Grade Differentiation

• Consultant: You will take personal ownership of high-quality analysis and deliverables, work closely with clients and colleagues, and proactively seek the input required to deliver effectively.
• Senior Consultant: You will additionally shape and lead workstreams or significant deliverables, manage risks and dependencies, guide junior colleagues, build trusted client relationships, and identify opportunities to create further value.

Your Skills and Experience

Essential skills / experience:

• Experience working in, or delivering projects for, government or public sector organisations, ideally within a professional services / civil service / consulting environment.
• A strong interest in working with Central Government departments (e.g., HMRC, DWP, Cabinet Office, HM Treasury, DBT, DfE, MHCLG).
• Ability to structure ambiguous problems, analyse data and information, and communicate clear, evidence-based insights.
• Confidence working collaboratively with client teams and internal specialists in fast-paced, delivery-focused environments.
• Curiosity and interest in technology, digital, data, and/or AI, and how these can be applied to improve public services.
• Strong understanding of how to use digital and AI tools responsibly and ethically in your day-to-day work.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to tailor messages for different audiences.
• A genuine motivation to improve outcomes for citizens and public servants.
• The ability to get UK Government Security Clearance.

Optional skills / experience based on specific technical skillset:

Alongside an expectation of flexibility to respond to our clients' greatest needs, we expect candidates to bring depth in one or more of the following areas:

1. Strategy, policy, and business cases
   • Policy analysis and options appraisal
   • Strategic, economic, commercial, financial, and management case development
   • Cost-benefit, economic, or fiscal modelling
   • Benefits management and evaluation
   • Funding submissions and spending-review support
   • Communicating technical analysis to non-specialist decision-makers.

1. Programme and project delivery

   • Programme mobilisation, planning, and governance
   • RAID, dependency, and milestone management
   • Portfolio or programme management office capability
   • Delivery assurance and recovery
   • Benefits realisation
   • Working across departmental or organisational boundaries

2. Operating model and operational excellence

   • Target operating model design
   • Organisational and role design
   • Process analysis and redesign
   • Lean, systems thinking, or other operational-excellence approaches
   • Service management, operational performance, and productivity
   • Implementation planning and transition into business as usual

3. Digital, data, technology, and AI

   • User-centred service development
   • Business analysis and requirements definition
   • Service design and service assessment
   • Data strategy, analysis, or governance
   • Responsible AI use-case identification, design, and implementation
   • Digital transformation in legacy and highly controlled environments
   • Working effectively with multidisciplinary digital and technical teams

4. Commercial and procurement

   • Commercial strategy and operating-model development
   • Market analysis and market engagement
   • Sourcing strategy and procurement delivery
   • Evaluation design and supplier selection
   • Contract mobilisation and supplier management
   • Commercial risk, value for money, and contract performance

What a Career at Baringa Will Give You

Putting People First

Baringa is a People First company, and wellbeing is at the forefront of our culture. We recognise the importance of work-life balance and flexible working and provide our staff amazing benefits. Some of these benefits include:

• Generous Annual Leave Policy: We recognise everyone needs a well-deserved break. We provide our employees with 5 weeks of annual leave, fully available at the start of each year. In addition to this, we have introduced our 5-Year Recharge benefit which allows all employees an additional 2 weeks of paid leave after 5 years continuous service.
• Flexible Working: We know that the ‘ideal’ work-life balance will vary from person to person and change at different stages of our working lives. To accommodate this, we have implemented a hybrid working policy and introduced more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate Responsibility Days: Our world is important to us, so all our employees get 3 every year to help social and environmental causes and increase our impact on the communities that mean the most to us.
• Wellbeing Fund: We want to encourage all employees to take charge and prioritise their own wellbeing. We’ve introduced our annual People Fund to support this by offering every individual a fund to support and manage their wellbeing through an activity of their choice.
• Profit Share Scheme: All employees participate in the Baringa Group Profit Share Scheme so everyone has a stake in the company’s success.

Diversity and Inclusion

We are proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We believe that creating an environment where everyone feels a sense of belonging is central to our culture and that diversity is paramount to driving creativity, innovation, and value for our clients and for our people.

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