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Senior Service Designer
Government Digital Service —Bristol
- £56,850 - £70,950 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Mentoring
- Agile
- Annual leave
- Employee assistance programme
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- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Continuous improvement
- Contracts
Senior Information Manager
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- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Bachelor's degree
- No degree
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AECOM —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Conflict management
- Training & development
Content Designer
Office for National Statistics —Newport
- £28,138 - £32,953 a year
- Part-time
- Hybrid work
- Presentation skills
- Leadership
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Senior Product Designer
Civica —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Mentoring
- Communication skills
- Annual leave
- Referral programme
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AECOM —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- Sales
- Business development
Senior Project Manager
AtkinsRéalis —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Travel
- Mentoring
- Contracts
Win Work Transformation Lead
AtkinsRéalis —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- SharePoint
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Safran —Cwmbran
- Full-time
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- Continuous improvement
- Employee assistance programme
Senior Planner
AtkinsRéalis —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
Senior Sustainability Consultant
AECOM —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Data analysis skills
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- Mentoring
Senior Layout Integration Engineer
Assystem —Bristol
- Engineering
- Mentoring
- Leadership
- Annual leave
- Referral programme
Senior Project Manager – Nuclear
AtkinsRéalis —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Business development
- Construction experience
- Leadership
Senior Project Manager (Defence Construction Consultancy)
AECOM —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Management
- PMP
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Project Manager
Amey Ltd —Berkeley
- £200,000 a year
- Full-time
- Organisational skills
- Contracts
- Construction experience
- Employee discount
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AECOM —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Engineering
- Business development
- Bachelor's degree
Senior Environmental Consultant
Amey Ltd —Bristol
- Part-time
- Bachelor's degree
- Mentoring
- Training & development
- Annual leave
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Project Manager/Senior Project Manager
AtkinsRéalis —Bristol
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Organisational skills
- Contracts
- Budgeting
Digital Project Manager
Proctor and Stevenson —Bristol
- £32,000 - £36,000 a year
- Full-time
- Hybrid work
- Organisational skills
- AI
- Leadership
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Senior Service Designer

Government Digital Service -
Bristol

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Job details

Permanent | Full-time
£56,850 - £70,950 a year
8 days ago

Benefits

Cycle to work scheme
Annual leave
Company pension
Employee assistance programme
Employee discount
Paid volunteer time
Childcare

Qualifications

Facilitation
Presentation skills
Mentoring
Agile
User research
Multidisciplinary collaboration

Full job description

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Reference number

476010

Salary

£56,850 - £70,950

£59,300 to £70,950 based on capability. The base salary of this grade is £56,850 for national. Offers made above this will be made up with a specialist pay allowance

GBP

Job grade

Grade 7

Contract type

Permanent

Business area

GDS - GOV.UK

Type of role

Digital

Working pattern

Flexible working, Full-time, Job share, Part-time, Compressed hours

Number of jobs available

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Location

Bristol, Manchester

About the job

Job summary

The Government Digital Service (GDS) is the digital centre of government. We are responsible for setting, leading and delivering the vision for a modern digital government.

Our priorities are to drive a modern digital government, by:

joining up public sector services
harnessing the power of AI for the public good
strengthening and extending our digital and data public infrastructure
elevating leadership and investing in talent
funding for outcomes and procuring for growth and innovation
committing to transparency and driving accountability

We are home to the Incubator for Artificial Intelligence (I.AI), the world-leading GOV.UK and at the forefront of coordinating the UKs geospatial strategy and activity. We lead the Government Digital and Data function and champion the work of digital teams across government.

The Government Digital Service is where talent translates into impact. From your first day, youll be working with some of the worlds most highly-skilled digital professionals, all contributing their knowledge to make change on a national scale.

As a designer at GDS youll work in multidisciplinary teams, alongside researchers and developers, to deliver world-class, user centred public services.

