Service Designer – Active SC Clearance Applicants Only

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 86,000 - 113,000; Full time

Job summary

Advanced Resource Managers Ltd in London is seeking a Lead Service Designer to shape and redesign complex public services. You will lead discovery through Live stages, map end-to-end user journeys, and create comprehensive service artefacts while collaborating with researchers to ground decisions in evidence.

Regular in-person attendance is expected. The role requires 5+ years in service design, UK public sector experience, independent leadership, and active SC clearance with a valid UK

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional service design experience.
• Significant UK public sector service design delivery.
• Experience leading complex services independently.
• Proven ability to create service maps, blueprints and journeys.
• Experience across Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live.
• Active SC clearance and a valid UK passport.

Responsibilities

• Lead service design across complex public-sector services from Discovery through Alpha, Beta and Live.
• Map complex end-to-end services across user-facing and internal processes.
• Create artefacts such as service maps, blueprints, journeys, ecosystem maps and future-state visions.
• Collaborate with User Researchers to ground decisions in evidence.
• Conduct lightweight research and stakeholder interviews as needed.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, co-design sessions, and stakeholder interviews.
• Help senior stakeholders understand and align around future direction.
• Challenge assumptions and drive better service outcomes.

Skills

Service design

Public sector experience

Independent lead/senior level

End-to-end service design

Service maps/blueprints

Discovery-Alpha-Beta-Live

SC clearance

UK passport

Job description

Please note that you must hold an active SC Clearance and hold a UK Passport to apply for this role. If you don't, we'll automatically decline your application.

Day Rate: £540 per day Inside IR35 Umbrella

Start - ASAP

Duration - 6 Months

Location - London - Hybrid

• The successful candidate will need to be able to work in London regularly, with an expectation of attending in person at least once per week and potentially more frequently where project activity, workshops or stakeholder engagement requires it.

The role;

• As a Lead Service Designer, you'll take a central role in shaping complex public services, helping organisations understand how their services work today and defining how they should work in the future.

What You'll Do

• Lead service design activity across complex public-sector services, working from Discovery through Alpha, Beta and Live.
• Understand and map complex end-to-end services across user-facing and internal processes.
• Create clear service design artefacts including service maps, service blueprints, as-is and to-be journeys, ecosystem maps, experience principles and future-state service visions.
• Work closely with User Researchers and other disciplines to ensure service design decisions are grounded in evidence.
• Undertake lightweight research and stakeholder interviews independently where appropriate.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, co-design sessions, stakeholder interviews, playbacks and show-and-tells.
• Help senior stakeholders understand complex services and build alignment around future direction.
• Constructively challenge assumptions, existing processes and solution-led thinking where this prevents better service outcomes.
• Create compelling narratives that communicate complex service problems and opportunities clearly.

Must Have

• 5+ years of professional experience in service design or a closely related user-centred design discipline.
• Significant experience delivering service design within the UK public sector.
• Experience working independently at lead or senior level on complex services.
• Strong evidence of strategic, end-to-end service design rather than solely product or interface design.
• Demonstrable experience creating high-quality service maps, service blueprints, user journeys and other end-to-end service design artefacts.
• Experience working across different stages of service development, including Discovery, Alpha, Beta and Live.
• Active Security Check (SC) clearance.
• Valid UK passport.