Advancing the Profession Award

Project Delivery Resourcing and Capability Team, UK Health Security Agency, DHSC
Built a fledgling community of practice (CoP) and a professional recruitment service fully aligned to the Project Delivery Capability Framework to improve the calibre of applicants and increase the standing of the profession in the organisation. This, in turn, provided strong leadership and a sense of belonging to the profession during a period of organisational change.

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Defence Project of the Year Award

Maritime Multi-Link Programme, Royal Navy, MoD
The Royal Navy’s rapid delivery of Tactical Data Link (TDL) capabilities across complex warships, under considerable technical and operational pressures, and a demanding customer to enable the UK to be interoperable with UK Defence, NATO and Allied partners. Success achieved through strong leadership, learning and adapting quickly, and sustained loyalty from stakeholder across Defence to rapidly develop, integrate, test and prove First of Class installations.

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Digital Change Project of the Year Award

Digital Planning Programme – Planning Software, Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
The programme's ambition is to enable a modern planning system that leverages value from data and digital technologies to provide better services for citizens. The team has demonstrated that innovative planning of software services - designed around users and data-led approaches - can be co-created with central government, Local Planning Authorities (LPAs) and the private sector.

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Diversity and Inclusion Award

'Supporting Autistic Colleagues' Series, Cross Government Autism Network, CO
The Fast Stream Autism Spectrum Network, a volunteer team of Autistic Civil Servants initiated the creation and delivery of four workshops in April 2022 (Autism Acceptance Month) called 'Supporting Autistic Colleagues'. Their aim was to promote acceptance and understanding of Autism, boosting colleagues' and line managers' confidence in how to support and create inclusive workplaces for Autistic Civil Servants. Over 2,600 Civil Servants from 34 non/ministerial departments have attended sessions.

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Infrastructure Project of the Year Award

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
A major programme, with a complex series of local, national and international stakeholders, which was delivered in a compressed time scale, against a fixed deadline and came in under budget. The event was successful commercially and it demonstrated our ability to deliver complex projects to an international audience. It also left a lasting legacy for the local community in Birmingham.

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Programme of the Year Award (Civil Service Awards 2022)

COP26 Unit, Cabinet Office
The COP26 Unit delivered the largest multilateral political event the UK has ever hosted, during a pandemic, reaching agreement among all 196 countries on ambitious action on a global existential issue. This entailed a massive logistical operation to safely gather 38,000 delegates in Glasgow including 120 world leaders, a bespoke global vaccination programme, leadership of the most complex multilateral negotiations process, and a series of initiatives to drive urgent practical action. The result - the historic Glasgow Climate Pact agreed by all countries, and more than 150 enhanced national pledges - accelerates action to reduce emissions, improve resilience and mobilise finance worldwide.

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Project Delivery Award (Civil Service Awards 2022)

Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games, Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport
Despite having only 4.5 years instead of the usual 7, despite some of the wettest winters and hottest summers on record, despite the global pandemic; and despite global supply chain and workforce challenges, the Birmingham 2022 Commonwealth Games Delivery Unit have worked tirelessly - across HMG and the Games partner organisations - to deliver a Games that was under budget, on time, and with a record attendance for any Commonwealth Games held in the UK. Birmingham 2022 was a global spectacle, a mega event that will leave lasting benefits for the city, region and UK.

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Project Delivery Team of the Year Award

Police Uplift Programme, Home Office, National Police Chiefs’ Council and College of Policing
The challenge to recruit 20,000 additional police officers in England and Wales has been met head-on by this comparatively small but dynamic project team. Their investment in building strong relationships across stakeholders has already paid back, both in terms of building trust and gaining insight, which is supporting the recruitment of police officers to protect the public now and in the future.

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Rising Star Award

Ashlea Boardman, HM Revenue & Customs
Joining as an EO during Covid, Ashlea has achieved incredible outcomes in only her first year at HMRC. Although working across multiple initiatives, in particular, she was tasked with leading a piece of work to design and implement a new framework to effectively manage a problematic security project. Engaging with multiple stakeholders including external contractors she designed and implemented a framework which implemented numerous new ways of working to automate several manual processes with multiple lessons learned, communications, reporting, and people engagement tools (e.g., surveys) ensuring the best use of IT, continuous improvement, and resource efficiencies.

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Transformation Project of the Year Award

Sustainable Farming Incentive, Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs
One of the new environmental land management schemes being introduced under the Agricultural Transition Plan designed to incentivise and reward farmers to manage land in a way that improves food production and is environmentally sustainable. The project adopted a user-centric approach, automating eligibility checks and validating user data to encourage take up, which reduced the application processing time from nine months to under two weeks.

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