Senior Designer

WHO ARE WE LOOKING FOR?

We are looking for an experienced Senior Designer with international work experience to join a team of designers, researchers and changemakers worldwide. Ideally, you are comfortable leading innovation projects, managing client relationships, managing the team members, and most importantly, bringing innovation methodologies, ideas and ways of working to a broader team. The current fifteen-person team at the iDE Innovation Lab have been working together for many years, so this is a rare opportunity to join a well-established team working on a broad range of projects with a social innovation focus in Asia, Africa and Latin America. 

WHO WILL YOU BE WORKING FOR?

You will be working with the in-house social innovation lab of iDE called Innovation Lab located in Asia and Africa, with a mission to practise, coach, and promote design and innovation processes as a co-creative, power-shifting problem-solving approach to address complex systemic challenges by understanding user needs, motivations, and behaviours and developing new interventions to power entrepreneurs.

The iDE Innovation Lab also functions as a strategy and innovation consultancy in focus areas of water, sanitation & hygiene, climate change (clean energy, conservation), agriculture, and maternal health & nutrition. Over the years, we have worked with a portfolio of international development organisations such as Care International, Hellen Keller, USAID, UNICEF, World Bank Group, Plant and Food Research, Save the Children, and SNV.

iDE is a global non-profit organisation spanning offices in 14 countries, employing over 1,000 people directly, and indirectly enabling income and opportunities for our rural audience of focus through market-based approaches across different sectors. Find out more about iDE here!

Requirements

• Have at least 5 years of experience working for a design firm/innovation lab with ample experience in applying a Design Thinking, Human-Centred Design and Behaviour Change methodology 
• Have experience of working in different countries, across diverse cultural environments, or remote areas
• Have experience in innovation management techniques (sprint/agile project management, lean, stage gates)
• Possess experience in overseeing, managing and leading design projects (building a project plan, meeting deadlines, and delegating tasks)
• Possess strong skills and experience in analysing, synthesising and coming up with digestible strategies and action plan based on the design research effort 
• Have experience in leading, managing and coaching other team members
• Possess visual design, product design and service design skills
• Have experience in developing creative strategies, interventions and communicating this effectively with a client and team (Have also confidence in presenting in front of large audiences)
• Have experience in facilitating workshops (Design Thinking, HCD, co-creations, stakeholder alignments)
• Possess experience in writing proposals and working on business development
• Be a tech savvy and possess skills in using Canva, Slack, Google Workplace, Asana and other design and project management software
• High proficiency in English (listening, reading, writing and speaking)