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Change and Transformation Analyst - Inside IR35 for AWE
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.
As a Change and Transformation Analyst your main responsibilities will be to:
- Implementation of the CFO Communications Strategy and delivery of the CFO communications plan
- Support delivery of CFO Improvement and Engagement activities
- Coordination of the CFO Mentoring and Buddy schemes
- Maintain Finance business resilience plan to ensure it's fit for purpose and up-to-date at quarterly intervals
- Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player
- Collate and submit the CFO functional input to the Executive Review meetings as appropriate
- Co-ordination and delivery of CFO communication and reward events, including the production of presentation materials
- Maintain the CFO induction programme
- Support delivery of the CFO graduate and apprentice scheme recruitment process
- Assist with the maintenance and update of the CFO SharePoint site and portal pages
- Work with others to form high performing teams
- Adopt a Continuous Improvement mindset by identifying obstacles to success and taking ownership to find solutions
- Recognise and respect a diverse and inclusive working environment that allows individuals to flourish and realise their potential
You'll have:
- Experience in the supporting change across projects
- Strong communication skills
- Secretariat duties
- Stakeholder engagement at all levels
- Presentation skillset
- Public / Private sector experience
- Self starter
Desirable skills:
- Experience within finance would be beneficial
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Michelle.floyd@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
Armed Forces Covenant
AWE is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Digital Delivery Manager - Inside IR35 for MoD
Please Note: Active SC Clearance is require for this position. Candidates must be eligible and willing to undergo SC screening as a minimum.
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.
To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.
Our work really matters; we offer engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services we provide. We employ people in many different roles and in many locations across the UK and abroad. We have jobs in policy, finance, HR, IS/IT, commercial and project management and all the types of jobs you would expect to find in a government department, or indeed in the private sector. We also employ doctors, dentists, teachers, police, fire service, quantity surveyors, and engineers to name a few. There are many opportunities to develop and progress both within MOD and across the wider Civil Service, whether you’re a permanent appointee or an interim.
Description:
A senior delivery manager is accountable for the effective delivery of complex, high risk products and services. The role is similar to a delivery manager role, but senior delivery managers have more experience across a range of products and services, throughout the entire product life cycle, and have greater responsibility and accountability as the main point of escalation.
Skills/Knowledge Required:
- Agile and Lean practices. You can coach and lead teams in Agile and Lean practices. You can act as a recognised expert and advocate for the approaches, continuously reflecting and challenging the team. You can create or tailor new ways of working, and constantly innovate.
- Commercial management. You can take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers. You can identify appropriate contractual frameworks and identify appropriate suppliers. You can negotiate with contracted suppliers. You can get good value out of contracts and suppliers.
- Communicating between the technical and non-technical. You can mediate between people and mend relationships, communicating with stakeholders at all levels. You can manage stakeholder expectations and moderate discussions about high risk and complexity, even within constrained timescales. You can speak on behalf of and represent the community to large audiences inside and outside of government.
- Financial management. You can negotiate, influence or set budgets in complex environments. You can write or input into business cases and can communicate business-value propositions.
- Life cycle perspective. You can apply experience in multiple parts of the product life cycle. You can recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop. You can recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet them. You can work with other Agile delivery operations throughout the product life cycle. You can plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
- Maintaining delivery momentum. You can optimise the delivery flow of teams. You can actively address the most complicated risks, issues and dependencies including where ownership exists outside the team or no clear ownership exists. You can identify innovative ways to unblock issues.
- Making a process work. You can identify and challenge organisational processes of increasing complexity and those processes that are unnecessarily complicated. You can add value and can coach the organisation to inspect and adapt processes. You can guide teams through the implementation of a new process.
- Planning. You can lead a continual planning process in a very complex environment. You can plan beyond product delivery. You can identify dependencies in plans across services and co-ordinate delivery. You can coach other teams as the central point of expertise.
- Team dynamics and collaboration. You can identify problems or issues in the team dynamic and rectify them. You can identify issues through Agile ‘health checks’ with the team, and help to stimulate the right responses. You can engage in varying types of feedback, choosing the right type at the appropriate time and ensuring the discussion and decision stick. You can accelerate the team development cycle.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with hannah.kenna@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Senior Tech Bar Analyst (Inside IR35) for The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
Note: SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, (as a minimum you will need to eligible for SC)
The FCDO pursues our national interests and projects the UK as a force for good in the world. We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK's security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.
Within the FCDO, Information and Digital Directorate (IDD) is responsible for delivering digital, data and technology and information management solutions and services to support the FCDO and UK Government partners deliver our international diplomatic, development and consular outcomes.
IT Service Management
The IT Service Management department is focused on ensuring that End Users are able to access and use the IT Services available to them in a structured and coherent manner.
The IT Service Management department is moving to a product centric way of working whereby Product Teams are empowered to take on devolved responsibility for operational Service Management activities to manage risk, build trust and enable the organisation to work faster and more collaboratively.
Tech Bar:
The Tech Bar function sits within the Service Experience function and is responsible for the provision of a ‘face-to-face' frontline support for End Users. The Tech Bar function is a highly visible representative of IDD within the wider organisation seeking to provide an excellent experience for End Users.
The Senior Tech Bar Analyst is a role within the IT Service Management department of IDD, reporting into the Head of Service Experience.
The Senior Tech Bar Analyst is responsible for day to day interactions with End Users, providing first line support and guidance to aid in resolving any IT issues or queries they may have.
Key responsibilities
The Senior Tech Bar Analyst is responsible for:
Engaging with End Users, completing resolution activities in line with Tech Bar and Incident Management processes, within the agreed OLAs and KPIs for the applicable services.Providing excellent customer service to End Users.Developing Knowledge Articles and Tech Bar communications for End Users.Providing training and development to End Users, collaborating with Product Teams to prepare to support End Users with new or changed services. Communicating updates from Service Desk, Incident Management, Knowledge Management and Product Teams to End Users. Identifying potential Major Incidents and escalating up to the Tech Bar ManagerProducing timely Tech Bar reporting and management information to identify problem management and continual service improvement opportunities.Proactively focusing on continuous improvement of self and service, working with others to improve the user experience, simplify processes and improve efficiency of IT Services to enable the Government’s diplomatic, development and consular work around the world.
Key skills and knowledge
- You have experience of working as a product manager delivering user centred digital services/products, through which you have gained skills in product ownership and the ability to contextualise problems and their potential solutions within the wider needs of the organisation.
- Maintains the stability and usability of the platform across production and nonproduction environments, leads upgrade planning and execution, responsible for providing the business support that makes using ServiceNow as a strategic platform possible.
- Owns the relationship with project stakeholders to identify, prioritize, model, and document business, process, and data requirements.
- Works with stakeholders to drive adoption.
- ServiceNow qualifications with Fundamentals as a minimum, working knowledge of ServiceNow Modules, including ITSM, ITAM, ITOM and LSD.
- You know how to apply tools and concepts in a variety of ways and adapt to change, using new ways of working where appropriate. This allows you to identify and compare processes or delivery methods to use, to help the team to decide on the best approach.
- You have experience of collaborating with user researchers and understand the importance of user research in identifying and prioritising the needs to be met, and you understand the variety and complexity of users’ digital needs and how products can meet these.
- You understand the product life cycle and how to design operational processes for the running and maintenance of products or services throughout their product life cycle.
About You
We are looking for someone with strong technical skills and experience in Tech Bar or Service Desk functions to support the maintenance of live service, who can demonstrate the skills outlined in the Senior service desk analyst role-level, in particular:
Customer Service Management (relevant skill level: working) User Focus (relevant skill level: awareness) Service Reporting (relevant skill level: working) Ownership and initiative (relevant skill level: working)
A minimum of ITIL Foundation is required for this role.
We are particularly interested in hearing from candidates who have had experience of using the following technologies and can demonstrate these in their CV or personal statement:
Microsoft IntuneWindows 10 End user SupportApple IOS Device Support (specifically iPhone and iPad)Azure Active Directory user account trouble shooting
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with mark.salmon@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Paralegal (Inside IR35) for Government Legal Department (GLD)
The Government Legal Department (“GLD”) is one of the largest providers of legal services across government and works with over 180 government departments and agencies.
An exciting opportunity has arisen for up to four Executive Officers (Paralegals), with experience of public inquiries/reviews and/or litigation (ideally public law litigation), to join the Public Inquiries, Reviews and Litigation ("PIRL") Team within GLD’s Litigation Group.
The post holders will be assigned to work on the Post Office Horizon IT Inquiry.
As a Paralegal, your main responsibilities will be to:
- Comply with Lexcel requirements, as well as policies, standards, procedures and service level agreements set at the GLD, Litigation Group and Team level
- Comply with GLD Time Recording Policy and to meet chargeable hours target set by the Team
- Manage their own workload (including meeting tight deadlines to preserve the GLD’s reputation) with appropriate supervision and risk management
- Carry out extensive disclosure exercise including documentation review, using the Relativity IT Platform
- Assist with legal research and instruction of counsel
- Build and maintain effective working relationship with clients
- Maintain accurate and comprehensible case files
- Assist with the team’s knowledge management/sharing objectives (also providing input into client legal awareness projects)
- Attend and contribute to team meetings
- Assist with administrative tasks when required to do so
- Display the Civil Service Values
- Keep abreast of legal developments and current thinking on related issues and use training and other methods to refresh and improve their skills and knowledge.
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Good organisational skills (including the ability to work to tight deadlines and prioritise own work in order to manage a busy and/or complex workload, and the ability to master new areas of law quickly) are essential.
- Effective team working and client care skills (including the ability to build constructive working relationships with clients)
- An ability to work proactively and independently with appropriate supervision
- Ability to build good working relationships with colleagues and clients alike.
- Demonstrate good oral and written communication skills
Desirable Experience:
- Casework experience
- Public law experience within the public sector (including insight into the interrelationship between law and politics)
- Previous experience of public inquiries/reviews and/or litigation (ideally public law litigation)
- Legal qualification
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Ciara.Lynn@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Travel Management Category Lead– (Inside IR35) for Crown Commercial Services
MUST HAVE ACTIVE SC CLEARANCE
CCS is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK.
As a trading fund and executive agency of the Cabinet Office, we implement procurement policy on behalf of the government.
We use the collective buying power of our customers and our commercial expertise to help public sector organisations achieve value for money and provide great outcomes for taxpayers.
We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Travel Management Category Lead to oversee and optimize our travel procurement processes and vendor relationships.
As a Travel Management Category Lead, your main responsibilities will be:
Develop and implement a comprehensive category strategy for travel management, aligned with company objectives and travel policies.Identify opportunities for cost savings, process improvement, and service enhancement within the travel category.Manage relationships with travel suppliers, including airlines, hotels, car rental agencies, and travel management companies (TMCs).Negotiate contracts and agreements with vendors to secure favourable terms, pricing, and service levels.Monitor vendor performance and compliance with contractual obligations, and address any issues or discrepancies as needed.Travel Program Management:Oversee the company's travel program, including booking processes, travel policy enforcement, and traveller support.Ensure compliance with travel policies and procedures and implement measures to control costs and minimize risk.Provide guidance and support to employees on travel-related matters, including booking options, expense reimbursement, and travel safety.Conduct regular analysis of travel spending, identify cost drivers and trends, and develop strategies to optimize travel expenses.Implement measures to track and report on key performance indicators (KPIs) related to travel cost savings, efficiency, and compliance.Assess and mitigate travel-related risks, including health and safety concerns, travel disruptions, and geopolitical issues.Develop and maintain contingency plans and emergency response procedures to ensure the safety and well-being of travellers.:Collaborate with internal stakeholders, including finance, human resources, and executive leadership, to align travel management strategies with business goals and priorities.Communicate regularly with key stakeholders to provide updates on travel program performance, challenges, and opportunities,You’ll have relevant experience in:
Active SC Clearance Travel industry experienceProven experience in travel management or procurement roles, with experience in strategic sourcing, vendor management, and travel program administration.Strong negotiation and contract management skills, with the ability to build and maintain relationships with travel suppliers and vendors.Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse travel data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights.Proficiency in travel booking tools and expense management systems, as well as advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other analytical tools.Behaviours
LeadershipManaging a Quality ServiceCommunicating and InfluencingDelivering at PaceTechnical
Category & Crisis ManagementStakeholder ManagementProcurement ProcessesTravel Experience, Knowledge and/or PassionIf this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with thomas.lester@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
At CCS, we actively support, promote, and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers, and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people.
Freedom of Information Advisor - Inside IR35 for HM Treasury
If you’re interested in making a difference to people’s lives, HM Treasury can offer you an exciting opportunity to influence decision making that affects the whole of the UK. Working at the heart of government, we collaborate across government to promote responsible public spending and drive strong and sustainable economic growth.?
Our work ranges from protecting customers through the regulation of the financial sector, helping to reduce carbon emissions and creating a greener economy, to promoting British trade around the world and supporting people across the country on jobs, growth and more.
Role purpose:
The FOI Case Adviser position is an exciting role that offers the post-holder the chance to work with every team across Treasury. The Treasury sits at the heart of government policy-making and receives a wide range of interesting and often complex requests. The FOI team manage those requests and for ensuring that the Department follows the statutory requirements of the various Information Rights regimes. We work closely with policy teams on responses and provide handling advice for all requests.
The post-holder will develop an insight into many areas throughout Treasury, as well using their excellent understanding of the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations, and represent the Department by engaging with Other Government Departments, the public and the Information Commissioner’s Office.
The main duties and responsibilities of the Freedom of Information Advisor would be to:
- Handling own casework by ensuring policy officials engage fully with the team and the legislation and adhere to strict statutory deadlines.
- Representing the team across the Department to advise our Treasury colleagues on the requirements of the legislation, providing training and guidance as appropriate.
- Suggesting and delivering solutions for the appropriate handling of sensitive information through discussion with key partners to provide responses in accordance with the legislation.
- Engaging with external partners including bodies associated with the Treasury, to share relevant knowledge and information.
- Reviewing case handling at the internal review stage to assess whether responses were correct and in accordance with our obligations.
