Posted: 23h ago
The role
Pay of £57,946 plus 28.97% employer pension contributions, hybrid working, flexible hours, and great work life balance. DWP. Digital with Purpose. We are recruiting multiple Senior Digital & Transformation Portfolio Managers to lead complex portfolios of digital change. DWP is the UK's largest government department. We help people into work, and make payments worth over £195bn a year to support and empower millions of people. You'll work as a partner to key stakeholders, to ensure effective prioritisation, oversight of performance and risk across both live and pipeline work, and to provide clear, high-quality insights. You will also support the mobilisation of new projects, identifying opportunities aligned to strategic goals and offering evidence-based recommendations. Alongside portfolio delivery you'll be a visible and empowered leader. You will contribute to the wider professional community through leadership activities such as recruitment, coaching, and capability development, while helping to set standards and frameworks that drive excellence. The scale of what we do is extraordinary, and our purpose is unique. We'd love you to join us. What skills, knowledge and experience will you need? Strategic Portfolio Leadership : Exceptional leadership experience in large scale digital or change portfolios including shaping and influencing strategic planning and portfolio ambitions linked to organisational objectives, setting portfolio standards and providing independent portfolio assurance to senior executive leaders. Developing and improving portfolio frameworks, processes and controls : Experience driving continuous improvement across portfolio frameworks or processes, including how work is prioritised, tracked and reported. You take ownership of key improvement activity, embedding consistent ways of working and ensuring teams operate in line with agreed portfolio standards. Delivery knowledge and issue resolution: Proven ability to anticipate and identify delivery risks or early warning signs, take decisive action to resolve issues and maintain momentum to protect outcomes across complex delivery landscape. Data Analysis and decision making: Strong analytical skills, experience of using a range of data analysis tools, techniques and providing independent interpretation of portfolio data. Experience of visualising the story of the data and communicate recommendations to a range of senior technical and non-technical stakeholders. Relationships Management: 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. Professional Accreditation : You hold a recognised Portfolio or Programme Management qualification such as Management of Portfolios (Practitioner), P3O, MSP, or PMI. Evidence of this will be requested prior to interview. Details. Wages. Perks. Location: You'll join us in one of our brilliant digital hubs in Birmingham, Blackpool, Leeds, Manchester, Newcastle or Sheffield, whichever is most convenient for you. Hybrid Working: We work a hybrid model - you'll spend some time working at home and some time collaborating face to face in a hub. Pay: Salary of £57,946 Pension: You'll get a brilliant civil service pension with employer contributions of 28.97%, worth £16,787 a year. Holidays: A generous leave package starting at 26 days rising to 31 days over time. You can also take up to 3 extra days off a month on flexi-time. You'll also get all the usual public holidays. We have a broad benefits package built around your work-life balance which includes: Flexible working including flexible hours and flex-friendly policies Time off volunteering and charitable giving Bring your authentic self to work with 'I Can Be Me in DWP' Discounts and savings on shopping, fun days out and more Interest-free loans to buy a bike or a season ticket, so it's even easier for you to get to work and start making a difference Sports and social activities Professional development, coaching, mentoring and career progression opportunities. And we have an award-winning environment and culture: DWP have been recognised as 2024 Diversity Employer of the Year at the Computing Women in Tech Excellence awards Diverse and Inclusive Leadership at Digital Leaders Awards. Commended as Best Place to Work in Digital category in the Computing Digital Technology Leaders awards 2025 Recognised as one of the Best Public Sector Employers at 2025 Women In Digital Awards Process: We know your time is valuable so our application and selection process is just two stages: Apply: complete your application on Civil Service Jobs. There'll be full instructions when you click through. Interview: a single stage interview online. CLICK APPLY for more information and to start your application.
