Working with senior government stakeholders:

• Building trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders
• Leading governance discussions and presenting recommendations to support decision-making
• Helping clients understand strategic, political, fiscal and operational implications of different options
• Identifying opportunities to create additional value beyond immediate project objectives

Delivering transformation and change:

• Depending on the engagement, you may help clients to:
  • Develop business cases, funding submissions and options appraisals
  • Analyse the impact of policy, operational or service changes
  • Design operating models, services and delivery approaches
  • Deliver large-scale transformation programmes
  • Improve operational performance and resilience
  • Lead commercial and procurement activities
  • Deliver digital, data, technology and AI-enabled change

Developing people and teams:

• Creating inclusive and collaborative team environments
• Coaching, mentoring and developing colleagues
• Providing constructive feedback and managing performance, wellbeing and capacity
• Acting as an Advisor and supporting career development where applicable
• Contributing to the development of our Central Government practice through knowledge sharing and communities of practice

Growing our business:

• Managing engagement commercials including forecasting, resourcing, billing and scope management
• Leading or contributing to proposals, presentations and commercial models
• Developing thought leadership and propositions aligned to government priorities
• Building internal and external networks that support account and practice growth

Your skills and experience

• Experience leading 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 shape responses for teams to work on complex, ambiguous problems, analyse data and information, and communicate clear, evidence-based insights
• Confidence leading blended client / consulting 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
• Experience leading, or understanding of how to lead business development activities within the public sector
• 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:

• Strategy, policy and business cases
• Programme and project delivery
• Operating model and operational excellence
• Digital, data, technology and AI
• Commercial and procurement

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
• Flexible Working
• Corporate Responsibility Days
• Wellbeing Fund
• Profit Share Scheme

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.

An award-winning workplace

You can be a part of our ‘Great Place to Work’ – with our commitment to women and well-being in the workplace for all. Click here to see some of our recent awards and how we’ve achieved this.

Using business as a force for good.

We maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, which can be seen through our commitment to Net Zero with our SBTI-verified Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions reduction targets and our support of the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and ensure that we are also externally assessed and scored through organisations like CDP and EcoVadis - helping us to continually identify where we can improve.

We have a long legacy of supporting the communities in which we work, and offer a variety of ways to contribute, by putting people first and creating impact that lasts. Our Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) agenda is about giving back to the communities in which we live and work by sharing our skills, talent and time. In essence, we aim to empower and encourage everyone in the firm to contribute to the things we care about, and support registered charities and organisations with a clear social or environmental purpose to increase the positive impact they can have.

Join us

All applications received will be reviewed by a member of our Talent Acquisition team. We never rely solely on automated screening or AI tools to make hiring decisions. Your application will be considered for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, nationality, disability, age, faith or social background. We do not filter applications by university background and encourage those who have taken alternative educational and career paths to apply. We would like to actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups. We operate an inclusive recruitment process, ensuring reasonable adjustments where needed. Please contact a member of our Recruitment Team to discuss further.