Change the nation from closer to home
This is your opportunity to do nationally important, society-enhancing work right here in the North West. These influential UK Civil Service jobs, traditionally located in London, are now being based and created all across the region.
Join us and you won’t just be doing work for your corner of the country, but on behalf of the whole country.
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- [Peter Tasker, Head of Transformation and Change Operations, Building Digital UK, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport] We're a big country and to be so focused on centralising everything in the South East is naive if nothing else. Across the country we have you know significant talent that happens to be in Birmingham, in Manchester, in Edinburgh and I think the Places for Growth strategy really is tapping into that. People like myself have joined the Civil Service because they're looking to recruit into Manchester. I wouldn't have relocated to London – there's no benefit to me to relocate to London.
- [Julian Mahony, programme manager, EU Settlement Scheme Vulnerability Programme, UK Visas and Immigration, Home Office] I think it's a phenomenal thing, firstly because there are some phenomenal people who work in Manchester, who work in Liverpool, work in all of these great cities across the northwest. Having had the opportunity myself to come into the Civil Service and work my way up to the kind of the role I'm in, I've seen what it can do for me and I’ve been able to bring other people through that journey as well. Being able to tap into some of those incredible skills means that can only benefit the Civil Service as a whole.
- [Kusum Trikha, senior policy advisor, Power – Carbon Capture, Utilization and Storage, Department for Business Energy and Industrial Strategy] Opening up a regional office offers opportunity to people to not only relocate to a more populated region such as London. It also reduces urban stress on cities like London which are which are having high housing prices and emissions related to transportation.
- [Sarah Mossman, strategic liaison lead, Strategy Function, Building Digital UK, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport]I love my role because we're helping people that wouldn't otherwise get the assistance or that would be left behind and so I guess it's I'm trying to remove the digital divide, so social economic well-being is why I like my job.
- [Julian] So I think in terms of equality, diversity and inclusion the Civil Services is absolutely at the front. BecauseI’m dyslexic I never thought I would be writing briefings and papers that I would hear a minister reciting in the House of Commons or in the House of Lords. I never thought I would be involved in such large-scale work that would affect over five million people and have that impact.
- [Peter] You know when I think about diversity, there's diversity of race, genders, ethnicities but it's also diversity of that social economic piece. I'm from a working-class council state background and you know I was first in my family to go to university. What I've been able to do through being able to stay in my local vicinity is stay close to my family, I've been able to build a career and the more the Civil Service understands that value of the lived experience of the whole country the more likely we are to come up with solutions that fit everybody. All throughout my kind of adolescence I felt unheard, now I’m in the Civil Service I feel heard.
- [Sarah] I think it would be great to see a young kid today thinking: wow that could be a career for me even if my parents don’t have jobs and they've never gone to university etc, but if they're passionate about something that is an option for them to get in and I think that's where we need to focus.
North West talent – Career opportunities closer to home
The Civil Service influences everything from industry, energy and the environment to social care, culture and justice. You won’t need to focus on one area either.
The great benefit of a career with us is that you can move around – as well as up – experiencing a wide variety of career challenges and experiences found almost nowhere else.
The Civil Service career offer
When you begin your career in the Civil Service you will join an inclusive team, with exciting opportunities to help shape what happens within society.
There are over 500 roles available in the North West right now. Search Civil Service Jobs to find your perfect career.
In recent years, civil servants have worked on areas that have had a big impact on citizens, including the COVID-19 response, EU exit and international trade, cyber security, and the economy, to name a few.
“The Civil Service offers a broad range of roles in the North West and has amazing opportunities for a varied and rewarding career.”
Jo Bradshaw
Programme Director, Defra
Where could you work?
- HM Revenue and Customs
- Ministry of Justice
- GCHQ
- Home Office
- Cabinet Office
- And more…
The UK Civil Service offers many different avenues for potential applicants to join our organisation, including the Civil Service Fast Stream and Civil Service Apprenticeships. Have a look, and see if any of them are right for you.
These are roles of real influence. As well as having a national significance, you’ll join a group of people acting as the collective voice of the North West, ensuring that Whitehall and Westminster understand the needs and goals of diverse communities from Manchester to Liverpool, Preston to Stockport, and everywhere in between.