Delivering insight for system transformation
Senior Design Thinking, Process Improvement Consultant
Location
United States
Posted
19 days ago
Salary
$50K - $200K / year
Seniority
Senior
Job Description
Senior Design Thinking, Process Improvement Consultant
Pinnacle Health Informatics
• Utilize both human-centered design and business process improvement methodologies to identify bottlenecks, pain points, service gaps, inefficiencies, and root causes across public-facing and internal government processes. • Lead current-state and future-state process mapping efforts for programs, services, and operational workflows, including handoffs, approvals, decision points, dependencies, and failure points. • Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, journey mapping, service blueprinting, and user research to understand how policies, processes, systems, and organizational structures affect the people who use and deliver services. • Develop practical recommendations that improve accessibility, efficiency, transparency, customer experience, and service outcomes while aligning with agency mission, compliance obligations, and policy requirements. • Facilitate cross-functional collaboration among program, operations, policy, IT, digital, and leadership teams to move improvements from discovery through implementation. • Define success metrics and support agencies in measuring, sustaining, and continuously improving redesigned services and operational processes. • Lead or support organizational change initiatives associated with service redesign, process improvement, and transformation efforts, including stakeholder engagement, communications, training support, and adoption planning.
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in public administration, public policy, business, organizational development, industrial engineering, operations management, design, human factors, or a related field.
- Five or more years of professional experience in human-centered design, process improvement, service design, operational excellence, organizational transformation, or consulting, preferably in government, public sector, or other highly regulated environments.
- Demonstrated experience applying human-centered design methods such as user interviews, journey mapping, service blueprinting, co-design, synthesis, prototyping, and iterative testing to improve services and operations.
- Demonstrated experience with business process mapping, workflow analysis, process redesign, and optimization using structured improvement methods such as Lean, Six Sigma, BPM, or related frameworks.
- Certification in human-centered design, design thinking, service design, or a comparable discipline from a recognized program.
- Certification or formal training in business process mapping, Lean, Six Sigma, BPMN, business process management, or related continuous improvement methodologies.
- Experience leading organizational change initiatives tied to process redesign, service modernization, digital transformation, operating model change, or enterprise improvement efforts.
- Experience developing and executing change management strategies that support stakeholder alignment, communications, training, adoption, resistance management, and sustainment.
Benefits
- Health insurance
- Paid time off
- Flexible work arrangements
- Professional development
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