Youll help identify and fix some of the toughest problems in public infrastructure and you will be focusing on design of services at scale. Youll help the government transform the way it delivers services, so that theyre more efficient, simpler, faster and easier to use.

If youd like to work with us, youll become part of a fantastic service design in government community, where we share ideas and challenges with 1000s of designers across the public sector. This is a chance to work on services that matter, at a huge scale, with people who value design.

Job description

We are recruiting for four Senior Service Designer roles.

Two roles (exclusively in Bristol or Manchester) will join the GOV.UK and Publishing programme. One of those roles will involve you working with our content designer colleagues to improve the content publishing process. The other role will be working with the GOV.UK design system team to explore how we might cater for a more multichannel future.

Two roles (exclusively in Manchester) will join the Product and Services programme to work in context of the GOV.UK App.

As a Senior Service Designer youll:

lead and coordinate design work in your team, supporting other designers where necessary
work effectively in a multidisciplinary, agile environment, adapting quickly to changes in requirements, priorities or user needs
use research and analytics to understand users needs, identify service failures and test different designs
design collaboratively and in the open, engaging your whole team with the design process and adapting it if necessary
champion accessibility and inclusion, consider the impact of new technologies and ensure that designs meet legal requirements
collaborate with designers in other teams and departments, reviewing each other's work and developing shared patterns

Person specification

Were interested in people who can demonstrate the following skills in their applications:

experience in designing services and holistic solutions for users in complex environments
experience of working and negotiating important design decisions with senior stakeholders (internal and external)
experience in facilitating and engaging with people in a variety of ways (e.g. workshops, co-design activities or documentation)
experience in making effective decisions with qualitative user research and quantitative data
an understanding of how to design inclusive, equitable, accessible and sustainable services
experience of working in an agile, multidisciplinary and collaborative environment
experience of guiding, supporting and mentoring others.

These skills are based on the Government Digital and Data (GDaD) Profession Capability Framework and the relevant Civil Service Behaviours' for this role.

Please read the things you need to know section of this job description to understand what the interview and selection process looks like.

Benefits

There are many benefits of working at GDS, including:

flexible hybrid working with flexi-time and the option to work part-time or condensed hours
a Civil Service Pension with an average employer contribution of 28.97%
25 days of annual leave, increasing by a day each year up to a maximum of 30 days
an extra day off for the Kings birthday
an in-year bonus scheme to recognise high performance
career progression and coaching, including a training budget for personal development
a focus on wellbeing with access to an employee assistance programme
job satisfaction from making government services easier to use and more inclusive for people across the UK
advances on pay, including for travel season tickets
death in service benefits
cycle to work scheme and facilities
access to an employee discounts scheme
10 learning days per year
volunteering opportunities (5 special leave days per year)
access to a suite of learning activities through Civil Service learning

Any move to Government Digital Service from another employer will mean you can no longer access childcare vouchers. This includes moves between government departments. You may however be eligible for other government schemes, including Tax Free Childcare. Determine your eligibility at https://www.childcarechoices.gov.uk

Office attendance
The Department operates a discretionary hybrid working policy, which provides for a combination of working hours from your place of work and from your home in the UK. The current expectation for staff is to attend the office or non-home based location for 40-60% of the time over the accounting period.
DSIT does not normally offer full home working (i.e. working at home); but we do offer a variety of flexible working options (including occasionally working from home).

Things you need to know

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application, however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own) applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use.

Selection process details

The standard selection process for roles at GDS consists of:

an initial sift of applications
if you make it through the sift, you will be invited to a 20 minute screening call where you present a response to a short task sent to you 40 minutes ahead of the call (cumulatively requiring 60 minutes of the candidates time on the day)
if successful, the final stage is a 60 minute remote interview where you take us through 1 or 2 pieces of work from your portfolio and we will ask a series of behavioural questions.

