• A track record of winning and developing high-value prospective accounts.
  
• Experience and a network of contacts across the energy and/or water sectors.
  
• Lead the entire sales process from lead generation to closure.
  
• Owning a target and delivering against it.
  
• Identifying new client opportunities to develop a sales pipeline.
  
• Working closely with clients on a consultative basis to understand their requirements, define solutions, and create compelling propositions.
  
• Showing commercial ability in terms of negotiating contracts and commercial agreements.
  
• Working with internal teams (insight/solutions/operations/development) to ensure we develop strategies which maximise opportunities.
  
• Attending networking and industry specific events.
  

• Experience in the Water and/or Energy sector.
  
• Successful track record leading complex high value customer relationships.
  
• Experience in selling into enterprise organisations.
  
• Previous experience selling Consultancy or data driven solutions is preferred.
  
• Strong communication skills, experienced presenting to senior key decision makers.
  
• Experience in negotiating and agreeing contracts.
  
• Ability to build relationships and develop strategic partnerships.
  
• Track record of meeting and exceeding targets.
  
• The ability to thrive within a sales environment
  

The Client:

An education charity is looking for an Oracle Report Analyst to join them on a 12 month fixed term contract.

• Design, build, and maintain operational, statutory, and management reports using Oracle tools (OTBI, BI Publisher, Fusion Analytics Warehouse).
  
• Partner with functional leads (Finance, HR, Payroll, Procurement) to translate business requirements into well-structured, automated reporting solutions.
  
• Develop standardised reporting packs for Academies, Clusters, and Federation-level performance reporting.
  
• Support EPM and BromCom integration reporting, ensuring alignment of staff, financial, and operational data across systems.
  
• Create and maintain a central reporting catalogue and data dictionary for reference and consistency.
  

• Validate and reconcile report outputs to ensure data accuracy, consistency, and completeness.
  
• Support data integrity checks across systems, contributing to a single source of truth for key people and finance data.
  
• Work with Data Governance leads to ensure reporting complies with data protection, audit, and safeguarding standards.
  
• Implement version control, documentation, and change management processes for all reports.
  

• Provide technical guidance and support to users on running, interpreting, and troubleshooting Oracle Fusion reports.
  
• Deliver short training sessions and “how-to” materials to enable self-service reporting for functional teams and academies.
  
• Collaborate with the client Learn Team to embed reporting and data literacy into wider staff development.
  

• Identify opportunities to simplify and automate recurring reporting tasks.
  
• Work with the Data & Reporting Manager to prioritise enhancement requests based on impact and urgency.
  
• Participate in the design and testing of new data integrations and reporting functionalities during upgrades and releases.
  
• Support transition into BAU, ensuring documentation, ownership, and performance measures are embedded.
  

• Strong understanding of Oracle Fusion data structures across HCM, Payroll, Finance, and Procurement.
  
• Advanced SQL and analytical skills for data validation and troubleshooting.
  
• Ability to design, build, and maintain management and statutory reports.
  
• Excellent attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy.
  
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to interpret complex data for non-technical users.
  

• Ensure accuracy of payments to employees/pensioners.
  
• Liaison with employees, pensioners, external bodies, and internal departments.
  
• Act as Information Management point of contact, providing support and guidance to the Payroll Team.
  
• Accountable for collating, developing, and issuing reports and presentation materials in accordance with company standards as and when required against key deliverables.
  
• Accountable for developing and maintaining working relationships with, and awareness of, key internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Accountable for appropriate management of sensitive or classified material.
  

• Manage weekly/monthly payroll data in the Business System in accordance with statutory and contractual obligations and to pre-defined timescales.
  
• Process and monitor all staffing changes including starters, secondments, transfers, leavers and other amendments to salaries and employee data in a compliance with policy and payroll requirements.
  
• Manage input, calculation and recording of sickness payment both statutory and occupational.
  
• Manage input, calculation and recording of maternity, paternity, SHPL and adoption payments both statutory and occupational.
  
• Manage input, calculation and recording of Fixed and Casual allowances payments and adjustments.
  
• Manage balance adjustments and prepare PLO11.
  
• Settlement agreements, Pension amendments on notional pay for SMP and SPL.
  
• Overtime payments and adjustments, Cyclamen reporting of OSR and over payment adjustments.
  
• The checking and processing of travel and expense claims in accordance with policy.
  
• The processing of relevant HMRC forms including P45, P60 and manage adjustments and Tax code updates.
  
• Manage all Coulport imputing and adjustments.
  
• Checking and entering all temp data including HHA amendments.
  

• Candidate needs to be well-rounded in Payroll, processing pay/reward.
  
• Data entry experience.
  
• Knowledge of SharePoint, MS Excel and Workday.
  

The Client:

An intergovernmental agency is looking for a Budget Management Analyst to join them on a 6 month fixed term contract.

• Portfolio Development and Management including the development of the Secretariat’s Strategic Plan and the management of the Programme Planning and Budgeting process.
  
• The development and coordination of a system of quality assurance, monitoring and reporting on progress and results achieved by the Secretariat on a periodic basis.
  
• Provision of advice and support to Directorates on planning and delivering their programmes.
  
• Increasing importance the need to aggregate, analysis and dashboard programme and project performance information for decision makers through the Secretariat’s programme management and information system.
  

• A post graduate degree in business administration, financial planning, accounting, economics, public administration, or related field.
  

• A chartered certification in data analytics, financial analyst.
  

• At least 5 years’ working experience in development programmes in a planning agency or an international/inter-governmental organisation, with responsibilities for budgeting and preparation of financial information at the programme and portfolio level to inform management decision making.
  
• Preparation of organisation-wide budgets, expert analytical skills through the use of spreadsheets, databases, and other budgeting software is required..
  

• Research skills in providing inputs to strategic, policy and sectoral planning processes and reports. Proposal development and experience in resource mobilisation.
  

• Set direction for your service/capability and teams that is in line with overarching strategy (which you have the ability to influence.
  
• Ensure that your teams work aligns to standards.
  
• Have a clear focus on delivering quality, assured and secure services.
  
• Ensure that you team follow best practice.
  
• Be aware of and assess impact of any change that you are making.
  
• Have an outward facing viewpoint, understanding where your team and products fit into the bigger picture.
  

• Have experience in designing and implementing test strategy for distributed microservices from Monolith service across multiple teams (mandatory).
  
• Experience in business context / domain driven testing approach for java spring boot-based application or non JVM based application.
  
• Experience in contract testing and component testing such as API, message based asynchronous testing such as Kafka or similar technology.
  
• Experience in non-relational database I.e. mongo db or similar.
  
• Strong technical automation skills with the ability to write well-structured reusable maintainable tests and test utilities (Java or TS/JS preferred).
  
• Have experience in non-functional experience such as performance testing (Gatling , K6) and accessibility testing.
  
• Have experience in CI/CD pipeline.
  

• Cloud: AWS (primary).
  
• Test Frameworks: Serenity BDD (Selenium + RestAssured), Playwright.
  
• Other tools: Spring Cloud Contract, Pactflow, Kafka, Mongodb, Browserstack.
  
• DevOps: Gitlab, GitHub , Jenkins, Docker.
  
• Performance testing – Gatling, K6.
  
• Observability and Monitoring – Splunk, Grafana, Prometheus.
  

• Significant experience leading and testing micro services.
  
• Functional and non functional testing.
  
• Hands on experience in automation testing.
  
• Leadership skills.
  
• Experience leading microservices transformation (not just working it).
  

• A relevant professional accountancy qualification (applicants must be qualified within a CCAB body) with post-qualification experience.
  
• Prior experience of the preparation and/or audit of Central Government or other similar public sector financial statements.
  
• Confidence and credibility with excellent communication and relationship management skills.
  
• A proven ability to deliver outcomes involving strategic financial decision making, including influencing at a senior level.
  
• Strong Excel skills.
  
• Proven experience of delivering value for money through strong commercial awareness.
  
• Strong collaboration and influencing skills with the ability to build an effective network of key stakeholders quickly.
  
• Ability to act under own initiative and problem solve independently.
  
• Pro-active, flexible, resilient, motivated and results oriented.
  

• Previous experience of line management of other financial colleagues.
  
• An interest in the private security industry and/or public protection.
  

• A relevant professional accountancy qualification (applicants must be qualified within a CCAB body) with minimum post-qualification experience of 3 years..
  

The Client:

A  Construction Organisation client is looking for a Senior Quantity Surveyor to join them on a fixed term contract.

• Compliance and achievement of project, procedures, personal targets and initiatives.
  
• Promote a sense of Teamwork with your Operational equivalen.
  
• Consistently promote the company values and procedures.
  
• Maintain key relationships with supply chain, consultants and clients.
  
• Ensure the project team achieve or exceed budgeted targets.
  
• Identify potential disputes in a timely manner.
  
• Place high quality subcontract orders in accordance with the procurement schedule.
  
• Ensure subcontract orders accurately reflect the main contract requirements and scope of works.
  
• Accurately value, certify and issue any relevant payment notices for the subcontract works in accordance with the conditions of their subcontract.
  
• Ensure that external valuations are submitted in accordance with conditions of the main contract and that payments are received by the due date, taking full responsibility for the project’s cash position.
  
• Complete CVR/Forecast reports, ensuring they accurately reflect the current position on site and the final profit projection.
  
• Achieve timely and equitable resolution of client and supply chain final accounts.
  
• Provide early warning of future financial problems and ensure accurate real time reporting.
  
• Manage and minimise non recoverable costs on projects.
  
• Manage, train and develop junior surveying staff.
  
• Price and effectively agree project variations.
  
• Creatively consider value engineering and improved buildability solution.
  
• Correctly identify and prepare contractual notices for all events and administering the main contract conditions accordingly.
  
• Accurately promote strong teamwork between all disciplines.
  
• Actively support business priorities and promote the company externally.
  
• Working collaboratively and communicating effectively with other areas of the Client's Construction business to provide exceptional support.
  
• To work to the Company’s Quality, Environmental and Safety Management System standards and performance criteria including delivering the objectives set.
  
• To co-operate on matters of health and safety and follow the training provided. To take reasonable care of personal and other’s health and safety at all times.
  
• Any other duties consistent with the role of Senior Quantity Surveyor as may be required from time to time.
  

• Degree in Quantity Surveying or appropriate alternative.
  
• Experience within a Senior Management position.
  
• Valid driving licence.
  

• Wide experiment in a relevant Main Contracting Senior Commercial Rol.
  
• Extensive knowledge of relevant computer software such as Excel, Word, PowerPoint and Microsoft Project.
  
• A detailed knowledge of relevant contract conditions, including JCT/NEC.
  
• Up to date relevant knowledge of building legislation and construction industry.
  
• A full successful track record in leading financial management and cost control on projects.
  
• Delivering projects.
  
• 8 years of working experience in the construction industry.
  
• Efficient use of resources.
  
• Dealing with a variety of forms of construction such as Concrete Frame, Steel Frame etc.
  
• Highly organised and able to work under pressure.
  
