MOD Corsham, Westwells Road, Corsham, SN13 9NR (Please note that there will be regular travel required to MOD Abbey Wood Bristol BS34 8JH and MOD Main Building, London SW1A 2HB).
Job summary
Defence Digital ensures our Armed Forces remain among the most technologically advanced in the world. We do this by putting innovative and effective technology into the hands of over 200,000 users, from the boardroom to the front line.
We lead on cutting-edge data science, automation, and cybersecurity at scale. Our mission goes beyond the battlefield by leading humanitarian efforts and driving digital innovation that impacts lives across the globe.
Defence Digital forms part of Strategic Command which manages the MOD’s joint capabilities for the Army, RAF, and Royal Navy.
This position is advertised at 37 hours per week.
Job description
There are two Head of Portfolio roles available:
1. 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.
2. 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.
Person specification
These roles call for passionate and dedicated individuals committed to enhancing the consistency, integration, and coherence of delivery within Defence Digital’s services. A strong background and experience of applying agile product delivery methodologies, alongside integration into external waterfall programmes, is vital for this role.
You will be responsible for understanding, managing, and communicating with complex stakeholder groups, confidently resolving conflicts, and effectively utilising your negotiation skills. Additionally, you must demonstrate the professional credibility needed to collaborate across digital projects, and programmes and Defence Digital’s boundaries at all levels.
You will be confident in balancing objectives and facilitating the redeployment of resources as priorities change. This will need to be data-driven, so you will need strong analytical skills and be comfortable discussing metrics with stakeholders.
When submitting your CV, please highlight your career history and experience relevant to this role. Additionally, refer to the "Things You Need to Know" section of the advert and provide a personal statement (max. 1250 words) demonstrating the essential criteria listed below:
1. Experience in managing conflicting priorities among diverse stakeholders.
2. Demonstrate a proven ability to define, source, tailor, and analyse high-quality management information.
3. Be experienced in a fast-paced, complex digital delivery environment, with the ability to prioritise tasks, respond promptly to changes, and devise effective solutions to problems.
Essential Criteria:
1. Experience in managing conflicting priorities among diverse stakeholders.
2. Demonstrate a proven ability to define, source, tailor, and analyse high-quality management information.
3. Be experienced in a fast-paced, complex digital delivery environment, with the ability to prioritise tasks, respond promptly to changes, and devise effective solutions to problems.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
Successful candidates must meet the security requirements before they can be appointed. The level of security needed is security check.
Nationality requirements
This job is broadly open to the following groups:
* UK nationals
* nationals of the Republic of Ireland
* nationals of Commonwealth countries who have the right to work in the UK
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities with settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* nationals of the EU, Switzerland, Norway, Iceland or Liechtenstein and family members of those nationalities who have made a valid application for settled or pre-settled status under the European Union Settlement Scheme (EUSS)
* individuals with limited leave to remain or indefinite leave to remain who were eligible to apply for EUSS on or before 31 December 2020
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