- Drafting responses on Information Commissioner complaint cases to strict deadlines
- Delivering awareness sessions on the information regimes across the department.
- Promoting good practice to ensure HMT is compliant with the legislation, including strong information and records management.
- Working on continuous improvement and be willing to develop an understanding of data and how analysis can drive up performance.
You’ll have:
- Strong previous experience of handling requests under the Freedom of Information Act and the Environmental Information Regulations.
- Experience of case management
- Experience working to strict deadlines
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Christopher.black@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Agile Delivery Manager (Inside IR35) for Department for Work & Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
- Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
- Increase saving for, and security in later life
- Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
- Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
- Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity
The Senior Agile Delivery Manager will act as a servant-leader and promote self-managing teams ensuring impediments and blockers are mitigated or removed. They will own commercial relationships with suppliers and ensure that their projects/programmes have effective governance mechanisms. They will ensure that funding is in place and track spending on their projects/programmes. They will act as mentors to other Agile Delivery Managers and build a network of agile delivery managers across government departments to share knowledge and best practices. They will lead recruitment and actively participate in the selection of future team members.
As an Agile Delivery Manager, your main responsibilities will be:
- Help high performance teams to continuously improve, share information and set standards for other teams
- Helps develop and utilise meaningful metrics in order to drive teams towards their goals and understand areas for improvement
- Creates a safe and supporting environment for all teams, encouraging them to experiment and making failure a safe part of learning.
- Leads by example, acting as a servant-leader demonstrate the right behaviours. Deals with conflict and helps establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism
- Work with technology and business teams to ensure that new products & services are delivered effectively to realise measurable benefits
- Supports the Product Owners to define and build the digital delivery roadmap and translate into an achievable backlog
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes. Able to recognise when something does not work and encourages a mind-set of experimentation. Can adapt and reflect, is resilient and has the ability to see outside of the process. Able to use a blended approach depending on the context.
- Able to help teams to manage and visualise outcomes, prioritise work and work to agreed minimum viable product (MVP).
- Able to listen to the needs of the technical and business stakeholders and interpret between them.
- Capable of proactive and reactive communication. Able to apply experience of multiple parts of the lifecycle. Able to recognise when it is right to move forward and when it is right to stop. Able to recognise the appropriate deliverables and the right people to meet these.
- Able to work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product lifecycle. Able to plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
- Influences stakeholders and manages relationships effectively. Builds long term strategic relationships. Facilitates and delivers the business outcomes.
- Has the ability to apply a digital understanding to their work. Is able to identify and implement solutions for assisted digital. Can help teams understand the ways that digital technology is changing user behaviour, and the challenges and opportunities for design and delivery of government services.
- Able to take responsibility for complex relationships with contracted suppliers. Able to identify appropriate contractual frameworks. Able to identify appropriate suppliers. Able to negotiate with contracted suppliers. Able to get good value out of contracts and suppliers.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with rebecca.nolan@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Digital Technical Architect (Inside IR35) for MoD – Submarine Delivery Agency
To provide technical ability towards the development and implementation of the SDA (Submarine Delivery Agency) Business Management System (BMS); working collaboratively with stakeholders across the agency, on the development, maintenance & continual improvement of robust, consistent & inter-related processes to meet the needs & expectations of SDA’s interested parties with maximum clarity, efficiency, and effectiveness.
As a Technical Architect your main responsibilities will be:
- Primary architectural contact for the SDA Business Management system
- Working collaboratively with the Op Model workstream, Business Process Owners, BMS team, and associated stakeholders for the definition, deployment, maintenance of the Business Process Framework and its underlying processes held within the central BMS
- Interface with the business sponsor and all other stakeholders
- Ensure the solution continues to meet project requirements and is aligned to the direction of the agency/Op Model
- Provide ownership of technical solutions, as well as options, with documented impacts and benefits
- Review and improve the infrastructure hardware and software requirements
- Collaborate with the project manager to develop detailed project plans
- Continue to define system requirements, based on the business needs balanced against other constraints such as cost and timing. Ensuring that this set of high-level requirements is consistent, complete, correct and defined through the operating model
- Support in converting requirements into a further level of detail for solution proposals and later implementation – Development of system
- Interpret and map evolving business requirements to solution functionalities
- Understand software, hardware, and interactions across MoD to understand interdependencies and alignment
Essential:
- SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks
- Proven experience developing strategic system architecture plans
- Experience with and understanding of the development, deployment and through life management of architecture systems and Change Management tools, preferably APQC BPF
- Demonstrable knowledge of AS/EN9100 / ISO 9001 and IAQG SLA Frameworks and experience of Quality Management Systems/process approach
- Experience in system creation and development
- Understanding of information processing and fundamentals/best practices
- Analytical, troubleshooting, and conceptual ability
- Experience supplying guidance and leadership to system users/developers/team
- Ability to build strong stakeholder relationships across the agency, and wider enterprise
- Strategic planning experience
- An effective communicator with experience in MS applications/tools
- Good business negotiation skills, influence, conflict resolution, and problem solver
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with karl.robinson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Finance Support Officer (Inside IR35) for Government Digital Service (GDS)
At the Government Digital Service (GDS), our mission is to build a simple, joined-up and personalised experience of government for everyone. Using our unique position at the centre of government, we develop services that work for the user, however complex the underlying systems may be.We believe that ensuring things work for end users is the only way to realise the efficiencies that come with digital transformation.
As a Finance Support Officer, your main responsibilities will be:
- Processing invoices in a timely and organised manner
- Process purchase order requests within allocated time frames
- Support mailbox management daily
- Chasing Purchase orders from departments
- Update trackers daily
- Resolve ad hoc queries/requests
- Reconciliation of the General ledger
- Provide stakeholders updates with the latest figures
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Knowledge and experience supporting finance and business management processes (financial, purchase-to-pay, procurement and resourcing practices)
- Knowledge and experience of robust document management
- Experience of delivering at pace in complex environments where priorities are constantly changing
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Ciara.Lynn@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Commercial Business Partner for Ministry of Justice (MoJ)
The Ministry of Justice (MoJ) priorities include improving public safety and reducing reoffending by reforming prisons, probation and youth justice, and building a justice system which makes access to justice swifter and more certain for all citizens whatever their background. Project professionals in the MoJ help to improve the government’s ability to protect the public and reduce reoffending, and to provide a more effective, transparent and responsive criminal justice system for victims and the public.
The role:
This is a fantastic opportunity for a Commercial Business Partner, working within the Commercial & Contract Management Directorate (CCMD), a pan-MOJ function. The role will be within the HMCTS Commercial Team, focused on supporting HMCTS in its forming a Commercial Business Partnering function, and other Strategy and Change projects.
As a Commercial Business Partner your main responsibilities will be:
- As a Commercial Business Partner, you will be responsible for developing and implementing commercial strategies that align with the team’s goals and objectives
- Collaborate closely with various internal stakeholders, including finance, and operations, to drive commercial skills, relationships and shape the strategic offering
- Build and maintain strong relationships with internal stakeholders, including senior leadership, to ensure alignment and buy-in for commercial initiatives
- Build Commercial Business Partner materials such as process documents and communication plans to support the activities and functions of the team
- Work with stakeholders proactively to identify projects at an early stage and support to develop high quality business requirements that are suitable to go to the market with
- The team works in a very agile way, priorities and tasks are often very changeable and this role must adapt to that. This may include emergent procurement activity, particularly in the digital space
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Experience of working in a commercial or procurement role within a relevant organisation
- Experience in launching new teams or projects
- Experience of Crown Commercial digital frameworks such as G Cloud and DOS in case of emergent procurements
- Experience of Project Management for large projects
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Paula.Sloan@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Data Engineer – Inside IR35 for Department for Energy Security and Net Zero
The Department for Energy Security and Net Zero was created in February 2023 with the goal of securing a safe energy supply as well as ensuring the UK leads the way in achieving Net Zero. We are an innovative and exciting department, looking for the very best to lead the way.
The Department of Energy and Net Zero has a secure analytic platform for its Analytical community. The platform sits on the Azure Public Cloud and is supported by a small Internal team.
The role here is to build automated pipelines that ensures data can be cleaned, transformed and stored in the best place for our users to access. The data engineer will work with the team Lead Data Engineer.
Key Skills and Experience:
- SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.
- Strong Data Engineering experience.
- Experience of working with Azure.
- Programming skills (Pyspark, Python, R etc.)
- Version Control experience.
Desirable:
- Public Sector experience.
- Data Catalogue experience.
- Model Development and CICD Deployment experience.
- Experience of Azure ML or Open AI.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Lewis.hamber@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Supply Chain Process Manager(Inside IR35) for AWE
What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.
That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
As a Supply Chain Process Manager, your main responsibilities will be:
- Motivating, developing and managing a small team of specialists, setting clear objectives and undertaking performance reviews
- Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.
- The Company may require you to fulfil any other reasonable duties aligned to your position from time to time in line with business needs.
- Take ownership of Contractual governance and assist with negotiations within the Supply Chain sub function by providing expertise in Contract law, terms and conditions, Non-Disclosure Agreements and Parent Company Guarantees
- Maintaining a library of clauses and standard contract templates ensuring compliance with mandatory flow down terms and conditions and maintaining an awareness of legal matters
- Lead direct reports and contribute to overall leadership of the Compliance Team, such that the team develops fit for purpose capability and experience to drive delivery of Supply Chain sub functions compliance agenda
- Provide strategic leadership and compliance with particular focus to Schedule 37 and 38 of the M&O contract to determine the risk and compliance agenda across Supply Chain.
- Develop and maintain the risk management tracking and methodology for the Supply Chain sub function
- Coach and mentor Supply Chain sub function on AWE expectations for effective control of risk and compliance ensuring that the Supply Chain sub function are informed of changes to legislation and regulations.
- Establish Supply Chain governance and reporting for the risk and compliance agenda, ensuring there is clear accountability for who is managing the risks; leadership understand and fulfil applicable risk reporting requirements, and ensure risk and compliance issues are escalated to an appropriate Risk Management and Compliance governance group
- Take an active role in representing the Supply Chain sub functions external relationships with the MoD, other government bodies and external regulators
- Lead and support internal and external audit activities, establishing scope, providing material for review by auditors, attending audit reviews, agreeing and closing out actions
- Use Spend Analytics to provide actionable insights that support and shape the future demand of the business through its budgeting and decision-making processes
- Define the processes, tools and methods for collating and managing spend data, ensuring it is cleansed and categorised accurately for spend analysis
- Translate datasets and analysis into actionable and easy-to-understand insights and recommendations
- Enable accurate and confident decision-making in the procurement process Market intelligence providing industry and supply market intelligence research and analysis relevant to the company’s supplier markets to Supply Chain team and the wider business
- Senior Reporting & SCM Systems Manager
- Design and deliver best practice reporting of long and short run procurement activity improvement initiatives aimed at improving data visibility and accessibility that are high quality, timely, accurate, exception-based management information
- Work alongside category management and business cost analyst teams to define standard metrics and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that ensure high quality Management Information (MI)/Business Information (BI) reporting tools are delivered to meet reporting functional and business requirements relating to Supply Chain activity, that can articulate the Supply Chain sub functions performance and compliance to several different levels into the Supply Chain sub function, the customer, different regulatory bodies and internal stakeholders
- Contribute to developing best practice on MI production and key reporting tools and work closely with business leaders.
Essential:
- SC Clearance is essential for this role.
- Process implementation
- Standardising supply chain process
- Continuous improvement
- Working closely with transformation sub team
- PCR 2015 knowledge useful
- Writing Process guides
- Proven track record in a similar role
- Collaborate across the Business
- Procurement supply chain experience
- Provision of standard and bespoke business reports, analysis etc and material for functional performance metrics and reviews
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with thomas.lester@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
PMO Analyst - Inside IR35 for Homes England
Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.
Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.
The main duties and responsibilities of the PMO Analyst would be:
- Planning and implementing project management strategies, based on templates and toolsets.
- Monitoring existing projects to ensure timely execution and completion.
- Gathering and analysing project data to identify its weaknesses and resolve any time-related or budgetary snags.
- Liaising with project team members and providing suggestions or solutions to unforeseen issues when needed.
- Preparing/supporting project status reports for management review.
- Communicating with clients about the status and progress of their projects.
- Ensuring all project strategies follow EPMO governance standards
- Working closely with Digital Operations and Data team on the management, delivery and assurance of Digital projects, ensuring Project information is up-to-date, and providing updates to Digital Portfolio Group
- Developing and adopting best practice through continuous improvement of business assurance processes and activity across Digital Directorate
You’ll have:
- A minimum of 3 years’ experience as a PMO analyst or a similar role.
- Excellent knowledge of PMO/project management strategies, processes, and tools.
- The ability to analyses a range of complex data and make decisions based on analytical findings.
- Great computer skills and knowledge of Project Management tools
- Strong programme coordination and administration abilities.
- Good critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Solid communication and interpersonal skills.
- The ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and work well under pressure.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Christopher.black@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Commercial Manager - Inside IR35 for MoD
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.
To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.
Our work really matters; we offer engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services we provide. We employ people in many different roles and in many locations across the UK and abroad. We have jobs in policy, finance, HR, IS/IT, commercial and project management and all the types of jobs you would expect to find in a government department, or indeed in the private sector. We also employ doctors, dentists, teachers, police, fire service, quantity surveyors, and engineers to name a few. There are many opportunities to develop and progress both within MOD and across the wider Civil Service, whether you’re a permanent appointee or an interim.
Due to the urgent need to fulfil this role, the successful candidate must have active SC Clearance at the point of application
You will be required to provide details of your Security Clearance at the point of application for this role. You will need to provide details of the following:
SC Clearance held by:
Date last used:
Expiry Date:
As a Commercial Manager, your main responsibilities will be:
- Responsibility for an appropriate and supported workload to deliver the needs of the team. This could include activities such as advising customers on commercial strategy, routes to market, facilitating appropriate market engagement, reviewing and inputting into commercial elements of business cases and assisting with progression through approvals.
- Provide expertise to the Future Strategic Sealift Project Team in influencing and informing the commercial aspects of future capability requirement.