• Controlling costs in accordance with budget.
  
• Man management.
  
• A high level of organisation and achieving deadlines.
  
• Reporting on a number of simultaneous projects.
  
• Maintaining technical knowledge and understanding.
  
• Demonstrable understanding of cash management.
  
• Understanding of contract law.
  
• Feedback new and effective systems and controls into the business.
  
• Positively reacting to change and assisting in its implementation in the business.
  
• Demonstrable experience in line management and developing junior team members.
  
• Excellent verbal communication and numerical skills.
  
• Excellent negotiation/influencing skills.
  

• Good level of experience in dispute resolution and contract administration.
  
• Ability to lead issues outside own discipline where required.
  
• Ability to remain positive and focused at all times.
  
• Working towards professional membership of MCIOB or RICS.
  
• Appropriate CSCS card.
  
• Good level of education to include 5 GCSEs at Grade C or above, A Levels.
  
• Construction related degree.
  

• Recognise your own strengths and limitations, play to your strengths and use strategies to minimise the impact of your limitations.
  
• Reflect regularly on your own experiences and performance, and constantly seek to improve.
  
• Model behaviour that shows respect, helpfulness and co-operation.
  
• Respond positively and with resilience to setbacks.
  
• Understand people’s needs and motivations and adapt your personal style accordingly.
  
• Recognise when there are conflicts, acknowledge the feelings and views of all parties, and redirect people’s energy towards a common goal.
  
• Make best use of available resources and seek new sources of support when necessary.
  
• State your own position and views clearly and confidently in conflict situations.
  
• Share, and encourage others to share, information and knowledge.
  
• Recognise the importance of relationships and build these across the organisation.
  
• Understand and address stakeholders' needs.
  
• Identify your customers’ needs and expectations and strive to deliver them.
  
• Prioritise and plan to deliver agreed objectives.
  
• Present plans clearly, concisely, accurately and in ways that ensure understanding.
  
• Constructively challenge the status quo and seek better alternatives.
  
• Recognise changes in circumstances promptly and adjust plans and activities accordingly.
  
• Take personal responsibility for making things happen.
  
• Find practical ways to overcome barriers.
  
• Manage multiple demands without losing focus or energy.
  
• Set demanding but achievable objectives for yourself and others.
  
• Make and implement difficult and / or unpopular decisions.
  
• Show integrity, fairness and consistency in decision-making.
  
• Monitor the quality of work and take appropriate corrective action, where necessary.
  

• Manage end-to-end procurement processes for transport and highway contracts.
  
• Ensure all procurement activity complies with UK public procurement regulations, the Procurement Act 2023, and local authority standing orders.
  
• Prepare tender documentation, support supplier engagement, and oversee evaluation and award processes.
  
• Advise internal stakeholders on procurement strategy, risk management, and contract compliance.
  
• Support the development and delivery of frameworks and dynamic purchasing systems.
  
• Maintain accurate records for audit and governance purposes.
  
• Provide expert guidance to internal teams.
  

• Proven experience in public sector procurement, ideally within a local authority setting.
  
• Strong knowledge of UK procurement legislation and contract forms (NEC).
  
• Ability to manage multiple high-priority projects under tight deadlines.
  
• Excellent stakeholder engagement and negotiation skills.
  
• Immediate availability and ability to adapt quickly to changing priorities.
  

• MCIPS or equivalent procurement qualification.
  
• Familiarity with e-tendering platforms and contract management systems.
  

• Hybrid working model (minimum 2 days in office per week).
  

• Lead commercial strategy team.
  
• Task management (around 6 people).
  
• Experience producing sourcing strategy.
  
• Leading external framework commercial strategy.
  
• Experience working with external frameworks.
  
• Procurement delivery.
  
• A focus on Pre-contract knowledge/experience.
  
• Strategic thinker.
  
• Strong stakeholder management at all levels – internal and external, written and verbal.
  
• Procurement act.
  
• Procurement regs.
  
• Public sector experience.
  
• Delivering infrastructure/construction strategies.
  
• NEC 3 or 4, preference to 4.
  

• Recent experience with Java 21 (or later).
  
• Excellent understanding of TDD and BDD.
  
• Experience with large microservice architectures.
  
• Experience of working in an Agile environment.
  
• Be willing to work in a pair programming environment.
  
• Have experience in implementing APIs for internal and external use.
  
• Have the skills to build up a useful, robust automated test suite to support a continuous deployment environment.
  
• Be involved in the wider web development community, identifying good practices we can adopt and sharing our experiences.
  
• Be knowledgeable of tools and techniques used within the wider team.
  
• Take part in 2nd-line support of applications and platforms, including occasional support outside of office hours.
  
• Have an ability to communicate technical concepts to a non-technical audience..
  
• Have working knowledge of Unix-like operating systems such as Linux and/or Mac OS X.
  
• Have the ability to quickly research and learn new programming tools and techniques.
  
• Understand of the use of Responsive Web Design.
  

• Working knowledge of Jackson, JAX-RS, mocking frameworks such as Mockito, and messaging platforms such as ActiveMQ or Kafka.
  
• Experience of MongoDB or other document database.
  
• Experience of building and scaling high-traffic websites.
  
• Experience of handling large data sets and scaling their handling and storage.
  

• Flexible/adaptable. Adjusts quickly to changing priorities and conditions. Copes effectively with complexity and change.
  
• Takes responsibility/ownership. Proactively removes blockers to ensure that work is delivered. Is able to produce significant output with minimal wasted effort.
  
• High standards and committed to quality and is therefore willing to challenge colleagues and to constantly question their own approach.
  
• Openness to criticism and ideas. Draws value from collaboration with others. Actively seeks input from colleagues and values a multidisciplinary team over hierarchy.
  
• Strategic thinking and visioning. Able to understand and communicate the big picture and use it to prioritise and judge impact of smaller tasks and objectives.
  
• Creativity/innovation. Generates new and innovative approaches to problems. Isn’t bound by the status quo.
  
• Enthusiasm. Exhibits passion and excitement over work. Has a can-do attitude, even under pressure.
  
• Considerate. Enjoys working with and is sensitive to the needs of others. Values a positive working environment.
  

• Experience analysing complex information from multiple sources, with keen eye for attention to detail.
  
• Experience using government policy to make decisions.
  
• Experience working to strict policies and procedures.
  
• Ability to clearly articulate and justify decisions based on policy.
  
• Experienced working to tight deadlines in high pace and sensitive operational environment.
  
• Previous Casework Experience.
  
• Experience of problem solving.
  
• Stakeholder Management.
  
• Good knowledge of Data Protection.
  
• Demonstrates excellent communication and written skills. understanding of English, especially written.
  
• Competent with Microsoft Office 365 (Outlook, Word, PP, Excel, Teams etc.).
  
• Exposure to graphic/disturbing material and stories. Requirement to discuss up front with candidates to ensure they are resilient and ok with this.
  
• Empathy.
  

• Home Office/Police/Immigration background.
  
• Experience dealing with complex cases.
  

• Plan, design and deliver structured workshops with each Corporate Group team.
  
• Facilitate discussion to identify role specific, high impact use cases for Co-Pilot but also enables the teams to develop further use cases going forward.
  
• Capture workshop outputs clearly and develop action plans each team can own and progress.
  

• Create a repeatable, adaptable framework that enables teams to continually identify new Co-Pilot use cases as their work evolves.
  
• Embed thinking that keeps Co-Pilot front-of-mind as teams look for ways to work smarter.
  

• Assess risks, blockers, behaviour patterns, and capability gaps across teams.
  
• Work with the Co-Pilot project team to capture, prioritise, and mitigate these barriers.
  
• Recommend interventions that support sustainable adoption.
  

• Work with the Head of KIM and Head of Business Architecture to shape a Corporate Group wide continual improvement strategy for Co-Pilot adoption.
  
• Provide insights, themes, and good practice examples from workshops.
  

• Distil and prioritise cross cutting use cases that are not service line specific.
  
• Ensure the project maintains a strong bank of foundational use cases for all NAO users, improving baseline confidence and efficiency.
  

• Collaborate with KIM and the project team to create a simple, accessible, high quality prompt library.
  
• Include both general (NAO wide) and Corporate specific prompts.
  
• Ensure prompts reflect best practice for Co-Pilot prompt engineering.
  

• Understanding of Microsoft 365 and modern digital working practices, Including Co-pilot.
  
• Strong change management experience.
  
• Strong facilitation and workshop design experience.
  
• Ability to communicate clearly with diverse corporate teams.
  
• Experience in digital adoption, business analysis, or knowledge management.
  
• Ability to capture insights and convert them into actionable plans.
  
• Ability to work independently in a fast paced, time limited project environment.
  

• Juniper.
  
• Experience installing Switches and Firewalls.
  
• Technical Background.
  

• Sole UK National.
  
• Strong understanding of network fundamentals and troubleshooting processes.
  
• Experience working with Juniper Virtual Chassis and Clustering technology.
  
• Juniper most essential.
  
• Experience with configuring/troubleshooting EVPN/VXLAN on Juniper equipment.
  
• Experience of configuring GRE tunnels and Routing Instances/VRFs.
  
• Experience of PKI / certificate generation and renewal.
  
• Networking: strong routing skills (OSPF, BGP), firewall configuration, WAN/LAN design, device clustering, high availability.
  
• Juniper Technologies: EX, QFX, switch configuration, SRX, vSRX firewall and policy config, Junos Space, Security Director, Apstra.
  
• Security Platforms: FortiGate, F5 BIG-IP (Load Balancing / AWAF), Pulse Secure / Ivanti, high-grade encryption.
  
• Identity & Access Management: Cisco ISE (full lifecycle), Windows NPS (RADIUS / 802.1X).
  
• Monitoring & Observability: SolarWinds, Splunk.
  
• Core Network Services: IPAM, DHCP, DNS.
  
• Effective communication with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  

• Juniper and Cisco certification but experience is more important.
  
• Data Centre experience advantageous.
  
• Extreme Switch knowledge desirable.
  

• Downloading VAT invoices.
  
• Downloading corresponding Payment proposals and bank statement.
  
• Compile the VAT invoices with the corresponding payment proposal and the bank statement for submission.
  

• Support the finance team in the achievement of the wider objectives and goals.
  
• Ensure compliance with the Secretariat’s policies and procedures.
  
• Deal professionally and in a timely manner, with queries and requests from internal and external customers.
  
• Achieve deadlines while ensuring all tasks are completed accurately.
  
• File and archive soft and hard copies of financial records efficiently and promptly.
  
• Support the financial accounting team during audits as necessary.
  
• Perform ad hoc duties as required.
  

• 5 GCSE’s (or equivalent) including English and Maths.
  
• Bookkeeping or accountancy qualification.
  

• At least 1 year experience of working in a similar finance environment.
  
• Good IT skills, experienced user of Microsoft Office products.
  
• Experience of computerised accounting and electronic banking.
  
• Good organization skills and attention to details.
  
• Good interpersonal and communication skills.
  

