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Job Summary
This position is based Nationally
Job Description
Portfolio Manager
Location: National*
Interviews: w/c 14th July 2025
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Salary:
London: £47,657 - £52,040 (which may include an allowance of up to £418)
National: £41,463 - £45,276 (which may include an allowance of up to £462)
Working Pattern: Full-time/Part-time/Flexible working
Contract Type: Permanent
Vacancy number: 6822
* We offer a hybrid working model, allowing for a balance between remote work and time spent in your local office. Office locations can be found ON THIS MAP
The Role
We’re recruiting for a Portfolio Manager here at Justice Digital, to be part of our warm and collaborative Legal Aid Agency (LAA) and Probation teams.
This role aligns against Digital Portfolio Manager from the Government Digital and Data Framework.
A Portfolio Manager helps to co-ordinate and manage a portfolio of digital projects.
At This Role Level, You Will:
* Help to create environments that enable teams to deliver
* Support the prioritisation of a group of projects and programmes
* Help teams to follow governance and delivery processes
* Help stakeholders understand the performance of work and any related risks
* Support more senior portfolio managers and leadership in making improvements
To help picture your life at MoJ Justice Digital please take a look at our blog and our Digital and Technology strategy 2025
Key Responsibilities:
Support prioritisation of the portfolio required to deliver strategy:
* Work with key stakeholders and support building a balanced portfolio of work that delivers strategy.
* Manage the mechanics of the regular prioritisation process, helping decision making and application.
* Help maintain the area’s roadmap, clearly demonstrating initiatives and outcomes they achieve, and being clear on pipeline.
Support teams in undertaking appropriate governance and delivering effectively to Justice Digital standards:
* Support teams to apply good practice standards and approaches to underpin high-quality delivery and management of change.
* Ensure that concerns and issues are appropriately escalated and dealt with.
* Administer governance to help effective and efficient decision making & delivery.
* Review processes to identify and implement improvements into the current ways of working.
Provide high quality visibility and insight to stakeholders on the performance and risk profile of work:
* Help establish visibility and insight on performance, giving a relied upon view of whether delivery and outcomes are on track to management & central portfolio.
* Build strong relationships with teams and stakeholders in order to obtain good up to date visibility and information on status and risk.
* Support and administer portfolio views of risk, delivery roadmaps, dependencies and analysis.
* Help recognise patterns and trends and draw key conclusions, outlining impacts, analysis and potential responses.
* Constructively challenge delivery teams to help establish robust information on performance.
Support Portfolio Lead and Leadership teams to identify and take improvement action:
* Input information, escalations and analysis to the Portfolio Lead and Leadership team to support giving them a reliable picture to act on.
* Help provide supportive assurance; assist initiatives to proactively recognise and address challenges.
If this feels like an exciting challenge, something you are enthusiastic about, and want to join our team please read on and apply!
Person Specification
Essential
* Has experience of managing portfolios of change, ideally in a digital or technology environment in both traditional and agile delivery styles.
* Strong communicator with people at all levels. Communicates in a straightforward, honest and engaging manner with all stakeholders, creating positive relationships with some ability to influence.
* Able to support teams in undertaking appropriate governance and delivering effectively to agreed standards.
* Proficient at presenting information to reflect a true picture of performance and can contribute to thematic trend analysis that show root cause issues across the portfolio.
* Able to plan, reassessing workloads and priorities if situations change or conflicting demands arise, solving and unblocking issues along the way.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk
Portfolio Manager
Location: National*
Interviews: w/c 14th July 2025
Grade: SEO
(MoJ candidates who are on a specialist grade, will be able to retain this grade on lateral transfer)
Essential
* Has experience of managing portfolios of change, ideally in a digital or technology environment in both traditional and agile delivery styles.
* Strong communicator with people at all levels. Communicates in a straightforward, honest and engaging manner with all stakeholders, creating positive relationships with some ability to influence.
* Able to support teams in undertaking appropriate governance and delivering effectively to agreed standards.
* Proficient at presenting information to reflect a true picture of performance and can contribute to thematic trend analysis that show root cause issues across the portfolio.
* Able to plan, reassessing workloads and priorities if situations change or conflicting demands arise, solving and unblocking issues along the way.
Willingness to be assessed against the requirements for BPSS clearance
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan and the Civil Service D&I Strategy.
Terms & Conditions
Please review our Terms & Conditions which set out how we recruit and provide further information related to the role and salary arrangements.
