Calance Job Opening - Service Design Manager

Calance Job Opening

Job Title	Service Design Manager - ID:43584
Duration	1 year
Start Date	ASAP
Job Skills	Work with UX designers, visual designers, content strategists, architects, and technologists to develop and build tools and resources (e.g., websites, apps, one-pagers, applications, the design of space, etc.)
Location	Hartford, CT

FOR IMMEDIATE DETAILS about this position, please contacts: Michell Casey (800) 732-4680 x715 // MCasey@calance.com

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** We will NOT accept 3rd Party (C2C) Contractors **
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Position: Service Design Manager
JOB REF#: 43584
Duration: 12+ Months (Contract)
Location: HYBRID- Hartford, CT 06105
Pay Rate: OPEN/MARKET RATE (W2 Only)

**ONLY considering LOCAL CANDIDATES for this role, we will NOT consider candidates willing to relocate**

HYBRID: �Will work ONSITE 2 days every week (LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY)
HOURS:�Monday - Friday, 8 AM - 5 PM (40) hour work week

Service Design Manager will work as part of an iterative team using agile sprints. Tasks may be adjusted, reduced, or expanded as the project work progresses through various phases. Responsible for maintaining and providing written documentation on any work performed in conjunction with this engagement.�They will report to the Deputy Director of Digital Product and lead service design projects from project scoping to research, design strategy, and implementation. They will collaborate with team members to transform the digital team’s work into a rigorous and sustainable practices. As a senior member of the team, you’re responsible for leading and implementing all aspects of a project life cycle—including strategy, design, implementation, and evaluation. In addition, you’ll mentor emerging team members by helping to expand their skill sets and deliver exceptional work. Lastly, you’ll amplify the Digital Service’s service design approach, progress project work, and help build the service design practice.

RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

Strategizing:
• � �Design and facilitate thoughtful and ethical research (in collaboration with the team’s User Research Manager) to understand the service-related needs of residents, staff, leaders, and other stakeholders.
• � �Synthesize research into insights and well-defined opportunity areas for intervention. Help translate these into actionable steps while communicating with people who are often unfamiliar to design and research methods.
• � �Develop feasible, person-centered, and comprehensive service strategies that improve resident interactions with government and staff work experiences.
• � �Design service solutions that work across channels of experience—including digital and non-digital touchpoints (e.g., in-person interactions and physical service environments).

Practice Building:
• � �Build the Service Design team through hiring, growing, and retaining high-performing teammates.
• � �Drive a practice in mixed methods research (qualitative and quantitative) including when and how to apply methods throughout the product development lifecycle.
• � �Set standards of practice for and with service design team members.
• � �Expand team members’ skill sets through regular feedback, learning sessions, and one-on-one mentorship.
• � �Design and facilitate skill-shares with colleagues, so they can apply strategic design methods to their work.

Communicating:
• � �Use iterative processes to ensure project deliverables; like service blueprints, process flows, stakeholder maps, and project reports, are rigorously executed.
• � �Visually communicate ideas, research synthesis, and prototypes, so stakeholders can align on concepts. Knowledge and familiarity with tools such as MIRO and Figma will help move ideas from conversations to prototypes for feedback.
• � �Develop compelling narratives that communicate the human experience to decision-makers, so they can make clear decisions that align with evidence and human need.

Implementing:
• � �Work with UX designers, visual designers, content strategists, architects, and technologists to develop and build tools and resources (e.g., websites, apps, one-pagers, applications, the design of space, etc.) supportive of service improvement
strategies.
• � �Facilitate listening and research sessions with subject matter experts.�
• � �Create change management, governance, and pilot plans setting implementation efforts up for success, acknowledging the constraints and realities of the service system.
• � �Facilitate feature and product roadmaps to take stakeholders from current state, through MVP, then to the idealized future state in iterative steps to meet resource and stakeholder needs.
• � �Synthesize complex information from various sources into clear, actionable insights.
• � �Develop metrics of success to measure the effectiveness of project outcomes.
• � �Evaluate pilot plans to understand what works and doesn’t about a solution.
• � �Take appropriate action to revise service solutions based on learning's from evaluation.

Collaborating:
• � �Communicate work without jargon or pretense.
• � �Ensure participatory design processes include the right people, at the right points in time.
• � �Offer and take constructive feedback.
• � �Respect and protect team members and stakeholders’ time.
• � �Communicate with clarity and honesty around the status of work.
• � �Cultivate and maintain respectful relationships with project stakeholders.

Advocating:
• � �In partnership with the CTDS product team and agency communications staff, disseminate lessons learned, tools, and best practices of the CTDS to the public.
• � �Actively contribute to the field of service design through journal submissions, conference participation, and community skill-shares.

Project Managing:
• � �Collaborate with senior leadership on the design of a project, key outcomes, and methods.
• � �Break down complex projects into reasonable project plans with clear deliverables, milestones, and deadlines.
• � �Lead project partners and team members through service design processes.
• � �Clearly communicate project plans and their status to leadership, team members, and other stakeholders.
• � �Effectively navigate through ambiguity and project challenges.
• � �Deliver projects on time.

REQUIRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
. 5+ years Project Managing and implementing all aspects of a project life cycles, including strategy, design, implementation, and evaluation.
. 5+ years managing project scoping to determine design strategy and implementation, including creating documentation
. Experience working with UX designers, visual designers, content strategists, architects, and technologists to develop and build tools and resources, such as websites, apps, one-pagers, applications, the design of space
• Experienced with Digital Service’s service design approach, progress project work, and building service design practices.
. Experience leading iterative team using agile sprints
. Knowledgeable designer with fresh, creative ideas, and an excellent eye for detail.
. Understands User Experience Design and Development methodologies, working in an Agile environment.
• 5+ years managing project relationships with colleagues, clients, and project stakeholders
• EDUCATION: Design-related degree or relevant industry experience

Nice-to-Have Skills
• Bilingual
• Strong visual design anesthetic
• Experience with community-based and participatory design
• Experience working in the social impact space on complex service challenges
• Experience with process improvement methodologies (LEAN, six sigma, etc.)
• Experience with human centered change management

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Calance Consultant Benefits Offerings:
- EPO/PPO Medical Plans
- HMO/PPO Dental programs
- Vision - VSP (Vision Plan Summary)
- 401K Retirement vesting program (VOYA)
- Paid Bi-Weekly/Direct Deposit
- Flex Spending Plan
- Voluntary Life, AD&D, STD or LTD plans

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