- Proactive market insight, which includes a coordinated monitoring of potential and existing suppliers in a strategic and dynamic way.
- Define commercial procurement processes in line with public sector regulations and using agreed tools and systems.
- Advise and recommend appropriate route to market.
- Commercial risk identification, mitigation and management.
- Stakeholder engagement.
- Commercial Strategy artefact creation and input.
- Providing specialist advice on commercial policies and processes to other teams, e.g. Delivery Team.
- Champion, embed and promote Diversity & Inclusion as part of the commercial team culture.
Essential:
- Experience of working in a commercial role undertaking large sourcing projects, particular experienced with front end procurement activities (i.e. market engagements and strategy creation)
- Experience of managing a major contract to ensure value for money is achieved.
Desirable:
- Ability to analyse, interpret and draft contractual wording with a strong attention to detail.
- Experience in handling complex contracts.
- Experience in managing end to end procurement process for medium and large value contracts.
- Practical experience and expertise in requirements gathering.
- Practical experience in utilising market insight to aid strategic sourcing and contract management.
- Robust commercial negotiation of commercial and contractual terms, pricing and discounts.
- Practical experience and expertise in contract management, including managing contracts from contract award to contract closeout.
- Practical experience and expertise in Supplier management.
- Experience in delivering savings and benefits tracking.
- Public sector (ideally Defence) procurement experience.
Qualifications:
- CIPS Level 4 minimum or equivalent standard.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Senior Interaction Designer Inside IR35 for Department of Levelling Up Housing & Communities
We are looking for a experienced Senior Interaction Designer to join our team. You will be a design leader, working with minimal supervision and influencing and mentoring others. This role offers the opportunity to work on complex services, set design direction, and embed best practices within the team.
As a Senior Interaction Designer, your main responsibilities will be:
- Collaborate with service managers and program directors to develop innovative design concepts.
- Take ownership of complex services, ensuring a seamless user experience.
- Champion good design practices and mentor junior designers.
- Make strategic design decisions based on user research and understand the broader impact of those decisions.
- Design user-centered systems that can be applied across multiple services.
- Prioritize simplicity and identify the most efficient approach to design challenges.
- Apply your understanding of digital technologies into your design solutions.
- Develop innovative solutions to ensure accessibility and inclusivity across all digital touchpoints.
You will have:
- Experience as an Interaction Designer
- Proven track record of leading complex design projects
- Strong understanding of user-centered design principles
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to work effectively in an Agile environment
- Experience with design systems and accessibility best practices
- A portfolio showcasing your design expertise
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If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with rebecca.nolan@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Commercial Manager - Inside IR35 for MoD
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.
To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.
Our work really matters; we offer engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services we provide. We employ people in many different roles and in many locations across the UK and abroad. We have jobs in policy, finance, HR, IS/IT, commercial and project management and all the types of jobs you would expect to find in a government department, or indeed in the private sector. We also employ doctors, dentists, teachers, police, fire service, quantity surveyors, and engineers to name a few. There are many opportunities to develop and progress both within MOD and across the wider Civil Service, whether you’re a permanent appointee or an interim.
As a Commercial Manager, your main responsibilities will be:
- Responsibility for an appropriate and supported workload to deliver the needs of the team. This could include activities such as advising customers on commercial strategy, routes to market, facilitating appropriate market engagement, reviewing and inputting into commercial elements of business cases and assisting with progression through approvals.
- Provide expertise to the Future Strategic Sealift Project Team in influencing and informing the commercial aspects of future capability requirement.
- Proactive market insight, which includes a coordinated monitoring of potential and existing suppliers in a strategic and dynamic way.
- Define commercial procurement processes in line with public sector regulations and using agreed tools and systems.
- Advise and recommend appropriate route to market.
- Commercial risk identification, mitigation and management.
- Stakeholder engagement.
- Commercial Strategy artefact creation and input.
- Providing specialist advice on commercial policies and processes to other teams, e.g. Delivery Team.
- Champion, embed and promote Diversity & Inclusion as part of the commercial team culture.
Essential:
- Experience of working in a commercial role undertaking large sourcing projects, particular experienced with front end procurement activities (i.e. market engagements and strategy creation)
- Experience of managing a major contract to ensure value for money is achieved.
Desirable:
- Ability to analyse, interpret and draft contractual wording with a strong attention to detail.
- Experience in handling complex contracts.
- Experience in managing end to end procurement process for medium and large value contracts.
- Practical experience and expertise in requirements gathering.
- Practical experience in utilising market insight to aid strategic sourcing and contract management.
- Robust commercial negotiation of commercial and contractual terms, pricing and discounts.
- Practical experience and expertise in contract management, including managing contracts from contract award to contract closeout.
- Practical experience and expertise in Supplier management.
- Experience in delivering savings and benefits tracking.
- Public sector (ideally Defence) procurement experience.
Qualifications:
- CIPS Level 4 minimum or equivalent standard.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Conference and Events Lead - (Inside IR35) for Cabinet Office
The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas. More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office
The Government People Group exists to work with departments, professions, and functions to build a modern, effective Civil Service.
We support the government workforce with the right skills and capability. We are working with leaders to get the right people in the right jobs, with the right skills and continuous learning to excel in their roles. We provide leadership, and in turn, create leaders with exceptional line management capability across departments, influencing partners in the wider public sector and beyond. This involves getting our retention and reward strategy right, to nurture specific skills, and create pride and resilience in our workforce.
Our role is also to provide system leadership across central government in pulling together back-office services. Collectively, we help support the Cabinet Office’s priority to drive efficiencies, and reforms that will make government work better, to ultimately provide a better service to the public. GPG delivers services for over 400,000 civil servants across government. It supports 1.5 million Civil Service and Royal Mail pension scheme members and provides recruitment services for around 70 percent of the Civil Service.
About Shared Services for Government
The Shared Services Strategy for Government was launched in March 2021, with the aim of modernising the back office of government. This includes replacing legacy systems which are facing end-of-life in terms of contract support and technology; it contributes significantly to Civil Service modernisation and reform.
The Shared Services for Government team within Cabinet Office’s Government People Group, is the policy lead for shared services in government, working across departments to make it easier for civil and public servants to use platforms for HR, finance, and payroll.
Our ambition is to deliver the vision to free up civil servants to focus on what they do best: engaging with and delivering for citizens.
As the Strategy moves from planning into delivery, we are supporting clusters and functions to develop and implement change as a strategic delivery partner, whilst continuing to provide key assurance and alignment to the key strategic priorities for ministers.
The Shared Services for Government team are looking for an experienced Events Lead to deliver its annual conference. Reporting directly into the Shared Services team and working closely with senior management and colleagues in clusters across government, you will be responsible for planning, coordinating and delivering this flagship annual event.
The successful candidate will have events, communication, and project management skills. You will be a driven, open, and collaborative person with the ability to remain calm while working at pace and under pressure. You will consider yourself skilled in building and maintaining relationships and working proactively to solve problems. You are a detail-driven person able to resolve competing priorities through reaching consensus
Essential criteria
- Experience of planning and delivering high profile hybrid events and related communications and supporting materials
- Confident in engaging senior stakeholders
- Experience of managing a small team, colleagues who are not your direct reports, and stakeholders across a range of different organisations, to deliver an event
- Highly skilled in managing competing priorities and bringing people to a consensus
- Confident in working under pressure and to tight deadlines
- Demonstrable organisational and project management skills, including management of budgets
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Desirable criteria
- An understanding of working and coordinating across central government and arm’s length bodies
- Experience of working with external events, and design agencies
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
LV Power Distribution Designer for UKRI
We are currently recruiting for a LV Power Distribution Designer on behalf of our client the UKRI.
Come and do the kind of engineering that made you want to be an engineer. Stretch your technical skills while enabling the advancement of humanity’s understanding of materials. Promote sustainability and create new materials and, alongside world-leading scientists and technologists, shape projects that improve lives, in the UK and far beyond.
Are you a self-motivated mechanical design engineer interested in the development of innovative mechanical equipment, involving novel concepts, novel materials, and extremely challenging requirements?
As a LV Power Distribution Designer your day-to-day duties will be:
- Design BS7671:2018 compliant low voltage (LV) electrical supply and distribution systems, along with associated technical design documentation.
- Working on new and existing AutoCAD drawings to design safety related remedial changes to electrical wiring.
- Calculation work using Trimble ProDesign
- Some site work, to facilitate integration of new designs into existing site supply and distribution infrastructure will be required.
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Broad understanding of electrical engineering
- Fully conversant with electrical circuit diagrams and 2D drawings
- Proven record of electrical design engineering in a technical project/industrial environment
- Computer literate and competent in the use of Microsoft Office
- The production of technical drawings using AutoCAD Electrical software
- BS7671:2018 IET Wiring Regulations
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with tracey.mort@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Lead Service Transition Manager - (Inside - IR35) for NDA
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body created through the Energy Act 2004.
We have 5 offices across the UK, in Cumbria, Dounreay, Harwell, Warrington and London. We have 17 sites including the first fleet of nuclear power stations, research centres, fuel-related facilities, and Sellafield, which has the largest radioactive inventory and the most complex facilities to decommission.
We are sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and supported by Dounreay, Magnox, Nuclear Waste Services, Nuclear Transport Solutions and Sellafield. The Scottish government also has a governance role, working closely with DESNZ to ensure its expectations are met.
Our role is strategic: we establish the overall approach, allocate budgets, set targets and monitor progress.
We do not have a hands-on role in cleaning up our facilities. Instead, we deliver our mission through others, primarily 12 businesses.
We are responsible for:
decommissioning and cleaning up these nuclear facilities ensuring that all waste products, both radioactive and non-radioactive, are safely managed.
implementing policy on the long-term management of nuclear waste.
developing UK-wide strategy and plans for nuclear Low-Level Waste (LLW).
scrutinising the decommissioning plans of EDF Energy, who own the operating fleet of Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations.
As a Lead Service Transition Manager your main responsibilities will be:
Programme Javelin at the NDA aims to procure and implement a new set of IT services for the NDA group that will replace the current MSP- style services provided to Dounreay, Magnox, NDA, NWS and NTS. The programme will also implement a new IT operating model that ensures these new services work well across all these organisations.
A lead service transition manager is required to be a key player in ensuring the successful execution of the Javelin Programme. They will work directly for the programme manager and work closely with cross-functional teams. The key responsibilities will be defining transition strategy, leading the transition work streams in planning and executing the transition of procured or insourced services from the incumbent suppliers across the NDA group effectively, efficiently and with minimal disruption to service.
Key Responsibilities:
- Service Transition Plan: Define the service transition approach and plan per bundle and OpCo from the incumbent supplier to the new contract providers. Support the program manager to ensure that there is a clear transition approach, transition plan, with approved and agreed roles, responsibilities & resources.
- Work Stream Management: Lead and coordinate different transition work stream tasks, ensuring alignment with project objectives, timelines, and budgets. Managing complexity associated with each transition to ensure that the correct level of service needs is available, and dependencies are clear.
- Stakeholder Management: Manage lower-level stakeholder relationships, ensuring clear communication and understanding of transition goals and progress in line with the overall programme and vision of the Programme Manager.
- Task Assignment: Assign tasks to transition team members, monitor progress, and address any roadblocks or issues that arise.
- Risk Assessment: Identify and assess transition risks related to new or existing services and work with the Programme Manager and stakeholders to develop mitigation plans.
- Documentation: Maintain project documentation regarding transition.
- Quality Assurance: Ensure contractual service QA metrics (SLAs, OLAs and KPIs) measure performance quality standards required by OpCos
- Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for process improvements and implement best practices to enhance project management processes.
- The successful candidate will have experience of managing ICT service transitions from incumbent vendors to new suppliers and preferably from monolithic ICT services to disaggregated services.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Lead Commercial Manager (IT) (Inside IR35) for NDA
The Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) is a non-departmental public body created through the Energy Act 2004.
We have 5 offices across the UK, in Cumbria, Dounreay, Harwell, Warrington and London. We have 17 sites including the first fleet of nuclear power stations, research centres, fuel-related facilities, and Sellafield, which has the largest radioactive inventory and the most complex facilities to decommission.
We are sponsored by the Department for Energy Security and Net Zero (DESNZ) and supported by Dounreay, Magnox, Nuclear Waste Services, Nuclear Transport Solutions and Sellafield. The Scottish government also has a governance role, working closely with DESNZ to ensure its expectations are met.
Our role is strategic: we establish the overall approach, allocate budgets, set targets and monitor progress.
We do not have a hands-on role in cleaning up our facilities. Instead, we deliver our mission through others, primarily 12 businesses.
We are responsible for:
decommissioning and cleaning up these nuclear facilities ensuring that all waste products, both radioactive and non-radioactive, are safely managed.
implementing policy on the long-term management of nuclear waste.
developing UK-wide strategy and plans for nuclear Low Level Waste (LLW).
scrutinising the decommissioning plans of EDF Energy, who own the operating fleet of Advanced Gas Cooled Reactor (AGR) nuclear power stations.
- Manage all aspects of the organisation commercial activities related to procurement of IT services and solutions.
- You will be responsible for driving value for money, fit for purpose contracts, and maintaining strong client relationships.
- The ideal candidate will possess a strong business acumen, excellent negotiation skills, and a deep knowledge of government IT procurements across towers using CCS frameworks.
- Lead the commercial team and oversee all commercial activities related to IT services and solutions.
- Develop and implement pricing strategies, ensuring that they are competitive and aligned with the
- organisation’s financial goals.
- Engage potential vendors, negotiate, and manage the setup of contracts with suppliers, vendors, and partners to secure value for money and IT service contracts that are fit for purpose and provision for future business change and growth.
- Collaborate with the various operating companies and solution leads to understand customer requirements and tailor IT solutions to meet their needs.
- Understand market trends, organisational needs, operating company specific needs to identify growth opportunities and potential risks.
- Establish and maintain strong internal stakeholder and vendor relationships, serving as a point of contact for clients regarding commercial aspects of their IT services.
- Manage pricing and costing models for IT services and solutions, ensuring accurate and competitive pricing.
