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Beyond qualifications: how experience, relationships and learning shaped my Civil Service career

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Paul Compton, Deputy Director for Capability and Capacity at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority, reflects on his career journey and learning, ranging from the RAF to SCS in the Civil Service.  As the Deputy Director for Capability and Capacity at …

Civil Service Fast Stream: "We were led to the scene of a ruined street, strewn with debris and blanketed in smoke"

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Jack Linley, a statistics fast Streamer in the Transformation Team and Sophie Cliff, a project delivery fast streamer working in project set-up, tell us about their experiences of working on major defence programmes as part of their first-year placements on …

International Women’s Day: “No one can make me feel small without my permission”

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As part of International Women’s Day, Lolade Onabolu, Senior Programme Director at the Home Office gives her views on the importance of representation in leadership roles and on encouraging underrepresented practitioners at all levels to reach for more senior roles …

Setting up major projects for success: A site visit to Sellafield

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Vishal Shethwood, Project Delivery Advisor at the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), shares his thoughts on the importance of front-end loading as he visits one of Sellafield’s projects on the Government Major Projects Portfolio (GMPP).  Dealing with UK’s nuclear legacy …

From growing up watching PMQs to supporting the delivery of government's major projects

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This week marks National Apprenticeship Week 2023 (NAW23). At the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA), we wanted to celebrate the brilliant and inspiring apprentices across government, by hearing from one of our own, Luke Cryan (Project Futures Team) as he …

Government Online Skills Tool - equipping people with the right skills

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The Government Online Skills Tool and Project Delivery Capability Framework provide the profession with invaluable tools to help manage their careers working in some of the biggest and most complex projects and programmes in the world.

Racial equality - we will make mistakes, we are human, but that should not force us to retreat from the conversations nor the actions.

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As we approach the end of Black History Month, Neil Couling CBE, reflects on the challenges of achieving equal representation for people from every ethnic background as the defining issue facing this generation.

Diversity and Inclusion in Project Delivery

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2020 is the National Year of Inclusion for the Civil Service and the role of staff networks for supporting colleagues has become even more apparent during the pandemic. Both the Civil Service LGBT+ Network and Project Delivery Profession are here to support Civil Servants and provide a voice for their members across Government.