• Supporting other QS workload.
  
• Working on multiple small contracts.
  
• NEC 3/4 experience.
  
• Pre-tender experience.
  
• Mechanical background.
  
• Assistant QS.
  
• Chartered QS.
  
• Provide support to the Procurement Team to ensure the delivery of predominantly engineering works to assure OPA is being billed fairly for works actually completed.
  
• Assist with managing all costs relating to projects to ensure validity and value for money.
  
• Support the OPA in preparing supporting documentation for projects including ITT, T&C’s, and cost estimates
  
• Support Project Teams that tenders are issued in accordance with the Agency’s procurement policy and procedures.
  
• Work closely with the Procurement department to ensure that contracts are put in place that are the most suitable to ensure delivery of the requirement in a timely & cost-effective manner.
  
• Assist with monitoring and where necessary measure the services provided by the contractor to verify application for payment.
  
• Assist with monitoring Contractors to ensure compliance with the Contract.
  
• Assist with monitoring, maintaining and re-negotiating schedules of Rates.
  
• Assist with the review ofBills of Quantities.
  
• Assist with monitoring delivery of the service to ensure that costs are in line with forecasts
  
• Assist with the valuation of the application for payments and preparation of the payment certificates.
  
• Assist with the validation of claims for change of work scope and agreed new value.
  
• Assist with reviewing and validating Contractor estimates.
  
• Assist with the preparation of in-house estimates, deriving costs, valuation of variation orders, and analysis of tender submissions.
  
• Support the Project Engineers in the management of contracts.
  
• Assist with cost analysis of works or services.
  
• Assisting in establishing user requirements and undertaking feasibility studies.
  
• Assist with performing risk and value management and cost control.
  
• Assist with identifying, analysing, and developing responses to risks.
  
• Assist with the valuation of completed work and benchmarking with industry.
  
• Ensure activities are in accordance with the Agency’s accounting procedures.
  
• Assist with monitoring all project costs to ensure that projects are delivered within budget; ensure that correct authorisation is obtained before expenditure exceeds the approved budget.
  
• Adhere to procedures relating to the proper use and care of assets, equipment, and materials for which the role has responsibility.
  
• Ad hoc tasks.
  

• Support Cryptographic Custodians in maintaining rigorous controls and accurate records for all assets managed by the Cryptographic Management team, ensuring compliance with government standards.
  
• Organise and account for the movement of cryptographic items, following strict control procedures.
  
• Manage remote working cryptographic items, including:
  
  
  
  • 1. Receipt of items from external government partners.
    
  • 2. Processing items for Return To Manufacturer.
    
  • 3. General maintenance of items.
    
  
  
  
• Receiving items from external government partners.
  
• Processing items for return to manufacturer.
  
• Performing general maintenance.
  
• Assist with rekeying activities for cryptographic devices, liaising with internal colleagues and external partners.
  
• Collaborate with Cryptographic Management and other security teams to resolve incidents promptly.
  
• Offer ad-hoc control advice to colleagues and stakeholders.
  
• Identify and help resolve operational control risks and issues.
  
• Use Service Tickets to manage and prioritise tasks in a methodical manner.
  
• Engage with external partners and stakeholders regarding the control and use of cryptographic materials and items.
  
• Aid in mandated periodic Accounting and Auditory processes.
  

• Experience delivering services in a demanding, fast-paced environment.
  
• Proven ability to follow strict compliance and control procedures.
  
• Experience working in a cryptographic management team or a related function.
  
• Understanding of the government IS4 standard for cryptography.
  

• A relevant security qualification.
  
• Experience in asset management.
  
• Experience in consulting or advisory role.
  

• Develop and construct data products and services and integrate them into systems and business processes.
  
• Implement data flows to connect operational systems, data for analytics and business intelligence (BI) systems.
  
• Re-engineer manual data flows to enable scaling and repeatable use.
  
• Write ETL scripts and code to make sure the ETL process performs optimally.
  
• Write PySpark, Python, SQL code that will systemise the processing of data, based on initial design documents.
  
• This includes writing unit / integration tests and managing versions of code with Git.
  
• Support the build of pipelines by the operational team that can be easily maintained, adapted and re-run.
  
• Maintain and review documentation for statistical and data processing functions, as well as data processing pipelines.
  
• Collaboration – work with colleagues in the team to brainstorm possible solutions to problems and share knowledge and support each other.
  
• Report on the progress of your work to your LM and peers.
  

• Programming and build (data engineering) – you can design, code, test, correct and document simple programs or scripts under the direction of others.
  
• Testing – You can review requirements and specifications, and define test conditions. You can identify issues and risks associated with work. You can analyse and report test activities and results.
  
• Technical Understanding – you understand the core technical concepts related to the role, and apply them with guidance.
  
• Role Behaviours - Working Together; Communicating and Influencing; Changing and Improving; Delivering at Pace.
  

• Python / Pyspark / PANDAS.
  
• SQL.
  

• Javascript.
  
• Understanding of web technologies.
  

• Develop and implement comprehensive communication and engagement plans that align with wider organisational strategies.
  
• Build and maintain relationships with senior leaders (up to SCS level), and external partners to align messaging and secure support.
  
• Translate complex policy or technical information into clear, engaging content for diverse audiences across multiple channels, including digital and social media.
  
• Lead end-to-end planning of virtual and in-person events, such as industry meetings or stakeholder briefings.
  
• Use data and audience insights to monitor the effectiveness of communications and drive continuous improvement.
  
• Line management may be part of the role.
  

• Copywriting: Proven ability to translate complex or technical information into clear, succinct, and engaging copy for diverse audiences.
  
• Digital Proficiency: Experience with content management systems (CMS), social media scheduling tools, and digital engagement platforms.
  
• Influencing: Strong interpersonal skills to provide professional communications advice to colleagues at all levels.
  
• Organisation: Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality results at pace under tight deadlines.
  

• Lead the development and delivery of innovative communication and engagement strategies that align with departmental and ministerial priorities.
  
• Act as a trusted advisor to Directors and SCS, translating complex policy or technical mile-stones into clear, meaningful stakeholder communications.
  
• Provide strong day to day communications support, including reviewing draft comms, providing editorial assurance, and coordinating cross programme comms plans.
  
• Line manage a team, setting priorities, managing budgets and supporting professional development.
  
• Build and maintain effective working relationships across government, partner organisations and external stakeholders, with a strong emphasis on proactive stakeholder engagement.
  
• Support managers carrying significant stakeholder management responsibilities by coordinating updates, ensuring consistent messaging and enabling timely engagement.
  
• Provide editorial control for high quality content across digital, internal and traditional channels.
  
• Use data, feedback and behavioural insights to evaluate engagement activity and drive continuous improvement..
  

• Strategic Thinking: Ability to design objective led communication and engagement plans from the ground up.
  
• Influencing Skills: Confident engaging and challenging at all levels, including during high pressure situations..
  
• Professional Expertise: Strong understanding of internal comms, digital engagement or media best practice, with the ability to interpret policy and technical information.
  
• Leadership: Experience leading teams and managing multiple competing priorities.
  
• Communication Excellence: Outstanding written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to simplify complex policy or data heavy information for diverse audiences.
  

• Maintain and update communication plans, ensuring key messages, target audiences and delivery channels are clearly defined.
  

• Build and maintain effective relationships with internal teams and external partners to support smooth and collaborative delivery.
  

• Monitor and assess the effectiveness of communication activities, using data and insights to identify improvements for future plans.
  

• Support the planning and delivery of virtual and face to face events, including conferences, roundtables, workshops and stakeholder engagements.
  
• Assist with arrangements for senior leadership and ministerial visits.
  

• Support issues management by helping draft accurate responses to emerging news and correcting misinformation on social media.
  

• Provide general administrative and logistical support across the Comms team.
  
• Coordinate and organise meetings, manage diaries and support the smooth running of team activity.
  
• Assist with basic operational tasks to support communication delivery across the programme.
  

• Communication Skills: Ability to draft clear, engaging copy for different audiences and adapt tone and style to suit a variety of channels.
  
• Project Management: Experience managing multiple priorities and delivering high quality work to tight deadlines.
  
• Technical Proficiency: Confident using Office 365, SharePoint and relevant content management tools.
  
• Team Support: Comfortable providing practical support to colleagues at all levels and working collaboratively in a busy environment.
  
• Organisation: Strong organisational skills with the ability to coordinate events, meetings and logistical arrangements efficiently.
  

• Co-ordinating across finance function and working with cross functions to deliver change, I.E. IT.
  
• Experience of ERP implementation, SAP, Oracle, etc.
  
• Experience of driving system enabled business improvement related to finance.
  
• MS Packages.
  
• SAP/ORACLE.
  
• Open to both public and private sector.
  

• Manage and deliver all financial activities as assigned to time, cost and quality.
  
• Develop and deliver functional strategy and drive delivery of objectives.
  
• Line managing and task managing as appropriate in accordance with company policies, processes and guidelines.
  
• Provide guidance to and drive performance of team.
  
• Ensure a rigorous internal finance control and governance framework is in place and is complied with for relevant functional activities.
  
• Drive and enable identification and implementation of process improvement activities and other innovation activities.
  
• Supporting and/or developing CFO policy and procedures as required.
  
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
  
• Leadership accountabilities – Mid Level leader level.
  
• Maintain and promote high personal standards in environment, safety, health, security and quality and be a great team player.
  

• Manage provision of financial information on a timely basis.
  
• Ensure analysis and interpretation of financial information is provided by team as required.
  
• Establishing, monitoring and reporting of compliance with financial processes.
  
• Ensuring integrity of financial information provided by team.
  
• Develop and maintain effective senior stakeholder relationships.
  
• Training and development of Finance Manager and Finance Analysts.
  
• Coordination and planning of team deliverables.
  
• Leading by example to create a high performing team.
  

A rail client is looking for a Senior Governance Manager to join them on a permanent basis. This position will be based in Birmingham.

• Supervise the review of the Company Secretariat information on Interchange/IMS and Website to maintain accurate version control.
  
• Lead on monitoring the participation of mandatory eGovernance training modules and ensure regularly refreshed to align with any internal governance changes.
  
• Lead on continuous reviews (a minimum of bi-annually) of the governance arrangements so efficacy remains.
  
• Take the lead and oversee the scheduling of the intricate annual corporate meeting schedule (circa 200+ meetings).
  
• Lead the coordination of the Company Secretariat contribution to the Annual Report and Accounts.
  
• Lead and oversight of Effectiveness reviews for each governance forum within own and Governance Manager’s meeting portfolios.
  
• Review overall team effectiveness regularly and report to Company Secretary.
  
• Identify process improvements and implement as agreed.
  
• Conduct a regular audit of programme level forums and appraise Company Secretary to confirm flow of governance decisions remains efficient.
  
• Lead on annual review and purchase of the Board Portal Software.
  
• Lead on review of governance documentation.
  
• Define Board training requirements and provide updates as required.
  
• Oversee the maintenance of Board contact details and register of property issued to Non-Executive Directors.
  
