As a Senior Digital Portfolio Manager, you will have an in depth understanding of and be able to promote, the strategic and organisational plans and vision for Digital, including comprehensive knowledge of a Directors Business Plan and broad understanding of Digitals Strategic aims and objectives. You will ensure the portfolio of work is effectively aligned with strategic objectives, building a clear and comprehensive roadmap that delivers value and drives impactful results. By fostering collaboration across Digital, you will help teams focus on high-value initiatives and successful delivery outcomes. Working with senior leaders you will drive effective prioritisation, and application of it to inform delivery decisions. Understand the performance and risk profile of work both in delivery and in pipeline, enabling you to provide high quality visibility and insight to stakeholders. Act as a 'critical friend' and advisor to senior leaders, supporting them with decision making and providing recommendations. You will build strong partnerships with key stakeholders to set initiatives up for success, providing expert guidance during project shaping and assurance stages. By connecting delivery performance with broader dimensions, such as financial, architectural, and service insights you will create a comprehensive and forward-looking view that drives progress and mitigates risks. You will have exceptional organisation skills and attention to detail, with the ability to prioritise and manage multiple streams of activity including drafting board level papers, analysing complex information and reporting on delivery, whilst ensuring a complex portfolio of projects is kept on track. You will professionally manage stakeholders including senior leaders overseeing delivery of Board decisions and actions and taking ownership of all aspects of portfolio reporting, using multiple data sets and ensuring a common understanding of the status of delivery, risks and issues. You will manage demand, advising and/or producing appropriate planning strategies and assisting with the project setup process, whilst taking ownership for identifying and prioritising new work that aligns to the Department's digital strategy, working across the Department and service teams in selecting projects based on a reliable assessment of the value that they will bring. You will act as a Subject Matter Expert in supporting teams to manage governance and controls, creating governance roadmaps including supporting the planning of quality assessments and key governance milestones, identifying and managing inter-project dependencies, ensuring where delivery is at risk, actions are in place to mitigate. Your proactive approach to unblocking and escalating issues will keep initiatives on track, while your oversight of Board-level decisions and actions will enable seamless delivery. You will lead and inspire your team, fostering a culture of excellence. You will lead your team in identifying future risks and blockers, helping to embed the use of tooling and information to spot planning and delivery risks, escalating to senior leadership across the Department where necessary. You will have Community and Practice commitments, including recruitment, line management, coaching, identifying appropriate training and setting the standards and frameworks for your team. Person specification When giving details in your employment history and personal statement you should highlight your experience in line with essential criteria below: [Lead criterion]: Broad Portfolio Leadership experience - Exceptional leadership skills with demonstratable experience of leading large-scale digital portfolios within a complex organisation, setting portfolio standards and providing independent portfolio assurance to senior executive leaders. Strategic Planning - Proven experience of working with organisational objectives and ambitions to shape and influence Digital strategic planning and priorities. Developing and improving Portfolio frameworks and controls - Established track record of developing and implementing portfolio frameworks, including taking accountability for delivering critical improvement activity to strengthen and ensure compliance with portfolio controls and standards. Delivery knowledge and issue resolution - Experience of working in both waterfall and agile environments with the ability to think strategically and identify themes or issues that may cut cross the department. Lead and support multiple teams to resolve issues and impediments and maintain the delivery momentum across the portfolio. Data Analysis and decision making - Strong analytical skills, experience of using a range of data analysis tools, techniques and providing independent interpretation of portfolio data. Experience of visualising the story of the data and communicate recommendations to a range of senior technical and non-technical stakeholders. Engagement, Relationships - Experience in building successful relationships across organisational boundaries with diverse senior stakeholders using strong leadership and communication skills to build, manage and influence key strategic relationships. A recognised Portfolio or Project Management qualification such as: - Management of Portfolios (Practitioner) - Prince2 An initial sift will be conducted using the lead criterion stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact caicy.sandford1dwp.gov.uk. Qualifications A recognised Portfolio or Project Management qualification such as: - Management of Portfolios (Practitioner) - Prince2 Benefits Alongside your salary of 55,557, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 16,094 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides. We also have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Working patterns to support work/life balance such as job sharing, term-time working, flexi-time and compressed hours. Generous annual leave at least 25 days on entry, increasing up to 30 days over time (prorata for part