Business Consultant, IT Consultant

hackajob is partnering directly with Actica Consulting to hire for this role. The Business Consultant role in Actica provides you with the opportunity to support a wide range of UK Public Sector, Defence, National Security and private sector organisations. Your help will enable them deliver their digital transformation objectives and plan effectively for the future, secure benefits from digital programme and project delivery and maximise their return on investments in technology and facilities.

Our position as a client-side advisor means that this role requires significant stakeholder engagement, dealing directly with the client, including in resolving day-to-day issues involved in assignment delivery and developing follow-on opportunities. Excellent interpersonal and influencing skills are essential.

Roles and Responsibilities Working either individually or as part of a larger Actica team, you will undertake consultancy assignments that could include:
Delivering business cases for digital investments in accordance with the HMT green book five case model, developing investment appraisals and supporting the client in gaining the necessary approvals;
Developing strategies for future delivery of digital services to meet the client's business needs, in accordance with their wider business strategies;
Supporting large digital, data and technology procurements, including developing procurement documentation and evaluation strategies and evaluating bids;
Directly managing the delivery of projects and programmes, including development of project schedules, managing risks and dependencies, designing and delivering governance arrangements and providing project and programme management information to senior stakeholders;
Producing User and Service Requirements Documentation;
Providing client-side assurance that proposed technical and service management solutions to business problems are fit for purpose;
Delivering business change / transformation products, including stakeholder engagement management plans; benefits realisation plans and communication plans and products;
Sharing client domain, technical, security, PPM or wider knowledge to ensure that our clients benefit from your own, and Actica's, background expertise. Your level of experience will determine the amount of responsibility given to you, as a result the role may require you to lead assignments and be responsible for supervising direct reports whilst ensuring the overall success of the engagement.

Skills, Knowledge and Expertise

Experience of digital transformation within the UK Public Sector is essential. The fast-changing nature of the digital, data and technology environment together with the need to resource multiple, ad-hoc assignments also requires the individual to be intellectually agile, proactive and self-motivated – with the ability to apply a structured approach to often unfamiliar subject matter. This is a client facing role.

Excellent listening and communication skills are also essential. Experience in the application of at least two of the following:
Delivery in line with the GDS Service Manual;
Programme and Project Management methods: such as MSP, PRINCE2, APMP, Scaled Agile Framework, Scrum, Kanban;
Service Management best practice, including ITIL;
Development and delivery of business cases or investment appraisals in line with public sector best practice (such as HMT green book), including formal qualifications in Better Business Cases. Development of tender documentation (such as evaluation criteria or technical schedules) for public sector procurements. The nature of our business means that a wide and varied background is preferable and the capability to adapt quickly to change is always required.

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