Role: Interim Consultant (Business Case Development)

Location: Remote/client site

Contract Type: Interim; project-based

We are seeking a number of highly-professional, self-motivated and ambitious individuals to join our successful public service consulting team as Interim Consultants.

We are public service design and implementation specialists working across all sectors including children’s services, adult social care, health and other community services. We work in the UK public sector and with third sector organisations who deliver public services.

Our mission is to improve life chances by making public services better, more sustainable and more connected to communities. We achieve this through:

• Solving complex public service problems
• System and service level strategic planning
• Design and innovation
• Implementation of new models
• Acting as the “bridge” between central government policy and local delivery

We are currently undertaking a lot of work supporting local areas to develop business cases for the Government’s Levelling Up Fund, which is focused on local regeneration.

Required skills/experience:

• You will have lots of experience of preparing robust business cases – ideally including using Treasury Greenbook and MHCLG Guidance principles.
• You will understand and be capable of undertaking rigorous options analysis to support a case for investment.
• You will be skilled at writing strong and compelling narratives in clear, concise, plain language for senior decision makers.
• You will be comfortable and experienced in preparing financial statements.
• You will be familiar and experienced at undertaking economic analysis (e.g. NPV) and applying a range of investment appraisal techniques/ratios (e.g. Benefit Cost Ratio).
• You will be comfortable challenging and supporting clients/colleagues and other stakeholders through the business case development process

Desirable skills:

• You may hold an accountancy qualification.
• You may have sector and/or investment experience in Transport, Regeneration and Town Centre, Culture and heritage.

If this sounds interesting then please submit your CV and we can have a chat.

About Mutual Ventures

Mutual Ventures was set up in 2011 with the aim of helping public services achieve more through combining a strong public service ethos with commercial discipline and an entrepreneurial culture.

We have worked with more than 200 different organisations and services. We have very deliberately kept our team size small to ensure a focus on quality and impact rather than volume. We currently have 20 full time employees supporting by a number of trusted, experienced associates.

Working with Mutual Ventures is a different experience to working at a larger consultancy. We empower and trust our team (including our interims/associates) to make decisions and take responsibility for their own work – but we also act as a tight knit team providing support to each other.

Our team is drawn from a variety of backgrounds including public sector, third sector and people from larger consultancies who have tired of the big consultancy model and culture. We have grown our team with a focus on experience and skills with the majority being at the Senior Consultant level or above – including experienced associates. This supports our consulting model of smaller, more experienced teams providing specific expertise rather than large teams of junior consultants. The feedback we get from our clients suggests that this is becoming the preferred consulting model for the UK public sector.