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What is the Public Sector Pathway? 

The Public Sector pathway of the Accelerate programme is designed for talented graduates passionate about making a positive difference in the heart of government. You’ll help to solve some of the UK’s most complex and pressing challenges by working with ministerial departments, agencies, and other public bodies across the Public Sector. 

The Accelerate Programme consists of 2 parts:

  • The Institute (circa 3 months)
  • The Academy (circa 18 months)

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.

Following your time in The Institute, you will join the Public Sector Academy. During your time in the Public Sector Academy, you will have the opportunity to explore a range of departments and areas of government:  

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, ensuring the smooth delivery of end-to-end projects by working flexibly, demonstrating intellectual capability and delivering innovative solutions for clients.  

Your day-to-day tasks will include a variety of activities, such as: 

  • Engagement with stakeholders, helping clients tackle complex challenges such as digital transformation, policy implementation and service delivery improvement 
  • Supporting business development, including the drafting of proposals, bids and proposition development 
  • Engaging in learning and development activities to support your career growth and build in-demand skills.  

What you will need

We are interested to hear from you if you have a genuine interest or experience of  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 
  • A curiosity for how technology, digital, and data transformation can solve our clients most pressing challenges  
  • 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  
  • A passion to continuously learn and develop your skillsets to keep up to date with developments in the sector 
  • Problem solving skills and the ability to work collaboratively, 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). 

Learning & Development

When you enter the Public Sector Academy, there is a heavy emphasis on your personal development and being able to learn a variety of skills in a multitude of learning environments, not only during the Accelerate Programme but throughout your career as well.  

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 
  • Stakeholder management 
  • Training and certification for industry standards (e.g. ITIL, Agile, Prince2, Better Business Cases™ certification) 

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. 

Kyle Davison 

September 2024 Cohort 

“Capgemini Invent is a place where you feel empowered to grow, contribute, and thrive. It embodies its values through an inclusive, positive, and collaborative workplace, especially within the Public Sector Unit. The Institute equipped me with the skills to take on my first client project as a Change Consultant in central government. The graduate community fosters collaboration and support, reflected in inclusive social events that build lasting connections and a genuine sense of community.” 

Davina Budesha 

April 2024 Cohort 

“My time on the Public Sector pathway of the Accelerate programme at Capgemini Invent has been instrumental in shaping my development as a consultant. I’ve built a broad range of skills through client-facing work – stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation, and process improvement – complemented by structured training in bid management, Scrum Master certification, and business analyst qualifications. It’s a great environment to grow as a well-rounded consultant and make a meaningful impact, supported by a culture that’s both empowering and focused on continuous learning.” 

Why Capgemini Invent?

 At Capgemini we don’t just believe in inclusion, we actively go out to making it a working reality. Driven by our core values and Inclusive Futures for All campaign, we build environments where you can bring you whole self to work. 

We aim to build an environment where employees can enjoy a positive work-life balance. We embed hybrid working in all that we do and make flexible working arrangements the day-to-day reality for our people. All UK employees are eligible to request flexible working arrangements. 

Employee wellbeing is vitally important to us as an organisation. We see a healthy and happy workforce a critical component for us to achieve our organisational ambitions. To help support wellbeing we have trained ‘Mental Health Champions’ across each of our business areas. We have also invested in wellbeing apps such as Thrive and Peppy. 

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

As a Business Analyst, you will work as part of a multidisciplinary team, having responsibility for understanding user needs, working closely with our stakeholders, translating requirements into user stories and defining acceptance criteria.

As a Scrum Master, you will guide teams and organisations on how to use Agile/Scrum practices. You will facilitate reviews, retrospectives, daily stand ups and planning meetings, working closely with the scrum team and stakeholders, dealing with blockers and impediments.

As a Change Consultant, you will work closely with stakeholders to understand the vision for change and identify the impacts of the change on the business, communicating these impacts to wider stakeholders.

As an Operating Model Consultant, you will create new organisational ways of working to meet organisational requirements. You will work closely with stakeholders and to test new ways of working and implement them within the organisation.

As a Project Manager, you will be responsible for planning and overseeing projects to ensure they are completed in a timely fashion. You will work directly with stakeholders to plan activities, monitor progress and keep stakeholders informed the entire way.

As a Business Case Consultant, you will be leading and supporting the production, drafting and oversight of business cases to support client objectives. Producing strategic and economic cases for change and validating these with stakeholders. 

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