Manager- Home Affairs

Baringa is a global consulting firm that partners with leaders to drive change and create value. With deep industry expertise and advanced technology, the firm helps clients deliver with greater confidence and certainty. Baringa combines global insight with local understanding and works across various sectors including energy and resources, financial services, government and public sector, consumer products and retail, pharmaceuticals and life sciences, manufacturing, and technology, media and telecoms.

Our Home Affairs practice is looking for an experienced Manager 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.

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

• Support the delivery of complex, high-impact work across policing, justice, defence and the Home Office.
• Play a pivotal role shaping solutions, supporting teams, and working closely with client stakeholders to deliver measurable outcomes across critical government priorities.
• Lead workstreams or engagements, combining structured problem-solving with hands-on delivery.
• Help strengthen client relationships and feed into the growth of our Home Affairs practice.
• Lead and work across small multi-disciplinary teams to deliver transformation programmes that improve citizen outcomes, public safety and operational resilience.
• Support and deliver business cases, funding strategies and investment decisions for major public sector initiatives.
• Design operating models, service blueprints and organisational solutions for new or transforming government functions.
• Lead the assessment and implementation of policy, operational and service changes across policing, justice, defence and Home Office environments.
• Establish effective programme governance, performance tracking and risk management to ensure delivery confidence and measurable outcomes.
• Nurture relationships with senior client stakeholders, acting as a day-to-day delivery lead and advisor.
• Drive sustainable implementation, embedding change and building client capability.

Your skills and 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.
• 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.

Benefits

• Generous annual leave policy: five weeks of annual leave plus a 5-Year Recharge benefit adding two extra weeks after five continuous years of service.
• Flexible working: hybrid working policy and more flexibility around taking unpaid leave.
• Corporate responsibility days: three days a year to contribute to social and environmental causes.
• Wellbeing fund: an annual People Fund to support individual wellbeing activities.
• Profit share scheme: all employees participate in the Baringa Group 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.

Using business as a force for good, we maintain high standards of environmental performance and transparency, supported by Net Zero commitments and the Better Business Act. We report our progress publicly and work with third-party assessors such as CDP and EcoVadis. We also engage in community support initiatives and encourage staff to contribute to charitable causes.

Equal Opportunity Statement

All applications received 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 actively encourage applications from those who identify with less represented and minority groups, and provide reasonable adjustments where needed.