If you have any questions, please feel free to contact digitalanddatarecruitment@justice.gov.uk
Person specification
Please Refer To Attached Job Description
Alongside your salary of £41,463, Ministry of Justice contributes £12,011 towards you being a member of the Civil Service Defined Benefit Pension scheme. Find out what benefits a Civil Service Pension provides.
* Access to learning and development
* A working environment that supports a range of flexible working options to enhance your work life balance
* A working culture which encourages inclusion and diversity
* A Civil Service pension with an employer contribution of 28.97%
* Annual Leave
* Public Holidays
* Season Ticket Advance
For more information about the recruitment process, benefits and allowances and answers to general queries, please click the below link which will direct you to our Candidate Information Page.
Link: https://justicejobs.tal.net/vx/candidate/cms/About%20the%20MOJ
Selection process details
How To Apply
Candidates must submit CV and Cover Letter (500 words max), which describes how you meet the requirements set out in the Person Specification above.
In Justice Digital, We Recruit Using a Combination Of The Government Digital And Data Profession Capability And Success Profiles Frameworks. We Will Assess Your Experience, Technical Skills And The Following Behaviours During The Assessment Process:
* Delivering at Pace
* Communicating & Influencing
* Managing a Quality Service
* Seeing the Bigger Picture
* Changing and Improving
A diverse panel will review your application against the Person Specification above.
Successful candidates who meet the required standard will then be invited to a 1-hour panel interview held via video conference.
Should We Receive a High Volume Of Applications, a Pre-sift Based On "Strong Communicator With People At All Levels. Communicates In a Straightforward, Honest And Engaging Manner With All Stakeholders, Creating Positive Relationships With Some Ability To Influence” And “experience Of Managing Portfolios Of Change, Ideally In a Digital Or Technology Environment In Both Traditional And Agile Delivery Styles” Will Be Conducted Before The Sift. The Panel Will Be Conducting a Sift On The Following Criteria From The Person Specification Above:
* Able to plan, reassessing workloads and priorities if situations change or conflicting demands arise, solving and unblocking issues along the way.
* Able to support teams in undertaking appropriate governance and delivering effectively to agreed standards.
* Proficient at presenting information to reflect a true picture of performance and can contribute to thematic trend analysis that show root cause issues across the portfolio.
Candidates who do not demonstrate examples/details of their experience of the requirements stated above in their Cover Letter will be rejected on this basis.
Should you be unsuccessful in the role that you have applied for but demonstrate the capability for a role at a lower level, we reserve the right to discuss this opportunity with you and offer you the position without needing a further application.
A reserve list may be held for up to 12 months, from which further appointments may be made.
Feedback will only be provided if you attend an interview or assessment.
Security
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
Successful candidates must undergo a criminal record check.
People working with government assets must complete baseline personnel security standard (opens in new window) checks.
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) (opens in a new window)
* 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
* Turkish nationals, and certain family members of Turkish nationals, who have accrued the right to work in the Civil Service
Further information on nationality requirements (opens in a new window)
Working for the Civil Service
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
The Civil Service Code (opens in a new window) sets out the standards of behaviour expected of civil servants.
We recruit by merit on the basis of fair and open competition, as outlined in the Civil Service Commission's recruitment principles (opens in a new window).
The Civil Service embraces diversity and promotes equal opportunities. As such, we run a Disability Confident Scheme (DCS) for candidates with disabilities who meet the minimum selection criteria.
Diversity and Inclusion
The Civil Service is committed to attract, retain and invest in talent wherever it is found. To learn more please see the Civil Service People Plan (opens in a new window) and the Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy (opens in a new window).
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Contact point for applicants
Job Contact :
* Name : SSCL Recruitment Enquiries Team
* Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
* Telephone : 0345 241 5359
Recruitment team
* Email : moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@resourcing.soprasteria.co.uk
Further information
Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission’s Recruitment Principles. I you feel a department has breached the requirement of the Recruitment Principles and would like to raise this, please contact SSCL (Moj-recruitment-vetting-enquiries@gov.sscl.com) in the first instance. If the role has been advertised externally (outside of the Civil Service) and you are not satisfied with the response, you may bring your complaint to the Commission. For further information on bringing a complaint to the Civil Service Commission please visit their web pages: http://civilservicecommission.independent.gov.uk/civil-service-recruitment/complaints/
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