Workplace Designer - Public Sector, Hybrid & Net Zero

Government Recruitment Service; Birmingham; On-site; GBP 44,000 - 48,000; Full time

Job summary

The Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Workplace Designer in Birmingham to ensure the Government Workplace Design Guide is applied consistently across projects and to provide design guidance to the project team. The role sits within the Government Property Agency framework and supports the drive for safe, inclusive and flexible workplaces.

Reporting to the Workplace Design Manager, you will interpret requirements, help produce briefs for RIBA stages, and collaborate with

Responsibilities

• Advising the Workplace Design Manager on the status of the project’s design, ensuring alignment to the Government Workplace Design Guide and supporting technical handbooks.
• Providing professional advice and guidance to the project team, escalating design-related risks and issues as appropriate to the Workplace Design Manager.
• Technically assuring the designs produced by the GPA's consulting design partners and developer's architects, to ensure compliance with GPA's requirements.
• Implementing the Government Workplace Design Guide in full, as far as is reasonably practicable, and managing exceptions (client specialist requirements) into appropriate briefing material for designers to use during Cat A and Cat B RIBA stages, minimising the need for bespoke spaces.
• Work with the Project Manager to review client specialist requirements to minimise costs and unnecessary derogation from the Government Workplace Design Guide and technical annexes.
• Providing information to inform detailed briefings, options analysis and information on design for senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Monitoring and reporting on the project specific design progress.
• Supporting the GPA Customer Experience team to advocate smarter ways of working.
• Supporting the GPA’s Chief Technology Office team to deliver interoperable AV/IT solutions.
• Supporting the GPA Business Readiness team to design customer focussed products and services.
• Working with subject matter experts in design-related areas across government, and private sector professionals including the property industry.
• Acting as a client design point of contact for designers, contractors, consultant partners and their supply chains on specific projects.

Job description

The Government Recruitment Service is seeking a Workplace Designer in Birmingham to ensure the Government Workplace Design Guide is applied consistently across projects and to provide design guidance to the project team. The role sits within the Government Property Agency framework and supports the drive for safe, inclusive and flexible workplaces.

Reporting to the Workplace Design Manager, you will interpret requirements, help produce briefs for RIBA stages, and collaborate with