How to apply

If this role is a good fit for you, you must submit all 3 of these for your application to be considered.

a cover letter with a 500 word cap, to tell us about you and why you think you are suitable for this role, addressing the points in the person specification section above.
a CV to show us your work history
a portfolio to show some examples of your design work. If it's available online, you can add the URL in your cover letter or CV, or email it as a PDF directly to [email protected] (referencing your application number). Don't forget to share the password if applicable.

Successful candidates will be matched to the most relevant team based on your skills, experience, and preference. Please note that the Product and Services (GOV.UK App) roles are exclusively based in Manchester.

Depending on how many applications we get, there might also be an extra stage before the video interview, for example a phone interview or a technical exercise.

In the event we receive a high volume of applications, we will conduct the initial sift against the lead criteria which is: experience in facilitating and engaging with people in a variety of ways (e.g. workshops, co-design activities or documentation)

In the Civil Service, we use Success Profiles to evaluate your skills and ability. This gives us the best possible chance of finding the right person for the job, increases performance and improves diversity and inclusivity. Well be assessing your technical abilities, skills, experience and behaviours that are relevant to this role.

For this role well be assessing you against the following Civil Service Behaviours:

Seeing the big picture
Changing and improving
Communicating and influencing
Working together
Leadership
Making effective decisions

For this role well be assessing you against all of the Government Digital and Data (GDaD) Profession Capability Framework skills for Senior Service Designer:

Design communication
Designing for everyone
Designing strategically
Designing together
Evidence-based design
Iterative design
Leading design

Want to know more about who Government Digital and Data are? Click Here

Recruitment Timeline

Sift completion: 1st September

Phone screening: W/C 8th September

Panel interviews: W/C 14th September

Candidates that do not pass the interview but have demonstrated an acceptable standard may be considered for similar roles at a lower grade.

A reserve list will be held for a period of 12 months, from which further appointments can be made.

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.

Please note that this role requires SC clearance, which would normally need 5 years UK residency in the past 5 years. This is not an absolute requirement, but supplementary checks may be needed where individuals have not lived in the UK for that period. This may mean your security clearance (and therefore your appointment) will take longer or, in some cases, not be possible.

For meaningful checks to be carried out, you will need to have lived in the UK for a sufficient period of time, to enable appropriate checks to be carried out and produce a result which provides the required level of assurance. Whilst a lack of UK residency in itself is not necessarily a bar to a security clearance, and expectation of UK residency may range from 3 to 5 years. Failure to meet the residency requirements needed for the role may result in the withdrawal of provisional jobs offers.

Careers event to learn more about the role and application process

We plan to run a careers event for anyone who is thinking about applying to an interaction or service design role to attend, to learn more about the roles and how the application and interview process works.

This event will be held on Tuesday 18th August 2026 at 1700 - 1800 and Friday 21st August at 1600 - 1700. Please email [email protected] to let them know if you would like to attend indicating which of these events you want to attend and the team will send you a link to a video call to join.

Sponsorship

DSIT cannot offer Visa sponsorship to candidates through this campaign. DSIT holds a Visa sponsorship licence but this can only be used for certain roles and this campaign does not qualify.

Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.

Security

Successful candidates must undergo a basic (or equivalent) criminal record check.

Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check .

See our vetting charter .

People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.

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)
nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for 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
Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service

Further information on nationality requirements

Working for the Civil Service

The Civil Service Code sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.

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.

The Civil Service also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy.

Diversity and Inclusion

The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy .

Apply and further information

This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans initiative.

The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window).

Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records.

Contact point for applicants

Job contact :

Name : [email protected]
Email : [email protected]

Recruitment team

Email : [email protected]

Further information

If you feel your application has not been treated in accordance with the Recruitment Principles and you wish to make a complaint, you should contact [email protected] in the first instance.

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive you can contact the Civil Service Commission by email: [email protected] Or in writing: Civil Service Commission, Room G/8 1 Horse Guards Road, London, SW1A 2HQ.

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