible employment.

Within the organisation, we are on a continued to journey to be an anti-racist organisation. This is a particular consideration when developing and leading projects within the team.

The Children's Society is committed to safeguarding and protecting the children and young people that we work with. As such, all posts are subject to a safer recruitment process, including the disclosure of criminal records and vetting checks. We ensure that we have a range of policies and procedures in place which promote safeguarding and safer working practices across our services.

Therefore, candidates applying for work in our Youth Impact Directorate will be required to complete an "Employment history_template" document prior to interview. The fully completed document should be loaded by the candidate at the point of uploading your CV.

The closing date for applications is at midnight on Sunday 17th November 2024.

Interviews will be held online week commencing 25th November.

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