Design Projects Lead, Health & Social Care

National-College-of-Art-; Dublin; On-site; EUR 61,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

NCAD is seeking a Design Projects Lead to manage a portfolio of design-led health projects across the Mater Hospital and Dublin North East region, under a two-year funded contract. The role requires hands-on design work from discovery to implementation and line management of junior designers in NCAD DesignLabs: Health.

Reporting to the Head of the Department of Product Design, you will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, plan workshops, engage stakeholders, and translate insights into tangible

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years’ professional design experience in healthcare, the public sector or higher education.
• A degree in Design or a related discipline, or equivalent professional experience.
• Demonstrated project management experience across multiple priorities.
• Demonstrated experience planning and delivering applied design projects in professional practice.
• Experience planning and facilitating workshops, stakeholder engagement and collaborative design activities.
• Experience supervising junior staff in a design team.

Responsibilities

• Manage a portfolio of design-led projects across health and social care contexts, ensuring projects are delivered to a high standard, on time and within budget.
• Be a key contributor in growing capacity in NCAD DesignLabs: Health across a team of designers and researchers.
• Lead project planning and monitoring progress, scheduling and delivery across multiple concurrent projects.
• Lead design research activities including interviews, observation, mapping, and synthesis.
• Plan and facilitate workshops, co-design sessions, and stakeholder engagement activities.
• Develop design concepts, prototypes and final design outputs in response to project needs.

Skills

Design for health

Project management

Stakeholder facilitation

Workshop facilitation

Communication skills

Supervising junior staff

Education

Design degree

Tools

Adobe Creative Suite

Figma

Miro

Job description

NCAD is seeking a Design Projects Lead to manage a portfolio of design-led health projects across the Mater Hospital and Dublin North East region, under a two-year funded contract. The role requires hands-on design work from discovery to implementation and line management of junior designers in NCAD DesignLabs: Health.

Reporting to the Head of the Department of Product Design, you will coordinate multidisciplinary teams, plan workshops, engage stakeholders, and translate insights into tangible