• Provide reliable advice across the business on matters of governance to ensure timely decisions are made in the correct forum and within the necessary time limits.
  
• Contribute to ensuring the appropriate support structures and processes are in place to enable the Board and its sub-Committees and Executive Committee and its sub-panels to meet their responsibilities and obligations.
  
• Responsible for planning on-time delivery of company secretariat services at all times, ensuring adequate cover at times of team absence whether planned or ad hoc.
  
• Support the Company Secretary to maintain a robust Conflicts of Interest/business interest management of the Board and Executive members.
  
• Support the Company Secretary to deliver a detailed onboarding process for any additional Non-Executive Directors, Executive Directors and Senior Leadership Team colleagues.
  
• Oversee performance management of direct reports to promote excellent performance, and contribute to maintaining team morale at all times, providing pastoral support should that be required.
  
• Supervising and acting as an escalation point for colleagues within the Company Secretariat team.
  
• Undertake any other duties as requested by the Company Secretary, CEO, CFO and Chair in order to support the function.
  
• Actively promote and embed Equality Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) in all your work, and support and comply with all organisational initiatives, policies and procedures on EDI.
  

• The ability to draft papers and other documentation clearly and concisely to agreed deadlines.
  
• Expertise in reviewing, drafting and presenting reports and briefings to a Board and senior executive level audience, dealing with complex and multi-faceted issues.
  
• Ability to provide advice and direction, creative thinking, independent judgement and discretion in handling and/or communicating major issues.
  
• Ability to establish and maintain a high degree of confidentiality, respect, trust and credibility at all levels.
  
• Competency in minute taking with an aptitude for capturing complex discussions and pursuing actions to a satisfactory conclusion.
  
• Experience of managing a robust forward pipeline of work and ensuring decisions required are delivered within agreed timescales.
  
• Ability to act as a team player who is both committed and flexible.
  
• Proficient IT skills e.g., Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint.
  
• Proficiency in supporting the governance of complex organisations and experience of providing governance advice to colleagues at all levels, including Executive and Non-Executive Directors.
  
• Ability to develop relationships and build rapport with a wide range of contacts and be able to work constructively with others.
  
• Influencing, relationship management and people skills including interaction with senior internal and external stakeholders.
  
• Ability to manage and present complex information so that it is clear and concise and appropriate for the intended audience.
  

• Understanding of best practice and control frameworks of corporate governance in a public sector environment.
  
• Understanding of business processes and how to effectively operate across organisational functions.
  
• Comprehension of the Framework Document and Development Agreement (Operational Annex) between the client and DfT to understand its relevance to the Company Secretariat function.
  

• Managing Public Money and other governance controls arising from the client's Non-Departmental public sector status: Freedom of Information (FOI) and Environmental Information Regulations (EIR) regimes.
  

• Experience working as Governance Manager/Deputy Company Secretary (or Chartered Company Secretary) within a Company Secretariat function in private or public sector organisations.
  
• Experience of using Board Portal Software (AdminControl, Diligent etc).
  
• Experience of contributing to, facilitating internal governance reviews, and overseeing implementation of changes to the governance structure as and when required.
  
• Experience of maintaining accurate records of decisions for auditable purposes.
  
• Experience of identifying and implementing improvement opportunities within a Company Secretariat function.
  
• Experience of delivering high level company secretarial service, including agenda management, writing accurate and succinct minutes and papers, drafting Board level reports, and providing advice and critique to paper authors to ensure quality documents are presented.
  
• Experience of delivering a company secretariat service within a Major Programme/Project would be an advantage.
  

• Be the single point of focus for all Business Units (BU) workforce capability management information, providing analysis, interpretation and reporting of management information and governance metrics identifying trends, agreeing actions and monitoring progress.
  
• Work with function stakeholders to define and identify workforce skills and capability required to deliver necessary outputs.
  
• In addition build, analyse and maintain reporting of workforce capabilities required to meet delivery outputs now and in the future.
  
• Document and manage BU tactical and strategic workforce capability risks to delivery and Single Points of Failure. Work with supplying functions to ensure risks are recorded and mitigation actions planned.
  
• Provide oversight of the BU safety critical minimum manning roles and report vulnerabilities.
  
• Provide and present regular management reporting to BU Senior Leadership Team and the Business on the status of the BU workforce to meet delivery objectives.
  
• Engage with enabling functions to present resources required to meet BU delivery objectives (demand) and document supply agreements.
  
• Collaborate with Finance Teams to maintain alignment with workforce budgets.
  

• Proven expertise in capability management and business governance within complex environments.
  
• Confident stakeholder manager, able to engage, challenge and influence at all levels, including Senior Leadership Teams.
  
• Strong, credible communicator.
  
• Highly analytical, with strong capability in people data, MI and insight generation.
  
• Able to interpret complex data and present clear, actionable insights to senior audiences.
  
• Proficient in excel.
  
• Sound GDPR knowledge and experience handling sensitive people data.
  
• Highly organised, with the ability to manage multiple, diverse workloads simultaneously.
  
• Proactive, can do mindset with a solutions focused approach.
  

• Power BI experience highly desirable.
  
• Awareness of regulatory requirements for working on a nuclear licensed site.
  
• Use of change management tools (Lean, Kaizen, ADKAR etc).
  
• Knowledge of workday and workday reporting.
  

• This position is for a lead architect to drive forward the high level and low level designs for the Shared Layer 3 project.
  
• The person will be responsible for producing high level, detailed and any other relevant documentation.
  
• They will be responsible for providing technical leadership and guidance. Owning any decisions until they are resolved.
  
• Act as the domain lead architect within their area (Shared layer 3 system), accountable for design integrity and secure-by-design practices.
  
• Translate business and risk requirements into secure architectural designs across IT and OT systems.
  
• Develop security architecture artefacts (e.g. threat models, design patterns, blueprints) in alignment with strategic frameworks and regulatory expectations.
  
• Support and guide projects through architecture governance and risk assessment.
  
• Provide technical leadership to less experienced architects and engineers, supporting career development and capability uplift.
  
• Collaborate across architecture, cyber, and delivery functions to ensure architectural alignment and risk mitigation.
  
• Perform security assurance activities including design reviews and architecture assessments for new and evolving solutions.
  
• Influence key design and investment decisions by providing expert-level risk insight and solution options to stakeholders.
  
• Contribute to the evolution of the Security Architecture Framework, providing insight into domain-specific trends, vulnerabilities, and technologies.
  
• Maintain current knowledge of cyber threats and security technologies within the relevant domain.
  
• Delivering Evergreen.
  
• Own the end to end design process – architecture.
  
• High level piece.
  
• Technical specialist bringing together to a coherent story.
  
• Governance & approvals.
  
• As it matures (and is relatively mature already) – working with project & programme technical lead.
  
• Making sure meeting the objectives of high level architecture.
  
• Owning the architecture & technical details for delivery.
  
• Work with 3rd parties when they start getting towards delivery.
  
• Outline system design, taking it through high & low level.
  

• IT skillset – Virtualisation, directorate services, management, monitoring, updating some OT experience/exposure.
  
• Cross domain solutions would be a massive plus.
  
• Clear deliverables where they’ve lead multimillion £ deliveries.
  
• Large scale deployment of virtualisation platforms, private clouds & modern infrastructure deliveries.
  

• Responsible for maintaining operational SLA’s for Linux infrastructure incidents across the service, involving both physical and virtual servers, DNS, NTP, RHEL Directory Services, Proxy, database, Satellite and CEPH Infrastructure.
  
• Responsible for monitoring, alerting and maintenance of the Linux Infrastructure across all environments.
  
• Working in support of BAU and Project implementation activities. Ensuring the relevant artefacts are in place for the team to be able to support, Project and BAU activities.
  
• Implement strategic and technical roadmaps for the aligned Linux Infrastructure and hosted applications. Ensuring infrastructure is kept up to date.
  
• Ensure that all new components and installations meet or exceed the RSO internal and regulatory requirements.
  
• Work within the wider organisations DevOps strategy to provide automated solutions where possible.
  
• Own responsibility for changes across the environment within your technical discipline and ensure they are implemented according to agreed business processes.
  
• Monitor trends to be able to proactively respond to issues to support the business needs.
  
• Develop the creation of documentation, processes, and policies to ensure necessary governance and reporting is in place.
  
• Responsible for all Incident, Problem and Risk Management within your technical disciplin.
  
• Assisting more junior team members with learning and development as required.
  
• Liaise with vendors and product owners on product support and product roadmaps.
  
• Collaborate with the other Engineers across the Engineering function and support on initiatives as needed.
  

• Experience in a similar Senior Engineer role in Linux Engineering in a complex IT Infrastructure.
  
• Acting as a senior technical Linux resource across the engineering function.
  
• Experience with virtualised networking principles and platforms (VMware/Hyper-V).
  
• Advanced experience with Bash and Python.
  
• Good understanding of common services, applications and protocols, for example HTTPS, SSH, DNS, NTP and SSL.
  
• Experience with open-source Ansible automation tooling.
  
• Good understanding of troubleshooting Linux issues to 4th line.
  
• Demonstratable experience of Agile / DevOps working practices.
  
• Experience of systems monitoring infrastructure.
  
• Working knowledge of Confluence, Jira and JSM.
  
• Sound understanding of database technologies, PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MongoDB, SQL.
  
• Manage Linux certificates across the environment.
  
• Good experience of squid.
  
• Responsible for driving all system upgrades across Linux tooling.
  
• Good understanding across IT On-Prem and Cloud based infrastructure.
  

• You will have relevant Computer Science, Information Technology, Information Security or Systems Engineering qualification, or equivalent related qualifications or experience.
  
• Experience working in a Cloud Infrastructure Environment; AWS, Azure, GCP.
  
• Experience with managing CEPH Storage or Linux storage environments.
  

• May involve occasional out of hours work for maintenance or incident response.
  
• Occasional travel between sites depending on the organisation.
  

• Qualified accountant – recognised qualification - ACCA, CIMA, ACA or equivalent.
  
• Experience of running and overviewing of accounts payable etc.
  
• Annual reporting of accounts.
  
• Technical accounting activity.
  
• Payroll, accounts payable, etc.
  
• Some management responsibilities, 4 direct reports.
  
• MS Office.
  

• Oracle.
  
• Public sector background preferred.
  

• Act as an internal cyber advisor aligned with SL strategy and organisational objectives.
  
• Lead/coordinate the resolution of complex/high profile cyber issues and facilitate stakeholder engagement.
  
• Develop, refresh, and embed cyber policies, standards, and procedures; track adoption/compliance.
  
• Provide portfolio oversight and RAG reporting; escalate and drive remediation of misalignments.
  
• Conduct horizon scanning and brief leadership on implications and recommendationsv.
  
• Support the establishment of cyber profession standards with HR/L&D.
  

• Timely access to SL stakeholders, systems, repositories, and tooling (e.g., policy library, LMS, phishing platform, service management/SIEM, PMO data).
  
• Availability of policy owners and project managers for reviews and attestations.
  
