Within this role you will be responsible for assuring successful delivery of a portfolio of projects and programmes within the Digital Portfolio Management Function. You will work across many aspects of Portfolio Management, understanding delivery trajectories, dependencies, risks and maintaining a strong awareness of the bigger picture of DWP and Digital Group strategy. You will build strong relationships as you liaise regularly with colleagues across Digital Group, Finance and Commercial teams in DWP, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury to deliver change, keeping our vital services and systems running for our customers. You will help to ensure DWP and Digital comply and apply the Cross-Government Control frameworks and our own internal Portfolio, Governance, Delivery and management frameworks and controls. You will ensure that your portfolio of digital projects are planned, prioritised and effectively delivered. This will include managing demand, tracking delivery progress against road maps, ensuring inter-dependencies are visible and delivered, preparing and analysing portfolio status reports, managing governance and assuring delivery of outcomes within your portfolio, supporting agile delivery teams in accelerating delivery, unblocking issues and ensuring proper controls and risk mitigation procedures are in place and across multiple projects within a portfolio. You will be responsible for supporting the portfolio community professional capability build including line management and coaching. Within this role you will be responsible for assuring successful delivery of a portfolio of projects and programmes within the Digital Portfolio Management Function. You will work across many aspects of Portfolio Management, understanding delivery trajectories, dependencies, risks and maintaining a strong awareness of the bigger picture of DWP and Digital Group strategy. You will build strong relationships as you liaise regularly with colleagues across Digital Group, Finance and Commercial teams in DWP, Cabinet Office and HM Treasury to deliver change, keeping our vital services and systems running for our customers. You will help to ensure DWP and Digital comply and apply the Cross-Government Control frameworks and our own internal Portfolio, Governance, Delivery and management frameworks and controls. You will ensure that your portfolio of digital projects are planned, prioritised and effectively delivered. This will include managing demand, tracking delivery progress against road maps, ensuring inter-dependencies are visible and delivered, preparing and analysing portfolio status reports, managing governance and assuring delivery of outcomes within your portfolio, supporting agile delivery teams in accelerating delivery, unblocking issues and ensuring proper controls and risk mitigation procedures are in place and across multiple projects within a portfolio. You will be responsible for supporting the portfolio community professional capability build including line management and coaching. Responsibilities Your responsibilities will include but are not restricted to, the following: Track a portfolio of digital projects on their delivery progress using defined methods for each programme, escalating issues and resource constraints as appropriate. Provide analysis and update reports on progress to members of the leadership team making recommendations identifying any potential issues within your portfolio. Build, maintain and manage long term strategic relationships, facilitating and influencing stakeholders through effective engagement and relationship management skills. Ensure compliance with standards and support adherence to all governance and assurance activity for the Service Teams or DWP Digital, ensuring all service standards are being met. Identify future risks and blockers, using tooling and information to spot planning and delivery risks, escalating to senior leadership as necessary. Support identification and prioritisation of new work that aligns to the department's digital strategy working across service teams to support impacting of new work. Support in the development of project business cases and monitor project benefits against the business case predictions, supporting operational managers to ensure plans, timescales and deliverables are aligned to expected benefits. Person specification See selection process for further details. If you would like to learn more about the role, please contact natalie.selby1@dwp.gov.uk. Technical skills We'll assess you against these technical skills during the selection process: Portfolio management or project management within a change or digital environment. Benefits Alongside your salary of 44,447, Department for Work and Pensions contributes 12,876 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. Hybrid Working This 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. If a hybrid working arrangement is suitable for the role and for you, you will normally be required to spend a minimum of 60% of your contracted working hours from your DWP office. If you have a disability, caring responsibilities, or other circumstances that may affect your ability to meet the minimum office attendance requirement, please discuss this with us using the contact details in this advert. Salary Information Existing Civil Servants who secure a new role on lateral transfer will maintain their current salary. Existing Civil Servants who gain promotion will either move to the bottom of the grade pay scale or get a 10% increase to their current salary whichever would be the greater. New entrants to the Civil Service will join on band minimum. Things you need to know Selection process details This vacancy is using Success Profiles (opens in a new window), and will assess your Experience and Technical skills. Stage 1: Application Your application will consist of four 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. 