- Participate in proposal development, including the creation of pricing models and cost estimates.
- Have an in depth understanding of government approvals and sanction processes, industry regulations, compliance requirements, and best practices related to commercial operations in the IT sector for government.
Essential Experience:
- Proven extensive experience in a government commercial management role within the IT industry
- In-depth knowledge of IT services, solutions, and technology trends.
- Strong negotiation and contract management skills, with a track record of successful deal closures.
- Exceptional analytical and problem-solving abilities, with a focus on financial and business analysis.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills for building and maintaining client relationships.
- Proficiency in financial modelling and pricing strategies.
- Detail-oriented with strong organizational skills to manage multiple contracts and projects.
- A strategic mindset, with the ability to identify and pursue growth opportunities in the IT market.
- A proactive and adaptable approach, critically that can work at pace to meet challenging and demanding organisational needs alongside aggressive timelines balanced with government processes and procedures.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Senior Contracts Manager for AWE
PLEASE NOTE: Due to the nature of this role, all candidates must hold active SC security clearance
What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.
That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
The Senior Contracts Manager role involves:
- Creating a highly motivated, skilled, and professional contract management team that delivers contract performance outcomes, aligned to business and HMG commercial requirements, with the capacity to meet business demand plan.
- Act as subject matter expert for assigned contracts, providing professional advice to enable business to effectively deliver contract objectives.
- Ensuring all contracts, they are responsible for, have a robust Contract Management Plan with defined procedure for delivery performance management, invoice applications, risk management and contract reviews.
- Ensure contracts are delivered in accordance with business management system, priorities and conduct internal audits to ensure compliance with government regulations and legislation.
- Working collaboratively with AWE stakeholders and with the SCM sub-unit Leadership Team (specifically the Head of Strategic Sourcing/the Head of Category Management) to understand their detailed business requirements and championing contract best practice. Influence key decision makers to secure best contract solutions to satisfy AWE Board and HMG requirements.
- Implement the Supplier Relationship Management framework for assigned key suppliers who have a significant impact on AWE business, with the objective of managing risk, managing performance, and extracting more value from the supplier base.
- Support the development and drive the implementation of Supplier Strategies for assigned suppliers, with the objective of minimizing risk for AWE and maximizing value.
- Support procurement activity through providing best practice contact advice to develop contract templates and bespoke terms.
- Ensuring contracts maximise value for money and have defined performance outcomes.
- Ensuring all contracts have clear business ownership to track and monitor contract performance against KPIs and cost, quality, and time obligations.
- Working with the SCM Delivery Unit Sourcing/Category team to lead contract negotiations pre-contract award and apply lessons learned to enhance contracting models and support supplier selection.
- Leading contract negotiations and apply diplomacy to mitigate contract risks to AWE benefit and where necessary develop contract litigation strategies.
- Implementing the Supplier Relationship Management framework and strategy for defined portfolio of contracts, creating trusted industry alliances to drive business innovation/efficiencies and developing optimum systems of business intelligence and relationships.
As a Senior Contracts Manager your main responsibilities will be:
- Acting as a role model for health, safety, environmental and quality management. Ensure contracts are aligned to business safety and quality management systems and be an advocate of AWE behaviours.
- Establishing a high level of credibility and manage complex working relationships with internal and external parties including both commercial and government partners.
- Drive suppliers segmentation (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the AWE Supplier Relationship Management Framework and drive SRM implementation, in collaboration with business stakeholders, for assigned suppliers
- Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including Quality, Environmental & Health and Safety, supplier fragility as well as dependency on AWE and AWE dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
- Develop and implement Supplier Strategies for assigned key suppliers.
- Ensure contract control systems are robust and suitable to support all post contract commitments and satisfying the reporting/governance processes.
- Ensuring legal compliance with contracts by monitoring changes in laws or regulations that may affect the company’s ability to meet its obligations and mitigate any potential conflict of interest or breach of company ethic’s policy.
- Ensure there is an effective contract reporting and engagement strategy in place to enable all key stakeholders to be aligned to contracts risks and opportunities.
- Identify and estimate the likelihood and impact of contract-related risk, establish mitigation methods aligned to business needs and track effectiveness of those mitigations.
- Ensuring a robust SRM delivery plan is in place for all assigned critical suppliers
Essential criteria:
- Active SC Clearance
- Excellent Stakeholder management skills
- Evidence of managing post-award contracts on a large scale
- Senior level ‘Commercial Acumen’
- Experience in dispute resolution
Desirable:
- Relevant qualifications
- Public sector experience
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Paula.Sloan@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
Recruitment Administrator Inside IR35 for Homes England
Homes England, the government’s housing and regeneration agency, plays a central role in tackling the housing challenges the country now faces. We have the appetite, influence, expertise, and resource to drive positive market change, and our mission is to ensure more homes are built in areas of greatest need, improve affordability and create a sustainable housing market.
Following the publication of the government’s Levelling Up White Paper, Homes England has also been tasked with a core role in spearheading regeneration, partnering with places to reduce economic disparity, empower local leaders and create equal opportunities across the country to ensure communities reach their full potential.
As a Recruitment Administrator your main responsibilities will be:
- To co-ordinate the recruitment activity for specific recruitment campaigns either internal or external ensuring all vacancy generation procedures are completed
- To support hiring managers with their internal and external recruitment campaigns including support with developing job descriptions, advising on arranging appropriate recruitment advertising and providing guidance on the shortlisting, selection and offer processes to ensure a high calibre workforce is recruited from across a diverse range of background
- To create effective recruitment campaigns in conjunction with the business , ensuring this is cost effective and timely
- To work in partnership when appropriate on specific campaigns with key stakeholders including those who provide contracted services relating to recruitment.
- To demonstrate a commitment to diversity and inclusion maximising opportunities to attract and recruitment from a range of diverse backgrounds.
- To coordinate recruitment campaigns and manage candidates progress in the recruitment process
- To be responsible for updating all recruitment planning and tracking data relating to specific campaigns, this will inform overall HR reporting.
- To provide logistical support to specific selection processes for example interviews or selection tests, this could include the coordination of panel members, diaries/venues and resources for admin support. To support recruitment and HR projects when required, providing regular updates. 10. Any other reasonable duties as may be assigned from time to time.
Key Skills and Knowledge
- Proven track record of coordinating and delivering a range of recruitment campaigns within policy in a diverse manner and to tight deadlines.
- Strong Digital and communication skills and be able to use a HR system and Microsoft Office products such as Word, Excel and Outlook
- Ideally will be CIPD qualified or have proven track record delivering Recruitment and HR services in line with best practice.
- Effective communication skills when dealing with a range of people at all levels both face to face and over the telephone
- To be able to demonstrate excellent drafting skills to ensure HR materials such as job descriptions, adverts, contracts, and general correspondence are prepared in clear, concise and plain English.
- The ability to manage a number of different tasks whilst maintaining a high degree of accuracy and attention to detail
- The ability to use their own initiative to prioritise their workload to accommodate conflicting and changing priorities to achieve personal and team objectives
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with helen.hollywood@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Project Manager - (Inside IR35) for AWE
Existing programme of work. Transformation programme. Few years in nature. Identified need for more capacity.
Large programme, part of core programme piece.
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
DV Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks
As a Project Manager your main responsibilities will be
- Support to the Ops Transformation Programme’s core activities, which includes developing new capabilities and embedding systemic changes.
- Relevant experience: Implementing major change initiatives / transformational improvements; embedding behavioural change.
- Role is varied and will include project managing improvement opportunities, supporting the transformation initiative at Coulport (hence the occasional travel), coordinating the digital optimisation work (within the Foundry system), etc.
Key Accountabilities
- Deliver assigned projects in accordance with requirements, operational constraints, time, cost, and quality.
- Lead, coach and develop a team at a local level to deliver team and personal objectives safely and securely to meet our operational plans.
- Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security, and quality and be a great team player
Key Responsibilities
- Manage projects with focus on Governance (compliance and reporting).
- Management of project resources (people, money).
- Lead the planning of the task/project.
- Manage work as defined in the Work Authorisation Document (WAD).
- Lead, support and initiate change against the Performance Measurement Baseline (PMB).
- Lead, initiate and perform risk and opportunity identification and subsequent actions.
Essential skills
- Experienced Project Management within either public, private sectors
- Stakeholder Engagement/Management at all levels
- Transformation experience delivery
- Process Improvement skillset
- Core Programme activities
- Familiar with public sector/highly regulated work
- Strong self starter
Desirable skills
- Benefits management
- Cultural change
- Business change
- Rolling out a new operating system, challenge to get workforce buy in.
- General Project Management qualification would be good to have.
- Member of relevant professional body.
- MS Project Online
- Primavera P6
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with luciana-auras.popescu@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
Finance Business Partner - (Inside IR35) for Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
- Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
- Increase saving for, and security in later life
- Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
- Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
- Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity
- Production of the finance case in business cases and spending proposals.
- Supporting project governance actively managing risks and opportunities against the latest plan, financial forecasts and change control.
- Overseeing budget delegations and tracking performance against control totals.
- Manage and build relationships with a range of stakeholders.
Essential
- Full chartered level professional qualification awarded by an IFAC recognised accounting body for example ACCA, CIMA, CIPFA or ICAEW, and to hold full membership of that body.
- Knowledge of economic and financial business cases
- Excel modelling skills and experience
- Presentation skills
- Microsoft Office experience
- Proven Self-starter
- Commercial understanding
Desirable:
- Public Sector experience
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Procurement Specialist (Inside IR35) for AWE
Expectation to attend Winnersh & possibly Green Park also will be required.
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks
As a Procurement Specialist, your main responsibilities will be to:
- Contribute to the development and assist with the implementation of a Category Strategy for assigned spend categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings) in alignment with business stakeholders.
- Prepare and support with the execution of strategic sourcing activities in line with approved category strategy and preferred suppliers list, including the execution of the RFx process, supplier evaluation and selection, contract negotiation, business award and contract handover to the business, in compliance with the business requirements as well as AWE policies and directives, including Code of Conduct and Code of Business Ethics.
- Prepare input and support the execution of Supplier Relationship Management for key suppliers within the assigned categories, including supplier segmentation, contract management, supplier risks identification and mitigation and suppliers performance.
- Support the monitoring of supplier performance, ensuring that suppliers meet contractual obligations using the Supplier Performance Card or specific contractual KPI and SLA and secure commercial compensation for supplier contractual non-compliance.
- Prepare and assist with external management review meetings with segmented suppliers (Management Business Reviews and Executive Business Reviews) in accordance with AWE Supplier Relationship Management framework and the agreed supplier strategy.
- Drive operational efficiency in alignment with the Supply Chain Processes and Strategies as well as performance of all activities in line with Supply Chain targets and the Category Group team targets.
- Contribute to the development and drive the implementation of the Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models for assigned categories.
- Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List – PSL), securing competition in the supplier base.
- Deliver Category targets and KPI’s for assigned spend categories.
- Implement ways of working according to AWE Category Management Framework.
- Business Intelligence and Benchmark including business intelligence and supplier market analysis, benchmark potential suppliers and market insight to support category development.
- The Category Specialist, with the Category Team, is responsible for securing and tracking cost reduction, contract management and continuity of Supply Chain.
- Prepare & execute the RFx process in collaboration with stakeholders including supplier evaluation and selection, supplier negotiations (costs and contract)
- Assist in appropriate management of commercial risks, forecast spend and change impacts with key AWE stakeholders
- Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the AWE Supplier Relationship Management Framework.
- Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including CoC, Environmental & Health and Safety as well as dependency on AWE and AWE dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
- Supplier Strategies for key suppliers within assigned spend categories.
- Secure stakeholders involvement and participation in category strategies, sourcing activities and supplier relationship management activities and share SCM category strategies, PSL, supplier performance etc.
Essential:
- Procurement Generalist
- Attention to detail
- Analytical skills
- Develop Analysis – supplier bids
- Effective interpersonal skills with good verbal, written, presentation, influencing & negotiation skills
- Good IT literacy, able to pick up system skills and knowledge to access and analyse relevant data. Understands system role and how to access relevant information within procurement, commissioning & performance management
- A working understanding of procurement, commissioning and contract management activity and its contribution to achieving strategic and service aims and objectives
- An understanding of a category management approach to procurement
- Experience of purchasing a number of types of goods & services
- Good planning & organisation skills
- Supplier Relationship Management.
- Stakeholders Collaboration
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Ciara.Lynn@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
Digital Workplace Technology Strategy Lead for Cabinet Office - GDS
The Cabinet Office supports the Prime Minister and ensures the effective running of government. The Cabinet Office is also the corporate headquarters for the government, in partnership with HM Treasury, and takes the lead in certain critical policy areas. More information about the Cabinet Office can be found on its website at https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/cabinet-office
As a Digital Workplace Technology Strategy Lead your main responsibilities will be:
- Set and gain endorsement for a multi year strategy to improve Digital Workplace and “digital colleague experience” across government.
- Identify and develop existing principles, standards and best practices in Digital workplace and establish methods to share and promote them.
- Work with CDDO’s supplier engagement team and stakeholders to foster meaningful relationships with industry leaders and SMEs to maximise their offer to UK Public Sector, and with Crown Commercial Service in how to leverage procurement to improve colleague experience
- Develop a coherent approach to improving Digital Workplace maturity across government, in line with emerging technology
- Work with contracted suppliers (including third parties and systems integrators) to deliver targeted projects of work, enabling opportunities for system wide change in government digital and data
- Establish, promote and contribute to a Digital Workplace community across UK Public Sector
- Promote your work through content written for GOV.UK, speaking engagements and hosting community events
- Help upskill others in CDDO, Cabinet Office and government in Digital Workplace
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- You must have experience setting vision and leading digital transformation, ideally in the area of large scale digital workplace strategy creation and its delivery.
- You must have expertise in Digital Workplace or related fields (e.g. End User Computing, Infrastructure and Operations, Knowledge and Info Management, Collaboration Engineering, Enterprise Architecture, etc)
- You must have experience designing and embedding technology solutions, standards, patterns and practices, and be able to use this to build credibility with senior stakeholders and peers and evaluate proposals.
