El1 Service Designer - Adelaide Cbd

Chandler Macleod is an equal opportunity employer as part of our commitment to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people living with disability, and culturally and linguistic diverse candidates are always encouraged to apply.
***Mandatory: Australian Citizenship required to work within Federal Government***
****Applications close by 9am Wednesday 14th of February 2024.****
Our Federal Government client is seeking to engage in MULTIPLE EL1 Service Designers for a 12-month assignment with potential extension in Adelaide CBD
About the Team
The Participant Experience Design division is the key driver of the Participant Service Improvement Plan and the Participant Service Charter. The division's work is to design and deliver Scheme service improvements to provide quality participant outcomes and enhance their NDIS experience. This experience-design work also aims to improve how agency's frontline Service Delivery (SD) operates.
About the Role
The EL1 Service Designer is accountable under broad direction to undertake very complex work that delivers quality outcomes across the Participant Experience Design functions of the NDIA.
The position is an important team leadership position within the NDIA and will have delegated authority and responsibility to resolve issues and risks across wide-ranging activities of substantial depth involving significant detail. The role requires providing leadership, control, planning, resource management, performance management and decision making for the Team Membership and assigned Contractors working within the work area.
The EL1 Service Designer is responsible for actively managing key internal and external stakeholder relationships and where required will represent and negotiate on behalf of the NDIA to advance the NDIA's interests across a range of forums.
Key skills required for role/s:

• Human-centred design: Proficiency in designing services and experiences that prioritise the needs and preferences of end users
• User research: Ability to conduct both primary and secondary research, including developing research plans and guides, conducting user research including interviews, surveys and workshops to gain insights into user pain points and opportunities
• Persona development: Creating user personas to represent different user groups and their characteristics
• Journey mapping: Skill in creating user journey maps to visualise and improve the user experience
• Service blueprinting: Proficiency in service blueprinting to define and map out service processes and enablers
• Co-Design and Facilitation: Ability to lead co-design sessions with stakeholders and users to gather input and ideas
• Design thinking: Strong understanding of design thinking methodologies and approaches
• Usability testing: Experience in conducting usability testing to validate service design concepts and products

Desirable skills to haves for the role/s:

• Visual design: Proficiency in visual design principles to create aesthetically pleasing designs
• Cross-functional collaboration: Ability to collaborate effectively with other team members and stakeholders
• Agile Methodologies: Familiarity with agile methodologies like Agile or Kanban

Responsibilities of the role include but are not limited to:

• Leading, researching and identifying insights contributing to Agency understanding of information.
• Overseeing, creating and documenting current state service through design and research, to identify current participant and staff experience and business processes.
• Leading and managing process design improvements.
• Advocating for the voice and experience of participants and stakeholders through work processes.
• Leading and facilitating design-thinking sessions with service users to design and test future service processes, channel and experiences.
• Applying in-depth knowledge of the role and functions of the agency and the related impacts across work areas.
• Overseeing end-to-end service experiences in line with the Digital Service Standard, ensuring changes are based on participant and staff need and are consistent for all users across different touchpoints.
• Evaluating proposed solutions and design at both a conceptual and tactical level.
• Providing guidance, coaching team members and meeting the needs of service users with quality deliverables.

(NOTE: the key responsibilities of the role are based on current priorities and may change over time)
It is highly desirable that the successful applicant understand or lived experience in the field of disability.
What's on Offer?

• Position located in Adelaide CBD.
• EL1 602.55 per day + super
• Temporary contract for 12 months, with possibility to extend
• Standard Hours or work - Monday to Friday, 8:30 am till 5:00 pm - 7 & ½ hour days 5 days a week.

If you are interested in the role and you have the right experience for the position, please apply now following the link below. CM123W