Senior Transformation Associate (GovTech)

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Job description

Role Description

PUBLIC is seeking an exceptional candidate who can help guide existing and future client opportunities. This entails working with our business development team to refine PUBLIC's hypotheses and theses around the future of public sector services and technology that drives them, and then identify future opportunities. This will include bidding on tenders as well as the development of more organic opportunities with our network.

The Senior Associate will form a critical part of PUBLIC's growing Transformation and Ventures practices by being a leader on projects, particularly focused on domains where PUBLIC has a proprietary advantage, such as Online Safety and Procurement. On the Transformation side, the Senior Associate will play a leadership role with client delivery teams to translate identified business problems into product and service collateral and develop Proofs-of-Concept that can be tested with government users. On the Ventures side, this role will be expected to inform our sales and investment strategy.

Project Leadership

As a Senior Associate, this position will be expected to manage more junior resources, upskilling them on consultative methods. This will include helping shape deliverables for clients, developing project plans, and managing client relationships. Candidates will be expected to demonstrate strong project management skills.

Thought Leadership

PUBLIC will look to this position to help shape future opportunities.. This will include primary research, through both our project work as well as our network, to refine our proprietary points of view on ways in which technology can improve the delivery of public services. That intelligence will then be filtered into our Ventures team, and could result in contribution to product ownership.

Core Responsibilities

Project Delivery

Manage a cross functional team that collaborates on external-client or internal-venture projects across PUBLIC's business
Contribute to the design of user-centric technology products or services
Lead user research and organisational/service assessment activities, including in client delivery contexts
Using low-code/no-code tools to develop prototypes and Proofs of Concepts to further refine Product decisions
Working with technical resources to determine technical architecture and development decisions

Wider Responsibilities

Contributing to the wider work of PUBLIC, including research, our accelerator programme "GovStart" and the annual GovTech Summit
Conferring key project learnings into actionable insights that can support the growth of our research, ventures and investment activity

Flexing into the Strategy Teams for delivery of project for venture work when required

Person specification

PUBLIC believes strongly in developing talent. As such we are primarily interested in candidates with strong character attributes and demonstrable potential to achieve. The skills and experience below are necessary for the Senior Associate role, but we are committed to ensuring employees are able to learn and grow with the role.

Essential Skills:

Experience working in client-facing roles
Strong understanding of design thinking and service design methodologies
Experience with the product design and software development lifecycle
Experience leading teams, particularly cross-functional teams
Independently motivated and able to manage competing time commitments
Strong analytical skills and exceptional attention to detail
Strong written and verbal communication, with experience publishing or presenting work to external audiences
Interest in, and knowledge of, emerging uses for technology in the public sector
Microsoft Office and G-Suite tools

Desirable experience includes:

Experience working in or with startups
Experience working with the public sector

Salary and benefits

The salary range for this role is £45,000 to £55,000 dependent on experience.

Like the rest of the company, you'll benefit from:

EMI share options scheme
A brand new MacBook laptop to work on, and a £200 working from home budget to make sure you have all the kit you need at home.
25 days per year, increasing one day per year up to a maximum of 30 days (in addition to bank holidays)
Six paid days of study leave per year for your learning and development
A 'Wellness Budget' of £300 a year to spend on things which support your wellness, such as gym membership, yoga, mindfulness or whatever works for you.
Mental Health support via Spill, offering unlimited text based support and access to face-to-face therapy.
Cycle to Work Scheme
Company Socials - PUBLIC Hall drinks every Thursday night, Monthly London team lunch, bi-annual all-company away days, and a monthly rotating Chief Happiness Officer to organise office fun in between.
Company pension scheme
Bonus scheme

PUBLIC is committed to building a diverse and inclusive workplace. We are an equal opportunity employer and welcome applicants of all different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives. Candidates from non-traditional backgrounds and underrepresented groups are strongly encouraged to apply.

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