- You should have experience engaging with suppliers/vendors both formally and informally
- You should be comfortable presenting to senior stakeholders, both technical (such as CTOs / CDOs across Government) and non-technical (business leaders).
- Learning should be embedded in the way you approach your working week, and you should be keen to share your experience learning with those around you
If this Digital Workplace Technology Strategy Lead role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with akanksha.rai@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Lead Test Analyst for Crown Commercial Services
CCS is the largest public procurement organisation in the UK.
As a trading fund and executive agency of the Cabinet Office, we implement procurement policy on behalf of the government.
We use the collective buying power of our customers and our commercial expertise to help public sector organisations achieve value for money and provide great outcomes for taxpayers.
The Digital Services team is responsible for the digital delivery of technology and technology operations for CCS. The Strategic Delivery team is responsible for the development, testing and digital delivery of a variety of solutions for CCS. We may build solutions in-house, through our delivery partners or implement off-the-shelf solutions. We are responsible for setting the standards for development, delivery and testing in CCS
As a Lead Test Analyst your main responsibilities will be:
- Plan, design and execute a wide range of testing types; functional and non-functional
- Lead and oversee all test activities, including test planning, test case creation, review and reporting, to ensure the interoperability of various digital services and products
- Identify risks/issues and articulate them clearly and effectively. focusing on complex problem solving and influencing senior team members
- Produce and maintain test automation frameworks
- Produce professional Reports for Project Stakeholders, identifying patterns and trends from the Test Execution and Defect logs
- Train and supervise the work of other team members, and advise others on testing techniques and test types
- Investigate problems and opportunities in existing processes and recommend solutions
- Utilise technical knowledge to keep abreast of industry developments to make cost effective use of new and emerging tools and technologies
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Experience creating automated testing frameworks, utilising continuous integration / deployment pipeline environments, using tools such as Travis, Jenkins, TeamCity, Github
- Expert in software testing, with experience of working in an Agile Scrum delivery model, using supporting tools to manage and execute testing e.g JIRA / ZEPHYR
- Proven leadership skills with the ability to coach and motivate team members. Must display strong analytical and troubleshooting skills
- Proficient in testing the integration of micro services and APIs using tools such as Postman,REST Assured
- Ability to actively engage with performance test engineers and work alongside them to review performance test plans, read and interpret performance test reports.
- Use of Object Oriented Programming such as Java or Ruby, and execution of automated tests using tools such as Selenium WebDriver, Cucumber BDD, Junit/TestNG, Maven
If this Lead Test Analyst role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with rishon.reid@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
At CCS, we actively support, promote, and celebrate our differences for the benefit of our employees, suppliers, and customers. CCS is proud to be an equal opportunities employer. CCS believes that diversity and inclusion is critical to our success, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people.
Technical Systems Analyst – (Inside IR35) for Homes England
Technical Systems Analyst
Job purpose
We have an exciting opportunity for an experienced IT Systems Analyst to join our team, completing systems investigation activities – demanding technical skills, reverse engineering / documentation, diagramming (process, function, data, technology, interfaces) and, requirements elicitation / elaboration and leading into design/ development, enhancement, and security of our business systems.
You will take responsibility, as a self-starter with a curious mind, for IT legacy systems projects, own the investigation of these to support new scenarios and establish existing dependencies, as we look to build towards a new technology landscape over a series of transition states.
About you:
You will be a self-motivated, technically experienced, team player, working within the wider team to deliver into in-flight and new projects. You will have experience in Oracle & SQL Databases, be able to interpret logic from SQL and Oracle PL/SQL code, and familiar with .Net code. A good problem-solver, you can apply appropriate processes, tools and techniques to your business system analysis.
You will have knowledge and experience of business systems implementation, support and development, having worked preferably in a Oracle & SQL Database and Oracle PL/SQL & Forms and .Net & Angular, batch scripts and CRON.
Responsibilities
- Examine and evaluate current systems
- Identify system requirements
- Liaise with users to track additional requirements and features
- Document interfaces between new and legacy systems
- Collaborate with IT team and developers to produce new systems
- Validate changes by testing programs
- Document new operation systems and provide support
Requirements and skills
- Proven work experience as a system analyst
- Hands on experience with software development and documentation
- Solid knowledge of business information systems
- Working knowledge of business software applications
- Familiarity with programming languages
- Ability to explain technical details
- Excellent analytical skills
- A good problem-solving attitude
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with mark.salmon@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Armed Forces Covenant
Homes England is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Digital Media and Content Officer - (Inside IR35) for MoD
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.
To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.
Our work really matters; we offer engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services we provide. We employ people in many different roles and in many locations across the UK and abroad. We have jobs in policy, finance, HR, IS/IT, commercial and project management and all the types of jobs you would expect to find in a government department, or indeed in the private sector. We also employ doctors, dentists, teachers, police, fire service, quantity surveyors, and engineers to name a few. There are many opportunities to develop and progress both within MOD and across the wider Civil Service, whether you’re a permanent appointee or an interim.
Due to the urgent need to fulfil this role, the successful candidate must have active SC Clearance at the point of application
You will need to provide details of the following:
- SC Clearance held by:
- Date last used:
- Expiry Date:
As a Digital Media and Content Officer, your main responsibilities will be
As the Digital Media and Content Officer you’ll coordinate, shoot, and edit video content for digital channels, communicating the work of our personnel in a clear and engaging way.
The ideal candidate will also have graphic design experience and be able to use this to enhance their products and the way we communicate complex topics to our internal and external audiences.
Essential Skills
- Photography, filming and editing skills
- Experience of working with Adobe Premiere Pro and Photoshop
- Direct experience of producing innovative, high-quality content for a variety of audiences and a variety of channels
- Sound judgement, with the ability to manage varied and competing priorities effectively
- Ability to interpret a project brief and produce creative design solutions, tailored to different audiences, and keeping branding guidelines
- Experience of planning and delivering, often under time pressure
- Understanding of how metrics and evidence can be used to improve outcomes
- Proactive team player with the ability to work on a variety of projects at the same time.
Excellent stakeholder management skills.
Desirable Skills
- Experience of working with a wide range of graphic design programmes, such as Adobe Creative Cloud including InDesign and Illustrator or equivalent.
- Experience of managing social media profiles
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
for MoD
The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is a central government department with a mission to protect our country and provide the ultimate guarantee of its security and independence, as well as helping to protect its values and interests abroad.
To do this we have an annual budget of almost £40 billion and a workforce comprising 193,000 people, almost 59,000 of whom are civilians. We currently manage more than £11 billion of spend every year.
Our work really matters; we offer engaging roles which have a direct impact on the quality of services we provide. We employ people in many different roles and in many locations across the UK and abroad. We have jobs in policy, finance, HR, IS/IT, commercial and project management and all the types of jobs you would expect to find in a government department, or indeed in the private sector. We also employ doctors, dentists, teachers, police, fire service, quantity surveyors, and engineers to name a few. There are many opportunities to develop and progress both within MOD and across the wider Civil Service, whether you’re a permanent appointee or an interim.
As a Commercial Technical Officer your main responsibilities will be:
This role sits within the Strategic Commercial Team of CSM which has been established specifically to develop and deliver its commercial strategy working collaboratively with customers and existing commercial teams to optimise value for money and innovating where possible through effective market insight. CSM offers an exciting opportunity to make a difference in supporting the successful delivery of the aims of the Portfolio. Key aspects of the role include:
- Providing wide-ranging commercial support to the Portfolio stakeholders from advice / guidance on routes to market, commercial strategy development, tendering processes and, where appropriate, contract management.
- Supporting the development and maintenance of the CSM commercial pipeline and associated commercial strategies working closely with subject matter experts and other commercial colleagues both within MoD.
- Supporting and influencing the development and delivery of complex end-to-end procurements ensuring innovation where possible whilst adhering to commercial policy, processes, operating procedures and category strategies (where they exist),
- Through market analysis, develop an effective understanding of the market and the category strategies in support building effective commercial strategies for all commercial activity and to innovate where possible;
- Providing a co-ordination role in the development of relevant Statement of Requirements ensuring they are cohesive and fit for purpose to drive optimum value for money from the market
- Building effective and sustained relationships across the Portfolio, MoD, Other Government Departments, Crown Commercial Services and broader industry
Essential:
- Experience of managing end to end sourcing in a large-scale complex or high-risk programme.
- Experience of working across a diverse and complex operating model in supporting the development and implementation of effective commercial strategies
- Experience of supporting the co-ordination of the development of Statement of Requirements
- Experience of supporting the development and delivery of complex Invitations to Tender, negotiations and contract that may require non-standard/ bespoke conditions
- Category management experience in software, licensing & IT professional services.
- Experience of building positive relationships across diverse stakeholder groups; able to understand and manage multiple perspectives, build consensus and influence stakeholders.
- Eligible for SC Clearance
Desirable:
- Experience of working in the public sector
- Working understanding of Oracle Fusion or equivalent Enterprise Resource Planning systems
- Active SC Clearance
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with tom.lester@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Governance & Assurance Manager – Inside IR35 for Department for Transport
Transport matters and what we do at the Department for Transport matters. Click here to find out more about working for DfT and its agencies. We are different people, one team.
Job Purpose:
We are recruiting for a Grade 7 post within Passenger Services for programme expertise. This post would have an initial focus on Governance and Assurance.
Transport is at the heart of the Government’s plan to make this a country that works for everyone. This is your chance to help deliver a programme of work that will still be making a difference to people’s lives a century from now and help place Britain on the forefront of the transport revolution.
Rail Strategy & Services Group (RSSG) is responsible for taking Britain’s railway into the future – delivering a sustainable and customer-focused railway which puts passengers at the heart of the journey. RSSG oversees a diverse range of exciting projects, managing the performance of rail services worth billions of pounds and driving forward cross-industry transformation.
As a Governance & Assurance Manager your main responsibilities will be to:
- Provide the governance and assurance expertise across Passenger Services, working with project, policy and market teams to ensure all governance and assurance processes are embedded across the organisation, including development of new processes as necessary. Working with the departmental Commercial division, ensure Contractual Delegation letters for the SRO, Directors and Deputy Directors are kept up to date.
- Be the single point of contact for all National Audit Office (NAO), and Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) engagements with Passenger Services, building and maintaining the relationships with key internal and external stakeholders, facilitating Gateway review assessment, planning and assurance meetings; facilitating all engagements with NAO, ensuring that the Passenger Services Senior Leadership Team are kept informed of the progress made with any assurance and audit engagements; providing analysis of recommendations made and suggesting owners for remedial action to be taken.
- Own and oversee the Passenger Services Lessons Learned process and all guidance, working to ensure improvements are made proactively across the programme, including ensuring the current guidance, tools and templates is current and relevant. Manage and work with the SEO Lessons Learned Manager and Project Managers to ensure that lessons workshops take place at the right time and are appropriately facilitated. Oversee the analysis and identification of lessons trends.
- Provide expert advice and assistance in maintaining the overall integrity and coherence of programme and governance framework to support each project, especially with assurance and governance activities.
- Provide expert advice on the provision of programme and project management in the development of business cases across Passenger Services, ensuring that the project management dimension within business cases is in line with best practice and guidance. Benefits
- Provide expert advice and assistance on the realisation of benefits for customers through planning and designing and that project outputs meet programme requirements. Ability to cascade vision and translate into delivery objectives for the team. Assist the Programme Office team in leading the programme to deliver the business case benefits and outcomes.
- Provide direction and guidance on project delivery professional development to team and more broadly across departmental profession. Act as Project Delivery Accreditation manager for Rail Strategy and Services.
- To line manage one or more SEOs.
- The post holder will report to the Head of Passenger Services Programme Office.
You’ll have:
- Experience of project and programme management in a complex public sector environment.
- Demonstrate excellent knowledge of PPM tools and techniques, in particular governance and project/programme assurance and governance to practitioner level.
- Experience of engaging a wide range of stakeholders in a complex public sector environment.
- Develop and maintain an understanding of economic, social, political, environmental, and technological developments to ensure activity is relevant.
- Ensure plans and activities in your area of work reflect wider strategic priorities and communicate effectively with senior leaders to influence future strategies.
- Adopt a government-wide perspective to ensure alignment of activity and policy.
- Bring together views and perspectives of stakeholders to gain a wider picture of the landscape surrounding activities and policies.
- Demonstrate positive customer service by understanding the complexity and diversity of customer needs and expectations.
Desirable criteria:
- A recognised PD qualification such as Managing Successful Programmes Practitioner, APM Project Management Practitioner Qualification and either have completed the Cranfield Project Leadership Programme or be willing to undertake this.
If this Governance & Assurance Manager role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Michelle.floyd@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Project Manager – Inside IR35 for UK Export Finance
When it comes to exporting, having a great product or service is only half the story. Putting the right finance and insurance in place can make the difference, helping you to win contracts, fulfil orders and get paid.
UK Export Finance is the UK government’s export credit agency. We support exports for any size company and across all industries, from capital goods to services and intangibles like intellectual property. Our mission is to advance prosperity by ensuring no viable UK export fails for lack of finance or insurance, doing that sustainably and at no net cost to the taxpayer.
As a Project Manager your main responsibilities would be to:
- Create and lead the project to deliver the agreed outcomes within time, cost and quality constraints.
- Day to day management and leadership of the project and the project team. Set project controls. Design the project structure appropriate to stage. Select and apply appropriate delivery methodologies.
- Coordinate development of the Business Case.
- Track delivery within budget.
- Schedule / manage resources to deliver the project. May work independently or with a small team.
- Ensure benefits are identified, understood, measured, tracked and owned. Ensure appropriate Benefits Realisation Strategy is in place and monitor longer term delivery of benefits against the Business Case.
- Identify key stakeholders and develop effective relationships.
- Identify and monitor project risks and issues. Develop mitigating actions and escalate as appropriate.
- Provide key reports and support effective governance and decision making.
- Support or set appropriate project assurance.
- Ensure effective Change Management processes are in place to agree and document changes to deliverables as agreed with stakeholders.
