As the DDaT Home Office Policy and Innovation Lab, called CoLab for short, celebrates its first birthday, user-centred design leaders, Adam Hardy and Katy Arnold, talk about what CoLab is and how it came to be.
The Home Office Digital Career Development programme offers an 18-month paid accelerated learning experience to those with a passion for user-centred digital services. You’ll follow a structured development path tailored to your chosen role with access to senior mentors and …
With skills in Digital, Data and Technology in high demand, the Home Office has a vision to establish a sustained, high quality flow of entry-level resources across all DDaT job families. Building our Civil Service workforce We know we need …
I’m the Director of Enterprise Technology, responsible for technology strategy delivering cross-cutting services in the Home Office. When the opportunity arose to have an apprentice, I jumped at the chance as I was building a new function in the …
I first joined the Home Office in 2013. Prior to that I was an Administrative Officer at the Ministry of Justice. I’ve been and Administrative Officer in Asylum Casework and a Safeguarding Manager, protecting vulnerable asylum seekers from harm. I …
Jen Byrne, Business Analyst Apprentice talks about her experience as a Business Analyst Apprentice working in the Cyber Security Programme. My career has taken many twists and turns; I studied Ancient History at university but quickly realised that it was …
Who would put ‘Croydon’ and ‘Ada Lovelace’ together? Well, if you solved this riddle - you! If you spotted the anagram in the title and you know what’s special about 9 October, it might be time for a new career. …
Last week I hosted the Home Office DDaT induction week for our 5th cohort of interns. As the programme lead I feel privileged to be guiding our new digital interns through the first phases of their civil service careers. Over …
How do you improve a service? By making sure that you understand your users' needs. In the Home Office, this type of understanding comes through conducting user research. But what if your users are researchers? Then you’re probably working …
Having been a long serving civil servant with almost 20 years of experience under my belt in casework and management, I hadn’t considered a career change until I saw this headline linked to careers opportunities on the Home Office intranet. …
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