Create impact, reduce inequalities, transform systems
Are you energised by digging into problems and challenging assumptions? Are you inspired by designing new solutions to big social challenges? Are you motivated by helping people transform the systems around them?
Working at Innovation Unit might be your next big adventure.
Innovation Unit’s mission
What's it like to work at IU?
Who works at IU?
Apply to work at Innovation Unit
At Innovation Unit we use Applied for our recruitment. Applied aims to overcome unconscious bias in recruiting. Instead of using your CV alone, we’ll be asking you to answer questions to test skills needed for the role. The responses are then anonymised, and reviewed in a random order by members of our team.
The Applied platform also asks some demographic questions before you start your application. We at Innovation Unit never see the responses to these demographic questions with your application. We only see summary statistics to help us check if our candidate pool is balanced and if everyone has an equal chance to get hired irrespective of their background. If you prefer, you can easily opt out of answering these questions.
Innovation Unit is an accredited Living Wage Employer and is committed to paying a wage based on the cost of living to all their staff.
Jobs at Innovation Unit
We have a strong team ethos where we combine our skills and experiences to create the biggest impact.
- Principal Innovation Consultants and Directors lead our largest, most complex projects, managing multiple budgets over £600k and teams of more than seven people.
- Senior Innovation Consultants lead significant projects and work as part of the team on larger projects, also managing partners, budgets up to £200k and teams of around three to seven people.
- Innovation Consultants lead small to medium projects and work as part of the team on large projects, also managing partners, budgets up to £50k and teams of around two to five people.
- Senior Associates and Associates work across IU’s projects where they lead on or contribute to strands of work based on their specific strengths, knowledge and expertise.
- Heads of Service Design lead and contribute to large projects, designing and embedding new solutions, also leading the development of our practice and people in service design.
- Senior Service Designers work in project teams, leading projects and a small team as well as undertaking research, prototyping and co-design.
- Service Designers work in project teams, leading elements of projects as well as undertaking research, prototyping and co-design.
- Our Board of Trustees bring diverse experience and skills to support and challenge IU to greater success.
When there are vacancies at Innovation Unit, you can find them on this page.