• SL will provide required clearances, facilities, and collaboration tools.
  

• Lead IR35 compliance across the group, setting and maintaining robust processes and guidance.
  
• Oversee data capture and review for PAYE Settlement Agreement (PSA) returns.
  
• Ensure full compliance and governance for all taxable benefits.
  
• Manage the corporation tax function including accurate and timely returns.
  
• Maintain tax policies, guidance notes, and training materials across the organisation.
  
• Act as senior tax adviser on complex, ambiguous or high risk tax queries.
  
• Work collaboratively with the wider tax team across VAT, benefits, IR35, and corp tax.
  
• Engage externally with HMRC and the Tax Centre of Excellence as required.
  
• Represent tax interests in finance system changes and upgrades.
  
• Build strong working relationships with stakeholders and communicate clearly with senior leaders.
  

• Strong technical tax expertise, especially.
  
• IR35.
  
• Taxable benefits.
  
• Corporation tax.
  
• Ability to interpret and apply tax legislation.
  
• Strong stakeholder management and relationship building skills.
  
• Clear communicator able to simplify complex technical issues.
  
• Experience supporting or leading dispersed teams.
  
• Excellent organisational and project delivery skills.
  
• Strong analytical/problem solving capability.
  
• Comfortable working in a changing, multi body public sector environment.
  

• Public Sector or Central Government experience.
  
• Strong Excel skills.
  

• CTA, CCAB or ATT qualified or demonstrable equivalent experience.
  

• Develop and implement Category Strategies for assigned sub-group of categories, balancing short and long-term objectives to meet business strategy and efficiencies (savings) in alignment with business stakeholders.
  
• Support and execute complex strategic sourcing activities in line with approved category strategies 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 client policies and directives, including Code of Conduct and Code of Business Ethics.
  
• Responsible for contractual and commercial management and effective contract administration to the relevant team providing commercial assurance to deliver commercial value.
  
• Support and execute Supplier Relationship Management for key and critical suppliers within the sub-group of categories, including supplier segmentation, contract management, supplier risks identification and mitigation and suppliers performance.
  
• Identify and develop supplier value including planning and participating to external management review meetings with segmented suppliers (Management Business Reviews and Executive Business Reviews) in accordance with the client's Supplier Relationship Management framework and the agreed supplier strategy.
  
• Support and provide input to the Process and Performance team as appropriate.
  
• Support the development and interface with the Service Centre.
  

• Consistently demonstrating positive behaviours in line with the company's environmental, sustainability, safety, health, security, quality and ethics standards.
  
• Category Management Drive and implement Category Strategy to deliver cost effective category solutions and business models.
  
• Supplier base management and supplier classification (Preferred Supplier List – PSL), securing competition in the supplier base.
  
• Implement ways of working according to client's Category Management Framework including the delivery of Category targets and KPI’s for assigned group of spend categories.
  
• Business Intelligence, benchmark and market insight to support category development.
  
• The Senior Category Manager, with the sub-category Team, are responsible for securing and tracking cost reduction, contract management and continuity of Supply Chain.
  
• Strategic Sourcing Prepare & execute the RFx process in collaboration with stakeholders including supplier evaluation and selection, supplier negotiations (costs and contract).
  
• Contribute to the long-term business ensuring competitive initial cost and total cost development in the product and service life cycle and maintenance of the specific supplier contract for products and services.
  
• Contract Management Prepare and execute a Contract which is appropriate to the scope, value and risk outlined in the sourcing strategy, ensuring all relevant stakeholders have contributed and approved as appropriate.
  
• Administer the Contract in accordance with all of the terms and conditions ensuring contract compliance.
  
• Ensure appropriate management of commercial risks, forecast spend and change impacts with key stakeholders.
  
• Supplier Relationship Management Suppliers segmented and managed (quality, performance, risk) in accordance with the client's Supplier Relationship Management Framework.
  
• Monitor and mitigate supplier risks (including CoC, Environmental & Health and Safety as well as dependency on the client and client dependency on the supplier), make corrective action plans for the identified risks.
  
• Supplier Strategies for key suppliers within assigned group of spend categories.
  
• Stakeholders Collaboration Secure stakeholders involvement and participation in category strategies, sourcing activities and supplier relationship management activities and share SCM category strategies, PSL, supplier performance etc.
  

• MCIPS or working towards.
  

• Oversee full tendering processes, contract drafting (including a review of NEC based FM contracts vs alternative T&C’s), commercial assurance, negotiations, award and mobilisation.
  
• Lead major FM procurements for the USVF and Overseas estate, applying appropriate sourcing, evaluation and negotiation strategies.
  
• Engage strategically with FM suppliers to strengthen competition, improve delivery capability and drive innovation.
  
• Ensure all procurement activity complies with defence commercial governance, Cabinet Office Controls and HM Treasury requirements.
  
• Use structured project management and evidence based decision making to deliver value for money across FM sourcing.
  

• Provide senior oversight of FM contract performance, risk, compliance and service delivery across all USVF sites.
  
• Manage underperformance, lead contract changes, and drive continuous improvement using KPIs, SLAs and performance data.
  
• Ensure business continuity and service resilience during transitions, re-procurements and exit planning.
  
• Maintain accurate, timely commercial data, MI, governance records and reporting.
  

• Lead the development and delivery of the FM Category Strategy for both the UK USVF estate and wider Overseas footprint, aligning with defence’s strategic FM direction.
  
• Identify strategic opportunities to improve delivery models, standardisation, commercial leverage, competitive tension and long term value.
  
• Maintain and develop the FM category pipeline, ensuring visibility of upcoming procurement activity, commercial risks and resourcing needs.
  
• Develop and improve contract and commercial reporting, including dashboards, supplier performance analytics and category level insights.
  
• Apply Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) principles to shape strategic supplier engagement and manage performance throughout the FM lifecycle.
  
• Share category knowledge, guidance and best practice to help strengthen capability across the wider Commercial Function.
  

• Act as a key commercial contact for the USVF customer, ensuring effective delivery, risk management and commercial advice.
  
• Build strong relationships with senior USVF and Overseas stakeholders and influence FM delivery and commercial strategies.
  
• Support ExCo/Board updates on category performance, supply chain resilience, risks and market conditions.
  
• Keep stakeholders informed of FM market trends, supply chain developments and Government-led initiatives.
  

• Lead and develop the USVF FM commercial team, ensuring alignment with defence, CivHR and GCO leadership expectations.
  

• Support workforce planning, capability building, succession planning and talent development across the portfolio.
  
• Contribute to engagement and culture improvement activity, helping to create a positive, collaborative work environment.
  
• Provide coaching, mentoring and guidance to junior staff, supporting their development and confidence.
  
• Minimum CIPS Level 4.
  

• Develop software to meet user needs.
  
• Follow best practice guidelines and help to improve those guidelines.
  
• Write clean, secure and well-tested code.
  
• Coach and mentor more junior colleagues.
  
• Operate the services you build and identify issues in production.
  
• Software developer - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework.
  

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills (Experts by nature).
  
• Proven ability of designing, implementing and delivering quality and efficient software using Amazon Web Services to deliver data via APIs (We keep evolving).
  
• Good communication skills that adapt to all level of stakeholders (We're better together).
  
• Self-motivated with the ability to prioritise, meet deadlines, and lead development activities.
  
• Demonstrable skills in Python software development.
  
• Demonstrable skills in AWS CDK.
  
• Experience of source control systems such a git.
  
• Experience of AGILE approach to software development following GDS principles.
  
• Experience of using AI / Prompt engineering to aid development.
  
• Experience of scientific data formats such as NetCDF, BUFR, GRIB.
  

• The candidate must be experienced in the end to end process of a tender, ideally in a recent role with demonstrable evidence and ability to back up with strong examples. Familiar with strategy writing and must have very strong stakeholder management skills.
  
• This role is varied, and individual remit is subject to both size of category, and/or level of complexity, value and risk within a category.
  
• In this role you will be expected to contribute to delivering commercial excellence for the department, providing a customer-focused service, understanding the business need and stakeholder drivers, with the aim of becoming a trusted commercial advisor. You will also develop relationships with the department’s key and strategic suppliers, driving value for money and risk management excellence across the category.
  
• You will be expected to support across the overall commercial life cycle. You will contribute to strategy and policy development, analyse data and use market insight to support the sourcing options, and work across the procurement process.
  
• You will work as part of a larger team, but will be expected to work independently by prioritising and managing your own workload to deliver to deadlines and to respond to changing operational demands.
  
• Working independently across end-to-end strategic sourcing activities for the department.
  
• Engaging with key stakeholders across the department to support the team develop a clear and agreed view of business requirements.
  
• Understanding, and being able to advise on, sourcing compliance and frameworks.
  
• Ensuring effective commercial contract and supplier management within the category.
  

• Set and lead a bold vision for digital, data and technology, ensuring alignment with the client’s strategic priorities leading collaboration at pace and scale to deliver successful outcomes in the context of Devolution and Local Government Reorganisation.
  
• Provide influential and visible leadership across the client’s wider public service system, shaping cross-boundary strategies and enabling integrated, citizen-focused services across multiple organisations.
  
• Champion innovation, emerging technologies and data-driven decision making to transform services, improve outcomes, and strengthen resilience.
  
• Represent the client at regional and national levels, influencing policy and investment and positioning the organisation as a leader in ethical, inclusive and future-facing digital and data practice.
  

• Act as the clients most senior adviser on digital, data and technology, providing authoritative, independent strategic advice to the Chief Executive, CLT and Members.
  
• Exercise significant delegated authority in determining technology investment priorities, enterprise architecture, data governance frameworks and organisational risk posture.
  
• Shape and continually evolve the client’s long-term digital, data and technology strategy, ensuring it enables large-scale transformation, efficiency, resilience and service redesign.
  
• Lead the client-wide digital investment portfolio, ensuring coherence, ROI and alignment with corporate objectives.
  

• Provide strong system leadership across the client’s public sector ecosystem, influencing and enabling shared strategies, interoperable platforms and integrated delivery models across partners.
  
• Lead and/or act as Senior Responsible Officer (SRO) for major multi-agency digital and data programmes with significant financial, operational and citizen impact.
  
• Represent the client at regional and national digital, data and cyber leadership forums, shaping policy, standards and funding opportunities.
  

• Champion the intelligent, safe and ethical adoption of emerging technologies (including AI and automation), ensuring they drive measurable improvements in outcomes, productivity and service quality.
  
• Ensure a resilient, modern, scalable and secure digital infrastructure that enables effective service delivery at organisational and system level.
  
• Drive a design-led, innovation-focused culture using agile methods to accelerate transformation and improve user experience.
  

• Define and lead an enterprise-wide data strategy, establishing consistent standards, ownership, quality and lifecycle management.
  
• Oversee development of a modern data platform enabling secure, interoperable data sharing and advanced analytics across multiple organisations.
  
• Embed strong data ethics, governance and compliance frameworks ensuring lawful, transparent and trustworthy use of data.
  
