Senior Manager- Home Affairs

Our Home Affairs practice are looking for an experienced Senior Managers to join the team.

We collaborate across the criminal justice system and champion the work of Arm’s Length Bodies, helping our clients realise diverse ambitions and better serve citizens throughout the UK. Our Home Affairs team works at the heart of UK Government, partnering with Policing, Defence, Justice and Home Office clients to deliver lasting change.

The UK public sector faces major challenges over the coming years, alongside significant opportunities to deliver against the government’s missions. If you are excited about working alongside our clients to solve complex problems and improve outcomes for citizens, we would love to hear from you.

We support some of the public sector’s most important programmes across Whitehall and the wider public sector, using our skills in Strategy and Business Cases, Project Delivery, Operational Delivery, DDaT and Government Commercial.

What you will be doing

As a Senior Manager in our Home Affairs team, you will lead the delivery of complex, high-impact work across policing, justice, defence and the Home Office. You will play a pivotal role shaping solutions, leading teams, and working closely with senior client stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes across critical government priorities.

You will typically lead workstreams or engagements, combining structured problem-solving with hands-on delivery. Alongside delivering impact for clients, you will contribute to developing our people, strengthening client relationships, and supporting the growth of our Home Affairs practice.

You will lead the design and delivery of complex transformation and improvement work, typically owning workstreams or defined engagements. This may include:

• Leading multi-disciplinary teams to deliver transformation programmes that improve citizen outcomes, public safety and operational resilience

• Shaping and delivering business cases, funding strategies and investment decisions for major public sector initiatives

• Designing operating models, service blueprints and organisational solutions for new or transforming government functions

• Leading the assessment and implementation of policy, operational and service changes across policing, justice, defence and Home Office environments

• Establishing effective programme governance, performance tracking and risk management to ensure delivery confidence and measurable outcomes

• Building strong, trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a day-to-day delivery lead and advisor

• Leading teams and clients through complex problem-solving, using data, digital and analytics (including AI-enabled approaches) to drive evidence-based decisions

• Driving sustainable implementation, embedding change and building client capability

• Contributing to commercial and procurement strategy, including market engagement, supplier strategy and complex sourcing activity

Your skills and experience

We are looking for individuals who demonstrate strong delivery leadership, client impact and growth mindset, rather than a specific number of years’ experience.

• Proven experience leading the delivery of complex projects, programmes, or transformation initiatives

• Experience working with, or within, government or public sector organisations (particularly policing, defence, justice or Home Office)

• Strong track record of structuring and solving complex problems, translating analysis into practical, implementable solutions

• Experience leading teams and developing others in delivery-focused environments

• Ability to build trusted relationships with senior client stakeholders and influence decision-making

• Experience operating within programme governance, managing risks, and driving delivery outcomes

• Strong communication and storytelling skills, with confidence presenting to senior audiences

• Interest or experience in digital, data, analytics or AI-enabled transformation within public services

• Strong commercial awareness with the ability to spot opportunities, shape work and contribute to proposals or growth activity

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.

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.