- Seek appropriate support, guidance and coaching from the project community. Show commitment to personal development. Promote effective individual and team performance.
- Build Project Plan and apply appropriate project principles to deliver stated objectives. Identify and set appropriate Project Controls. Track and report delivery against milestones.
You’ll have:
- Substantial experience in a project delivery role with Demonstrable experience of Project Management methodologies and their application to the design, development, and implementation of projects.
- Experience of working in an environment of uncertainty and continual change.
- Deliver projects / programmes to time, quality, and cost.
- Demonstration of a strong understanding of financial aspects related to a project management environment.
- Desirable: experience in finance related projects
Qualifications (held 2 or more of the below)
- PRINCE2 Practitioner
- Agile Project Management Practitioner
- APM Project Management Qualification
- PMI Project Management Professional
- Leading and Managing Project Workstreams
If this Project Manager role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Michelle.floyd@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
DE&I commitment
UKEF guarantees to interview all candidates who have a disability and who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of candidates who have a disability who meet all the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
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UKEF guarantees to interview veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
If you qualify for the above, please notify us on PSRapplications@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk.
We will be in touch to discuss your suitability and arrange your Guaranteed Interview.
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Building Services Engineer (Inside IR35) for Network Rail
Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway. From Crossrail – Europe’s largest civil engineering project – to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we're involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!
As a Building Services Engineer your main responsibilities will be:
- To manage the asset management of the route/region function building services and depot plant assets to deliver Network Rail’s goals.
- Providing asset management expertise on building services maintenance and
renewal decisions.
- To manage the asset stewardship and inspection of route/region/function building services, depots and depot plant assets in accordance with asset policy and technical strategy, recommending remedial and renewal works and maintaining comprehensive asset records.
- To develop and assist with the management of prioritised maintenance and renewal requirements, workbanks and plans in accordance with the technical asset management strategy and budget.
- Producing maintenance, renewal and enhancement (PRS) remits and their inclusion in the work bank.
- To define the development and implementation of schemes, verifying requirements are sufficient, correctly interpreted and delivered.
- Monitoring the implementation of control measures where proposed works are deferred and managed in accordance with asset policy.
- To act as sponsor for complex and specialist maintenance and all renewal schemes.
- Discharging all sponsor’s accountabilities in accordance with corporate policy.
Essential:
- An HND/HNC or equivalent qualification in a relevant subject or comparable experience in a similar role.
- Significant relevant experience of building services engineering.
- Knowledge of policies and standards relating to building regulations and policy.
- Strong stakeholder management skills.
- The ability to prioritise works required.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with neil.young@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Network Rail is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. They welcome applications from everyone.
Procurement Manager - Inside IR35 for AWE
What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.
That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
The responsibilities of this role:
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- Support and execute strategic sourcing activities in line with approved category strategy and preferred suppliers list, including the execution of the RFx process, supplier evaluation and selection, contract negotiation, business award and contract handover to the business, in compliance with the business requirements as well as AWE policies and directives, including Code of Conduct and Code of Business Ethics.
- Lead procurement strategy development, including category management, supplier selection, and contract negotiation.
- Provide leadership and guidance to the procurement team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
- Set clear performance objectives and expectations for team members, and provide regular feedback and coaching to support their professional development.
- Identify training and development opportunities to enhance the skills and capabilities of the procurement team.
- Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management:
- Lead strategic sourcing initiatives to identify and evaluate potential vendors, assess their capabilities, and negotiate favourable terms and pricing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between procurement strategies and business requirements.
- Develop and implement vendor management strategies to optimize supplier relationships and drive value for the company.
- Identify training and development opportunities to enhance the skills and capabilities of the procurement team.
- Strategic Sourcing and Vendor Management:
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between procurement strategies and business requirements.
- Develop and implement vendor management strategies to optimize supplier relationships and drive value for the company.
- You will be able to demonstrate:
- Active SC clearance
- Knowledge Public sector procurement regulation and experience of applying these to contracts and procurements.
- An understanding of, and experience in procuring across various categories
- An understanding of and experience in managing contracts
- Knowledge of and experience in using Crown Commercial Service procurement frameworks
- Experience in liaising with a broad range of government stakeholders, and their suppliers
- Experience in delivering high value procurements.
- The ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams, bring together people and views to inform decision making.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with thomas.lester@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Reporting and Systems Coordinator – Inside IR35 for Government Legal Department
The Reporting and Systems Coordinator is a role within the Workforce Strategy Team. This is an excellent opportunity for a highly capable and organised professional who is familiar with the iTrent system and how it interacts with other systems as the single source of data.
The successful applicant will need to quickly become familiar with the intricacies and limitations of the data held in iTrent and how it is used across the organisation and beyond. Working closely with the Head of People and key stakeholders across the department, the successful candidate will be required to build and maintain custom-built reports, using Business Objects, and, crucially, identify and lead on areas to improve data integrity for accuracy and ease of access and analysis.
This will assist the senior leadership and teams across the department make more informed decisions in delivering against GLD’s strategic outcomes and Business Plan, including through the implementation of a balanced scorecard of people metrics, in evolving our approach to data warehousing and our data products, and as the team evolves to a new structure in early 2025.
As a Reporting and Systems Coordinator your main responsibilities will be to:
- Review data quality and the way data is captured in iTrent / MyHR and identifying and leading on improvements.
- Ensure the structural hierarchy is accurate and up to date for headcount and workforce planning purposes and support the running of Service Now.
- Liaise with Midland HR and key stakeholders across GLD to ensure smooth interoperability between systems data held in iTrent / MyHR and other internal systems, including Service Now.
- Participate in working groups and iTrent/MyHR Change Boards as a subject matter expert and lead/sponsor to iTrent / MyHR that will benefit HR and the wider organisation.
- Consider how data might inform and drive projects across the organisation including in terms of universal people metrics, Identifying improvements to HR MI ways of working through systems or report improvements and the creation of new dashboards and reports.
- Drive forward the identification, procurement and implementation of a DataMart / data warehouse and lead on its use in the HR MI Team, identifying beneficial integrations to the business.
- Work closely within the HR MI Team to develop a suite of reports in Business Objects and PowerBI to enable ease of analysis, liaising with stakeholders across the business to advise what reports can be produced to achieve strategic aims.
- Line management of one SEO People Insight Data Analyst role while ensuring the 6-strong team project work progresses, prioritising and resolving escalations from the business as necessary.
- Build the capacity and capability of the HR MI team through coaching, knowledge sharing and continuous improvement activities.
Essential:
- Knowledge and experience of iTrent or a similar system.
- Experience of working with HR / People data.
- Experience of data reporting and analysis.
- Strong stakeholder management and communication skills.
Desirable:
- PowerBI experience.
- Public Sector experience.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with daniel.mcbride@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Planning Project Delivery Support Officer - Inside IR35 for DEFRA
In the Defra group, we deal with a vast range of issues that profoundly impact on people’s lives. We are responsible for England’s environment, our countryside and rural economy, the food and farming sectors and have lead responsibility for protection from a wide range of natural threats and hazards. We have developed a set of three strategic objectives covering our policy outcomes and corporate objectives. These objectives help us to deliver our ambitious vision to build our green and healthy future and provide a framework for all the important work we carry out.
Role purpose:
The role is required to support the SEO to develop and deliver robust change management. The “Go Live” workstream is being mobilised to manage the transition to the permanent facilities at all points of entry and supporting other workstreams leads to deliver fully operational inspection facilities.
The main duties and responsibilities of the Planning Project Delivery Support Officer would be to:
Identify and deliver activities to provide fully operational SPS Facilities Working in partnership with key user groups (VSAHG/Plant Health, Local Councils) define and deliver a Go live plan for those aspects of port readinessIdentify and implement process improvements in the end to end trader journeySupport stakeholder engagement through leading on and chairing specific meetings or working groups with usersSupporting the key user groups through the transition processDevelopment of transition and customer handover plans through engagement with wider project team and stakeholdersDeliver advice on changing processes through delivering awareness sessions and preparing relevant written briefing updates for staff and site usersWork with business areas to coordinate and develop relevant training plans for sites users.You’ll have:
Experience in supporting colleagues and other stakeholders through a significant change / transition in processes or goalsExperience in supporting large change management projectsExperience in the support of project deliveryA track record of building positive working relationships with a wide range of stakeholders, both internally and externally, including senior management.The ability to lead, develop, motivate and support staff.Excellent communication skills, verbal and written and have experience in preparing project papers/documentation and delivering presentations.The ability to work on own initiative and provide a positive contribution to the overall success of the teamAccess to a form of transport (as the post holder will be required to travel on official duty) which will enable you to fulfil your responsibilities in full. This includes travel to remote and rural locations in Northern Ireland, often inaccessible by public transport and travel to Great Britain the Republic of Ireland may also be required
It would be great if you also had:
A formal change management certification would be beneficialPrince2 qualification is highly beneficialIf this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with christopher.black@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Armed Forces Covenant
Defra is proud to support the Armed Forces Covenant and as such, we guarantee to interview all veterans or spouses / partners of military personnel who meet all the essential criteria for the vacancy. In cases where we have a high volume of ex-military candidates / military spouses or partners, who meet all of the essential criteria, we will interview the best candidates from within that group.
Principal Procurement Manager - Inside IR35 for AWE
What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.
That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
The responsibilities of this role:
- Develop and implement strategic procurement plans aligned with company goals and objectives.
- Lead procurement strategy development, including category management, supplier selection, and contract negotiation.
- Drive cost savings initiatives, identify opportunities for process improvement, and optimize procurement practices.
- Provide leadership and guidance to the procurement team, fostering a culture of excellence, collaboration, and innovation.
- Set clear performance objectives and expectations for team members, and provide regular feedback and coaching to support their professional development.
- Identify training and development opportunities to enhance the skills and capabilities of the procurement team.
- Lead strategic sourcing initiatives to identify and evaluate potential vendors, assess their capabilities, and negotiate favourable terms and pricing.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure alignment between procurement strategies and business requirements.
- Develop and implement vendor management strategies to optimize supplier relationships and drive value for the company.
You will be able to demonstrate:
- Active SC clearance
- Knowledge Public sector procurement regulation and experience of applying these to contracts and procurements.
- An understanding of, and experience in procuring across various categories
- An understanding of and experience in managing contracts ideally NEC 4
- Knowledge of and experience in using Crown Commercial Service procurement frameworks
- Experience in liaising with a broad range of government stakeholders, and their suppliers
- Experience in delivering high value procurements.
- The ability to work in multi-disciplinary teams, bring together people and views to inform decision making.
- Strong stakeholder engagement skills and the ability to communicate technical concepts to non-technical people.
- Procurement Management, or a related field. professional certification (e.g., CSCP, CPSM, CIPS) is preferred.
- Proven experience in procurement leadership
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to analyse complex data, identify trends, and develop actionable insights.
- Excellent negotiation and communication skills, with the ability to build effective relationships with internal stakeholders and external suppliers.
- Proficiency in procurement software and ERP systems, E-procurement systems advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and other analytical tools.
Desirable
- Public sector experience
- Experience of the Managing the exemption process from procurement regulations
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with thomas.lester@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Information Governance Officer - (SC Cleared) (Inside IR35) for MoD
The Ministry of Defence’s key responsibility is to protect the security, independence, and interests of the UK, at home and abroad, working closely with our allies and partners, as well as Whitehall colleagues.
The Defence Afghan Relocation and Resettlement (DARR) Directorate is a new organisation set up to manage the process for supporting eligible Afghans who supported the UK mission in Afghanistan over the past 20 years to come to the UK, and once here to be assisted to begin their new lives with their families. It is important and rewarding work, supporting one of Defence’s highest priorities.
In addition to leading on all relocation and resettlement policy, the Directorate is responsible for assessing the applications of Afghans who still wish to relocate to the UK, enabling the relocation of those eligible, managing Whitehall and international relationships, at the highest strategic level (including daily Ministerial interaction) and directing and cohering all the relocation and resettlement activity across the Defence enterprise.
The role
The Information Manager (IMgr) is a key member of the Data and Information Management (IM) and Exploitation Team charged with effective management and exploitation of data information within the Directorate. The role is vital in ensuring the DARR Directorate identifies and defines its information requirements and refines processes to allow the effective management and exploitation of information.
As an Information Governance Officer, your main responsibilities will be:
To advise the wider team on information related matters, drafting and delivering IM related policies.Responsible for the maintenance of the registered files, providing MODNET / DII(F) Secret User Account Management, Hardware and Software Management, Records Management, SharePoint Administration and Support and NSoIT guidance for all NCHQ Military and Civilian PersonnelTo act as the DARR Data Protection Adviser, working closely with the DARR Senior Information Officer (SIO)To advise the wider team on information related matters, drafting and delivering IM related policiesResponsible for Records Management, SharePoint Administration and SupportTo act as the DARR Data Protection Adviser, working closely with the DARR Senior Information Officer (SIO)Essential:
Previous Information Manager or iHub experienceActive SC ClearanceCompetency and understanding of data, reporting and performance management. Process improvement and user requirements capture. Change management and driving improvements to ways of working. Confidence to liaise with a range of stakeholders to gather insight and establish clear requirementsPrevious Data Protection Advisor experience is desirablePrevious public sector/Defence experience is desirableIf this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply.
Quality Assurance Analyst - Inside IR35 for UK Research and Innovation
UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) is a new entity that brings together nine partners to create an independent organisation with a strong voice for research and innovation, and a vision to ensure the UK maintains its world-leading position in research and innovation.
Innovate UK works with people, companies and partner organisations to find and drive the science and technology innovations that will grow the UK economy - delivering productivity, new jobs and exports. Our aim at Innovate UK is to keep the UK globally competitive in the race for future prosperity.
As a Quality Assurance Analyst, you will influence quality at all stages of the project, driving continuous improvement and getting involved with requirements, analysis, design, testing and release of enterprise level software applications. You will work to ensure the successful delivery of the major platform work items from different IT projects through robust integration and test processes.
As a Quality Assurance Analyst your main responsibilities would be to:
- Design and build Automation from scratch, Web Services/API, Performance & Accessibility test frameworks with DevOps CI/CD.
