Resource Manager

**Join us as a Resource Manager within the Home Office**

**(Croydon, Full-time, Remote/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 acrossour 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 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 countrysecure. 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.

This role sits within the home office cyber security team (HOCS)

**The Responsibilities of the Resource Manager with understanding of Commercial Processes**
- Supporting resource requirements in HOCS. Working with Commercial and Finance to identify the right resourcing routes and working with hiring managers to fulfil the resourcing requirements.
- Supporting HOCS Finance activities. Acting as the gatekeeper and first point of contact for all Purchase Orders. Facilitating approval of requests by routing them appropriately to the budget holder and Business Operations SEO.
- Work with colleagues in the finance team to maintain forecasting spreadsheets.
- Working collaboratively across HOCS to develop and maintain accurate Finance tracker to maintain a ‘real time’ view of activity.
- Preparing weekly and quarterly management information reports and packs in an accessible and accurate way for analysis and planning of recruitment, contingent labour, and finance activities
- Supporting the onboarding of recruitment into HOCS:

- Support improvements to processes and procedures for the Business Operations team and update SharePoint as appropriate

**Essential Criteria**:

- Providing resource expertise to multiple stakeholders with varied needs.- Building effective working relationships at all levels with multiple stakeholders.
- Demonstrating good verbal and written communication skills and an ability to engage confidently at all levels.
- Possessing good organisational skills and the proactivity to drive tasks to completion
- Demonstrating flexibility and personal resilience to work at pace without losing attention to detail
- Possessing a good level of IT literacy e.g. Word, Excel, and PowerPoint- Demonstrating an ability to handle, manage and present data for management information reporting - Desirable
- Having an awareness of financial processes - Desirable

**Key Outcome and Deliverables**
- Completing Commercial paperwork for approvals.
- Creating and maintain PO’s.
- Maintaining Commercial and Financial Trackers.
- Stakeholder Engagement with Senior leaders and internal stakeholders.
- Responsible for the pipeline of activities.