• Build organisation-wide data literacy and capability to empower staff at all levels.
  

• Provide strategic leadership on cyber security, ensuring robust arrangements to prevent, detect and respond to threats while supporting innovation and operational resilience.
  
• Ensure all digital and data practices meet legislative, regulatory and assurance requirements.
  

• Lead, inspire and develop the Digital, Data and Technology function, fostering a high-performance culture and ensuring professional standards.
  
• Ensure services are customer-centric, resilient and deliver measurable value.
  
• Oversee third-party supplier partnerships, commissioning arrangements and contract performance.
  
• Ensure digital, data and technology considerations are embedded in business planning, financial strategies and service redesign.
  

• Act as the external face of client’s digital ambition, developing strategic partnerships with industry leaders, academia, government bodies and national programmes.
  
• Promote client as a leader in digital inclusion, ethical AI, and public sector innovation.
  
• Secure external investment and influence national programmes to benefit the client's residents.
  

• Significant senior-level experience as a CIO/CTO/CDIO, with proven leadership of a complex, multi-functional Digital, Data and Technology portfolio.
  
• Demonstrable ability to influence and shape strategy across multiple autonomous organisations with differing priorities and governance structures.
  
• Exceptional leadership credibility at corporate and political levels, with strong negotiation and relationship-building skills.
  
• Proven ability to lead and motivate a diverse, hybrid workforce and inspire a culture of innovation and high performance.
  
• Politically astute, with experience operating effectively in a public sector context.
  
• Strong commercial acumen and ability to secure value from investment, partnerships and sourcing arrangements.
  
• Extensive understanding of emerging digital and data capabilities, including AI and automation.
  
• Broad knowledge of infrastructure, cyber security, enterprise architecture and market trends.
  
• Proven leadership of large-scale digital, data and technology services and major transformation programmes.
  
• Experience acting as SRO or equivalent for major programmes with multi-organisation reach.
  
• Track record of shaping and delivering strategy in a system or multi-agency environment.
  
• Strong experience of working with Members, senior officers and external partners.
  
• High levels of personal credibility, integrity and resilience.
  
• Excellent communication skills, including the ability to convey complex issues with clarity.
  
• Commitment to equality, diversity and inclusion.
  

• Develop and manage the sourcing process from business requirement to contract signature, on behalf of key customers and stakeholders, for multi-million-pound medium cost and business risk opportunities, where expert levels of indirect and direct influencing techniques and political savviness are required, utilising, where relevant, commercial purpose-built models, to create and deliver significant commercial and contractual value, in support of the C&P Director’s annual savings target.
  
• Implement approved Integrated Category Strategies (ICS) through the development and delivery of the qualified Sourcing pipeline, in collaboration with the relevant Category Manager and relevant customers and stakeholders, to release the full defined savings and benefits value committed to within the ICS, with the ambition to deliver beyond the maximum value approved, in support of the C&P Director’s cost savings target.
  
• Apply the Sourcing Framework for sourcing led opportunities outside of ICS creation and where total annual spend ranges between £100m to £300m and within an OJEU environment, to manage all risk, governance, legislative and regulatory requirements, validated by the Procurement Risk and Assurance team.
  
• Expert negotiator of sourcing enabled savings and benefit opportunities, in collaboration with all relevant customers and stakeholders, approved by Finance and applied to budgets, in support of the C&P Director’s savings target, with the commercial capability, tenacity and ambition to deliver value beyond the ICS commitment.
  
• Develop and implement of sourcing specific ideas and innovation-based business cases, working in collaboration with relevant customers and stakeholders, to address existing business problems that require external sourcing specific market expertise to solve.
  
• Facilitate the transition of Sourcing led execution to Strategic Supplier Management, to manage a seamless customer experience from business requirement through to post contract signature and position the Supplier Management team to optimise their delivery of full contractual and relationship value.
  
• Demand manage and challenge customer and stakeholder common sourcing requirements to maximise overall Group-wide commercial value, adopting politically savvy engagement, direct and indirect influencing and selling strategies across multiple Routes and Regions, in a complex, devolved organisation.
  
• Develop and manage sourcing aligned continuous improvement activities, demand pipeline assessments and annual customer satisfaction surveys, to deliver an enhanced customer experience, aligned to the Vision and best in class Procurement ambition.
  
• Develop the external market sourcing practices, to include commercial models and total cost of ownership assessments, within the Sourcing team, to enable the implementation of good practice and move towards a recognised best in class capability, in support of the employer of choice ambition.
  

• Educated to a Business or Economics degree standard or equivalent business experience.
  
• Deep level of Sourcing experience, with a demonstrable track record of savings delivery.
  
• Demonstrable level of negotiation and dispute resolution skill set.
  
• Demonstrable experience of contract law and financial management.
  
• Demonstrable experience of driving value from complex sourcing opportunities.
  
• Experienced with agile cross-functional collaborative working methods.
  
• Politically savvy, with the proven ability to use direct and indirect influencing strategies at an executive level.
  
• Demonstrable level of problem-solving experience of complex sourcing specific challenges.
  
• Completer finisher mindset.
  
• PA2023 & CIPS.
  
• Rail experience.
  

• Proven experience in an HR / administrative role.
  
• Proficiency in HR software and Microsoft Office Suite.
  
• Experience of Data entry.
  

• Proven experience in an HR / administrative role.
  
• Proficiency in HR software and Microsoft Office Suite.
  
• Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality.
  
• Experience of using Microsoft Office.
  
• Attention to detail.
  
• Experience of Data entry.
  
• Communication skills.
  
• Self-motivated.
  
• Planning experience.
  
• Experience of repetitive work.
  

• Some use of workday.
  

• APM Project Management or PRINCE2 Practitioner qualifications or equivalent evidence of working in a formal Programme or Project Management environment, including developing, maintaining, evolving systems for: planning/scheduling, reporting, resources, finances, risks, scope, change control, lessons learned and benefits.
  
• A strong understanding of governance, including experience of applying first and second line assurance within a formal Programme or Project environment, including: developing, maintaining systems for Programme or Project controls for managing change in scope and requirements.
  
• Proven ability to prioritise a challenging workload with excellent organisational and administrative skills.
  
• MS Office 365, MS Teams, SharePoint and Diary management.
  

• Excellent stakeholder engagement and communication skills including the ability to understand and gather evidence on customer, organisation, stakeholder and user needs within a formal Programme or Project Management environment.
  
• Experience of managing multiple risks, opportunities, and issues through to successful resolution in a formal Programme or Project environment.
  

• Proven experience of developing, maintaining, and evolving Programme and Project, planning, monitoring, reporting, and knowledge sharing solutions with a range of software tools.
  
• In particular: ServiceNow Strategic Portfolio Management (SPM), Microsoft Office 365 (i.e. SharePoint, PowerBI, Project, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint).
  
• Proven experience and knowledge of working with agile and incremental delivery and waterfall approaches in formal Programme or Project environments.
  

• Responsible for the management of facility, including security, maintenance, and other services.
  
• Ensuring that the needs of the organisation, employees, and/or visitors are met.
  
• Monitor and report on internal performance against safety, costs, programme and quality, identify deviations and implement remedial actions as appropriate.
  
• Managing the preparation, approval and issue of technical specifications and safety documentation through review to implementation.
  
• Must have experience of hard & Soft FM.
  
• Please note that as this role is based in prison locations, contact with prisoners may be possible.
  

• Monitoring and Analysis: Continuously monitor security alerts and incidents using various security tools and technologies.
  
• Analyse and investigate security events to determine their severity and impact.
  
• Incident Response: Lead and coordinate incident response efforts, including containment, eradication, and recovery. Develop and implement incident response plans and procedures.
  
• Threat Intelligence: Gather and analyse threat intelligence to identify potential security threats and vulnerabilities. Stay updated on the latest security trends and emerging threats.
  
• Security Operations: Manage and maintain security operations centre (SOC) infrastructure, including security information and event management (SIEM) systems, intrusion detection systems (IDS), and other security tools.
  
• Reporting: Prepare and present detailed reports on security incidents, findings, and recommendations to senior management and stakeholders.
  
• Compliance: Ensure compliance with relevant security policies, standards, and regulations. Conduct regular security assessments and audits.
  
• Training and Mentoring: Provide guidance and training to SOC analysts and other team members. Share knowledge and best practices to enhance the overall security posture of the organisation.
  

• Experience: Several years of experience in a SOC or similar security role, with a strong understanding of security operations and incident response.
  
• Technical Skills: Proficiency in using security tools and technologies, such as SIEM, IDS, firewalls, and antivirus software.
  
• Knowledge of network protocols, operating systems, and security frameworks.
  
• Certifications: Relevant certifications such as CISSP, CISM, CEH, or GIAC are highly desirable.
  
• Analytical Skills: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to investigate and respond to security incidents effectively.
  
• Communication: Excellent communication skills to convey complex security information to technical and non-technical stakeholders.
  

• To maintain the existing dictionary and forthcoming database of substance data used in medicinal products, and assist with maintenance of organisation names, addresses and associated data; and other data dictionaries as required.
  
• This role is critical in ensuring that the data in our new substance database is of good quality, fit for purpose, and meets international standards.
  
• Substances used in medicinal products include chemical, biological, biochemical and herbal substances.
  

• To add, maintain and update the substance dictionary and new substance database in a timely manner within deadlines.
  
• Respond to requests for addition and amendment of organisation name, address and contact data, and other reference data, within deadlines.
  
• Investigate appropriate information sources to ensure the accuracy, avoiding duplication, of data added to MHRA system dictionaries.
  
• Advise on the correct use of terms within the MHRA system dictionaries.
  
• Support the Digital Enablement function with administrative tasks.
  
• Support applying data quality improvements across a range of datasets.
  

• Looking for a graduate with a life sciences degree (Biology, Chemistry etc) to work with the medicines database.
  
• Data and substance validation.
  
• Data entry.
  
• This is not data analysis but is data validation – making sure the data is correct for the substance.
  

• Experience delivering procurements under the Procurement Act 2023 (PA23), including familiarity with the Central Digital Platform, new notice types, and associated procedures. Given the recent implementation of PA23.
  
• Significant procurement experience using a range of procedures.
  
• Strong business acumen and ability to show evidence-based decision making.
  
• Excellent stakeholder management skills.
  
• Excellent communication (written and oral) and influencing skills.
  
• Awareness of public sector procurement legislation.
  
• Relevant commercial experience.
  

• A proven track-record delivering contract management in a commercial environment.
  
• The ability to drive improved outcomes by influencing and developing the market.
  
• E-procurement systems experience (Jaggaer).
  

• Tell us about your experience delivering a complex procurement under PA23, including how you designed the procedure and managed each stage from planning through to contract transition or provide information on a complex procurement involving negotiation under PCR2015.
  

• Background in Utilities, Telco, or Consultancy .
  
• Strong client/customer-facing experience.
  
• Exposure to data-driven projects (not purely IT or infrastructure).
  
• Strong stakeholder management skills .
  