- Propose solutions to clients, when needed.
- Manage, plan and perform exploratory and automation activities throughout the project.
- Ensure that quality issues and defects are appropriately identified, documented, tracked, and resolved in a defect tracking system.
- Own and manage the release process to deliver the product effectively.
- Work closely with developers, Junior test engineers and cross functional scrum team members to increase the test coverage and reduce the test bottlenecks.
- Update and maintain regression suites as the products evolve.
- Work collaboratively and effectively in a DevOps way of working environment.
- Provide feature demos to the stakeholders.
Skills and Experience:
- Strong knowledge of Selenium and other test frameworks - (BDD, Cucumber).
- Experience of API testing with Rest Assured or Postman.
- Experience of performance testing with JMeter or equivalent.
- Great communication skills - you will be speaking with and presenting to your team members and the clients.
- Experience working in an Agile environment.
- Passionate about IT and new technologies.
Desirable:
- Public Sector experience.
- ISTQB Test Foundation or Certified Agile Tester Certification.
- Experience of delivering digital projects.
- Java or Javascript (medium knowledge of reading and scripting).
- Working knowledge of AWS.
- Experience with security testing.
- Knowledge of Robot Framework.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or email daniel.mcbride@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Full Stack Developer for The Home Office
The “Animals in Scientific Procedures e-Licensing” (ASPeL) service allows establishments to apply for and manage the licences required to carry out research, in the name of science, in Great Britain, on protected animals. It allows the Home Office to assess and process these applications and carry out other necessary regulatory duties.
The ASPeL product is in active development by a cross-functional team. A family of feature-complete correspondence products exists (CS systems). Live support and maintenance will be needed intermittently:
• “Digital External Correspondence System” (DECS)
• “Home Office Correspondence System” (HOCS Alfresco) – precursor of DECS
• “Windrush Compensation System” (WCS) – derived from HOCS
All these systems currently run within the “Application Container Platform” an AWS/Kubernetes environment managed within the Home Office.
The team’s delivery manager will decide priorities of work across these products and systems as required.
As a Full Stack Developer your main responsibilities will be:
- Live support and maintenance of ASPeL and “correspondence systems” within Service Level Agreement. Supported hours are Mon-Fri 9am-5pm.
- Collaboration within the cross-functional team to deliver value increments from the ASPeL product backlog: design, implementation, documentation, quality assurance (reviews, developer tests, advocacy of good/best practices, compliance with standards), evergreening, deployment.
- Knowledge transfer to future new team members.
- Maintenance of environment and infrastructure artefacts that are within the team’s responsibility (CI/CD configurations, automated test suites, deployment descriptors, Kubernetes configurations).
- Specification of service desk requests for AWS service configurations etc, to managed platform engineers where change implementation is outside the team’s direct responsibility.
You’ll have relevant experience in:
- Node.js
- React.js
- Experience in developing with React and Node, using past and current good practices (State with Redux, Classes, Hooks), unit testing and modularisation.
- Strong Java skills particularly for supporting and maintaining systems, including dependency upgrades.
- Ability to independently understand and work within complex systems in the JavaScript ecosystem.
- Experience with Java, particularly for supporting and maintaining Java-SpringBoot systems, to ensure a well-rounded skill set within the team.
- Demonstrated experience in working on complex systems that have limited documentation.
- Mocha / Jest.
- PostgreSQL.
- Git.
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks
If this Digital Developer role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with karl.robinson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Project Coordinator – Inside IR35 for Network Rail
Network Rail is at the heart of revitalising Britain’s railway. From Crossrail – Europe’s largest civil engineering project – to investment in world-class stations and major programmes of electrification, we're involved in some of the most ambitious and diverse ventures that this country has ever seen. We at Network Rail are dedicated to becoming one of Britain's best employers and believe this starts with placing the candidate at the heart of everything we do!
Job Purpose:
The team works with regional customers to assess their organisational leadership capability. We market our core leadership programmes, as well designing bespoke programmes to develop talent, and support succession planning. The Great Together projects build organisational capability, working with groups to understand their gaps, drive more effective teams, and shift organisational culture.
As a Project Coordinator your main responsibilities will be:
- Creating and maintaining project documents, such as schedules, budgets, and reports.
- Facilitating communication between team members, stakeholders, and the project manager.
- Managing calendars, scheduling meetings, and coordinating project timelines.
- Gathering information, conducting market research, and assisting with data analysis.
- Handling administrative duties like filing, data entry, and organizing project files.
- Assisting in resource allocation, procurement, and tracking project expenses.
- Helping to identify and assess project risks and assisting in developing risk mitigation strategies.
- Monitoring progress, updating task lists, and reporting on project status.
- Assisting in resolving issues that may arise during the project.
- Building relationships with participants and their EAs, particularly at the start of a cohort
- Creating invoices for all participants (each organization works slightly differently)
- Set up virtual event invitations for each cohort.
- Maintaining OneDrive (up to date participation records, storing copies of relevant documents)
- Event support (finding and booking suitable hotels, NB Agito has proven unreliable in the past so this needs active management)
- Financial tracking
- Creating social media posts for the LinkedIn group
- Potentially providing PMO support for cross-industry challenge groups
You’ll have:
- Project Coordinator experience
- MS Office experience including Word, Excel & Outlook
- Admin/secretariat experience
If this Project Coordinator role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Michelle.floyd@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Network Rail is an equal opportunity employer and values diversity. They welcome applications from everyone.
Integration PMO for Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
- Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
- Increase saving for, and security in later life
- Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
- Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
- Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity
As an Integration PMO your main responsibilities will be:
Work across the D&S team to co-ordinate activity and provide clarity on key milestones, providing programme support to the WPS programme.
Build and maintain effective relationships across the team and with wider stakeholders.
Ensure appropriate processes are implemented / reviewed and work with D&S Stakeholders to maintain a centralised process library post WPS. Provide training and upskilling as required.
Serve as the WPS Risk Lead for D&S which involves identifying, managing and reporting on risks and issues across the team and ensure they are clearly recorded and mitigated wherever possible.
Co-ordinate activity and interdependencies across the team and various governance forums to ensure a clear picture of priorities is in place and that activity is planned in line with this.
Lead secretariat provision for D&S team WPS governance forums and events.
Produce accurate and timely reports as required by the Head of Estates Data & Systems, Estates Senior Leadership Team (SLT) and DWP Governance bodies pertaining to the data and systems aspects of the WPS programme.
Co-ordination of work force planning to identify future capacity and capability needs across the function.
Work collaboratively with D&S team across DWP Estates to improve and manage the data and systems Governance requirements, track progress and report as required.
Liaise with key stakeholders in all aspects of D&S in the WPS programme and act as escalation point to provide resolutions as required and a cohesive response from the team.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Mark.Spencer@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Senior Design Engineer - EC&I (Inside IR35) for AWE
What if you could work on something that you can’t test… but cannot afford to fail? Something that could have spent years on a submarine, is launched into outer space (where the temperature is below -250c), comes hurtling through the atmosphere, being heated up and shaken and then must work? Some challenge.
That’s exactly what the team of over 6,500 people at AWE do every day: delivering important work, in support of the most important mission – keeping the nation safe.
AWE plays a crucial role in national nuclear security. Their role in nuclear deterrence and their specialist technical assistance to nuclear threat reduction is vital in the defence against the most serious threats faced by the UK. Working to support the defence of our country, AWE has a clear mission: to keep everyone, the environment, their products and information, sites, and everything around them, safe and secure.
As a Senior EC&I Design Engineer, your main responsibilities will be:
To lead packages of work, using their experience and knowledge to lead others and to work autonomously. Working on the IVA (a Special Purpose Machine) built up on Low level enclosures, High level enclosures and Lasers. To support Site Technical Queries (TQs) through the installation phase of the project, and support with clashes or design changes. Updating of Schedules, P&IDs and Schematics.Updating assembly drawings, converting Red lines to Black lines and creating relevant change documentation (DCN; Design Change Notes) for record and auditable trail, consequently updating Certificate of Designs to capture’ as built’ and to take us into the next phase of commissioning. To ensure our configured baseline design is maintained and updated as we phase out of Construction/installation into commissioning.
Essential:
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.A minimum of ONC or OND in relevant engineering discipline.Experience working in a highly regulated industry.A strong understanding and knowledge of Instrumentation and Command & Control.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with neil.young@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
AWE’s ambition is to create workplaces that recognise and celebrate differences, encourage diverse contributions and where people feel able to be themselves at work. They strive to create a genuine culture of openness and inclusion and encourage diverse applicants.
Procurement Advisor – (Inside IR35) for Department for Digital, Culture Media & Sport
As Procurement Advisor your main responsibilities will be to;
Provide professional procurement advice and assist the Head of Commercial to provide a framework that enables the department/team meets any and all central government requirements, achieve best value and effectively manage risk for third-party goods and services.Manage consistent commercial policies and procurement processes across the Department in line with Managing Public Money.Lead on procurements on varying complexity, sometimes against tight timelines in line with Public Procurement Regulations. Interacting with the relevant business areas (or ALB’s) on progress and requirements.Be able to support on other procurement operations concurrently when required.Provide clear and concise commercial advice to seniors and external stakeholders, when required.Engage and influence stakeholders across the department and wider NDPB community so that they support the commercial strategy and visibly commit to its successful implementation.Advise and undertake Contract Management activities.Lead on implementing and drafting Memorandums of Understanding, licences and other agreements as required.Input to and follow the governance/assurance protocols for procurements.Effectively manage and work with the department’s core Commercial Team with a high degree of technical competence.Essential
Active CTC or SC clearanceDynamic professional with an ability to handle multiple procurement strands and commercial activities with multiple, varied stakeholders concurrently.Have a demonstrable track record of delivering value for money across a range of procurement projects and categories, ideally managing high turnover, small value, professional services procurements.Be a proficient procurement professional with relevant applied and/or theoretical knowledge, in management process development and implementation, category management, strategic sourcing, supplier relationship development and performance management, specification, report and recommendation writing.Evidence of confidence in providing commercial advice to senior teams and external stakeholders.Significant working at pace experience.Exceptional knowledge of the Public Contracts Regulations 2015 and an understanding of their application.Have practical experience of managing varied procurement operations working in a corporate procurement environment.Sophisticated understanding and experience of government frameworks.Desirable
Demonstrable Contract Management experience.Have or working toward MCIPS/MRICS professional qualification or equivalent.Ability to challenge and hold stakeholders to account, create an environment that acts as a catalyst for continuous improvement.DDaT Category experience.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with thomas.lester@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Agile Delivery Manager (Inside IR35) for Department for Work & Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
- Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
- Increase saving for, and security in later life
- Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
- Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
- Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity
As an Agile Delivery Manager, your main responsibilities will be:
- Help high performance teams to continuously improve, share information and set standards for other teams
- Help develop and utilise meaningful metrics in order to drive teams towards their goals and understand areas for improvement
- Lead by example, acting as a servant-leader demonstrate the right behaviours. Deals with conflict and helps establish a team culture that allows for constructive criticism
- Own and build relationships with the technical teams, Product Owners, senior stakeholders, management and third party sub-contractors utilising effective and appropriate governance mechanisms. Managing complex team dynamics between external and internal stakeholder groups to ensure the team is aligned to and understands the same objectives
- Work with technology and business teams to ensure that new products & services are delivered effectively to realise measurable benefits
- Supports the Product Owners to define and build the digital delivery roadmap and translate into an achievable backlog
Essential Criteria:
- Experience in Scrum or KANBAN
- Experience working in a large multidisciplinary team
- Able to identify and compare the best processes or delivery methods to use, including measuring and evaluating outcomes.
- Can adapt and reflect, is resilient and has the ability to see outside of the process. Able to use a blended approach depending on the context.
- Able to listen to the needs of the technical and business stakeholders and interpret between them.
- Able to apply experience of multiple parts of the lifecycle.
- Able to work with other agile delivery operations throughout the product lifecycle. Able to plan and engage with the appropriate stakeholders at a particular stage in the project.
- Influences stakeholders and manages relationships effectively. Builds long term strategic relationships.
- Has the ability to apply a digital understanding to their work. Is able to identify and implement solutions for assisted digital. Can help teams understand the ways that digital technology is changing user behaviour, and the challenges and opportunities for design and delivery of government services.
- Able to identify appropriate contractual frameworks. Able to identify appropriate suppliers. Able to negotiate with contracted suppliers. Able to get good value out of contracts and suppliers.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with rebecca.nolan@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Data Scientist (Inside IR35) for Department for Work & Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
- Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
- Increase saving for, and security in later life
- Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
- Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
- Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity
As a Data Scientist, your main responsibilities will be:
- Lead the activities supporting service design in Health, as well as working on technical tasks supporting all work strands in the Data Team.
- Work with stakeholders within and outside of Health Digital to identify opportunities for quantitative research, explorative analysis and analytical model development work to support the Health Transformation Programme objectives. You will need to prioritise the backlog of these activities considering business need and capability within the team, identifying dependencies on other areas.
- Work with other leads in the Data Team as well as the Health Data Lead and the Senior Data Product Manager to ensure that work is prioritised across all delivery strands within the team.
- Drive the development of new capabilities within the team, in particular in the area or MLOps, Analytics Standards and ways of working.
- Work as a technical data professional, applying specialist programming skills with data analytics techniques in order to find and share patterns in data that can be put into action and drive better decisions across the business.
- Work in the Health Data and Analysis Platform, which is hosted in Microsoft Azure, using DataBricks and other notebook environments to deliver analysis and build models in SQL and python. You will use a variety of data sources: event-based application data, Google Analytics, DWP admin data, clerical MI.
Essential Criteria:
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.
- Experience Python, SQL, R and Spark as languages.
- Experience of machine learning.
- Experience with free text analysis
- Experience of working with evolving source services, visualisation, data insights, free text analysis, time series analysis, reproduceable analytical pipelines, design develop and maintain analytical solutions
- Experience working with large or complex data sets including:
- Identifying and gathering disparate data,
- Exploring and documenting data,
- Extensive data manipulation,
- Iteration of analytical techniques
- Visualisation of the results.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with rebecca.nolan@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Systems Manager for Department for Work and Pensions
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is responsible for welfare, pensions, and child maintenance policy. As the UK’s biggest public service department, it administers the State Pension and a range of working age, disability and ill health benefits to around 20 million claimants and customers. As such, we operate on a scale that is almost unmatched anywhere in Europe and most people in Britain come into contact with us at some point in their lives.