3. Personal statement - up to 750 words. This statement should be used to provide examples of how you meet the essential criteria below: Experience of building long term strategic relationship with stakeholders to facilitate and deliver business outcomes. Experience of analysing multiple information sources, producing reports appropriate for senior audiences, including making recommendations for changes. Experience of applying appropriate governance procedures including delivery assurance. Experience of tracking and reporting progress of digital delivery to senior levels, including identifying, managing and unblocking risks and issues. You should have or be working towards a recognised Portfolio or Project Management qualification (or equivalent which you must state on your application) such as: - Management of Portfolios (MoP) - Foundation Level - Prince2 Agile - Foundation Level - Managing Successful Programmes (MSP) - Foundation Level - APM PMQ (formerly APMP) - PMI Certification (PMP, PgMP, PfMP, CAPM, PSMP, ACP) 4. Technical statement (up to 250 words). The following statement is aligned to the required technical skill of either portfolio management or project management within a change or digital environment. Please describe an example of where you have used your experience of either portfolio management or project management within a change or digital environment. The sift panel will use the information in your employment history, personal statement, and technical statement to assess your experience, skills and knowledge. An initial sift will be conducted using the technical statement. Candidates who pass the initial sift will be progressed to a full sift. For Hints and Tips on completing your application visit Applying for jobs at DWP Digital. 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 or technical statement contain any personal details your application will be withdrawn. Artificial Intelligence can be a useful tool to support your application; however, all examples and statements provided must be truthful, factually accurate, and taken directly from your own experience. Where plagiarism has been identified (presenting the ideas and experiences of others, or generated by artificial intelligence, as your own), applications may be withdrawn and internal candidates may be subject to disciplinary action. Please see our candidate guidance for more information on appropriate and inappropriate use. A candidates guide to artificial intelligence (AI) in recruitment. 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 above. Interviews will take place from late November 2025. Sift and Interview dates to be confirmed. Further Information: Find out more about Working for DWP If high application volumes are received, the benchmark for candidates to proceed to the next stage may be raised. In line with our commitment to the Disability Confident Scheme (DCS), we aim to advance all candidates applying under the DCS who meet the minimum standard. However, we may only progress those candidates who best meet the required standards. A reserve list may be held for a period of 6 months from which further appointments can be made. All successful candidates and those placed on reserve will be posted in merit list order by location. For these vacancies, we strongly recommend that applicants consult with an immigration specialist or qualified advisor to assess their eligibility for Visa Sponsorship before deciding to apply. Please note that while we consider sponsorship requests in accordance with current DWP guidance and Home Office policy, sponsorship cannot be guaranteed. 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. If you need a change to be made so that you can make your application, you should: Contact Government Recruitment Service via DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk as soon as possible before the closing date to discuss your needs. Complete the Reasonable Adjustments section in the Additional requirements page of your application form to tell us what changes or help you might need further on in the recruitment process. For instance, you may need wheelchair access at interview, or if youre deaf, a Language Service Professional. For further information on reasonable adjustments, terms and conditions and how we recruit visit the How we recruit page. 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. 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. 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 also offers a Redeployment Interview Scheme to civil servants who are at risk of redundancy, and who meet the minimum requirements for the advertised vacancy. 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). Apply and further information This vacancy is part of the Great Place to Work for Veterans (opens in a new window) initiative. The Civil Service welcomes applications from people who have recently left prison or have an unspent conviction. Read more about prison leaver recruitment (opens in new window). Once this job has closed, the job advert will no longer be available. You may want to save a copy for your records. Contact point for applicants Job contact : Name : Natalie Selby Email : natalie.selby1@dwp.gov.uk Recruitment team Email : DigitalRecruitment.grs@cabinetoffice.gov.uk Further information Appointment to the Civil Service is governed by the Civil Service Commission Recruitment Principles. If you wish to make a complaint, please find further details here: https://careers.dwp.gov.uk/how-we-recruit/. Attachments DWP Terms and Conditions January 2024 (3) Opens in new window (docx, 17kB) Success-Profiles-Candidate-Overview (18) Opens in new window (pdf, 635kB)