• Good academic background (ideally 2:1+ or equivalent).
  

• Customer data / data transformation programmes.
  
• Billing / revenue assurance / credit risk.
  
• CRM / customer lifecycle / segmentation.
  
• Data quality, data migration, or analytics projects.
  

• End-to-end delivery of data or analytics projects.
  
• Proven experience in client-facing consulting environments.
  
• Strong governance experience (RAID, budgeting, reporting).
  
• Ability to manage multiple stakeholders (client + internal teams) .
  
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, ambiguous environments.
  

• SQL (preferred).
  
• Advanced Excel.
  
• Power BI / Tableau .
  
• Exposure to cloud/data platforms (AWS, Azure, Databricks).
  
• Jira / Agile tools.
  

• Background in Utilities, Telco, or Consultancy.
  
• Strong client/customer-facing experience.
  
• Exposure to data-driven projects (not purely IT or infrastructure).
  
• Strong stakeholder management skills.
  
• Good academic background (ideally 2:1+ or equivalent).
  

• Customer data / data transformation programmes.
  
• Billing / revenue assurance / credit risk.
  
• CRM / customer lifecycle / segmentation.
  
• Data quality, data migration, or analytics projects.
  

• Strong experience in requirements gathering within data-focused projects.
  
• Ability to translate business needs into technical/data requirements.
  
• Experience with:
  
• Reporting / dashboards.
  
• Customer journey analysis.
  
• Process improvement.
  
• Data mapping.
  

• SQL (preferred).
  
• Advanced Excel.
  
• Power BI / Tableau.
  
• Exposure to cloud/data platforms (AWS, Azure, Databricks).
  
• Jira / Agile tools.
  

• Manage a heavy ER caseload (approx. 25 concurrent cases).
  
• Handle misconduct, grievances, harassment, attendance, and sensitive issues.
  
• Support and coach managers through formal processes; draft correspondence and scripts.
  
• Contribute to ongoing Employment Tribunal (ET) cases.
  

• Act as the face of the People & Culture team for approx.10 stakeholders within assigned business areas.
  
• Provide ongoing updates, guidance, and support to Heads of Division and senior leaders.
  
• Ensure issues are managed swiftly and don’t fall through the gaps.
  

• Maintain continuity of HR support while permanent staff are absent.
  
• Support organisational culture modernisation efforts.
  
• Lead monthly stakeholder HR meetings focusing on data, insight, and case discussions.
  
• Collaborate with internal HR specialists; no external ER provider is used.
  

• Fast paced, reactive, “firefighting” environment.
  
• Requires resilience, confidence, and strong relationship building skills.
  
• Operates within a culture similar to legal/law enforcement organisations with hierarchical structures and high scrutiny.
  

• Strong HR Business Partnering experience.
  
• Extensive hands on ER casework experience.
  
• Ability to navigate complex, sensitive, or contentious HR matters.
  
• Experience supporting Employment Tribunal processes.
  
• CIPD Level 7 (or working towards) + Chartered/Fellow membership or equivalent experi-ence.
  

• Background in law enforcement, legal, AGO, GLD, TIS, or policing environments.
  
• Experience in smaller organisations (?500 people).
  
• Familiarity with Oracle HR systems.
  

• Candidates will have significant investigative experience or offender management experience such as ex probation/ ex police staff who have done similar roles.
  
• Recent and in-depth experience managing high-risk offenders, ideally within an asylum or criminal justice setting.
  
• Strong understanding of risk assessment methodologies and offender management frameworks.
  
• Proven ability to work effectively within MAPPA and other multi-agency environments.
  
• Experience delivering tailored interventions and rehabilitation plans.
  
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to manage sensitive and complex cases.
  
• Ability to work independently, remotely, and under pressure.
  
• High level of integrity and commitment to public service values.
  

• Knowledge of asylum processes and immigration legislation.
  
• Experience working with vulnerable populations, including those with mental health needs.
  
• Familiarity with central government systems and operational procedures.
  
• Candidates must be willing to undertake the client's Personal safety training once they are in post – it’s a 2 day course.
  

• Strong analytical skills with confidence working with metrics.
  
• Experience in an HR or HR operations environment with exposure to HR data and systems (Workday, Oracle, SAP, SuccessFactors, iTrent, or similar).
  
• Good communication skills with the ability to present data clearly to Team as requested.
  

• SC Clearance.
  
• Experience in an HR or HR operations environment with exposure to HR data and systems (Workday, Oracle, SAP, SuccessFactors, iTrent, or similar).
  
• Strong analytical skills with confidence working with metrics.
  
• Excellent Excel skills.
  
• Ability to handle sensitive information with discretion.
  
• Good communication skills with the ability to present data clearly to Team. No external presentations required.
  
• Can articulate to non-tech stakeholders.
  
• Articulation of data as requested, e.g. burn down, MI, graphs, quality reviews, and audit.
  
• Experience improving processes or supporting HR system enhancements.
  
• Attention to detail.
  
• Problem solving.
  
• Planning and organisation.
  

• Experience creating dashboards (Power BI is a plus).
  
• Experience working in a secure, government or regulated environment.
  
• Understanding of HR policies, processes and data definitions.
  

• Provides administrative support in the planning, execution and implementation of the division programmes.
  
• Acts as the initial contact for enquiries from Commonwealth High Commissions, international organisations and the general public on the division’s documents and publications.
  
• Assist in the preparation of financial data and reports as required, supports the division procedures relating to purchase and expenditure transactions on CODA (in-house financial system) and processes payments.
  
• Maintains divisional tracking system for payments.
  
• Provides administrative and logistic support to the division in relation to assigned meetings and events in London and overseas as including:
  
• Preparation and distribution of documentation and materials pertaining to meetings, visitors, and staff travel.
  
• Organising meetings and events, including minutes-taking and diary management.
  
• Sourcing of quotes from hotels, other service providers, and travel agents for air tickets.
  
• Preparation of budgets for events.
  
• Liaise with the Finance Team for cash advances and preparation of travel and acquittals for funds used.
  
• Reconciles reimbursements submitted by agencies, partners, and consultants for project expenditures.
  
• Assists with the distribution of publications, publicity materials, and newsletters.
  
• Ensures that all records in the division are classified in accordance with the overall Secretariat classification system.
  
• Maintains the Division's stationery stores in good order and ensures that stationery orders and requirements for the Division are met.
  
• Performs any other duties that may be required from time to time.
  

• Secondary Qualification to “A” Level or equivalent vocational qualification.
  

• At least three years’ experience in administrative duties and familiarity with financial procedures.
  
• Experience in diary management using Microsoft Outlook and minutes taking.
  
• Experienced in the use of Microsoft Office, especially Word, Excel, Power Point & Outlook.
  

• Previous experience in carrying out logistical arrangements.
  

• Works effectively with people from all backgrounds.
  
• Treats all people with dignity and respect.
  
• Treats men and women equally. Shows respect and understanding of diverse points of view and demonstrates understanding in daily work and decision making.
  
• Examine own biases and behaviours to avoid stereotypical responses and does not discriminate against any individual or group.
  

• Works as part of a team to achieve shared objectives.
  
• Maintains an open, respectful, and professional approach to others.
  
• Works as a team to achieve shared objectives.
  
• Uses empathy and cultural awareness to facilitate working relationships.
  
• Builds rapport with colleagues.
  
• Identifies individuals internally within Commonwealth Secretariat and externally to help achieve own objectives.
  
• Maintains an open, respectful, and professional approach to others.
  

• Interacts and communicates effectively with internal/external contacts.
  
• Provides feedback to colleagues effectively and in a timely manner.
  
• Writes memos, reports and papers that are succinct accounts of key information.
  

• Adapts to changing circumstances and work demands.
  
• Shows a willingness to proactively take on new challenges and responsibilities.
  
• Quickly grasps new concepts and how to apply them.
  
• Demonstrates flexibility e.g. by working beyond own remit to achieve an objective.
  
• Will effectively reorganise activities when faced with changing contexts and demands.
  

• Takes ownership of assigned tasks, honours deadlines.
  
• Ensures timely delivery of outputs.
  

• Adapts professional style to suit different situations with different individuals where appropriate.
  
• Ensures timely delivery of outputs within defined cost and quality standard parameters.
  

• Responsible for creating and maintaining Item data records onto the logistic information systems for an agreed range of equipment by collating all data values, to enable optimised supply chain activities, through life.
  
• Responsible for developing inventory demand and supply plans proposals for an agreed range of equipment and executing, within an agreed financial delegation limit, that optimises Inventory levels for all support arrangements, using centrally approved Inventory analysis tools.
  
• Assist with the identifying and securing the optimal storage and distribution solution(s) for an agreed range of equipment, to meet the customer’s requirements, for all support arrangements.
  
• Responsible for the timely production of customs declaration documents to enable compliant HMRC activities when distributing inventory into/out of the UK.
  
• Responsible for ensuring all client owned inventory, within an agreed range, is materiel and financially accounted for in accordance with inventory materiel & financial accounting policies and procedures, to enable optimised Inventory, financial and operational planning for all stakeholders.
  
• Responsible for ensuring that the disposal of Inventory is timely and ensuring accurate item data values are populated onto appropriate declaration forms. ensure inventory disposals are coordinated with the disposal of the platform/main equipment whilst considering the wider defence user needs, for an agreed range of equipment within an agreed financial delegation limit.
  
• Assist support solution development by detailing the mandated supply chain requirements, including government furnished equipment, throughout the CADMID cycle. Support vetting activities of proposed initial provisioning list to identify and remove from scope any lines of equipment already within the defence inventory.
  
• Responsible for conducting defined management checks on supply chain management activity to ensure policy and process adherence is being achieved.
  

• Experience of operating within a supply chain or logistics environment.
  
• Experience of stakeholder engagement and delivering excellent customer service.
  
• Experience in effectively operating within a budget.
  
• Experience in handling, interpreting and reporting on data.
  
• Proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel and TEAMS).
  
• Full UK Driving license.
  

• Lead agile ceremonies.
  
• Actively manage delivery risks and dependencies.
  
• Influence and engage senior stakeholders.
  
• Enable engineering teams to deliver high-quality software outcomes.
  
• Recent, applied experience leading software development teams is essential.
  
• Statements of capability or aspiration without evidence will not be considered sufficient.
  

• Act as Scrum Master / Delivery Manager for a software engineering team on a day-to-day basis.
  
• Lead sprint planning, daily stand-ups, reviews and retrospectives.
  
• Actively remove delivery blockers and manage scope, flow and prioritisation.
  
• Maintain delivery momentum across a sustained period of active build work.
  

• Work directly with software developers, testers and DevOps engineers.
  
• Understand and manage delivery within modern software engineering lifecycles.
  
• Engage confidently with technical discussions and trade-offs.
  
• Support delivery across complex technical concerns (e.g. resilience, security, recoverability).
  

• Recent, hands-on agile delivery experience with software development teams.
  
• Operating as a Scrum Master / Delivery Manager in active software build.
  