Working with DWP, you will be helping us to drive our priorities to:
- Run an effective welfare system that enables people to achieve financial independence by providing assistance and guidance into employment
- Increase saving for, and security in later life
- Create a fair and affordable welfare system which improves the life chances of children
- Deliver outstanding services to our customers and claimants
- Deliver efficiently: transform the way we deliver our services to reduce costs and increase productivity
As a Systems Manager your main responsibilities will be:
Supporting Estates Systems Lead in collaborating across DWP Estates, DWP Digital and wider stakeholders to ensure the Data and Systems Strategy is delivered relating to the landscape of all systems across the organisation and the Estates operating model.
Set and monitor requirements for managing the supply chain’s systems, integration, and alignment to the Estates Future Data Model, ensuring their systems are managed in line with the requirements of the Directorate and in line with defined Statement of Requirements.
Collaborate with the broader Estates Supply Chain Management team and Category Management team to establish reporting and MI requirements to reflect departments' needs and relevant KPIs.
Manage Estates System Governance, as part of the Estates Control Framework to ensuring robust controls are in place across the Estates Supply Chain and DWP for data accuracy and systems alignment, working with Data Governance Managers towards establishing systemised Master Data Management applications.
Working closely with Data Governance Managers and the Estates Asset Management team who will be responsible for articulating parameters that are required to demonstrate compliance and effective management of the Estates Data Model (e.g. Master Asset Register, BIM data, standardised classification and taxonomy etc.) as well as other DWP functions to ensure data compliance is demonstrated.
Working with the Data Governance Managers in their development of the Estates Data Model with the relevant DWP Stakeholders, Integrator and DWP Supply chain with a roadmap to navigate from current state to future model.
Working with the Estates Systems Lead and Data Governance Managers to develop and implement a data quality and systems audit plan across the Estates Supply Chain and Integrator and support the establishment of remedial plans for any identified issues.
Identity areas for improvements, managing relationships with Estates and DWP stakeholders to define continuous improvements for existing systems and upcoming system procurements.
Capture System improvement feedback from DWP stakeholders, create and deliver plans to implement system improvements and work with the Integrator and supply chain to coordinate delivery of these.
Facilitate relevant technical discussions with other DWP functions such as Finance, Digital and Enterprise Security Risk Management (ESRM), collaborating to deliver the strategic data and information management plan and requirements.
Work with the wider DWP teams to ensure the Estates systems environment operates within the defined standards, including data security.
Project manage any DWP-wide systems and business information projects, developing initiatives to deliver them within overall Estates operating context.
Review testing and evaluation process undertaken by the Integrator, as part of regular governance processes. This also includes 3rd party software solutions procured through the Integrator and DWP Estates.
Monitor adherence to policies and procedures regarding DWP governance, policies and controls.
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Mark.Spencer@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Project Engineer Civil for NRS (formerly known as Magnox)
PSR is working with NRS (formerly known as Magnox) to identify the most talented people on the market. NRS is an exciting place to be, and this role is the perfect opportunity for you to be part of our challenging mission, where we are responsible for the delivery of value for money decommissioning and restoration of nuclear sites, ensuring all our futures are safe, secure and sustainable. To deliver our commitment, we need people like you who want to perform at an industry leading standard and be part of a team that continues to develop, innovate, and even exceed our greatest achievements.
At NRS, we understand, and acknowledge the value of an inclusive working environment, and celebrate the diversity this brings to our workplace. Without this approach, we wouldn't be in the position that we are now, being able to safeguard and secure the future of our organisation.
Assignment background.
To provide fit for purpose engineering solutions for projects or engineering support on more complex projects. To ensure that design authority standards and configuration control are applied appropriately.
Core day job is to delivery project engineer.
documentation and work packs. Steel work
refurbishment – currently in the process to design a
system to improve a structure integrity and also replace.
flat roofs. Define the work – hazard identification –
producing preconstruction specification – internally –
safety case process – and all the way through the concept
design. Implementation – review and accepting – method.
of work – quality plans – technical oversight of the work.
Close out the work – documentation etc.
As a Project Civil Engineer your main responsibilities will be:
Identify project functional requirements and stakeholder needs for assigned project.Contribute to production of Project Execution Plan including design, safety case and commissioning strategies.Support project optioneering process.Develop concept design and fit for purpose engineering solution for projects.Produce and/or approve project technical specifications.Manage detailed design activities in accordance with design authority standards.Prepare modification proposals as required, acting as a Nominated Responsible Engineer where appointed.Carry out technical assessment/approval of contractors work instructions/method statements/risk assessments.Provide technical supervision of construction/deconstruction activities to ensure compliance with design intent.Approve as built drawings.Specify and provide technical supervision of commissioning and/or decommissioning.Manage hand over to systems/operations ensuring that all drawings, instructions, and training have been supplied as required.You’ll have relevant experience in:
Experience in a practising disciplined Engineering role (Civil) on industrial plantExperience of nuclear and/or conventional project engineeringHNC/HNDproject engineering Industrial plantExperience with an industrial plant and experience
of working with ageing or degrading plant.Understanding of relevant Company and/or national engineering standardsYou will also have these Qualifications/Skills:
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with stewart.gilroy@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Commercial Lead - (Inside IR35) for The Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office
The Foreign & Commonwealth Office (FCO) and the Department for International Development (DfID) merged on 1 September 2020 to form the Foreign, Commonwealth & Development Office (FCDO).
The FCDO pursues our national interests and projects the UK as a force for good in the world. We promote the interests of British citizens, safeguard the UK's security, defend our values, reduce poverty and tackle global challenges with our international partners.
FCDO is looking to appoint an experienced Commercial Lead. The role holder will lead a portfolio of complex procurements. Through the deployment of best-in-class procurement and commercial assurance across FCDO global estate.
The role requires an inspiring individual who has in-depth understanding and experience of delivering end to end procurements in compliance with regulations in a global setting whilst navigating complex industries and market trends, as well as, driving supply chain excellence across the procurement/ commercial life cycle.
Additionally, the role will assist with the development of procurement/ contract strategies, pipeline activity for the area of responsibility, supporting the development and delivery of complex and novel commercial projects.
Significant engagement with FCDO stakeholders will be required that include Regional Platform, Procurement Hubs, Policy, Directors, Specialist Representative Organisation, and Supply Chains to ensure that commercials service offering is translated into outcomes that is aligned to wider government and FCDO targets.
PLEASE NOTE:
Due to the urgent need to fulfil this role, the successful candidate must have active SC Clearance at the point of application
You will need to provide details of the following:
· SC Clearance held by:
· Date last used:
· Expiry Date:
- Provide guidance to internal stakeholders on commercial strategies and route to market, maintain procurement ethics, in accordance with FCDO and wider Government policies.
- Deliver complex procurements through conducting high quality tenders in accordance with the selected route to market, taking cognisance of procurement legislation, Government policy and guidance, such as the sourcing and construction playbooks, Procurement Policy Notes and departmental policies and guidance.
- Develop commercial relationships with suppliers, with a principal objective of achieving optimal cost and performance, as well as, improving sustainability and social responsibility.
- Evaluate supplier core competencies and competitive positioning using industry cost models and bench-marking analysis.
- Deliver annually agreed savings target for the estates category portfolio through performance management of Commercial Estates teams, suppliers and working collaboratively with stakeholders.
- Strong Contract drafting and management knowledge across some of the major standard forms of contract in use, predominantly the NEC4 suite of contracts (may include FIDIC, AIA, JCT) and understanding of CCS frameworks.
- Responsibility as part of the Estates Commercial team for staff development, mentoring & support. Ensuring all mandatory and role specific training is undertaken. Line management duties may be required.
- You will be the trusted advisor in sourcing and commercial initiatives to both, stakeholders, and your team members, ensuring compliance to the appropriate processes and operating procedures.
- You will develop and manage key sourcing activities to meet project goals while minimising risk and ensuring Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) to ensure value for money and successful outcomes are delivered for the FCDO.
- Contribute to the development and commercial cases of Outline and Full Business Cases & Procurement/ Contract Strategies (OBC & FBC) and to additional governance paperwork preparation where applicable.
- Travel within UK and internationally may be required to meet and work with stakeholders and their teams.
- Support the development of sub-category strategies through the category management cycle from understanding the FCDO’s starting point in terms of spend, suppliers and estate portfolio through to developing options appraisals and mobilising sourcing projects in collaboration with Key stakeholders across FCDO Global Estate
- The resilience to manage multiple projects concurrently, with the ability to research, benchmark, scope, design, implement and evaluate project delivery to tight deadlines.
- A proactive approach and a focus on continuous improvement of self and service, with an appetite to work with others to simplify processes and improve efficiency.
- Strong commercial acumen with experience procuring complex works, goods and services in compliance with the Procurement Contracts Regulations with a thorough working knowledge of applicable EU and UK procurement legislation and contracts using the NEC suite of contract forms.
- Experience operating in a matrix environment with the ability and skills to build successful relationships, enabling engagement with multiple stakeholders and the ability to constructively challenge decision making based on objective argument founded in fact and analysis.
- Excellent communication skills, while being aware of political insight and sensitivity.
- You will be a team player who leads by example, operating with kindness and respect.
Essential
- Stakeholder engagement
- PCR 2015 experience
- Construction procurement background and knowledge including projects and new build
- NEC background and knowledge
- Procuring construction professional services
- NEC 4 experience
- Solution focussed
- Experience of Jaggaer / Bravo
Desirable
- Public Sector procurement background
- CIPs
If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or get in touch with Trevor Wilson at trevor.wilson@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk
Senior Enterprise Architect - Inside IR35 for Ministry of Defence
Are you ready to shape how the Ministry of Defence (MOD) is designed and is operated, directly enabling the defence of the UK? The MOD is seeking an exceptional and experienced Architect to lead the enterprise architecture for one of MOD’s top strategic priorities; Corporate Services Modernisation.
Corporate Services are critically important for the 250,000 people working across Defence to do their day-to-day jobs. For example, every time the department procures military equipment, personnel receive their monthly pay or request their vacation, they are using Corporate Services. As part of the wider government Shared Services Strategy, MOD has established the Corporate Services Modernisation (CSM) portfolio to drive Human Resources, Commercial and Finance policy, process, organisational, data and systems transformation. Our ambition is to revolutionise MOD corporate services to:
Improve the user experience by simplifying our policies and processes, ; providing?easier and better interfaces?to?systems and?self-service and; making services?more responsive?and?providing?easy access?to help.Deliver better data driven decision making by introducing and fully exploiting the?latest?Oracle Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Human Capital Management (HCM) technology; improving?visibility, accuracy and?accessibility?of management information across?defence; and using?integrated data analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI)?to inform decision making.Improve Productivity and Efficiency by automating transactional processes ; expanding and improving MOD’s?shared?service centre operations; and reducing MOD’s?overall corporate?services spend?to maximise our?reinvestment into the front-line.As a Senior Enterprise Architect your main responsibilities would be to:
Lead Corporate Service business design and ensure technical solutions support the business architecture. This will involve working closely with a virtual/federated team of business and technical leads across functions, our Shared Services centre (Defence Business Services), Defence Digital and with a CSM Delivery Partner to deliver key enterprise artefacts for example: cross-cutting scope and requirements, capability gap analyses, functional reference model and business process designOwn MOD’s overarching and integrated CSM enterprise architecture and acting as the primary point of contact for MOD’s senior leaders, the portfolio and programme teams.Lead the Design Authority governance to drive cross functional decision making, ensuring the needs of all functions, wider defence and government are fully understood and actioned as appropriate. This would include setting the agenda, bringing in subject matter experts, engaging senior leaders to guide decision making; working in close collaboration with CSM’s Technical Design Authority governance.Capture and analyse stakeholder perspectives and management information to agree enterprise level goals and requirements, identifying any coherence problems / opportunities and ensuring alignment with CSM portfolio and MOD strategic outcomes.Set the standards for defining architecture, including goals, requirements, and processes to the required levels of detail (aligned and compliant with MOD and cross-government standards, informed by industry best practice)Lead engagement across the CSM Enterprise Architecture community. This would involve collaborating with Functional design leads to ensure CSM capability scope includes all relevant current business ways of working and enhancements required to meet portfolio goals.Influence how business change is designed and delivered to ensure architecture is embedded successfully and CSM benefits are fully realised.
- Would be working with senior HR, Finance and Commercial leaders to define policy, redesign processes, restructure the organisation, along with developing new systems and data architecture.
Essential:
SC Clearance is an essential requirement for this role, as a minimum you must be eligible and willing to undergo these checks.A proven track record of leading and delivering large-scale end-to-end architectural projects, including the development and implementation of enterprise-wise strategies.Experience leading a team of Enterprise Architects, with an understanding of how to create a collaborative and innovative culture that drives high performance and continuous improvement.Comprehensive knowledge of Corporate/Shared Services and Enterprise Resource Planning implementations.Proficiency in tools, methodologies and frameworks to support architectural design, governance, strategic development and stakeholder communication.?Excellent communication skills (written, verbal and presentational), including the ability to articulate complex architectural concepts clearly to technical and non-technical users, adapting communication style, language and format to fit the needs of the audience.Strong collaboration skills, and proficiency in building positive relationships across diverse stakeholder groups; able to understand and manage multiple perspectives, build consensus and influence stakeholders at all levels, encouraging them to make decisions that align with the strategy, policies, principles and best interests of the enterprise.A flexible approach, capable of managing uncertainty, adapting to changing priorities and providing direction to others to overcome ambiguity in a complex and fast-moving environment.Desirable:
Defence or Public Sector experience.BCS certificate in Enterprise and Solution Architecture.If this role sounds like something that you would be interested in, please click the link to apply or email Lewis.hamber@publicsectorresourcing.co.uk