The Home Office covers some of the most high-profile policies in Whitehall. Home Office issues (such as immigration, policing, terrorism, modern slavery, crime prevention and tackling drug use) are at the heart of the Government's agenda. Our responsibilities also have implications across Government, and so we work closely and cooperatively with a wide range of other departments.

The challenges the department faces are significant and can change rapidly in the global environment in which we operate. This makes it one of the most exciting and stimulating departments to work in.

The Home Office is an exciting and rewarding department to work for, if you were successful in a post as a Project Support Officer you will:

• Undertake work that makes a difference to people’s lives. Some examples of the projects and programmes you might work on are given below.
• Be recognised and valued or your contribution.
• Explore interesting and diverse problems and help deliver the solutions.
• Have the opportunity to work in rapidly changing innovative environments.
• Continually develop as a Project Support Officer with our help and investment.
• Be part of a large and collaborative Project Delivery community. We aim to create a positive sense of professional identity amongst our members; within a culture where successes and failures, experience and knowledge are openly shared in a friendly and mutually supportive environment, for the benefit of all.

The Home Office Transformation Portfolio, which is delivering this change, is large, complex and challenging. It comprises over 20 major and/or mission critical projects and programmes plus four business portfolios of change. There is a strong focus on agile, modular project delivery, supported by enterprise wide portfolio management. We have roles in projects and programmes that are being delivered across the various business areas ranging from building and maintaining parts of the UK’s critical national infrastructure through to complex technology enabled business change programmes. Working in the Home Office provides excellent opportunities for career development with scope to move roles throughout your career and to develop your skills and experience across a portfolio which includes a broad range of projects in terms of their complexity and size.

New Plan for Immigration (Sovereign Borders) – the Migration and Borders Group has a far-reaching and comprehensive programme of activity which encompasses policy, legislation and reform of the immigration systems and acts as a centre for excellence to deliver international interventions and engagement. This includes many of the most high-profile policy areas for the Home Office; asylum, migration, nationality, extradition, citizens’ rights, borders and international criminality. To achieve its aims, the Migration and Borders Group works closely with Border Force, UK Visa and Immigration (UKVI), Her Majesty`s Passport Office (HMPO), Immigration Enforcement (IE), and other partner organisations and government departments.

National Communications Data Service (NCDS) - has a range of project management and support, and business analysis, vacancies in teams that are responsible for designing, delivering and sustaining the capability of the security, intelligence and law enforcement agencies to obtain communications data and to intercept communications within the appropriate legal framework. This has a direct impact on the UK’s ability to prosecute criminals and terrorists.

The Police and Public Technology Portfolio (PPPT) - is structured into several large-scale delivery portfolios, each portfolio delivering significant national scale capabilities to our customer base, including:

• Building a modern and affordable data service, in a unified, cloud-based system which will provide a joined-up view of records and intelligence.
• Delivering new critical infrastructure, including the components that allow law enforcement communities to use national systems to perform their duties by connecting their computers, systems and end users.
• Focussing on the rapid delivery of practical operational benefits through the leveraging of the capabilities that we have already delivered, or those that are soon to land. Including undertaking commissions to de-risk programmes and to inform evidence-based strategy and policy development.
• Providing biometric capability for law enforcement, immigration, border security and UK passports, delivering core platforms for biometrics matching and identification services. Allowing smarter decision making and speeding up the time it takes to match data across the Home Office.

The Migration and Borders Technology Portfolio (MBTP) - drives digital ambitions, designing appropriate solutions and delivering quickly and effectively, making a real difference in to achieving strategies and objectives. This includes:

• Replacing systems with new integrated systems.
• Building end-to-end applications, enabling users to register, identify themselves, apply and receive an outcome and status all digitally.
• Delivering the new functionality required to transform the way the Home Office secures and manages the flow of people and goods across the United Kingdom Border.

The Detection Services Portfolio (DSP) - is part of the Border Systems & Change Directorate within Border Force. DSP’s scope is to deliver effective detection capabilities consistent with affordable front-line operational needs, to mitigate border security vulnerabilities and to protect the vulnerable and our frontline officials whilst facilitating the legitimate flow of goods and passengers crossing the UK border

In UK Visas and Immigration (Home Office, Customer Services) we have a range of projects delivering new critical IT and infrastructure, including aspects such as automation and associated changes to business processes, as well as the need to deliver procurement-related projects and those that will deliver changes to case-working and the customer journey.

In Cyclamen, which is focussed on deterring, detecting and intercepting the illicit importation of radiological and nuclear (RN) material. It is a joint Homeland Security Group and Border Force initiative. Cyclamen supplements wider RN activities such as upstream disruption, counter proliferation and civil nuclear security as part of an end-to-end RN mitigation strategy.

The Digital Passenger Services Programme (DPS) - is part of the Border Systems and Change Directorate in Border Force. It is one of many change programmes with a focus on delivering transformation to operational staff. The type of work found in the Programme is varied as the projects cover the whole range of activities from start up, procurement, change delivery and programme closure. Current projects include:

• Impostor Detection equipment to ports.
• New procurement for border automation.
• Delivery of a replacement time management system for Border Force and Immigration Enforcement.