Senior UX Designer

Job Introduction

As a Senior Designer within the Asset and Offerings Incubation (AOI) Team, you will lead the design of technical assets that can accelerate digital adoption for government clients.

Joining a new team at TBI consisting of developers, designers, architects and researchers, giving you the opportunity to help shape our culture, practices, and the way that we engage with our clients.

The primary focus of the role will be using modern approaches such as Design Thinking to guide government clients through opportunity identification, MVP definition and user experience design. Skills in visual design are also desirable to support the building out of assets.

Working with colleagues across TBI, helping to identify opportunities for assets and providing thought leadership to infuse a citizen-centric and user-focused approach into the way that TBI operates and interacts with governments.

The role may involve the co-development of assets that leverages partner tech solutions, and you will need to collaborate effectively with the partners to ensure that all aspects of a solution provide a good user experience.

The AOI team is part of the Global Innovation Unit within TBI’s Strategy and Partnership Division.

Key Responsibilities

Tasks will include but are not limited to:

• Facilitate workshops with senior government stakeholders and internal clients
• Create wireframes, mock-ups, and prototypes to illustrate design concepts
• Conduct user research and usability testing to inform design decisions
• Create visual designs that are visually appealing, user-friendly, and aligned with brand guidelines
• Work closely with developers and architects to ensure designs are implemented effectively
• Advocate for design and a user-focused approach across the TBI organisation
• Support agile delivery ceremonies included in day-to-day engagement execution including stand-ups and playbacks

Person Specification

This post would be a fit for a Designer with broad experience in agile software delivery and innovation. This post should have these skills and experience:

• Broad and comprehensive experience in design, with a focus on user-centred design
• Extensive experience applying Design Thinking procedures
• Proficiency in design tools (e.g. Figma, Mural)
• Strong portfolio of design work
• Experience working as part of an agile development team
• Experience working with governments is a plus
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills
• The ability to operate in rapidly changing and growth business environment
• Background of delivering digital solutions with a positive impact and measurable outcomes
• A proven self-starter and is entrepreneurial in spirit
• Fluency in English
• Able to travel up to 25%
• Bachelor’s or postgraduate degree or equivalent practical experience
• Keenly interested in the work of TBI and share in our mission and values

Please submit your application asap, interviews will be taking place from Monday 6^th February 2023
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About The Institute

The Tony Blair Institute (TBI) is a mission-driven not for profit organisation. We exist to equip political leaders and governments to build open, inclusive and prosperous societies. We work hard, every day, to make a difference. When governments work well they are able to create economic and social change in a way that promotes fairness, social justice and opportunity. We work relentlessly to support leader and governments with the challenges they face. Giving them practical solutions and actionable insights, that once implemented, can be transformative for their people  

We do this within two connected divisions: 

 Government Advisory 

Our Government Advisory teams work directly with political leaders and governments around the world to implement reforms that improve the lives of their citizens. It works with a variety of partners and its outputs cover a range of disciplines and projects across countries in Africa, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and South Asia.

 Policy Futures 

Our Policy Futures work encompasses three broad areas: 

• Renewing the Centre: developing a bold and innovative domestic policy programme to help renew the centre ground of British politics; 
• Tech and Public Policy: exploring the policy challenges and opportunities presented by the technological revolution; and 
• Extremism Policy Unit: creating solutions designed to tackle the threat of extremist ideologies in the UK and around the world. 

As an organisation, the core beliefs we all embrace are: 

• Open and Progressive: you’ll believe in the value of teamwork 
• Bold and Pragmatic: you’ll approach everything you do with integrity and authenticity 
• Optimistic Changemaker: you’ll be focused on results 

TBI believes embracing diversity and inclusion make us a better place to work.  It’s our goal to reflect everyone in society and we actively welcome applications from individuals and groups who are under-represented in the workplace. We celebrate difference be it ethnicity, religion, age, gender or gender identity, sexual orientation or disability. We will only ever assess you on your abilities and fit for a role. We’re happy to discuss any adjustments you need to ensure a level playing field during recruitment and, if you\'re successful, discuss any adjustments you might need to thrive in your role.