The Home Office works to build a safe, fair and prosperous UK. We achieve this through our work on counter-terrorism, policing, fire, crime, drugs policy, immigration and passports.
Home Office Digital, Data and Technology designs, builds and develops services for the rest of the department and for government. Every year our systems support up to 3 million visa applications, checks on 100 million border crossings, up to 8 million passport applications and deliver 140 million police checks on people, vehicles and property.
The Police and Public Protection Technology Portfolio (PPPT) works in partnership with Police Forces, the Fire Service, agencies and arms-length bodies of the Home Office, involved in law enforcement to cut crime and prevent abuse and exploitation. An increasing dependency on technology is at the heart of the ongoing reform and modernisation of the Police and Fire Service and its uses are varied.
The PPPT PMO function is responsible for supporting project delivery across the PPPT portfolio.
As Senior Portfolio Analyst, you will be responsible for the oversight of projects that contribute to the delivery of departmental or business area objectives. You will focus primarily on providing insight, information and support that strengthens portfolio governance and enables prioritisation decisions and effective allocation of resources across the Portfolio.
You will help ensure optimal delivery of departmental/business strategic objectives in line with government priorities through the analysis of a range of information sources and engagement with a broad and complex range of stakeholders and converting this into informed insights using appropriate reporting and visualisation methods.
Key Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
* Co-ordinate reporting from projects/programmes, monitor and analyse information.
* Reporting progress, slippage and highlighting areas of risk and opportunity.
* Ensuring Portfolio cost/time/quality are not managed in isolation and understanding the impact of and readiness for Business Change. Provide secretariat function for Governance boards.
* Provide advice and guidance on agreed processes to identify, map, measure, and track benefits and dis-benefits across the Portfolio.
* Prepare monthly reports on benefits realisation management for Portfolio/Governance boards.
* Undertake quarterly benefits realisation management reviews.
* Capture and incorporate lessons learned to continually improve the maturity of benefits realisation management across the Portfolio. Support the Portfolio Manager to communicate and build commitment to a shared vision and sense of purpose.
* Maintain portfolio delivery map and critical path to monitor project progress.
* Recognise and track interdependencies across change projects. Identify and monitor portfolio risks (threats and opportunities) and escalate as appropriate.
The above responsibilities are not exhaustive, and the post holders may be required to undertake any of the above tasks or additional tasks not listed above, within the remit of their grade, to support the team.
Please ensure you read the Project Delivery Capability Framework here in full prior to applying.
Successful candidates will also need to undergo NPPV3 clearance as part of this job role.
Working Pattern
This role is available on a full-time basis with the option of compressed hours working .
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