Capgemini Invent - Graduate Accelerate Public Sector Programme

Location: London, Manchester & Glasgow

About Capgemini Invent

At Capgemini Invent, we help our clients to embrace innovation and transformation to get the future they want.

By combining strategy, technology, data science, and creative design expertise with an inventive mindset, we partner with our clients to innovate and transform their business, helping them navigate today, while plotting a course for the future.

As the digital innovation, design and transformation brand of the Capgemini Group, Capgemini Invent enables CxOs to envision and shape the future of their businesses. Located in more than 36 offices and 37 creative studios around the world, it comprises a 10,000+ strong team of strategists, data scientists, product and experience designers, brand experts and technologists who develop new digital services, products, experiences and business models for sustainable growth.

Capgemini Invent is an integral part of Capgemini, a global leader in partnering with companies to transform and manage their business by harnessing the power of technology. The Group is guided everyday by its purpose of unleashing human energy through technology for an inclusive and sustainable future. It is a responsible and diverse organization of 340,000 team members in more than 50 countries. With its strong 55-year heritage and deep industry expertise, Capgemini is trusted by its clients to address the entire breadth of their business needs, from strategy and design to operations, fueled by the fast evolving and innovative world of cloud, data, AI, connectivity, software, digital engineering and platforms. The Group reported in 2021 global revenues of €18 billion

Our brand promise “Get The Future You Want” reflects our passion for people and technology and highlights the company’s commitment to inclusion and sustainability.

An important aspect of ‘Get the Future You Want’ is to balance hybrid ways of working between your Capgemini office, home, and client location (where applicable). We recognise that it is an imperative to create flexibility so you can enjoy an optimal work-life balance and feel empowered to achieve success. When you come onboard, or before, please discuss this with your manager so you can agree the best ways of working for your role, team, and client.

What is the Public Sector Pathway?

The Public Sector pathway of the Accelerate programme is designed for talented graduates passionate about make a positive difference by working with ministerial departments, agencies, and other public bodies in the Public Sector.

What You Will Need:

We are interested to hear from you if you have experience working in the industries we operate in and are keen to start a career in an environment where you can drive change.

Ideally, you will have some or all of the following:

• A passion to support the transformation of public services to continue to meet the evolving needs of society;
• An understanding and appreciation of the challenges departments and civil servants face when delivering to the public;
• A strong desire to drive the development and improvement of public services and to gain experience in using technology to support wide-ranging large-scale transformations;
• A passion to continuously learn and develop your skillsets to keep up to date with developments in the sector;
• Problem solving skills to work as part of a team to address some of the biggest challenges faced by UK society.

At Capgemini Invent, although academics form part of our overall hiring decision, we do not select candidates purely on academic performance. We will assess your suitability for a role using several tools including video interviewing and assessment centres (all currently being held virtually).

The Focus of Your Role:

As an Associate Consultant you will embark on a stimulating and exciting journey where you will develop key skills that influence how our clients evolve the way they work, perform and achieve their goals. You’ll have the opportunity to work on large scale transformation programmes. You will ensure the smooth delivery of end-to-end projects by working flexibly, demonstrating intellectual capability and delivering innovative solutions for clients. The day-to-day tasks can vary from: Assisting with the implementation of Government policy across Healthcare, Home Affairs, Policing, Justice, Defence, Education, Tax and other areas

• Creating strategies and developing business cases to support investment decisions
• Enabling front-line staff to work more efficiently by analysing and improving operational processes and procedures
• Helping public sector organisations respond to urgent crises, e.g. in the wake of Covid
• Driving the digitisation of public services and making them more user-friendly

Learning:

Your first 3 months of the Accelerate Programme will be spent within The Institute, where you will learn core consulting skills and gain a broad understanding of everything we do at Capgemini Invent within a feed-back rich environment, you will then move into the Academy Period of the Accelerate Programme. When you enter the Public Sector Academy, a heavy emphasis is placed on your development and being able to learn a variety of skills in a multitude of environments. During the programme you will benefit from wider learning opportunities:

• We will support you with developing an understanding of the public sector, learning from industry experts working across all major departments
• Ability for you to shape your learning through the selections of appropriate qualifications that match your career pathway
• Provide you with coaches and mentors to help you succeed
• Offer you interesting and fulfilling roles within the public sector, developing your on-the-job skills and putting your learning to practical use

We also offer a portfolio of tailored learning and development offers comprised of global and local curricula including:

• Core consulting skills
• Personal and professional effectiveness
• People management
• Leadership and sales
• Training and certification for industry standards (e.g. ITIL, Agile, Prince2, Better Business Cases™ certification)
• The opportunity to access Capgemini’s University Campus in Les Fontaines, France

To drive your own personal development, we also provide access to a multitude of online training platforms incl. Coursera, Harvard and Pluralsight containing 7500+ courses to help novices learn from scratch as well as advanced topics for experienced professionals.

What You Can Expect:

Working alongside a world-class team with a wealth of consulting and industry experience, you will begin to create relationships across the organisation and acquire a foundation of consulting skills, tools and methodologies to help you accelerate your career. You will be part of a project team, building trust-based relationships at the heart of a client’s organisation, helping them change the way they work and transforming their business to achieve their goals. You’ll get early responsibility and build your skills through interesting and challenging work.

Within the Public Sector Academy there are a variety of roles that you may take on, that include but are not limited to:

• Business Analyst
• Scrum Master
• Change Consultant
• Operating Model
• Project Management
• Business Case

This pathway is currently on hold - click apply now to register your interest and be notified as soon as it's live again.