• Delivery within modern engineering environments, including:
  
• Version control (e.g. Git).
  
• CI/CD pipelines.
  
• Cloud-native or platform-based services.
  
• Strong senior stakeholder engagement and influence.
  
• Practical experience managing delivery risks, dependencies and complex backlogs.
  
• High proficiency in Jira (team and programme level).
  
• SFIA Level 6 capability demonstrated through applied experience, not role titles CVs must describe what was delivered, how it was delivered, the technical challenges in-volved and how they were overcome.
  

• Play an active and effective role in meetings, as a representative of the Commercial Function.
  
• Lead a team, building their confidence and commercial capability to drive performance and manage setbacks.
  
• Provide both decisive and educated leadership, facilitating the engagement and effectiveness of the commercial team. Successfully engage, lead, coach and inspire the team to reinforce the client leadership values. Deliver all required line management activities to ensure the team deliver their objectives.
  
• Ensure that client activities adhere to legal and regulatory requirements, contractual obligations and ethical considerations. Advance Government policy, including sustainability and social value, through all commercial relationships.
  
• Contribute to the improvement of commercial awareness and capability across the organisation to ensure best practice is applied through all phases of the commercial lifecycle.
  
• Represent client with industry executives; and support the delivery of client strategy and policy, as a senior leader.
  
• The role holder will support the reset of the fundamentals of SRM, promoting a ‘back to basics’ approach including good contract management and Supplier Relationship Management (SRM) implementation.
  
• They will drive forward Cabinet Office and defence policies, collaboratively working with Key Suppliers and Cabinet Office Representatives to reduce risk, reduce costs, improve delivery and performance, harness innovation and add social value within the Commercial portfolio.
  
• You will develop effective relationships with the supply base to enable total oversight and to proactively report industry insights and supplier health within that base.
  

• You will be expected to lead on the management of the supply chain and supplier performance, resilience and fragility.
  
• You will build effective relationships with clients and suppliers which are underpinned by collaborative behaviours, ensuring the identification of opportunities to continuously improve the delivery of infrastructure services to the client.
  

• Working effectively with senior staff in the supplier organisation and establishing appropriate governance and relationship arrangements.
  
• Measuring performance, challenging inefficient processes and practices and making proposals for improvement.
  
• Applying a strong visual project management approach to procurement projects.
  
• Analysing options, managing trade-offs flowing from decisions and mitigating key risks.
  
• Applying the concept of ‘value for money’ with respect to political goals and using this to articulate what a successful return on investment looks like.
  
• Maintaining Commercial and corporate records and compliance.
  
• Sharing knowledge and best practice to achieve better outcomes.
  
• Deliver cash and efficiency savings to support the departments financial position and maintain a category level savings pipeline, demonstrating delivery against forecast.
  
• Ensure that Supplier Relationship Management methodologies and best practice is utilised throughout the lifecycle of the projects, programmes and procurements.
  
• Support to the development of the Supplier Relationship Strategy and associated processes in accordance with Cabinet Office and client Policies, promoting performance, risk and data management and ensuring the department drives value through its commercial arrangements.
  
• Engagement with strategic suppliers, Crown Rep relationships, and Business Groups to drive supplier performance, commercial rigour, quality service, continuous improvement and innovation.
  
• Representation at Business Services Association and industry events such as, DPRTE, Meet the Buyer, UKIS and others as required.
  
• Supply Chain Mapping and Contingency Planning.
  
• Providing advice/reports on economic and market behaviour, concentration, competition, shape and drivers to secure value.
  
• Procurement pipeline development and maintenance.
  
• Support optimal relevant governance structure, currently comprising: Supplier Management Board, Supplier Forum, Supplier Management Committee, Disputes Board Supplier workshops and webinars (evolve this as needed).
  
• Consider the long-term resilience of supply chains and taking opportunities to mitigate the risks and develop opportunities.
  
• Evaluating and engaging with strategic and non-strategic suppliers to ensure a competitive landscape and to manage the supply change.
  
• Producing and analysing data to inform category strategy and sector management, identifying new markets, quantify risks to inform whether market making, or development is required (to increase competition and improve ‘value for money’ in contracts).
  

• Be a point of contact for key suppliers, colleagues and customers in respect of SRM, facilitating an interface into the Commercial department with a focus on improvement to delivery, risk management, problem solving and engagement to ensure that the customer requirements are met, providing expert commercial advice.
  
• Develop senior customer relationships and influence business strategies.
  
• Contribute to the quarterly update provided to ExCo/Board, with an overview of resilience across key sectors and supply chains.
  
• Engage with stakeholders to understand their motivations and behaviours to influence decision making.
  
• Provide information to the customer to keep them informed regarding markets and supply chains, including Government led activities.
  

• Accountable to the portfolio lead for the leadership and management of the SRM team.
  
• Lead the team, ensuring an overview of activity, and in accordance with client guidance and policies.
  
• Support workforce planning for the portfolio to ensure the team is resourced to meet the customer demand, including talent management, succession planning and development plans.
  
• Contribute to the development, implementation and delivery of an engagement action plan in response to survey feedback to improve the working environment and experience within the team.
  
• Actively support department initiatives implemented to address staff survey responses and performance management.
  
• Ensure development plans are in place across the team.
  
• Mentoring and providing guidance to junior members of the team.
  

• To assist a blind employee in the legal dept of the client.
  
• To enable colleague to have the support he needs to do his job.
  
• Using teams – Attending meetings to support navigating through documents with colleague, request control of his screen through Microsoft Teams to carry out certain requirements which could include opening new files in our case manage system, logging colleagues time recording and submitting his annual leave requests.
  
• He has screen reading software, JAWS – certain functions this doesn’t work well in – PDF, internet forms, excel.
  

• Need to convert PDF to Word for example – make sure the conversion has worked & has worked accurately, pull the info.
  
• Legal advice is predicated upon these documents so really important.
  
• Prepare comparison documents and guide colleague through the agreements and proofreading.
  
• Formatting of certain comms – advice notes, emails, contract drafting.
  
• Understand the confidential nature of the work we advise on and anything ad hoc required for the employee to perform his role.
  

• Finalisation of the Commercial Strategy.
  
• Drawing together the Statement of Requirement (SoR) and contract documents together ensuring these are aligned and coherent.
  
• Develop and execute a dialogue strategy and plan for each Industry Partner per contract.
  
• Support finance/quantity surveyors in the development of pricing schedules to support the delivery of the requirements (fixed, variable).
  
• Support finance/quantity surveyors in the development of pricing schedules based on ‘QDC like’ terms, including bottom-up costs, and allowable cost methodology.
  
• Facilitate the page turn and red team review of the full set of contract documents.
  
• Draw together the evaluation strategy and evaluation criteria (ensuring the golden thread from the user requirements).
  
• Develop the performance management regime, and contract management plan (ensuring the golden thread from the user requirements).
  
• Create the ITN packs.
  
• Execute the issue of the ITN’s, manage the clarifications and evaluation process (including supporting the allowable cost assessment).
  
• Develop negotiation strategies and manage negotiation period for each contract.
  
• Support the input and development of the evidence for the Information Note (and other required approvals boards).
  

• Finalisation of the Commercial Strategy.
  
• Drawing together the Statement of Requirement (SoR) and contract documents together ensuring these are aligned and coherent.
  
• Develop and execute a dialogue strategy and plan for each Industry Partner per contract.
  
• Support finance/quantity surveyors in the development of pricing schedules to support the delivery of the requirements (fixed, variable).
  
• Support finance/quantity surveyors in the development of pricing schedules based on ‘QDC like’ terms, including bottom-up costs, and allowable cost methodology.
  
• Facilitate the page turn and red team review of the full set of contract documents.
  
• Draw together the evaluation strategy and evaluation criteria (ensuring the golden thread from the user requirements).
  
• Develop the performance management regime, and contract management plan (ensuring the golden thread from the user requirements).
  
• Create the ITN packs.
  
• Execute the issue of the ITN’s, manage the clarifications and evaluation process (including supporting the allowable cost assessment).
  
• Develop negotiation strategies and manage negotiation period for each contract.
  
• Support the input and development of the evidence for the Information Note (and other required approvals boards).
  

• Complete the evaluation reports and allowable costs assessment to determine value for money.
  
• Undertake any required assurance or governance required.
  
• Finalisation of the Contracts.
  
• Development and set up user training for the regional delivery teams for the implementation, transition, and delivery of the contracts.
  
• Deliver the training to the commercial and regional delivery teams.
  
• Finalise the contract management plan including relevant roles and responsibilities (RACI) and obligation matrix.
  
• Mobilisation of the contract.
  
• Manage the delivery of services from contract award through to full operating capability.
  
• Collate lessons from the interim solution and brief the future SAI procurement teamsac.
  

• Early Market Engagement.
  
• Running Competitive Tenders.
  
• Running Single Source procurement.
  
• Contract Award.
  
• Contract Management.
  
• Ensure all contracts adhere to procurement regulations as appropriate (PCR 2016/DSPCR 2015/PA23).
  

• Determine the appropriate commercial actions for requirements, including supply market analysis, draft strategy plans, contract management plans and facilitate key aspects of the delivery. Ensure all contracts adhere to procurement regulations and Government policy.
  
• Lead and/or assist in identification and collation of supplier data for client's strategic and critical suppliers to inform supplier deep dives, supplier strategies and roadmaps.
  
• Draft Pre-Qualification Questionnaires (PQQ), Invitation To Tender (ITT) and contract documentation in accordance with client's policy and legislation.
  
• Negotiate terms and pricing, place and manage contracts and contract amendments up to a maximum delegation of £2.5M in accordance with set guidelines and conditions outlined in the individual’s delegation letter and the client's policy.
  
• Communicate in a timely manner with a range of internal and external stakeholders including suppliers and Subject Matter Experts.
  
• Contribute to wider Commercial functional and client's initiatives as required.
  

• Experience of the procurement of goods or services in any role.
  
• Proficient in MS Office applications including Word and Excel.
  
• Public Sector experience of tendering and contract management.
  

• Deliver services that meet the government Digital by Default Service Standard and are best in class for government meeting users’ raised expectations of technology.
  
• Be outcome-focused and balance the needs of competing stakeholders, ensuring that services are valuable and effective for the organisation.
  
• Create and communicate a compelling service vision and roadmap ensuring the right balance of meeting business/user objectives and managing technical risk.
  
• Represent a service area to departmental board-level officials and senior stakeholders, using information from diverse user, commercial and service sources.
  
• Embed digital culture with your stakeholders, the department and the wider civil service.
  
• Be responsible for legacy technology which is part of the service area, and tackling the risks associated with this.
  
• Lead and develop a high performing team that use service design and user-centred, data-driven, cloud-based delivery practices - most of which is focussed on replacing our legacy systems.
  

• User focus.
  
• Strategic ownership.
  
• Agile working.
  
• Financial ownership.
  
• Lifecycle perspective.
  
• Operational management.
  
• Problem ownership.
  
• Proven leadership of multidisciplinary digital teams.