As a Lead 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. 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 the Leadership Team, 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 dimensionssuch as financial, architectural, and service insightsyou 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 leading senior Board and Director level meetings, overseeing delivery of Board decisions and actions and taking ownership of all aspects of reporting, using multiple data sets and ensuring a common understanding of the status of delivery, risks and issues. You will lead in managing 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 (SME) 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, acting as a SME to the team, 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 also have extensive 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 must highlight your experience in line with essential criteria listed below: Lead criterion: Broad Portfolio Leader 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. Leading and supporting multiple teams to resolve issues and impediments and maintain the delivery momentum across the portfolio. Data Analysis and decision making - Experience of providing independent interpretation of portfolio data, to provide Executives and stakeholders with analytics and recommendations to aid strategic decision making. 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. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact natalie.selby1dwp.gov.uk. Qualifications You must have at least one of the following professional qualifications and state that explicitly in your application: Management of Portfolios (Practitioner) Prince2 Portfolio Management Institute Benefits Alongside your salary of 72,664, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 21,050 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 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 As part of the application process you will be asked to complete a CV and personal statement. Further details around what this will entail are listed on the application form. 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 and required qualifications. An initial sift may be conducted using the lead criterion stated above. Candidates who pass the initial sift will progress to a full sift. 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 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. Sift dates to be confirmed. 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. You will be asked to do a 5-minute presentation on a specific topic. The use of visual aids such as PowerPoint is encouraged. Further details will be provided to candidates invited to interview. Interviews will take place from early February 2025. Further information Find out more about Working for DWP For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. Reserve list candidates will be posted in merit 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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