Join us as a Design Lead within the Home Office
(Full-time, Permanent, Remote or Hybrid)


About Capita
At Capita, we support clients across a range of sectors, including local Government, central Government, education, transport, health, life and pensions, insurance, and other private sector organisations. We support with expertise applied by the talent across our business in combination with technology, insight, and analytics to keep our clients ahead of change, sharper than competitors and more efficient than ever ??? and we always need new talent to help us achieve our goals.

We are currently recruiting for interesting and exciting positions at the Home Office. The Home Office keeps the UK secure and prosperous; protects its citizens, residents and visitors and their property; and upholds rights, liberties, and the rule of law. We lead on immigration and passports, drugs policy, crime and fire policy, counterterrorism, and work to ensure visible, responsive, and accountable policing in the UK.


Why Join the Home Office?
This role is an exciting opportunity for a dynamic and innovative person to be at the forefront of change in one of the great Departments of State. We are delivering significant transformation in order to continue keeping our citizens safe and our country secure. New technology and the fast-evolving nature of the threats we face mean we must adapt, and adapt fast, and with the UK leaving the EU, the need for change is greater than ever.

We need to boost our business analysis capacity: to achieve this the post holders will provide a key link between current and future business models, supporting and enhancing delivery on large scale and/or complex projects and programmes. The right person for this role will have a proven track record of business analysis, including in agile environments, with the ability to translate strategy and end-to-end business design into detailed outcomes relating to change initiatives.


About the role
This design lead role is being recruited to manage the design aspects of a significant project reviewing the protective security of a number of key sites around Great Britain. The protective security under consideration includes technical and physical measures, security officers and policing. The project aims to ensure the protective security at each site is proportionate, efficient and value for money.


Duties and responsibilities

Ensuring a coherent design process in collaboration with the relevant teams from RHH, MPS and HSG, in line with the existing detailed design templates. Working alongside the senior project manager to manage the design process alongside broader delivery of the project. This includes identifying key dependencies and impacts to the delivery of a future security model. This will support the development of implementation plans for each site. Responsible for the identification and management design assumptions, dependencies, risks and issues.  Coordinating the development of detailed designs for each site in conjunction with work stream leads and tripartite design teams: both in terms of documentation, and supporting the delivery of the project???s objectives. Development of a holistic overview of the site designs and undertake assessment of the cumulative model(s) to support delivery of the project's objectives. Supporting the project lead in the development and presentation of detailed designs, including preparing documents for governance forums. Deliver regular design workshops to monitor the development of detailed designs across each site, collaborating with the Tripartite teams, the wider delivery team and other key stakeholders.

The key deliverables

Detailed designs of the protective security surrounding each site (up to 14 sites) Facilitation of design workshops to develop the above. Detailed holistic design covering all sites.

Skills and experience requirements

Public sector, policing or security experience would be beneficial but is not a necessity Experience overseeing an operational design process (people and processes) Project management experience High level stakeholder management experience Strong leadership skills Strong presentation skills Systematic approach to problem solving

The successful candidate will need to go through an SC Clearance check. Good luck with your application!