Workplace Designer: Shape Smart, Inclusive, Flexible Offices

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

Job summary

Government Recruitment Service advertises a Workplace Designer role in Nottingham. The post is permanent and full-time, with a salary band of £43,936 to £48,268 per year.

The Workplace Designer will ensure compliance with the Government Workplace Design Guide across projects and provide design guidance to the project team. The role reports to the Workplace Design Manager and involves collaboration with GPA colleagues and external partners to deliver safe, inclusive, and flexible workplaces, 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.
• Technically assuring the designs produced by GPA’s consulting design partners and developers’ architects, to ensure compliance with GPA’s requirements.
• Implementing the Government Workplace Design Guide in full, and managing exceptions into briefing material for designers during Cat A and Cat B RIBA stages, minimising bespoke spaces.
• Work with the Project Manager to review client specialist requirements to minimise costs and unnecessary derogation from the Guide and technical annexes.
• Providing information to inform detailed briefings, options analysis and information for senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Monitoring and reporting on the project specific design progress.
• Supporting GPA Customer Experience team to advocate smarter ways of working.
• Supporting GPA CTO team to deliver interoperable AV/IT solutions.
• Supporting GPA Business Readiness team to design customer focussed products and services.
• Working with subject matter experts 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

Government Recruitment Service advertises a Workplace Designer role in Nottingham. The post is permanent and full-time, with a salary band of £43,936 to £48,268 per year.

The Workplace Designer will ensure compliance with the Government Workplace Design Guide across projects and provide design guidance to the project team. The role reports to the Workplace Design Manager and involves collaboration with GPA colleagues and external partners to deliver safe, inclusive, and flexible workplaces, with