time employees), plus 9 days public and privilege leave. Support for financial wellbeing, including interest-free season ticket loans for travel, a cycle to work scheme and an employee discount scheme. Health and wellbeing support including our Employee Assistance Programme for specialist advice and counselling and the opportunity to join HASSRA a first-class programme of competitions, activities and benefits for its members (subscription payable monthly). Family friendly policies including enhanced maternity and shared parental leave pay after 1 years continuous service. Funded learning and development to support progress in your role and career. This includes industry recognised qualifications and accreditations, coaching, mentoring and talent development programmes. An inclusive and diverse environment with opportunities to join professional and interpersonal networks including Womens Network, National Race Network, National Disability Network (THRIVE) and many more. This job role may be suitable for hybrid working, which is where an employee works part of the week in their DWP office and part of the week from home. This is a voluntary, non-contractual arrangement and your office will be your contractual place of work. The number of days that anyone will be able to work at home will be determined primarily by business need but personal circumstances and other relevant circumstances will also be taken into account. If you are successful, any opportunities for hybrid working, including whether a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for you, will be discussed with you prior to you taking up your post. Salary Information The regional salary for the post is 55,557 - 66,058 The London salary for the post is 61,089 - 71,675 New entrants to the Civil Service will join on band minimum. Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer should maintain their current salary. Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion may move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or 10% increase in salary whichever would be the greater. Things you need to know Selection process details Stage 1: Application Your application will consist of three parts: 1. A Personal Details application form. 2. Employment history - this should contain your work experience and any skills, qualifications and accomplishments relevant to the jobs you have completed based on the essential criteria. 3. Personal statement - up to 1000 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria listed in the Person specification. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history and personal statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge against the essential criteria. You will be provided with one combined overall assessment score for both your CV and Personal Statement. An initial sift will be conducted using the lead criterion stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift. For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. Applications will be sifted at regular intervals from the date the posts are advertised. Please apply as soon as you can, do not wait until the end of the campaign. Important Information You will be asked to complete your employment history and any information that you would customarily share on a CV should therefore be entered onto the application form. Personal details that could be used to identify you including your name, contact details and address must be removed for your application to be considered. If your employment history/personal statement contains any personal details your application will be withdrawn. We recognise that AI may be helpful when applying for this role, but it is important to use it in the right way. Read the DWP AI Candidate Guide to understand how you can make the best use of GenAI while ensuring your application remains authentic and effective. Stage 2: Interview If youre successful at sift stage you will be invited to a video interview via Microsoft Teams. There, you will be assessed against the experiences listed in the essential criteria. Questions in Advance To help you prepare and settle into the interview you will be sent the interview questions in advance of the interview, at least 7 days prior to your interview. These questions should be treated as confidential and should not be shared. The interview panel may ask you other questions which will not be shared in advance, including follow-up questions, and those about your experience and abilities. Candidates may be asked further probing questions if their response is deemed to require further information to determine suitability for the role. Candidates are strongly encouraged to secure their interview slot promptly to ensure fairness in preparation time with the questions provided in advance. If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards. Further Information: Find out more about Working for DWP A reserve list may be held for a period of 6months from which further appointments can be made. All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location. The Civil Service values honesty and integrity and expects all candidates to abide by these principles. Please ensure that all examples provided in your application are taken directly from your own experience and that you describe the examples in your own words. Applications will be screened and if evidence of plagiarism or copying examples/answers from other sources is found, your application will be withdrawn. Internal DWP candidates may also face disciplinary action. Reasonable Adjustment At DWP we value diversity and inclusion and actively encourage and welcome applications from everyone, including those that are underrepresented in our workforce. We consider visible and non-visible disabilities, neurodiversity or learning differences, chronic medical conditions, or mental ill health. Examples include dyslexia, epilepsy, autism, chronic fatigue, or schizophrenia. 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