There are two Head of Portfolio roles available:
Defence Data Portfolio - Creating and delivering the vision and benefits for the pan-Defence Data portfolio, working across Defence to drive progress towards the Defence Data Strategy and future strategic direction.
Defence Platform as a Service Portfolio - Own the vision and benefits for the pan-Defence Platform as a Service portfolio providing common software, data, automation, cognitive and information technologies, and services.
Both roles will create and nurture the operational, business, and external partnerships and relationships necessary to cohere and optimise the delivery of the respective portfolios as part of the wider Digital Enterprise, ensuring and measuring outcomes. Managing adherence to the strategy, policy, and standards is also vital for these roles.
Responsibilities:
Create and maintain a portfolio plan, aligned to Defence Strategies, that provides hard metrics and measurements of success with track progress against strategic objectives.
Develop and maintain a multi-year road-map based on inputs from Defence strategies, business and user demand, and product/service team insight.
Capture and quantify the benefit of services to inform future investment and prioritisation.
Integration of planning, scheduling, and risk management of portfolio.
Identifying and managing risk assumptions and dependencies within, across and between services, portfolio, and programmes.
Manage project mitigation's and ensure they are viable and being managed and coherent from a portfolio perspective.
For further information on the role and duties, please refer to the Government, Digital and Data Capability Framework: Digital portfolio manager - Government Digital and Data Profession Capability Framework